Add Some (More) Music to Your Day...

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

One of my You Tube favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3...8MB5g&index=55

Love this version with John Prine who wrote the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5NuI6Ai-o

[irv]

"Live from Darryl's House" is also a great choice for listening to some great songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypwcitHSEQo

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

Love this version with John Prine who wrote the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5NuI6Ai-o

They perform it together here. There's also a version with Jackson Browne out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0VdkarNck

I never understood the lyrics, but they work.

Tragically, Prine died early in the pandemic. Very interesting character for sure.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

They perform it together here. There's also a version with Jackson Browne out there.

I never understood the lyrics, but they work.

Tragically, Prine died early in the pandemic. Very interesting character for sure.

John just wrote about everyday life things. He could take something ordinary, something that happened everyday to each and everyone of us and make a song out of it.
Talented beyond believe and a song writer, who, imo, will never be replaced nor replicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY
https://youtu.be/P8tTwXv4glY
https://youtu.be/2xhmPectY9U

[carlsonjok]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

They perform it together here. There's also a version with Jackson Browne out there.

I saw Bonnie Raitt sing this live and it was enough to just about bring a grown man to tears. Susan Tedeschi also does a great job on the song (and the flute solo by Kofi Burbridge is wonderful.)

Tragically, Prine died early in the pandemic. Very interesting character for sure.

I am a big Jason Isbell fan. I think he is one of the greatest songwriters today. When talking about songwriting, he has mentioned that a 25 year old Prine writing and singing "Angel from Montgomery" from the perspective of an older woman was a revelation and, in no small part, informs his writing.

[Casey2296]

"Sam Stone"
One of Johns best written songs, of many, and one of the saddest songs about the Vietnam War.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2iMQyvyrU

[MooseDog]

About as far from a rocker as one can get but here are a couple of Irish chicks making pure magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwaBoX97PbQ

[Shoeless Moe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agvibm7Wqy4


"Years ago, we all thought it was a joke, see?
That every kid got a motherf--king trophy
But yo homie, here's the situation
A nation of pussies is our next generation
And these minions and their agendas
Every opinion has a millennial offended
But this amendment one, it rings true
And if you don't dissent, bitch, then see number two"

[carlsonjok]

The other day I asked Alexa to play Americana music. In her infinite wisdom, she brought up a playlist called Americana Soul, which was totally different music. But, I listened to it anyways and heard this song by Leon Bridges and Khruangbin "Texas Sun"

It is a lovely song,but the video really makes it. It brought to mind something I read years ago from the poet Merrill Gilfillan:

On this continent and in the psyche of its people the plains have always been a staggering presence, a place for transformation, bafflement, or heartbreak. From the east they are a release from the clawing of swamp and tangle and human density. From the west they are a drop and a straightening after the kinks and strains of mountains. Entered from any direction they are a new air, a joy to behold, a combination of large-scale intimidations and primordial inner acoustics.