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Snider wrote 30 songs for New Connection. He delegated most of the music to his producer and the musicians. Kim Richey provided backing vocals. Will Kimbrough played guitar. "Crooked Piece of Time" was written by John Prine, who duetted with Snider. "Waco Moon" is a tribute to Eddy Shaver. "
1 day ago · The fourth track of John Prine’s 1971 debut, “Sam Stone,” is easily one of Prine’s saddest songs of all time. The all-too-topical song follows an injured veteran who returns home to a ...
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- “Angel From Montgomery” (1971) Prine’s most widely known song is an indelible portrait of “a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is.” The song’s stripped-down country-rock arrangement belied the intricacy of Prine’s lyrics, which home in on details like the flies buzzing around the kitchen sink and the rodeo poster that sends her into a reverie of youthful recollection, and its matter-of-fact description of marital stasis and midlife depression were groundbreakingly real.
- “Illegal Smile” (1971) The opening track to Prine’s self-titled 1971 debut, “Illegal Smile” became an anthem for weed-smokers — despite the songwriter claiming it wasn’t really about that.
- “Spanish Pipedream” (1971) There’s a lot of advice in Prine’s tale about a soldier and a topless dancer who run off together to live the good life. For starters: blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home.
- “Paradise” (1971) A sentimental recollection of home that’s also an unsparing description of predatory capitalist devastation, “Paradise” is Prine’s ode to the tiny mining town in Western Kentucky where his parents met.
Apr 8, 2020 · John Prine’s 15 Essential Songs. He showed how much humor you could put in a song and still be taken seriously. The singer and songwriter died of complications of Covid-19 at 73. In January ...
Apr 8, 2020 · The singer and songwriter John Prine died on Tuesday, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, of complications from COVID -19. Early in April, Prine and his wife, Fiona, both tested ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Already securing the #1 spot on Amazon's New Releases, Country, and Folk Biography list, “PRINE ON PRINE” is undeniably generating widespread interest.
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Sep 22, 2023 · 29. “Caravan of Fools”/”Some Humans Ain’t Human” (The Tree of Forgiveness, 2018 / Fair & Square, 2005) His most direct, straightforward political songs. He expressed regret about taking ...
