A man in search of a pint found one in an Irish establishment in Midtown. He was short and everyday, save for his spikes of gray-white hair and a sizable indentation in his neck — the mark of something endured. He looked like a guy who’d been around, and was grateful to still be.
For years, while friends, many of them Nam vets, were dying around me due to alcohol soaked, heroin drug use, triggered by PTSD, I embraced Prine's "Sam Stone" as almost an anthem to them. Too many restless souls having to die way too soon before finding peace. To this day I cannot listen to this song without shedding a tear for them.
Re: Prine time
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:27 pm
by Long Run
I had never heard the story before reading the article that he first performed that at an open mic night.
Re: Prine time
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:03 pm
by Lord Jim
I almost missed this thread...
I'm really glad I didn't...(I also somehow missed the story in my copy of the NYT...I frequently don't get to the "Arts" section...)
Thanks for posting that Long Run; as a long time hardcore Prine fan, I really enjoyed the article...
Re: Prine time
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:03 pm
by Burning Petard
I too, say thank you LR. "Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away" And now the repo man is after Mr. Peabody's coal train and nobody is gonna clean up the land Mr. Peabody destroyed. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/04/ ... .html?_r=0
