{"id":4758,"date":"2018-04-27T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:33:57","slug":"on-john-prines-new-album-the-tree-of-forgivness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/on-john-prines-new-album-the-tree-of-forgivness\/","title":{"rendered":"On John Prine’s New Album, “The Tree of Forgivness”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The singer is a dead man walkin,
\nand he sounds a little rough, both singing and talkin.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s not looking backward at his wilder days,
\nNot hoping to finally find a love that stays,
\nMostly he’s\u00a0waitin for the final bell,
\nAnd if he gets to heaven,
\nHe\u2019s hopin to raise some hell.<\/p>\n

Sinatra\u2019s regrets were too few to mention,
\nBut John\u2019s regrets have got his attention,
\nHe\u2019s giving forgiveness, and asking it too,
\nFrom all of the monkeys he sees in the zoo.<\/p>\n

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Once he was on the outside and just lookin in,
\nBut now he\u2019s lived long enough to collect on those sins.
\n(Hello in there, John, Hello.)
\nSounds like you must be goin,
\nAnd feeling kind of blue,
\nBut thanks for all the memories,
\nAnd harmonies rung true.<\/p>\n

— Ernest Lilley\u00a0\u201cI hate graveyards and old pawnshops
\nCause they always bring me tears.
\nCan\u2019t forgive the way they rob me,
\nOf my childhood souvenirs.\u201d<\/p>\n

–John Prine, Souvenirs, Diamonds in the Rough (1972)<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0John Prine<\/a>\u00a0has released a new album since Fair and Square<\/a> (2005), and it seems as though he’s finally been discovered, which took a while considering that I started listening to him a little less than 50 years ago that winter I wore the grooves off his self-titled debut album.<\/p>\n

The new album doesn’t have any of that rebel yell on it, but it’s as Prine as anything he’s written, full of songs about regrets, reconciliations, and the recognition that all too soon he’ll be leaving on a coal train, never to come back this way again.<\/p>\n

I listened to the album start to finish on Spotify, and after it was over they moved on to “Paradise,” from that debut album, and a fitting note to end on.<\/p>\n

“When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
\nLet my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
\nI’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’
\nJust five miles away from wherever I am”<\/p>\n

— John Prine, Paradise, John Prine (1971)<\/p>\n

Well, he’s not dead yet, not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s a link to the album on Spotify: The Tree of Forgiveness<\/a><\/p>\n

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The singer is a dead man walkin, and he sounds a little rough, both singing and talkin. He\u2019s not looking backward at his wilder days, Not hoping to finally find a love that stays, Mostly he’s\u00a0waitin for the final bell, And if he gets to heaven, He\u2019s hopin to raise some hell. Sinatra\u2019s regrets were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}