{"id":1319349,"date":"2020-04-08T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820108"},"modified":"2020-04-08T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:01:44","slug":"all-the-best-10-john-prine-classics-brilliantly-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/all-the-best-10-john-prine-classics-brilliantly-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Best: 10 John Prine Classics, Brilliantly Covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691778?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n13m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/john-prine\">John Prine<\/a> painted his songs on a broad canvas of themes, moods and insights. It\u2019s little wonder, then, that artists in virtually every format flocked to record their own distinctive versions of them. He was simultaneously folk, country, pop, blues, bluegrass and jazz.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVhA01J0Zsg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVhA01J0Zsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>For example, his \u201cAngel From Montgomery\u201d was recorded by artists as diverse as Bonnie Raitt, John Denver, Carly Simon, Tanya Tucker, Susan Tedeschi and Old Crow Medicine Show. \u201cParadise\u201d found favor on a spectrum that included the Seldom Scene, Tom T. Hall, John Fogerty and String Cheese Incident. \u201cHello in There\u201d engaged the recorded affection of both Bette Midler, Jason Isbell, Joan Baez, and 10,000 Maniacs. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 of Prine\u2019s classic compositions, brilliantly covered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAll the Best\u201d (Zac Brown Band)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regret, resentment and heartbreak coming at you in monosyllables. A primer for those whose emotions are as simple and complex as words written in granite.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_-xYflfpNA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_-xYflfpNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cAngel From Montgomery\u201d (Bonnie Raitt) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bluesy as the Mississippi Delta, this chronicles a dead-end life that grows bleaker every day. \u201cThere\u2019s flies in the kitchen I can hear \u2019em buzzing\/and I ain\u2019t done nothing since I woke up today\/How the hell can a person go to work in the morning\/and come home in the evening and have nothing to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaHNUYAKDn4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaHNUYAKDn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cGrandpa Was a Carpenter\u201d (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with John Prine)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Prine and Steve Goodman\u2019s \u201cYou Never Even Called Me By My Name\u2019\u201d was \u201cthe perfect country song,\u201d then \u201cGrandpa Was a Carpenter\u201d is the perfect imagist poem. A loving warts-and-all tribute to the guy who taught the grandson life and values. Not exactly a cover, as Prine himself joined the lineup of the Dirt Band\u2019s 1989 album, <i>Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume Two<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2iD_qQl1Yw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2iD_qQl1Yw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cI Just Want to Dance With You\u201d (George Strait)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A simple, sweet and eloquent declaration of love just as that sensation blossoms. Prine co-wrote this one with Roger Cook. Strait took it to No. 1 at country radio in 1998.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5Fbcmsp-5s?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5Fbcmsp-5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cLove Is on a Roll\u201d (Don Williams)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s pretty clear what\u2019s on this guy\u2019s mind: \u201cUsually I meet with the boys on Friday\/only this mornin\u2019 she said this is my day.\u201d Another Roger Cook co-write and another No. 1 hit, this time in 1983.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5CaMJxWfsfY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5CaMJxWfsfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cParadise\u201d (the Everly Brothers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Possibly the most graceful, forceful and mournful song ever written about the environmental carnage of strip-mining. Idyllic images of childhood clash with the devastating conclusion: \u201cAnd Daddy won\u2019t you take me back to Muhlenberg County\/down by the Green River where Paradise lay\/Well, I\u2019m sorry my son, but you\u2019re too late in asking\/Mr. Peabody\u2019s coal train has hauled it away.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-S_vxKMzwY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-S_vxKMzwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cSam Stone\u201d (Johnny Cash)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one matches Cash\u2019s ability in telling this story about a war-crazed veteran who destroys himself and shatters his family with his ravenous drug habit. \u201cAnd the gold roared through his veins\/like a thousand railroad trains.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-fc2j38Ab4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-fc2j38Ab4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s the Way the World Goes Round\u201d (Miranda Lambert)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prine was at the head of his class when it came to recognizing how absurd the world can be \u2014 and Lambert knows every twist and turn. \u201cIt\u2019s a half an inch of water and you think you\u2019re gonna drown\/That\u2019s the way the world goes round.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxFh-fYrMeU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxFh-fYrMeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cUnwed Fathers\u201d (Tammy Wynette)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prine wrote this condemnation of hit-and-run fathers with Bobby Braddock, while Wynette filled it up with tears. \u201cFrom teenage lover to unwed mother\/kept undercover like some bad dream\/But unwed fathers can\u2019t be bothered\/They\u2019ll run like water through a mountain stream.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4S1MZQp6Cg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4S1MZQp6Cg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Never Even Called Me By My Name\u201d (David Allan Coe)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally attributed solely to Prine\u2019s friend, Steve Goodman, this recitation of country clich\u00e9s will have you flashing back to many of your country favorites. Prine later confessed to participating, and his wry sense of humor is evident throughout. \u201cWell, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison\/and I went to pick her up in the rain\/but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck\/she got run over by a damned old train.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4pZFsEdP3Y?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4pZFsEdP3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oh, John won\u2019t you take us back to Music Row\u2019s bounty? <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820108\/all-the-best-10-john-prine-classics-brilliantly-covered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 13m ago John Prine painted his songs on a broad canvas of themes, moods and insights. It\u2019s little wonder, then, that artists in virtually every format flocked to record their own distinctive versions of them. He was simultaneously folk, country, pop, blues, bluegrass and jazz. Embedded from www.youtube.com. For example, his \u201cAngel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:58:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}