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Post by 007 on Apr 16, 2014 17:04:49 GMT
One of the nice things about going to the guitar club is that you hear stuff you wouldn't normally hear or, you recall hearing it 40 or 50 years ago and then elusively its gone.
I heard this played at Orston Guitar club by a chap who has a lovely sounding Taylor. Its a song as Bette Midler who does a version says "about survival and ageing"
Warning, its quite melancholy but nicely played for all that .
This is John Prines version on Acoustic with a nice intro
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Post by missclarktree on Apr 16, 2014 17:35:36 GMT
Oh - I feel like crying now.
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Post by bluesboytoby on Apr 16, 2014 18:03:19 GMT
a great song,thats one of the nice things about living here in spain you walk down the street & total strangers most of all the older generation will say hello always pleasent.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 17, 2014 6:42:10 GMT
This is a great song and I often keep it in mind when out walking the dog and I see old folks. A little smile and a hello doesn't cost much.
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Post by walkingdecay on Apr 17, 2014 10:49:42 GMT
John Prine also wrote two of the most affecting songs about masturbation you'll ever hear.
(Some wonderful ethereal steel guitar on the first.)
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Post by scorpiodog on Apr 17, 2014 15:03:22 GMT
I don't know Christmas In prison, but Donald & Lydia and Hello In There are 2 of my 4 favourite John Prine Songs. These are the others. They're not hard to play, but they're damn hard to play well so that your audience enjoys the lyrics and laughs (in the case of Donald & Lydia and The Great Compromise) in the right place. Donald & Lydia has one of the most singable choruses of any song I know. Great for your local folk club or singaround.
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Post by walkingdecay on Apr 17, 2014 15:32:39 GMT
Yeah, thanks to 007 for bringing John's songs up. Many are deceptively simple, with their meanings unfolding over time. I remember that I'd listened to The Great Compromise half a dozen times before I realised that it was actually about the Vietnam War.
This one is just beautiful...
...while this is heartbreaking.
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Post by scorpiodog on Apr 17, 2014 16:15:33 GMT
Looks like I'm going to have to buy the Sweet Revenge album, WD. Great songs. Always loved John Prine, but I don't have all his stuff. Maybe I should.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 17, 2014 21:32:38 GMT
How about covers of John Prine material? Bonnie Raitt doing Angel From Montgomery comes to mind. Susan Tedechi did a great version, too.
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Post by walkingdecay on Apr 17, 2014 21:39:10 GMT
Looks like I'm going to have to buy the Sweet Revenge album, WD. Great songs. Always loved John Prine, but I don't have all his stuff. Maybe I should. It's one of his patchier albums to be honest, Paul. Possibly a reason why he re-recorded all of its best songs (apart from the splendidly bitter The Accident) on Souvenirs.
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Post by 007 on Apr 18, 2014 16:52:35 GMT
Another John Prine song here a lighter comedic song Lets talk dirty in Hawaiian
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Post by curmudgeon on Apr 27, 2014 22:20:22 GMT
Possibly the most covered John Prine number I hear in acoustic/folk clubs is "Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness" - but it is usually played too fast and with little/no feeling for the desperate storyline.
A bit like the Dylan number "Don't Think Twice" which in my humble has never been sung better than by Alan Taylor.
I feel that Prine is one of the great songwriters - he has the knack of saying a great deal with very few words - craftsmanship.
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