Covid-19 invades our music world. Please get well John Prine
March 30, 2020
An update on John pic.twitter.com/fPQbv0tLyB
— John Prine (@JohnPrineMusic) March 29, 2020
From John Prine's family comes this horribly unwelcome news. It was relayed to me at Facebook by one of my American electronic friends, Stan Wilson, an occasional reader of Salut! Live's (also occasional) pages.
Stan says simply: "Such bad news. Great singer songwriter."
UPDATE (TUES MARCH 31) from John's wife, Fiona, who has recovered from the virus ...
🙏 JohnPrine RT @FionaPrine: I need to clarify what I mean by “John is stable”. That is not the same as improving. There is no cure for Covid-19. He needs our prayers and love - as do the thousands of others who are critically ill. Stay at home. Wash your hands. We love you.
— TLC in the Morning (@TLC_ZEW) March 31, 2020
John's sickness has touched the world of folk and country folk and Joan Baez recorded this message and song in his honour:
Salut! Live salutes the life and work of an artist whose composing qualities once prompted Kris Kristofferson to say he "wrote songs so good that we'll have to break his thumbs".
Let us hope that despite the worrying gravity of his condition, John can recover. Here is a golden nugget from his repertoire ...
Best wishes to John, he's had many health problems over the last 20 years or so, let's hope he can overcome this latest one.
Some of his songs have a lovely humour about them, this one tells of a bloke who has found a way of turning his ears off to his nagging wife. (Complete with false start)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22vyBpnKiI
Posted by: Jake | March 31, 2020 at 06:08 PM
I was initially encouraged by the update that John is now 'stable' but his wife makes clear in the tweet I reproduce above that stable does not mean 'improving'.
Posted by: Colin Randall | April 01, 2020 at 12:12 PM