I had a very strange feeling when a John Prine video I uploaded on YouTube years ago got flooded with new comments. Bad omen. Feelings are strange, especially when they come true... This one is really hard to take.
Rest easy, John Prine. Enjoy your rock band, cocktail party and 9-mile long cigarette up there.
All guest artists featured on this show paid tribute to John when he passed away.
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John Prine
"Live at Newport 2017"
Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI
2017-07-30
Lineage: SBD > ??? > WAV > Track Splitting > FLAC Level 8
Setlist:
01. Love, Love, Love
02. Long Monday
03. Taking a Walk
04. Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
05. Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) [w/ Justin Vernon]
06. Angel From Montgomery
07. Fish and Whistle
08. All the Best [w/ Jim James]
09. Mexican Home
10. In Spite of Ourselves [w/ Margo Price]
11. That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round
12. Sam Stone [w/ Nathaniel Rateliff]
13. Hello in There [w/ Roger Waters & Lucius]
14. Lake Marie
15. Paradise
Total Duration: 72 minutes and 4 seconds
Band:
John Prine - guitar, vocals
Jason Wilber - guitar, harmonica, harmony vocals
Pat McLaughlin - guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals
Dave Jacques - bass
Kenneth Blevins - drums
Justin Vernon, Jim James, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Roger Waters - guitar, guest vocals
Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig - harmony vocals on "Hello in There"
Notes:
One of the best-sounding John Prine recodings I have, this show might be one of the most star-studded John Prine shows ever. Margo Price, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, My Morning Jacket's Yim Yames and The Night Sweats's Nathaniel Rateliff each guested on one song, and (ex) Pink Floyd's Roger Waters even brought his back vocalists from indie band Lucius for the song "Hello in There". You can find tons of reviews of this concert online, as well as fan-shot videos on YouTube. John Prine inspired and influenced a lot of today's best songwriters and this show proves that. As someone puts, "John Prine might not be your favorite songwriter, but he probably is one of your favorite songwriters' favorite songwriter."
All guest artists featured on this show paid tribute to John when he passed away - Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff performed on NPR's Tiny Desk John Prine Tribute Concert, Jim James posted a John Prine cover on Instagram, Roger Waters recorded a video sharing his thoughts, and Justin Vernon wrote on his Twitter: "A simple majority of who I am as a person, let alone a musician, is because of John Prine. He is my number 1."
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If you're tired of physical CDs, you can go to Prine's Bandcamp website and purchase his albums in FLAC/ALAC/WAV lossless format: http://johnprine.bandcamp.com/
John McCutcheon wrote a very touching tribute song to Prine, so good that it moved me to tears. You can hear it at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=691194858300006.
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