Jed Zimmerman - singer/songwriter
Album:Write Now
Song: The Weatherman
Lyric:
Zoe Muth - singer/songwriter
Album: Starlight Hotel [2011]
Song: Track #7 If I Can't Trust You With a Quarter
Lyric: "When you said that you never heard of John Prine, well I knew right away that you weren't worth my time."
Bo Bice
Album: See the Light
Song: Track#2 - Take the Country Outta Me
Lyric: Can't go a day without Waylon Jennings and the red haired stranger's on my mind
Johnny Cash and Jimmy Rogers,
JJ Cale and Old John Prine
Sara Dressen - writer
Book: "Lock and Key"
notes: 1. Angel from Montgomery, Bonnie Raitt and John Prine: This song is specifically mentioned in the book, and it really helped me when I was trying to picture Ruby's mom and figure out what her story was. We had to get permission from John Prine's publishing company to quote a couple of lines from it, which is a complex process, but so worth it in the end. I just love this song. April 22, 2008
Frank Manzi
Album: Going Home John Prine
Lyric: "And your mind is a little South of Prine? (?)
John Cotter
Album: ConceptPeace (7/17/2006)
Song:
You Were Right, Mr. Prine
Lyric: I was wondering when I was younger if I should blow up my TV...
Charlie Zulu Project Album: Riverstones (2/11/2008)
Song: John Prine by Matt Euser Lyric: entire song is filled with bits and pieces of John Prine lyrics
Over the Rhine Album:The Trumpet Child Song: “If a Song Could Be President,”
Lyrics: "John Prine would run the FBI -
All the criminals would laugh and cry -
If a song could be president"a
Saw Doctors
Album: single
Song: "She's Got It"
Lyrics: "The way she reads my mind,
The way she loves John Prine" listen to it here
Artist: Vince Gill
Album: These Days (4 disk set) - on Disk 3: "Some Things Never Get Old (The Country and Western Record)"
Song: Some Things Never Get Old (Track 7) - featuring Emmylou Harris Lyrics: The last lines of the first two verses are:
(1) Eating Watermelon down to the rind, Any old song by Brother John Prine....
(2) Pickin on the back porch with Brother John Prine
Book: Doctor Spectrum
#4 - Full Spectrum, Part IV of VI
Artist: Travel Foreman (p), Nelson DeCastro(i)
Writer: Sara "Samm" Barnes Publisher: Marvel Comics
Story: Makes use of a song by John Prine - (I'm guessing it's Sam
Stone, but would like confirmation from anyone who has read this comic)
Artist: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez Album: The Trouble With Humans Song: Don't Speak English Lyrics: "You can let the telephone ring - don't
pass me that thing - I am not a receiver
you can
play the music you choose - western swing or delta blues
where wasted
words are few - an old John Prine (Van Zandt) will do - then we'll
just talk for a while"
Artist: the Gourds Album: "Cow fish Fowl or Pig" on Sugar Hill Records Song: My Name is Jorge Lyrics: "But I won't sell no flowers no that ain't my
gig - And I won't sell no cow, fish, fowl or pig
But I'll
sell a bucket of peaches to Prine - 'Cept he's got his own
trees so he ain't shakin' mine"
Artist: John Wesley Harding
Album:
Song: Talkin' Return Of The Great Folk Scare Blues
Lyrics: ... "And then I learned the Folksinger's
Prayer and it goes like this:
Our Father, Who art on Folkways - Ramblin' Jack
be thy name
Thy Folk City come, Thy will be done - On CD as it was
on vinyl
Give us this day our daily gig, And forgive us our
protest
As we forgive those who protest against us
And lead us not into electricity - But deliver us
from commercialism
For Prine is the kingdom, The power of the story, Forever
be clever
A minor?..."
Artist: Andrew Calhoun Album: "Tiger Tattoo" on Waterbug Records
(2002) Song: "Goin' Down to See John Prine"
Lyrics: My folks did not go out much, not even
a movie
And Folk was politic back then, Protest
and "Feelin' Groovy,"
We lived out in the suburbs, it was a
special thing
When they drove into Chicago to hear
a mailman sing
That next week, they took my sister,
one week later, they took me
I got a stamp on the back of my hand
and I saw my destiny
Just an ordinary mailman with a gift
for stringin' words
Who wrote and sang the greatest songs
that we had ever heard
And every song was different and every
time was new
And every other month or so, he'd write
a song or two
With mugs of coke and peanuts, in the
musk and cigarettes
We'd sit through rock star wannabes,
to hear John's second set
"Hello In There" and "Paradise"
and "Flag Decal" again
And one he never did record, "Will
Anybody Be My Friend?"
Will anybody be my friend?
