John Prine - We Miss Him Already.

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Ummm, Mr. Spotify, actually, no....

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As I'm sure you have heard, John Prine passed away last week:

From Fiona Whelan Prine...

Our beloved John died yesterday evening at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville TN. We have no words to describe the grief our family is experiencing at this time. John was the love of my life and adored by our sons Jody, Jack and Tommy, daughter in law Fanny, and by our grandchildren.

John contracted Covid-19 and in spite of the incredible skill and care of his medical team at Vanderbilt he could not overcome the damage this virus inflicted on his body.

I sat with John - who was deeply sedated- in the hours before he passed and will be forever grateful for that opportunity.

My dearest wish is that people of all ages take this virus seriously and follow guidelines set by the CDC. We send our condolences and love to the thousands of other American families who are grieving the loss of loved ones at this time - and to so many other families across the world.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of love we have received from family, friends, and fans all over the world. John will be so missed but he will continue to comfort us with his words and music and the gifts of kindness, humor and love he left for all of us to share...

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Bigger E. and I had already been working on a particular JP tune for awhile, but now she thinks we should, perhaps, move a little deeper into his catalogue given that just about everyone in the folk world is covering this one now.

Regardless, I really like our ramshackle, mess around version. So, here it is....

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If you want to hear Mr. Prine talk all about his art, his life and his method, Marc Maron has their conversation from 2016 up right now....Oh, and just in case you missed it, on his latest Maron actually plays Angel pretty much right through on his own guitar, which is the kind of thing he, the noted riff mangler, pretty much never does...
If you want to read about how and why Mr. Prine has become so important to about a zillion, gazillion singer-songwriter types, Jason Isbell tells you all about it in the New York Times...
As for that other tune to cover from deeper into the Prine catalogue?.... E. figures 'Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard' just might be the ticket....Stay tuned, because it could show up in our upcoming livestream thingy....


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