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blueboss
04-08-2020, 06:29 AM
Wow just wow, back in the day I had a lot of fun while listening to John Prine.


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BigBluePappy
04-08-2020, 11:47 AM
We just lost a Lyrical Poet; musician seems to be not quite enough...
blueboss
04-08-2020, 01:55 PM
WFPK in Louisville playing J Prine all day


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Darrell KSR
04-08-2020, 08:20 PM
Good local story about the song he finally wrote about Birmingham's Vulcan.

https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/john-prine-and-his-love-of-birminghams-vulcan/
blueboss
04-08-2020, 08:34 PM
https://youtu.be/SYTBWiynSGw




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blueboss
04-09-2020, 05:27 PM
https://youtu.be/G487EDeXadA

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blueboss
04-09-2020, 06:01 PM
https://youtu.be/lYQ4WnFG_0I


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KentuckyWildcat
04-09-2020, 06:25 PM
As someone who lives in Muhlenberg County. This definitely changes a legendary song to all of us.
blueboss
04-09-2020, 06:29 PM
As someone who lives in Muhlenberg County. This definitely changes a legendary song to all of us.

This one is on me...


https://youtu.be/DEy6EuZp9IY


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KentuckyWildcat
04-09-2020, 06:43 PM
This one is on me...


https://youtu.be/DEy6EuZp9IY


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kingcat
04-09-2020, 06:47 PM
Quite talented. And a local boy.

Rest in peace JP
MickintheHam
04-11-2020, 06:44 AM
As someone who lives in Muhlenberg County. This definitely changes a legendary song to all of us.

This song was popular in my hippie days. It always meant so much. Strip mining and dam building were the two major issues of our time. "you can rape your state, but don't strip mine". "Stop the Red River Gorge". John Prine's music spoke to those issues. At bluegrass bars in Louisville and Lexington, Prine's music was a mainstay. His music blended bluegrass and country and went a long way to create the Americana genre. As much as I love "Paradise", his collaboration with Bonnie Raitt on "Angel from Montgomery" is one of my all time favorites.
bigsky
04-15-2020, 12:00 PM
For folks in Muhlenberg and Christian and Hopkins I think hearing the song Paradise in every club and every weekend got pretty old and trite. But it spoke to me as a summer visitor to Earlington and Mortons Gap. Ma Adams house and Adams General Store at the intersection of 41A and 813. The house at Bell Crossing at the edge of Earlington. Ma Fox’s house on East Hanson St. Those memories are worn, and most of the buildings as gone as my loved ones who lived there. That song spoke to me as a young man and it still does. That first album, with Paradise and Angel from Montgomery and Hello in There and all the rest is classic Americana from the heart and the heartland. Never did get Walter’s taste for a cold slab of barbecued mutton, but the white beans and buttermilk cornbread of those early tables is still Is enough for me to eat. “Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle, shines just like a diamond ring?”