Day #25 - of the 30 Day Song Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #25 of the 30 Day Song Challenge - a song you like by an artist no longer living.

Seriously, there are so frigging many to choose from. Eeny Meany Miney Moe...

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[atpo_onm]

Just recently passed, a man who like Warren Zevon could seamlessly mix humor and pathos in many of his songs, who came from humble origins to become beloved and admired by millions, myself included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8S5XB-eYs


Bewildered, Bewildered, / you have no complaint
You are what you are / and you ain't what you ain't

Good advice then, good advice now.
We miss you, John.

[shadowkat]

John Prine has quite the following - and yet, I never heard of him until he died. (I have heard the songs here and there, but no memory of them.) My mother's cousin loves him - so much, he hunted down a movie in which he appeared. Wendahl has posted ten songs on this song challenge by John Prine. You, CJL, beergood have all done likewise. My ex-college boyfriend posted himself singing a John Prine song, which he'd be taught by another college buddy and folk-singer.

Yet no one mentioned him prior to his death to my knowledge. Interesting.

I like his songs, but not his voice - feel the same about Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline - so he's in good company.