I was a bit teary but smiling at the same time as I watched Kris and Sinead’s duet. Only brilliant music can do that. Thanks for that brief but spot on tribute Simon. I wish I’d seen him in concert. Just a small typo - I’m sure you meant John Prine. In fact I know you did.
Thanks. And yes, have fixed - the Substack app is BRILLIANT but it’s very trigger-happy around auto-correcting what it is sure things should be. Thanks for picking that up.
His music spoke to me from the 70’s, when country was looked down on, background to my 50 yr marriage. “Loving her was easier” - still sing it sometimes, a bit shaky like his last Welly gig. Saw him in Dunedin in 1974 with Rita Coolidge but he was badass drunk or stoned and didn’t understand NZ audiences. Funky Donny Fritz was grumpy about the piano. Kristofferson and the Silver tongued devil LP’s still my life staples! Closer to the bone a very good album. I’ll be playing him in celebration of a great life and contribution “For the good times”.
I was a bit teary but smiling at the same time as I watched Kris and Sinead’s duet. Only brilliant music can do that. Thanks for that brief but spot on tribute Simon. I wish I’d seen him in concert. Just a small typo - I’m sure you meant John Prine. In fact I know you did.
Thanks. And yes, have fixed - the Substack app is BRILLIANT but it’s very trigger-happy around auto-correcting what it is sure things should be. Thanks for picking that up.
His music spoke to me from the 70’s, when country was looked down on, background to my 50 yr marriage. “Loving her was easier” - still sing it sometimes, a bit shaky like his last Welly gig. Saw him in Dunedin in 1974 with Rita Coolidge but he was badass drunk or stoned and didn’t understand NZ audiences. Funky Donny Fritz was grumpy about the piano. Kristofferson and the Silver tongued devil LP’s still my life staples! Closer to the bone a very good album. I’ll be playing him in celebration of a great life and contribution “For the good times”.