Prine began playing as a young Army veteran who invented songs to fight boredom while delivering the U.S. mail in Maywood, Illinois. He and his friend, folk singer Steve Goodman, were still polishing their skills at the Old Town School of Folk Music when Kristofferson, a rising star at the time, heard them sing one night in Chicago, and invited them to share his stage in New York City.
“You just sit and look around you. You don’t have to make up stuff. If you just try to take down the bare description of what’s going on, and not try to over-describe something, then it leaves space for the reader or the listener to fill in their experience with it, and they become part of it.” “He writes beautiful songs,” Dylan once told MTV producer Bill Flanagan. “I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about Sam Stone the soldier-junkie-daddy, and Donald and Lydia, where people make love from ten miles away -- nobody but Prine could write like that.”
Many others adopted his songs. Bonnie Raitt made a signature tune out of “Angel from Montgomery,” about the stifled dreams of a lonely housewife, and performed it at the 2020 Grammys ceremony. Bette Midler recorded “Hello in There,” Prine’s poignant take on old age. Prine wrote “Unwed Fathers” for Tammy Wynette, and “Love Is on a Roll” for Don Williams.
Prine was married three times, and appreciated a relationship that lasted. In 1999, he and Iris DeMent shared vocals on the classic title track of his album “In Spite of Ourselves,” a ribald tribute to an old married couple.Against all odds, honey we’re the big door-prizeThere won’t be nothin’ but big ol’ hearts dancin’ in our eyes
For me, this is the saddest COVID death of nationally known person so far. If you don't know his songs, please check this out in a quiet corner where you live: RIP, John. Rest well in the Muhlenbuerg County of old in your Paradise.
John Prine put more joy into more peoples lives than any other musical artist I have ever seen..thanks John.. God bless..StephenAtHome I’m taking a walk I’m going outside to stand on the banks of the lake Mstir
Awful news.
💔💔💔
...Come sit beside me on the swing and watch the Angel's cry...💔
A bitter wind blows through the country A hard rain falls on the sea If terror comes without a warning There must be something we don't see What fire begets this fire? Like torches thrown into the straw If no one asks, then no one answers That's how every empire falls -John Prine
I had never heard of him so RIP but did anyone else think from that picture, that that was the old man from Pawn Stars? lol
I've been humming 'Paradise' all morning. 😥
So Sad
RIP beautiful soul.
Sad 😞
Written for John Prine : “Things Could Be Worse” by Jay Sizemore
No one dies of anything else you clowns these days. It's all rubbish
Sam Stone changed my life dude. Rest In Peace 🙏🏽
Old news....
God bless family
It's a big loss
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