This week, I'm finally feeling emotionally ready to deal with the death of a great American poet: John Prine. As most of you probably know, we lost this enormously influential American songwriter to Covid last April, early in this ordeal. Having survived cancer at least twice, and soldiered on through all manner of adversity, John rode that old body to the scene of the crash and gave us some truly remarkable songs. In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I share some remembrances and attempt to break down a few aspects of Prine's poetry that I hope will make him more interesting to listeners.
Fair warning, I also play and sing several of the songs directly into the microphone without edits.
Thanks, be well.
Keywords:
John Prine
Bob Dylan
Bonnie Raitt
Sturgill Simpson
Jim James
Nathaniel Rateliff
Keb Mo
Shemekia Copeland
John Garfield
Sabu Dastagir
Nobel Prize for Literature
"Linda Goes to Mars"
"One Red Rose"
"Bruised Orange: Chain of Sorrow"
"Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone"
"That's the Way the World goes Round"
"Angel From Montgomery"
"Speed of the Sound of Lonliness"
"The Late John Garfield Blues"
"Lake Marie"
"Sweet Revenge"
