12/13/2022 0 Comments John prine i remember everything![]() ![]() The song came out on June 11 and this week “debuted at the top of the Rock Digital Song Sales chart, making it the highest-charting single of the late legend’s entire career.” It showcases Prine’s ability to make the personal reflect larger social realities he may never have seen coming but somehow tuned into nonetheless. ![]() 1 hit, until now-in a final irony he would have appreciated-with his posthumous release, “I Remember Everything.” But while he won two Grammys and several other distinguished awards, “inductions into multiple songwriter halls of fame,” notes Eli Enis at Consequence of Sound, “and gushing praise from peers like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Petty,” Prine never had a No. “He became known for detailed vignettes about ordinary people that illustrated truths about society.” His mastery of this form made him the ultimate songwriter’s songwriter. “Bestowing dignity on the overlooked and marginalized was a common theme throughout Prine’s career,” writes Annie Zaleski in an NPR Music tribute. While Prine’s explicitly political songs are only a small part of his catalogue, his lyricism always clearly reflected his beliefs. Prine’s targets included the conservative demonization of single mothers in “Unwed Fathers,” who “can’t be bothered,” he sang, “They run like water, through a mountain stream.” In 1971, he told belligerent American nationalists “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore,” in a song he’d actually written in the late 60s, calling out America’s “dirty little war.” He revisited this evergreen anti-war theme in 2005’s “Some Humans Ain’t Human,” a song that angered many fans. His thoughts became folk poetry with teeth. Mass death for profit and power, colossal stupidity and bullying ignorance-these were just the kinds of things that got Prine’s wheels turning. response to the virus was developing into what may well be the Greatest Political Folly most Americans have ever witnessed in their lifetimes. It feels cosmically ironic that Great American Songwriter John Prine died of COVID-19 in early April, just before the U.S. ![]()
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