r/johnprine

I was working, my son came down to say hi, I was humming “That’s the Way the World Goes Around”, and my son started singing AND he got the lyrics correct!

When I asked if he knew the artist he looked at me like I was crazy and said, “DUH, John Prine”

I gave him a hug and told him how proud I was…

His music is meant to be passed to the next generation.

A nice review!

The original first-album version of Angel came up on my shuffle and I realized I couldn't sing along at first, as the arrangement has a couple of missing beats in each verse compared to the live version and all the cover versions.

Musicians: what time signature is this, exactly? I was counting sevens and fives but I suspect it's more of an ad-hoc thing? It jumped out as it's so unusual for Prine to do anything fancy-like.