Last 3 plays: Rizeeve (14/14), GBfan (14/14), Guest 68 (11/14).
"I am
Named after is another that's grown old
If dreams were lightning
And thunder was desire
This old house would have a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a of an
Just give me one thing I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
When I was
I had me
He weren't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried
The years they just like a
Chorus
There's in the kitchen
I can hear them there
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
How the hell can
Go to work in the morning
Come home in the evening and have nothing to say?
Chorus"
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John Prine's song about "a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is" first came out on his debut album "John Prine" in 1971. (And what a debut that was: "Hello in There", "Sam Stone", "Donald and Lydia", "Paradise" ...)
It's been covered by many people, such as Carly Simon, Bonnie Koloc, and Susan Tedeschi, but Bonnie Raitt's version, from 1974's "Streetlights", is probably the best known. She has recorded it several times, once in a duet with Prine, and once with Bryan Adams, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby. She performed it at Farm Aid in 1985 with Rikki Lee Jones, and at the We The Planet Festival in 2003 with Tracy Chapman. When I've seen her in concert, she has closed with it.
My own history with the song goes back many years to the mid 1970s, so let me tell you a little story. Friends were living in a sort-of-commune in Vancouver that had a copy of Raitt's album, and, yes, a poster of an old rodeo on the kitchen wall. They then moved to St John's Newfoundland and borrowed the album from the library there. When they later came to Halifax where I was living at the time, they, I am sorry to say, stole it from the library and brought it along. The song became a bit of a talisman for us, as it was late summer in an apartment with no screen windows, and there were indeed always flies buzzing in the kitchen. We all moved on to Edmonton, where somehow or other a copy of John Prine's first album came into the house - none of us had ever heard of him before, but we greeted his "Angel" with delight. I ended up with both albums, and kept them for another forty years until I sold them to a vintage record shop when I got rid of my last turntable. I miss vinyl albums, don't you?
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