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John Prine, 1946-2020

By Jimmy Johnson

August 3, 2015


What else would we be talking about today, although I really don’t have much to add to the volume of discussion already out there. However, there is this: if you follow the link above, you’ll see one time when Arlo & Janis and John Prine intersected. If you are interested in the life of the late Prine, here is an excellent article from Rolling Stone. And I have a feeling that, from his great body of work, he might want us to remember this song today.


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18 responses to “John Prine, 1946-2020”

  1. emb Avatar
    emb

    That goose egg is gone; this is 1 vexed goose.
    https://explore.org/livecams/birds/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
    Peace?

  2. Mark from Maine Avatar
    Mark from Maine

    The thing about John Prine songs is that as soon as you hear one, you think you’ve known it all your life. That’s how good he is. RIP

  3. Cozmik Cowboy Avatar
    Cozmik Cowboy

    I never saw John perform live, but we did have mutual friends – I started my career as a sound-reinforcement engineer working with Mick Scott, another great Chicago singer-songwriter – and I had the honor of meeting John once (at an Elizabeth Cotten concert at Chicago’s Earl Of Old Town); I am pleased to report that he had no public persona. The friendly witty guy you saw on stage & record was the same guy you sat & had a beer with.
    He will be missed horribly.

  4. Kathy Shore Avatar
    Kathy Shore

    Thanks for sharing that song–actually smiled today. Didn’t see that in awhile!

  5. emb Avatar
    emb

    There’s a new egg, & 2 geese that seem very much in charge of this site. Wonder if they have any clear memory of what occurred?
    https://explore.org/livecams/birds/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
    Ospreys, like robins, are altritial, with a long period of feeding nearly helpless young. Geese, ~ ducks, chickens, killdeers, etc., are precocial. Hatch, leave the nest site, follow mom & learn by doing what she does. Both ways work.
    Peace,

  6. David in Granbury Avatar
    David in Granbury

    I was thinking about that “9-mile” cigarette. 🙂

    1. Carol from Pickwick Avatar
      Carol from Pickwick

      vodka and gingerale, too

  7. TruckerRon Avatar

    Good news for us, not so good for pandemic modelers: The latest projection for COVID-19 deaths in the US is down to 60,000 from the original ballyhooed number of 2.2 million. That’s a 97.3% reduction! Of course the larger number was the “worst case” scenario of us doing nothing to mitigate the spread of the virus, but we’re not using pre-Pasteur medicine (look up “miasmatic theory” as a cause of infections!) or pre-electronic communications, wondering why people are dropping dead.

  8. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    I hope the Novel Coronavirus is indeed sensitive to higher ambient temperatures. If so , it should have a bad day in Tulsa…it’s currently 86 here, on the way to a forecasted high of 89.
    Die, damned virus, die! ?

    1. Jimmy Johnson Avatar

      It’s been a few weeks since I read this, and everything changes fast, but supposedly the situation is not good in Singapore–which is not far from the equator. Just sayin’.

      1. Ghost Avatar
        Ghost

        Yeah, those hoping it would behave as influenza viruses* do may have been doing so from the heart rather than the head. And the National Academy of Sciences, after reviewing numerous reports, has just basically said, “Maybe so, maybe not.”
        * I have seen references to “viri”, but apparently there is no plural in Latin for “virus”. So I suppose the English “viruses” wins.

        1. Jimmy Johnson Avatar

          Virusesesesesesese…?

          1. TruckerRon Avatar

            COVID-19 is definitely a snaky critter! And worthy of death.

  9. emb Avatar
    emb

    No egg, no geese. Am guessing this is a MTDNR-designated osprey site & humans are removing CG eggs. Peace,

    1. Jimmy Johnson Avatar

      There will be other eggs, EMB. You know that. Nature will survive, if homo sapiens does not. It goes on.

  10. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    A fine tribute to John Prine…over four years early! Nice work, JJ.

  11. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    From “Life in the Slow Lane”: FedEx must really be having issues. On line tracking shows an item I ordered from New Hampshire on 3-28-20 took six days (4-2-20 to 4-8-20) to move from one location to another in Kansas, a distance of 18.5 miles. And in the wrong direction, at that! OLT also shows there is currently no estimated delivery date. Starting to wonder if perhaps their truck crashed, and it took almost a week to tow the wreckage to its current location.
    Oh well, it’s nothing urgent, and in current circumstances, it actually adds a little something to life…”Perhaps *today* will be the day it arrives!” (Yeah, I know, a lot of us are grasping, aren’t we?)