Yes, Music Makes A Difference!!

[senorsalvia]

Being a die hard John Prine fan, I happened to come across this letter on a Prine tribute site...    "My Prine Story"  In the late 70's I was a young girl from PA, who was finding herself and explored the US, usually with my brother and friends in a VW van.  I was 19 and found myself pregnant and distraught.  We were in Texas at the time and I knew I was too young to have the child and had decided on having an abortion.  While riding on the beach in Padre Island, John Prine's Chain of Sorrow came on.  As with most John Prine fans, his words touched something way down inside, and instead of living my own 'chain of sorrow',   I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who turns 25 next week.  She has become my ultimate tribute to John Prine and the power of music...........  Isn't that just truly cool.....  senorsal

[laughingwillow]

JP knows how to pluck a heart string for sure.

A freind with older brothers turned me on to him about the time i grag-i-ated from high school in '80. We've caught his act a more than a few times along the way. His tour with the cowboy junkies was nice.

But he was visibly ripped the last time he came through, if'n I remember correctly. And for some reason, I don't enjoy it much when drunks make music in a blatant state.

w

[TooStonedToType]

"I don't enjoy it much when drunks make music in a blatant state"

Hey where is that Lucinda Williams tape. hahahahhaah

[JRL]

"I don't enjoy it much when drunks make music in a blatant state"

Me too, but unfortunatly it is an easy saftey net and a way to escape the anxiety and pressure that comes with the territory. Performing music on the level of a John Prine is tough at best, combine that with touring, idiot fans, corperate pressure, everyday life and the need to put that all aside to enter the state needed to perform........

You can see where this goes.

[JRL]

BTW, if you dig Lucinda, check out Vicki Lee, a singer songwriter I am doing some shows with. My old buddy Bobby Woods is her band leader and he's hired me for about 6 shows so far this summer.

//http://www.vikkilee.com/index.html

Albert Lee played on her last album as well as groovemaster Bruce Spencer on drums.

[laughingwillow]

LOL TTST is joking.

We caught lucinda last summer and watched her melt down on stage in an alcoholic/drug induced stupor. The show ground to a halt more than once that night for her to cry in her cup. It was obvious that her band was nothing more than back-up to a drunk. They didn't appear to know what to do. But they sure as hell wern't going ot stop her from making a fool of herself in front of thousands of folks. Many of whom simply kept bobbing their heads to the music with a stooporific smile on their clueless faces. hehe

A friend recorded that show, btw.

Sorry t ostomp on your thread, sal.

lw

[byrooon]

THERE ARE OTHER JOHN PRINE FAN'S HERE?!?!?!?!?!

been listening to him since the mid-80's... used to have all the records... my number one favorite for a long time... seen him about 6 times... in Cleveland, Colunbus and Cincinatti... he was really big in Cincy since just over the river is Kentucky where his family hails from... Also big in Columbus... Not too big in Cleveland... First time I saw him was in Cleveland. He was on the bill with Dave Mason. Dave Mason opened for Prine....

Just read he has a album out of new material... article said he hasn't released anything in awhile due to "poor health" whatever that means...

bp

Also like Lucinda WIlliams a lot... thanks for the tip about vickie lee JRL

[senorsalvia]

He had a bout with throat cancer....Chemo treatments..etc...  senorsal

[JRL]

I saw Maria Muldaurs(sp?) band let her twist in the wind when she was being a bitch to the sound crew and everybody else. Later on I was working with her keyboard player on a Frankie Lee(speaking of drunken hearted snigers)  and he said that normally they wuld try to rescue her but she had cheated them on some travel money so she was on her own.

Frankie is famous for alcohol fueled melt downs.

Hey guys don't hold Lucinda's thing against Sticky Vickee, check her out.