wh
发帖数: 141625 | 1 刚看到《I Love Rock 'N' Roll》的唱作者Alan Merrill染上新冠去世，69岁，坐标曼
哈顿。歌很熟悉：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0
顺着新闻还找到其他染上新冠的歌手，包括Nashville的乡村音乐传奇、现年73岁的
John Prine。我没听过他的歌，不过另一位殿堂级大师Joan Baez为他唱歌，祝他痊愈
——我以为Joan Baez已经作古了呢……看视频里的她黑衣衬华发，气质雍容，保养得
很好，一点看不出年近八十。年轻时的Joan Baez算不上漂亮；现在没了当年的叛逆不羁
，多了一份典雅从容，显得很美。她唱的是John Prine写的歌《Hello In There》，说
是她四十多年的演唱生涯中点赞最多的歌曲之一。看歌词正是写老年人的。有空一定要
去老人院做点义工。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJPvc5vvKY4
Hello In There
John Prine
We had an apartment in the city
Me and Loretta liked living there
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown
A life of their own left us alone
John and Linda live in Omaha
And Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost Davy in the Korean war
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy
We worked together at the factory
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do"
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello" | c***r
发帖数: 4631 | | f**********w
发帖数: 1 | | wh
发帖数: 141625 | 4 赞美分量好足！我感觉Comfortably Numb和Hello in There还是挺不同的，摇滚给我的
感觉是poignant，乡村是白开水。一个浓烈，一个比较淡，旋律节奏都类似，大概主要
靠歌词脱颖而出？这些歌的社会意识都很强。John Prine年轻时长发飘飘，再蓄个胡子
，完全认不出来了。可能因为胡子头发把很有特色的大圆脸遮了。
【在 c***r 的大作中提到】
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY
: vhttps://www.youtube.com/v/RfwGkplB_sY
: Roger waters是他的歌迷，Comfortably Numb基本就是抄袭Hello in There
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fFVOoqepc
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-gK6S4pSVw
: 另一首经典
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJ3ZYWRh24
: How the hell can a person, go to work in the morning, come home in the
: evening and have nothing to say
: 另一首经典,被无数人翻唱，Johnny Cash版本
| wh
发帖数: 141625 | 5 昨天走了。
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52212571
John Prine: Bruce Springsteen leads tributes to late singer
Bruce Springsteen has said he is "crushed by the loss" of US country-folk
singer John Prine.
The Grammy-winning songwriter died on Tuesday, aged 73, due to Covid-19
complications, his publicist confirmed.
Prine had been in hospital in Nashville since last week with coronavirus
symptoms, with his wife and manager, Fiona Whelan Prine, posting updates
about his condition online.
Prine was revered by his peers including Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
"John and I were 'New Dylans' together in the early 70s and he was never
anything but the lovliest guy in the world," tweeted The Boss.
"A true national treasure and a songwriter for the ages."
Prine signed with Atlantic Records and released his self-titled debut album
in 1971, after fellow singer-songwriter, Kris Kristofferson, saw him perform
in a Chicago club. The album included songs like Angel from Montgomery,
Paradise, and Sam Stone, which gave bittersweet snapshots of American
society and fed into the anti-war movement.
After serving the US army in Germany during the Vietnam war, Prine returned
to home to Chicago where he worked as a postman.
While doing his mail rounds, he wrote songs that would see him emerge, from
open mic nights, as a key player on the windy city's folk revival scene in
the 1970s and go on to become one of America's most influential artists.
"I likened the mail route to being in a library without any books. You just
had time to be quiet and think, and that's where I would come up with a lot
of songs," Prine told the Chicago Tribune in a 2010 interview.
"If the song was any good I could remember it later and write it down."
Speaking to the Huffington Post in 2009, Dylan - who performed with Prine -
described his music as "pure Proustian existentialism".
"Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs."
Robbie Robertson, from The Band - who used to back Dylan - described Prine
as "a genius".
He won his first of four Grammy Award in 1991, for The Missing Years, which
bagged best contemporary folk album. It was a category he would top again in
2005 for Fair and Square.
"We join the world in mourning the passing of revered country and folk
singer/songwriter John Prine," the Recording Academy wrote in a statement.
"Widely lauded as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation,
John's impact will continue to inspire musicians for years to come. We send
our deepest condolences to his loved ones."
Prine underwent cancer surgery on his throat in 2008 - and on his lungs in
2013 - but joked that it had actually improved his singing voice.
"If I can make myself laugh about something I should be crying about, that's
pretty good," he joked.
【在 c***r 的大作中提到】
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwGkplB_sY
: vhttps://www.youtube.com/v/RfwGkplB_sY
: Roger waters是他的歌迷，Comfortably Numb基本就是抄袭Hello in There
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fFVOoqepc
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-gK6S4pSVw
: 另一首经典
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJ3ZYWRh24
: How the hell can a person, go to work in the morning, come home in the
: evening and have nothing to say
: 另一首经典,被无数人翻唱，Johnny Cash版本
| r********n
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发帖数: 141625 | 7 很棒！
【在 r********n 的大作中提到】
: 我喜欢Joan Jett 的版本
: https://youtu.be/jUxsP8ED_cM
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