What still gets me about these videos of JP is that the back-up singers all REALLY wanted to be on stage with John. It wasnt just 'ok fine I'll go.' It was wanting to be there with him. They knew who the genius was. And they wanted to be there. Kris K. just runs out on stage to sign with him because he knew how great the music was. It was not pretentious or fake.
Thanks for posting this. 3rd of July is a haunting melody and the middle part about the word that got caught in a place where words can't surround it, is one of the deepest lyrics of all time. JP was able to take the anxiety and guilt and describe it in beautiful melodies and poetic words. An ordinary man with an incredible talent.
“There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said, strangers had forced him to live in his head”… from Donald and Lydia. Was he describing Donald’s stuttering?
"The Third Of July" lyrics by John Prine. (below) It was the third of July and a cool cloudy sky I set in for a storm in the makin' I relaxed as I sat up in our three room flat While my wife was in the kitchen a-bakin' Thoughts passed through my mind of no special kind Like faces that look like the others Tomorrow they say is Independence day And I guess we'll go eat at my brother's I believe that a thought has just gotten caught In a place where words can't surround it It concerns the years past and the shadows they cast In my path as I walk around it. It was the third of July and a cool cloudy sky I set in for a storm in the makin' I relaxed as I sat up in our three room flat While my wife was in the kitchen a-bakin' Thoughts passed through my mind of no special kind Like faces that look like the others Tomorrow they say is Independence day And I guess we'll go eat at my brother's
Absolutely. Bob was an obvious influence on John. I've always thought that G. Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" borrowed a lot from N. Country Blues too.
@@kenkeiran4667 yeah but, in this case it's SO close you can switch lyrics without changing the melody. Btw ive always thought N. Country Blues is one of Bob's underrated masteroieces.
