Moot_Geeza wrote:That's more or less what my colleagues have been saying for years.poprock wrote:Well, shit.
Wow! Twenty three years I've been nodding my head to this, and while I was aware it was a cover, I had no idea it was Prine what wrote it...Kow wrote:
nick_md wrote:Loving them album covers.
Looks cool as a mf in this one, for my money:
Moot_Geeza wrote:Hello all. I've got a couple of days off work, so I thought I'd post a little crap about John Prine, as I've devoted so much time to his music for the last year or so. I wrote this in February:Turns out I was wrong to dismiss Prine as light relief first and foremost. At his best I think he chooses turns of phrase that most songwriters, at least in the circles of song writing that appeals so much to me, would love to call their own. Thirteen months on and I now own 19 of his 20 albums (£20 second hand for the missing one...waiting on Zoverstocks to come up trumps), and devoting time to his lesser albums was far more rewarding than when I did the same thing with Dylan. There's a new biography winging its way to me, and I know this thread isn't the hottest of hot stuff, but in light of the current forum dikbants I thought I'd resurrect it to point out how happy this one guy, who everyone I introduce him to seems to hate, makes me. He probably doesn't have too long left, he's been battling cancer for a few years, so I'm raising a whisky to him in the middle of an excellent evening in my 'mancave' with the family safe and sound in a Leysdown caravan. Hopefully someone enjoys a track or two. Spiritualised fans can suck my fat one and keep an eye out for the nicked bit: Mawkish genius that could only appeal in certain genres. Another whisky!I've recently discovered John Prine, who writes the kind of witty/clever lyrics that I would consider the essence of 'my kind' of country music. I'm all for the tales of shattered dreams and wrecked lives, of course, but I find something particularly rewarding about comedy in country. I'm sure if anyone watches these I'll be told they're not actually funny, but I love it.
nick_md wrote:I remember linking this track in here once and it was one you hadn't heard before, not even sure it's on a 'full' Prine album, seems to be on something called Lucky 13 by various artists:
nick_md wrote:Also hah, Noxy's never gonna see that post above m8
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