yorks5stringer Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Sadly did not make it, RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMoon Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Yeah........sad loss. Great songwriter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Grateful I saw him in Manchester recently for the first, and sadly last, time. Lake Marie, man. What songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_L Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Very sad news Now smoking a cigarette nine miles long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK Jale Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Also so glad I caught him - London Palladium in 2017. Unforgettable gig. "You come home straight, you come home curly/ Sometimes you don't come home at all..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 41 minutes ago, KK Jale said: Also so glad I caught him - London Palladium in 2017. Unforgettable gig. "You come home straight, you come home curly/ Sometimes you don't come home at all..." Speed of the Sound, we do that in the Americana Band I'm in. I love Angel from Montgomery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 34 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said: Speed of the Sound, we do that in the Americana Band I'm in. I love Angel from Montgomery Yup, we do that tune as well. A great loss, RIP John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madshadows Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Very sad news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 The good thing(!) is that there are many influenced by him who will be able to carry on his work, I'm thinking Jason Isbell and Margo Price as well as more established artists like Bonnie Raitt et al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK Jale Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 1 hour ago, yorks5stringer said: Speed of the Sound, we do that in the Americana Band I'm in. I love Angel from Montgomery Those are the two we do. Singer I work with is very upset today, JP really meant a lot to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigface Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Sad news indeed. He was a friend of a friend of mine, who is also a singer-songwriter in that genre and location. The BBC also erroneously reported a few days ago on the 'live' feed that he had died, while he was still alive, before amending the story to remove his name several hours later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggering on Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 (edited) I always thought "Hello in there" (released in 1971) was a fine song but over the years my feelings about the song have changed. I was a young guitar player folk music guy when I first heard it and as the song and I get older it touches me in different ways. I'll be 74 in May, and somehow that young guitar player has disappeared and now there is an old guy who might very well be the subject of the song. I still think it is a wonderful song though... Edited April 8, 2020 by Staggering on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 I’ve never heard of him, I’ve quite liked some of what’s being shared by people on Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinehead Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 It's too sad. I've been doing his songs on acoustic guitar since the early 1970s. He was a genius. Frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 “There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.” Bleak and tender. RIP John. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted April 11, 2020 Author Share Posted April 11, 2020 When he first broke on the scene Johnny Cash said, 'he's 24 and writes songs like he's 240".... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis coster Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I was the young soldier who he sung please don’t bury me to at the London palladium. Is there any recordings of when he spoke about it? The young soldier who’d just returned home from over seas?…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthomp Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 (edited) yes Edited September 9 by anthomp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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