Dang. John didn't make it...

[farming101]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/john-prine-who-chronicled-the-human-condition-in-song-dies-at-73/ar-BB12iaES?ocid=spartanntp https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/john-prine-who-chronicled-the-human-condition-in-song-dies-at-73/ar-BB12iaES?ocid=spartanntp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACwVOJXpn0&pbjreload=10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACwVOJXpn0&pbjreload=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY&pbjreload=10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY&pbjreload=10

[Guest]

He was one of my favorites

[mustardman]

Great songwriter, got a couple of his albums and saw him once in concert. He could put humour in a sad song

[Guest]

"I know a guy that's got a lot to lose.
He's a pretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused.
He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used.
Thinks he own half of this town.
Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose.
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose,
Then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes.
That's the way that the world goes 'round."


he wasn't scared to talk about this problem before it was a "thing"
will miss him

[shtferbrains]

Great songwriter, got a couple of his albums and saw him once in concert. He could put humour in a sad song

On his first album when he got out of the army was "Sam Stone" one of the to ten saddest songs

Local Norm FM used to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew

Maybe had to be there in 1971 to appreciate it?

[mustardman]

On his first album when he got out of the army was "Sam Stone" one of the to ten saddest songs

Local Norm FM used to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew

Maybe had to be there in 1971 to appreciate it?

Any of us who grew up in the Vietnam era could relate. Guys our age drafted to fight in a war that the U.S shouldn’t have been in.

“There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes,

Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose, “

One of the greatest song lines of all time

[Guest]

On his first album when he got out of the army was "Sam Stone" one of the to ten saddest songs

Local Norm FM used to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVWEYUqGew

Maybe had to be there in 1971 to appreciate it?

thanks , i forgot how good that one was
these politicians should listen to this all the time , all of them
nothing is left out