As I live and breathe,the very first thought that entered my mind was “He was in heaven before he died.” When I first heard “I Remember Everything” I thought it was the perfect opus. I encountered JP once, in a steakhouse Norfolk VA having dinner with Gove Scrivenor Told him about the first time I saw him, and that I had played his songs so often that I couldn’t ever pay off the royalties – I offered to offered pick up their ($200) dinner tab as a gesture of gratitude – he said something like “Ominus Dominus, you are forgiven.” I was lying on the couch at 2am with my old Martin, playing Bruised Orange, when my daughter – a big JP fan since she was a kid – came downstairs to tell me she was sad to report having seen notice of his passing on the news channel. Even though I’ve played them all thousands of times in the past half century, along with a hundred others, I still hang on to every word because their stories never get old. It’s been nearly fifty years since I wore the grooves out learning Sam Stone, Donald and Lydia, Hello In There, Angel From Montgomery and Paradise. About a year later, out in San Francisco while working for ABC In Concert and doing gigs in the Bay Area, I came across an album in a record store – face vaguely familiar, but the name pinged my memory. I would have joined his fan club, but I forgot his name five minutes after it was over. I had written a few songs, played passable guitar and had performed in Greenwich Village in the mid 60s, I was even considering quitting my “day job” and going on the road with “my act”… This Prine guy was amazing his songs – and his voice – were like nothing i had ever heard before. A guy whom I later learned was Johhn Prine.
#John prine i remember everything movie
As the bus dropped me off and was pulling away I realized there was no movie – it was a solo performance by a guy.
#John prine i remember everything free
There were some free tickets to some of the theaters in Memphis – I grabbed one and got on the bus. After securing the aircraft I went to the USO to see what was available. 1 hit, until nowin a final irony he would have appreciatedwith his posthumous release, I Remember Everything.
I was a Navy Reserve aircrewman (and a wannabe singer songwriter) out of Pensacola – my plane had to remain overnight at NAS Memphis in the winter of 69-1970. 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.
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