Any of you old coots like me who enjoyed listening to John Prine for the past 40 years should really give a listen to his most recent release Tree of Forgiveness. My son gave it to me for Fathers Day and I’ve played it in my truck CD player every day since then.

He battled neck cancer in the 90’s so his voice is a bit gravelly but sounds like classic Prine nonetheless.

I love me some John Prine ...

I don't know if you've seen the movie Daddy And Them where he played Billy Bob Thornton's brother (talk about dysfunctional families)...this is a song he wrote from the movie by him and Iris DeMent...I love it ...




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/uwPV8KuZ014

I’d not heard that before but that is certainly classic Prine right there.

I ran across this one the other day.

He is something else and another true American Treasure.

I’m a younger old coot at 45, but I like him.

The NonCom station here in Philly, WXPN, plays him regularly.

I first heard John Prine when he did “Please Don’t Bury Me,” but have since discovered a lot of his other work. I really like him.

Thank you 12GA for starting this thread...an you sigmonkey for your post with the "Tiny Desk Concert"...I enjoyed that

The humiliation of the planet Pluto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRuyIexfpEk

John Prine is one of my favorites.
“Sam Stone was alone when he popped his last balloon.”
Classic!!

And who doesn’t like an Illegal Smile?

 
I've been a fan since he first appeared in the early 1970's, and was fortunate enough to see him live at that time in an intimate (160 seat) club in Georgetown DC. It was called the Cellar Door. He remains great.
 

Blew up my t.v. ...
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Made my bed ...
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Cleaned my rifle ...

SIGforum is always read...

I like John Prine, we are seeing him in concert in Denver in November. Should be great, it was the late 70's when I saw him last.

I lived in the Chicago area in the 1970s, was a student at the Old Town School of Folk Music. There was a symbiotic relationship between the school and a number of bars in the area. I was fortunate to be able to listen to live music every weekend and many week nights at the school and at bars like the Earl of Old Town, the Fifth Peg, Somebody Else's Troubles, and a bunch more that I can't remember four decades later.

John Prine was a regular at these places, as was Steve Goodman (they often worked together), Ed and Fred Holstein, Bryan Bowers, Vassar Clements . . . the area was ripe with incredible talent.

Right around 1970 I stopped in at the Fifth Peg one evening for a burger and a beer. There was a trio on stage, from Alabama: Grant (guitar) and Ginger Boatwright (songwriter, singer, guitar) and Dale Whitcomb (Ginger's cousin, banjo), collectively the Red, White, and Blue(grass). They just blew me away. I chatted with them when they took a break and found out that they were subsisting on thirty-five dollars a day -- that's what they were paid for performing. Thirty-five bucks total, bought them a room in a flea bag hotel and four of them (including Grant and Ginger's four year old daughter, Danae), sleeping in one room and eating on that money.

I was scheduled for a two week business trip to NJ, so I asked them to house-sit my apartment while I was gone. That saved them the hotel money. When I returned, they were going to leave but I convinced them that I didn't take up that much room in the apartment so they stayed. We pooled our money for groceries, Ginger was a fabulous cook. We had a great time. Dale would give me a banjo lesson every day. I would go to "work" with them every evening and baby-sit Danae who would watch her mother on stage. We sailed on Lake Michigan on summer weekends. It turned into a lifelong friendship. They would stay at my place whenever they worked in Chicago and I was always welcome at their home in Nashville. One of my biggest regrets re my hearing loss, is that I can only hear their music in my head, re-playing it.

I guess I kind of wandered off topic there, but thinking about hearing John Prine on a fairly regular basis brought those memories back.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I lived in the Chicago area in the 1970s, was a student at the Old Town School of Folk Music.

You may have run into my aunt's husband. He was student there at the same time.

He is a great guy and was responsible for introducing me to Prine many years ago. I've loved his music ever since. I see him live every chance I get and it never gets old. Last time was at the Chicago Theater and his brother opened for him. Easily the best performance I've ever seen him give, and we got to talk with him and his brother after the show for awhile. That was a great night.

One of my favorites:

I think I have every song he ever recorded. I have been a huge fan for a very long time.

Prine is the best! Daddy won't you take me back...

V-Tail, apparently we have another intersection. I grew up in Chicago Suburbs 1954-1973 then off to college. Spend many weekend nights down in Old Town. Boy, I haven't thought about the Earl of Old Town in 40 years.

Great story, V-tail

Another John Prine fan here. I remember listening to his records way back in semi-rural India, when I was growing up in India. I have made it a point to see him perform live every chance I've got. He is a classic.