Favorite John Prine Song

[killdeer43]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNu46mpJC60

All you Prine fans need to watch this one....JP in the kitchen, no less.

Joe

 

[12stringer]

Thanks for posting that one Joe...never would have found it...laidback Prine! Love it!

 

[killdeer43]

Thanks for posting that one Joe...never would have found it...laidback Prine! Love it!

I wonder how many of us started out in the kitchen!! That's where the food and drink were, so it's a magnetic place, usually with a bunch of straight-backed, armless chairs.

Joe

 

[12stringer]

Thanks for posting that one Joe...never would have found it...laidback Prine! Love it!

I wonder how many of us started out in the kitchen!! That's where the food and drink were, so it's a magnetic place, usually with a bunch of straight-backed, armless chairs.

Joe

Yes...I have many memories of playin in the kitchen at parties with a group of guitar pickers...that video sure brought some back for me...always played until my fingers were too sore to press down on another song.

 

[TonyT]

Don't know if this made the list and I'm too lazy to look, but "One Red Rose" is also a keeper.

 

[c70man]

Thanks for posting that one Joe...never would have found it...laidback Prine! Love it!

I wonder how many of us started out in the kitchen!! That's where the food and drink were, so it's a magnetic place, usually with a bunch of straight-backed, armless chairs.

Joe

What brought me back seeing that vid was the formica table...that fake marble look of grey and white....with the chrome edging and matching chairs.....didn't everyone have one of those?

Love that vid.

 

[Graham]

What brought me back seeing that vid was the formica table...that fake marble look of grey and white....with the chrome edging and matching chairs.....didn't everyone have one of those?

Love that vid.

We had one. Brings back some kewl memories. 8)

 

[TonyT]

Don't see this everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma2ktviCMrc

 

[killdeer43]

Don't see this everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma2ktviCMrc

There are some things to be thankful for! :lol:
Doesn't do it for me.

Joe

 

[TonyT]

It didn't look like he was all that excited either.

 

[killdeer43]

It didn't look like he was all that excited either.

Probably trying to remember where he left his D-35. Or maybe dreaming of happy enchiladas!

Joe

 

[TonyT]

It didn't look like he was all that excited either.

Probably trying to remember where he left his D-35. Or maybe dreaming of happy enchiladas!

Joe

Maybe this is the show where his guitar tech knocked over his D-28 and broke off the neck right before he went on. Story on that here
http://www.jpshrine.org/red/gits/index.html

 

[c70man]

Don't see this everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma2ktviCMrc

Sorry John, I love ya, but some guys should leave electric guitars on the wall...you are one of them.

 

[Appalachian Blues]

I'm not sure this is a John Prine song, but I use to do the song that had the verse; "cocaines for horses , not for men, they say it's going to kill me but they won't say when. cocaine, all around my brain". I've been going to add it to my songlist.
When I first moved up to Columbus back in the early 80's (from Nashville, go figure), I got hooked up with the Columbus Songwriters Assc. and they hooked me up with this darling of a girl who wrote lyrics. She had inherited her Grandmother's huge house on the westside and I would go there and we'd try to come with tunes. She was really, and I mean really into coke and of course my nose went to the white line as well everytime she laid'um out. We did manage a couple tunes that were spotlighted at a CSA event at Screamin' Willie's, but I wonder how much more we could've done had we not been cokeheads :shock:
(wish I knew then what I know now)

 

[killdeer43]

(wish I knew then what I know now)

Another quote:
"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

Joe

 

[killdeer43]

I'm not sure this is a John Prine song, but I use to do the song that had the verse; "cocaines for horses , not for men, they say it's going to kill me but they won't say when. cocaine, all around my brain". I've been going to add it to my songlist.

AB,

I think that's from Cocaine Blues, sung by BDylan and it might have a Dave Van Ronk connection, somehow or other.
And then, I remember David Bromberg doing it, too. Lots of cocaine, lots of blues, I guess.

Joe

 

[killdeer43]

As we (I) veer ever so lightly into....cocaine....I did a quick search on Cocaine Blues, etc., on Wikipedia and found that it's a fairly common topic of musical conversation.
I was reminded of JCash's Cocaine Blues from his San Quentin album (the song where all the inmates went nuts), and tons of other singers alternately praising or lamenting that demon dust and the consequences found therein. :wink:

Any more JPrine fans/favorite songs out there?

Joe

 

[bluepen]

'Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian' and 'Please Don't Bury Me' always make me smile. While I enjoy most of his music, the early stuff is just so raw...I love it.

 

[Jeff]

Donald & Lydia

Sort of a raw story allright, lyrics in the chorus are magnificent.

"but Dreaming just comes natural, like the first breath from a baby,

Like sunshine feeding daisies, like the love hidden deep in your heart. "


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNAuDEUcHvU&NR=1

 

[killdeer43]

Donald & Lydia
"but Dreaming just comes natural, like the first breath from a baby,
Like sunshine feeding daisies, like the love hidden deep in your heart. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNAuDEUcHvU&NR=1

An all-time favorite chorus to sing and share. Thanks for that little reminder, Jeff.

Joe