| Author | Message | ||
| phylo
Member Username: phylo Post Number: 70 Registered: 10-2005 |
I gotta call last night from a friend with an extra John Prine ticket. I didn't know too much of his music, but it was great. Highly recommended if you're into the outlaw-folkie kinda thing. Not an Alembican, but a great bass player was backing him up. | ||
| jbybj
Member Username: jbybj Post Number: 67 Registered: 6-2006 |
oops, ytpo! (Message edited by jbybj on April 20, 2007) | ||
| jbybj
Member Username: jbybj Post Number: 68 Registered: 6-2006 |
"but your flag decal won't get you, into heaven anymore, they're already overcrowded, from your dirty little war, now Jesus don't like killing, no matter what the reasons for, and your flag decal won't get you, into heaven anymore." | ||
| hydrargyrum
Advanced Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 258 Registered: 3-2004 |
" . . . her heart is a big as this whole damn jail, and she's sweeter than saccharine, at a drug store sale." | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 604 Registered: 4-2005 |
"....But fortunately I have the key to escape reality And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun.." | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2316 Registered: 7-2004 |
"Dear Abby, Dear Abby, well I never thought that me & my girlfriend would ever get caught. We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze, with her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees. Signed, Just married." I've been a huge Prine fan for 30 years +. I've even written a bunch of "John Prine" songs. He's great. Definely worth checking out if you're unfamiliar with his music. Bill, tgo | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Intermediate Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 134 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh Daddy, won't you take me down to Meuhlenberg County Down by the Green River where paradise lay Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away In 1977 I had the opportunity to sit and drink beer with a group of Chicago folkies, including John, at an Elizabeth Cotton show. Nice guy, and one of my favorite songwriters. Peter | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 605 Registered: 4-2005 |
Peter, actually 'Paradise' is capitalized in that it once was a real town with real people living in it that is now the site of a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal-fired electric plant, where the 'World's Largest Shovel' came and 'They tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.' The double entendre is especially sinister in light of how TVA has actually wiped out cultures by taking land in our area for 'progress.' Some here got rich, others starved or are nearly starving. Muhlenberg County, Ky., ain't far from my neck of the woods (Message edited by 57basstra on April 20, 2007) | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 4997 Registered: 5-2002 |
Theres flies in the kitchen I can hear em there buzzing And I aint done nothing since I woke up today. How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Intermediate Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 135 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks, David - as I grew up in strip-mine country in SE Ohio, that song always spoke to me. Even more so now. Peter | ||
| tom_z
Senior Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 520 Registered: 7-2004 |
I'll chime in as well - I've been a John Prine fan for for over three decades too. Some of the first concerts I ever saw were Prine and Steve Goodman in Chicago. If I'm not mistaken Steve Goodman (may he rest in peace) and Kris Kristofferson were instrumental in Prine getting his first record deal. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2319 Registered: 7-2004 |
Tom: That's what I've always heard too. Prine was a mailman in Chicago and Kristofferson saw him playing at an open mike or something like that. Prine's "Everybody" and Kris' "Jesus was a Capricorn" were written for each other. I seem to remember owning a Kristofferson LP where the song list included "Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)". Steve Goodman was another great one. I especially loved his song about the "Pirates" in Chicago towing away illegally parked cars. More Prine - painting a picture of life in the military: "There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said, Strangers had forced him to live in his head, He envisioned the details of romantic scenes, After midnight in the stillness of the barracks' latrine." Bill, tgo | ||
| tom_z
Senior Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 521 Registered: 7-2004 |
Right Bill - Lincoln Park Pirates - the Lincoln Towing Company allegedly towed cars parked legally too - "We break into cars when we gotta, With hammer and pickaxe and saw; And they said this garage had no license; But little care I for the law! Our drivers are friendly and courteous; Their good manners you always will get; 'Cause they all are recent graduates Of the charm school in Joliet. " Though, probably Steve Goodman's most famous song, made popular by Arlo Guthrie, is City of New Orleans. And a bit more John Prine: But your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. They're already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don't like killin' No matter what the reason's for, And your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more. Peace Tom (Message edited by tom_z on April 21, 2007) | ||
| lembic76450
Intermediate Member Username: lembic76450 Post Number: 104 Registered: 5-2002 |
You just have to love how these things happen, John Prine is on "Austin City Limits" tonight in High Def in the Boston area. My band has been doing "Love, Love, Love" for years. We will be playing Thus. night at "The Century Lounge" in Providence, R.I. Another good live music joint goes down, they are closing Sat. 4/28 | ||
| hydrargyrum
Advanced Member Username: hydrargyrum Post Number: 259 Registered: 3-2004 |
Peter, My father worked for Peabody's power and light as a welder. I can't listen to Paradise without a tear coming to my eye. He's truly written some gems. |