At Glen Ellyn Junior High School, the
guys called me a fag
My homeroom teacher called me out, I
wouldn't pledge the flag
There was Johnny Cash on Wednesday nights,
to make life worth the time
Waiting for the weekend, goin' down to
see John Prine
On Christmas, there was no one, at the
old 5th Peg's back room
But our family and one couple, listening
in the gloom
Then I called out a favorite song, John
stopped his show and smiled
At me in growing silence there, I felt
like heaven's child
It's a blessing I would carry, through
trouble, dread and tears
And I gave John a pocket knife that he
kept for luck for years
With two full sets, and sometimes three,
each night a double bill
Everybody knew the reason that black
room began to fill
With a feature in the Daily News and
two in the Sun-Times
There were folks from every walk of life,
goin' down to see John Prine
And so it was a joyful thing, and sorry
now because
It's just a ghost of memory, how beautiful
it was
That songs so filled with loneliness
could leave us less alone
As if to love your neighbor were as easy
as the phone
He'd sing "A friend that's been
turned down will be a friend of mine"
And strangers felt like family then,
goin' down to see John Prine
And so we all were happy, and happy for
his sake
When Goodman brought Kristofferson, to
score John his big break
We'd see him at the Arie Crown, up there
where he belongs
To think that now the hungry world would
get to hear these songs
And a few years on in Boston, we went
down to see his show
We waited in the hallway, but he couldn't
say hello
We saw him being interviewed, my sister
Jane explained,
"That's all part of his job now,
publicity's insane"
The critics raved, the drunkards roared,
the groupies got in line
It would never be the same, goin' down
to see John Prine
At the folkie's Sunday softball, for
weeks they had it planned
John would come to play a game with his
entire band
I had my year-old son there, we had brought
him down to see
A man who just ignored him, and barely
noticed me
He was out of shape and shouting, like
his good time wasn't real
Then he headed out for a private thing
with the boys in center field
And I wished it didn't matter, and I
wished I didn't care
Just my tough luck to love someone who
wasn't really there
On a sunny summer afternoon, for me the
game was blown
Who'd believe this strung-out fool was
the man who wrote "Sam Stone"?
At Rose Records store on Ashland, 1987
It felt a mile awkward when I stopped
in to see him
A woman had her picture taken with him
there and signed
But it just made me nervous, goin' down
to see John Prine
And at his last accounting, there is
bound to be a do
With St. Peter and the Muses, and Montgomery's
Angel too
Saying, "Who's to speak for anyone,
and who's to cast a stone
At one who eased our loneliness, but
couldn't bear his own
And if I reach the pearly gates, when
comes my time to go
I hope St. Peter's not too busy to come
out and say hello
Will he sing "A friend that's been
turned down will be a friend of mine."
Or stamp the back of my right hand -
goin' down to see John Prine
There in the gloom I will request my
favorite songs again,
"Paradise", "Hello in
There", "Will Anybody Be My Friend."
That's "Paradise", "Hello
in There", "Will Anybody Be My Friend."
Artist: Low
Album: (2002) Song: John Prine Lyrics: I verified the math - I thought I was
a poet - I had so much to say But now I want to see the
blood - I want to make them pay - Yeah, I can see the day
I made a place for children - They wanted
all the answers - I gave them all my lectures
Now they're perfect dancers - 'Cause
I'm a perfect dancer - Sha la la la la
Artist: Todd Snider
Album: New Connection Oh Boy Records OBR023 5/14/02 Song: Vinyl Records Lyrics: "I got Willie, Waylon, and Woody Guthrie, Jimmy
Buffett, Lyle Lovett, and Bobby Gentry, Jerry Jeff, Bob Dylan, Donnie
Fritts, The Dead, and The Doors, Patsy Cline, John Prine, and More."
Artist: Chip Taylor
Album: Black and Blue America Train Wreck Records TW011 8/07/01 Song: You Left Me Here Lyric: Like a John Prine Song - that kinda runs away - When
it comes back to your heart - it comes to stay And I've been gone so
long - but I have no fear In the middle of my trial, Lord You left me
here"
Artist: Loudon Wainwright III
Album: "History", 1992 Song: Talking New Bob Dylan Lyric: "Yeah, I got a deal, and so did John Prine,
Steve Forbert and Springsteen, all in a line. They were lookin' for
you, signin' up others, We were "new Bob Dylans" -- your dumb-ass
kid brothers."
Band: Pawtuckets, from Memphis TN. Album: Rest Of Our Days Song: Punchline Lyric: ..." liked his Mickey's malt liquor and his cheap
red wine. Sat around the house and listened to John Prine."
Band: Ellis Paul Poem: "Last Call" Line: The jukebox quarters, they go straight to John Prine
So I can't seem to tear you from my mind.
Band: You Am I (Australia) Single: Damage First lyrics in the song:Woke up with a war in my head,
An old man's grumble And an extra space in the bed And if ol' John Prine
can't sing the next line Bout something that can make me smile...
Band: Everclear Album: Songs From An American Movie- Vol. 1: Learning How to
Smile Song: Thrift Store Chair Chorus: "I'm going to put a John Prine record on,
I think we need to slow down for awhile"
Band: Grumblebunny Album: John Prine-A-Records
Artist: John Wesley Harding Album: Dynablob and It Happened One Night Song: Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue and ME Lyrics: "And Steve harmonizes like he did
with John Prine, And David just sits and looks blue all the time"
Artist: Graham Parker Album: (almost on) Struck
By Lightning Lyric: "John Prine sings outside the door, but people
going in ignore him"
