MAY
MAY THE4@4@ MADE4@ THE ROAD4@ THAT IS THE SONG ANGEL FROM A GUM TREE BY THE LATE
JOHN PRINE4@.
>> THE LEGENDARY SINGER AND
INFLUENTIAL SONGWRITER DIE4@D
TUESDAY IN NASHVILLE FROM
COMPLICATIONS OF KSO FANS ARE
MOURNING THE LOSS OF PRINE, A
TWO TIME CANCER SURVIVOR4@.
THEY'VE BEEN HOLDING HIM IN
THEIR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
SINCE HIS FAMILY ANNOUNCED4@ LAT
WEEK HE WAS IN VERY SERIOUS
CONDITION BATTLING THE CORONA
VIRUS4@ TO PUT HIS MUSIC IN ONE
PARTICULAR TIME ISN'T4@ POSSIBLE
.
HE COULD DO ANY TYPE OF MUSIC.
HIS SONGS INFLUENCED
GENERATIONS OF OTHER MUSICIANS
WITH SONGS LIKE HELLO IN THEIR
PARADISE AND SAM STONE.
HE INFLUENCED OTHER MUSICIANS4@
LIKE BONNIE RAITT, BOB DYLAN
AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JUST TO
NAME A FEW.
TODA4@Y WE TALKED TO TWO LOCAL
MUSIC AUTHORITIES ABOUT PRIME'S
INFLUENCE HERE.
ANY CINCY4@ JO4@4@ JO FRIENDS O
MUSIC AUTHORITIES ABOUT PRIME'S INFLUENCE HERE. ANY CINCY4@ JO4@4@ JO FRIENDS OE
GREATEST SINGER SONGWRITER?
>> HE WAS LIKE MARK TWAIN OR
WOODY GUTHRIE OR WILL ROGERS IN
HOW4@ MUCH COMMON SENSE HE PUT
INTO HIS ART.
HE WAS4@ UNLIKE ANYBODY ELSE AN@
HE'S HE WROTE SONGS THAT YOU'D
SAY AROUND THE CAMPFIRE4@ IN
SONGS THAT ARE AS IMPORTANT AS
BOB DYLAN SONGS OR STEPHEN
FOSTER SONGS OR ANYBODY ELSE IN
BOB DYLAN SONGS OR STEPHEN FOSTER SONGS OR ANYBODY ELSE IN@ THE LAST FOREVER.
HE WAS ALSO AN EXTREMELY NICE
FELLOW4@.
THE ONE TIME I TALKED TO HIM
WAS HE CALLED ME AT 2 A.M. ONE
NIGHT FOR OUR INTERVIEW AND HAD
FORGOTTEN PRIOR TO THAT THAT HE
WAS SUPPOSED TO CALL ME4@.
HE SAID HE WOULD REMEMBER IN
THE GROCERY STORE WHEREVER AND
HE HAD A GRE4@AT CONVERSATION AT
2:00 A.M..
4@HE ALSO HAD CONNECTIONS TO
KNOXVILLE.
HE SIGNED R.B. MORRIS TO HIS
FIRST4@ RECORD CONTRAC4@T WITH H
BOY RECORDS AND HE RECORDED RB
SONG.
THAT'S HOW EVERY EMPIRE FALLS.
AND HE WAS4@ ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE
THAT YOU NEVER HEARD ANYBODY
SAY A BAD WORD ABOUT4@.
HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST ARTISTS
PETER, JUST COME ON4@ AND A VERY
SAD DAY FOR MUSIC LOVERS WITH
LOSING OF JOHN PRINE LAST NIGHT
THROUGH THIS CORONA VIRUS
EPISODE.
MANY FANS ALL ACROSS4@ THE
COUNTRY.
JOHN IS VERY SPECIAL TO SO4@ MAY
MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS.
4@ HE MEANT A LOT TO SO MANY
PEOPLE LOVED HIS HIS HIS HIS
THOUGHT4@4@ ABOUT SONGWRITING.
HE SAID WRITING IS ABOUT A
BLANK PIECE OF PAPER4@ AND
LEAVING OUT WHAT'S NOT SUPPOSED
TO BE THERE4@.
AND HE ATTRACTED SO MANY FANS
SCOTT MILLER WHO OF COURSE IS
VERY POPULAR YOUR KNOXVILLE.
I ASK HIM MONK JUST A FEW WEEKS
GO.
I SAID YOU KNO4@W, AS A BOB DYLN
WAS NEIL YOUNG WHO'S FLOODS HE
SAID WELL AS JOHN PRINE PRIZE
ONE MAN AND A NOTE OUR FRIEND
R.B. MORRIS VERY INFLUENCED BY
JOHN PRINE AND JAY CLARK AND SO
MANY MORE HERE IN THIS
INCREDIBLE TENNESSEEE REGION WE
REALLY MOURN THE LOSS OF ONE OF
AMERICA'S GREATS4@.
GO CHECK OUT HIS LIBRARY4@, FIND
HIS MUSIC, LAUGH4@ AND ENJOY.
>> JOHN PRINE HTIS COME4@ HOWERS
SCHIELE4@ RAYT WHO WORKED WITH
PRINE ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS
SHARED ON FACEBOOK4@.
>> I'M CRUSHED BY THE LOSS OF
MY DEAR FRIEND JOHN.
MY HEART AND LOVE TO FIONA AND
ALL THE FAM4@ILY FOR ALL OF US
WHOSE HEARTS ARE BREAKING.
WE WILL KEEP SINGING HIS SONGS
AND HOLDING HIM4@ NEAR.
AND YOU HEARD TONY AND WAYNE
TALK ABOUT RB4@ MORRIS.
HE IS A SINGER SONGWRITER AND
POET FROM HERE IN KNOXVILLE4@.
HE CONSIDERED JOHN PRINE A DEAR
FRIEND.
PRINE HAS EVEN4@ RECORDED ONE OF
MORRIS'S SONGS.
THAT'S HOW EVERY EMPIRE FALLS.
MORRIS SHARED THIS PHOTO WITH
US FROM PRIDE'S LAST CONCERT IN
KNOXVILLE.
IN 2018 YOU CAN READ MORE ON4@4@
JOHN PRYOR'S LEGACY AT WPI
ASK.COM.
JOHN LEAVES BEHIND THREE SONS
AND HIS WIFE AND MANAGER FIONA
JOHN PRINE WAS 73 YEARS OLD4@.
>> MADE