More on Prine, I've been away from the computer for a week...

The powers that be might construe him as "too folk fer country", but you can't be too country for folk. Or is it officially urban folk music now?

One thing I notice, Prine has a real dark side and it comes out to a greater or lesser extent in most of his songs--but he does it with a sense of irony that's pretty much socially acceptable, in most quarters. Remember that early anthem "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes..." ("Sam Stone")--you don't hear that anymore and I'm sure his best-known song, that's pretty much entered the pantheon of Official Campfire Songs, would be "Paradise" which of course is an environmental lament--but one that inexplicably makes everybody singing it feel good. Go figure. Maybe its because they found somebody to blame for the loss of paradise, that damn Peabody.

Who was it did the short song rewrite,

"Bury me not on the lone prairie, Cause I ain't dead."

Yet.

Bill