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All our happy years."
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04-07-2020, 08:03 PM
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A very sad day. His music will live on forever.
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Incredibly sad news.
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04-07-2020, 08:18 PM
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04-07-2020, 08:29 PM
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John Prine covering Blaze Foley might be the best thing on the internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3zNl6NsOyY
RIP John and Blaze
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
"And we'll drink but not to forget
But to remember instead
All our happy years."
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04-07-2020, 08:37 PM
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Sad day for music.
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04-07-2020, 08:46 PM
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Oh no. 😔 was just listening to him on the radio today. Rest in peace champ...
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04-07-2020, 08:51 PM
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RIP
Was playing some of his stuff on my Dobro resonator just the other day. 
Cat
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04-07-2020, 08:51 PM
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I was very fortunate to see him about 10 years ago.
Very sad. Thank you and Rest in Peace...
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04-07-2020, 08:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MK2750
I was having a very bad summer in the early 80s. My mom had passed away that spring and I was somewhere between a rough tough dockworker/commercial fisherman and a little boy that just lost his mom.
I met this wonderful young lady that was a fair bit too old for a teenager. She lived in a summer cottage down the road and I had no idea our visits would turn into 4 or 5 years together.
The rain would pound off the roof of that little place when it was too rough to go to sea and we would entertain ourselves listening to Bob Dylan and John Prine.
The kitchen light
Fell asleep
On the bedroom floor
Me and her were talking softer
Than all the time
Before I lost her
Picture sat on top
Of the chest of drawers
"One Red Rose" can deliver me back to that cottage like I never left 35 years ago to see the wild west. The world still needs John Prine and I am praying for you buddy.
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RIP my friend, we spent more time together than you will ever know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a-LRFyQ2Pc
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04-07-2020, 09:19 PM
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One of the best lyrics written ever!!
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
for they always bring me tears
I cant forgive the way they rob me
of my childhood souvenirs.
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04-07-2020, 09:40 PM
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One of the greats and one of my favorites. Very sad to hear.
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04-08-2020, 08:31 AM
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Tough night indeed. Poured a big scotch then went mining youtube for JP performances. Last few times we've seen him he was clearly in failing health and his voice was getting weaker but hell the man beat cancer twice. But seeing him early on in his career in the vids showed that he really lived. One of the finest lyricists of his generation. That's the great thing about music and art, it can be enjoyed forever. Thanks for making me smile much of the past 40 years John.
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
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04-08-2020, 10:04 AM
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he lived more life than most people realize I would think, and had his share of trials and tribulations.
But I will not mourn his passing but celebrate his life , as I do all of the people I knew and respected that have gone before me, and I'm pretty sure that is what he would want us all to do. he is gone but his songs remain 
C'ya on the other side, John! 
Cat
https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...c5&action=view
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Happy Trails John Prine. His music will live on.
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I didn’t know he padded until I just read this post. I’m shocked, I had read days ago he was getting better. I never got to see the man either which is bumming me out. He was one of the best singer songwriters of the last 60 years for sure. Terrible!
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