John Prine in critical condition with Covid 19

Who?

Best known for being next to "Prince" in records stores back in the 80s and 90s.

His best!

Bear Creek Blues

damn

that sucks!

Love him. Prefer his writing over Bob Dylan.

I wish people would start threads like Folk Singer songwriter John Prine. Especially internet people.

Great guy. I hope he makes it.

I have a friend who's a folk singer.

Also RIP to a 90's country guy Joe Diffie. Anyone who likes country knows his music. So sad. Reading tributes made me cry.

Ugh.

Another one.

They did a loving tribute to someone at the tail end of CBS news. I can’t remember her name. Maria....? You could tell she was a special lady.

God John Prine is such a great songwriter it's so often the case that when I hear a song in that genre that really hits me, it turns out that he was the composer. Fuck this virus. Fuck Orange Satan.

He wrote one of my favorite lines in pop music “how the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening and have nothing to say.” I feel like that sums up the boredom in my relationships. 😂😢

Yet that Orange Baboon in The White House still walks among us.

I had a friend who had a fling with John Prine in the early eighties. She sighed about him for years, he was that good.

"Enormously influential folk singer. After smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years, was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer in 1998."

Life is full of choices..

R18, he survived more than 20 years after that...

This is one of his best songs IMO. It always made me think of a man I saw off and on in the ‘90s, it was what you could call a stormy relationship but I was so crazy about him. He died last year and it really tore me up.

Great harmonies from Bonnie Raitt on this one.

He’s great. I hope he somehow manages to pull through and a Mitch McConnell takes his place in the death line.

Still critical as of early Tuesday morning. Major, MAJOR bummer.

Joan Baez, Jeff Tweedy, Bonnie Raitt, The Decemberists and even that insufferable hag Midler have all performed or posted tributes to him in recent days. Saluting him here on DL is my meager way of doing likewise.

Peace on you, JP. Please stay with us.

John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He was 73.

The cause was complications from Covid-19, his family said.

His lyrics will live forever.

I'm sorry he died.

John PRINE and PRINcE will now be next to each other for eternity.

Who?

10,000 Maniacs did a fantastic cover of “Hello In There” in 1989.

Has anyone checked on his big dicked brother, Andrew?

Why isn't someone saving these CHILDREN from dying?

I actually am crying on my keyboard. His songs had so much sweetness to them. He was supposed to tour with EmmyLou this summer. No mas. RIP Johnny P.

Noooo

So sad. He was one of the greats.

[quote] I actually am crying on my keyboard.

Well, that's not the best thing for absorbing tears, you know.

R27 How do you know eternity is alphabetical? Why wouldn't it be numerical?

Rest in peace John Prine. Underappreciated.

[quote] How do you know eternity is alphabetical?

God told me. I'm the prayer warrior in the family.

My father was a huge Prine fan. My childhood was filled with his songs. Super sad.

I first heard John Prine on the built-in wall radio at Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1972, on some little DC FM station I picked up, singing “Sam Stone”: never forgot it. Diamonds in the Rough was one of the first albums I bought after I was shipped home. I cried tonight too, I imagine quite a few folks did. He was wonderful. God bless him.

God damnitt

I was in mourning for Leonard Cohen for six or seven months.

Here we go again.

it is hard to communicate the impact the song Sam Stone had in '72. No one really nailed it quite the same way. ..... when the major labels were through with him, he started his own label. That was also part of his greatness, showing others it could be done,.

^^^ JP, his best buddy Steve Goodman and Miss Ani DiFranco all told the majors to take a flying leap at the moon, and started their own labels around the same time.

They had complete artistic control that way, and got to keep ALL of the profits for themselves. As it should be.

Since then, of course, musicians having their own labels has become all the rage.