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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4438888" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Just DAMN!!!</span></strong></p><p>I love John Prine ... my wife is in tears!</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/john-prine-revered-singer-songwriter-012850306.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb" target="_blank">John Prine, revered singer-songwriter, dies of COVID-19 complications at 73</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Down by the Green River where Paradise lay</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-john-prine-grammy-tree-forgiveness-20181212-story.html" target="_blank">John Prine</a>, who traded his job as a Chicago mail carrier to become one of the most revered singer-songwriters of the last half-century, died Monday of COVID-19 complications, after surviving multiple bouts with cancer. He was 73.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Since he broke through onto the folk scene with his 1971 self-titled debut album, Prine was hailed by critics and his musical peers for his keen observational powers, mordant sense of humor and finely wrought portraits of the human condition, from his trenchant tale of a Vietnam vet’s downward spiral upon his unceremonious homecoming (“Sam Stone”) to his empathetic expressions of the loneliness of old age (“Angel From Montgomery” and “Hello in There”).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px">He had been hospitalized on March 26 in Nashville with coronavirus symptoms, on the heels of previous hospitalizations for heart issues, in addition to treatments for throat cancer in 1998 and lung cancer in 2013. Both affected his singing voice, but he continued touring regularly up through last year.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><img src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/aF2oYvkbfZZFmKlawO_sfA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTY5Ni4yOTYyOTYyOTYyOTYz/https://media.zenfs.com/en/la_times_articles_853/1b094ade5d398c5e1a01202aeaa269b6" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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