This is a John Prine tune, which Bonnie has made her own. Check out some of the duets of this song that she's done with John. Beautiful. The older I get (I'm 71), the more this song means to me.
… I’m only 67, but I have the exact same feelings… the older I get the more I enjoy Bonnie… and the more I understand this song!… and John Prine changed my life a long time ago!
To me, this song is one of regret and longing for times past. She's old, her husband has nothing to say to her, she remembers her cowboy, she'd like to fly away, like an angel...
When John was a mailman he met someone who used to work in the State prison in Birmingham, AL. The prisoners on death row would wait for a call from the governors office in Montgomery to give them a stay of execution. They callef them , " an angle from Montgomery ". Thats what the old lady wants. Someone to save her life.
I love Bonnie and her version of this song written by one of the best singer/songwriters in country/americana history, John Prine. They have a great duet together of this. He has a lot of great story songs and he knows how to "paint a picture", so to say. He does a great live version of the song "Souvenirs " with Steve Goodman (known for the song City of New Orleans).
Britt, this was written by the great John Prine. He had written a previous song called "Hello in There", about being old. A friend had suggested that John write another song about that, but John said he had said all he had to say. He was intrigued though at the idea of something else. He had been having this image and idea about a middle-aged woman who was tired of her life as it was. She was in a rut. She just wanted an angel to come and taker her away to a more exciting place and life. John chose Montgomery because he was a huge fan of Hank Williams Sr who was associated with that city. Bonnie is one of many people who recorded this song. Oddly enough even though it's written from the perspective of the one woman, it has been most often (I believe) sung as a duet. Bonnie does a spectacular job and has done this as a duet with many people as well. I don't believe there is a song that Bonnie can't make sound like it was written either by her or for her. Stay well Britt. Looking more beautiful every day.
Bonnie Raitt is one of the best performers I have ever had the chance to see. I have seen her in concert many times. We just saw her about 1 month ago. Congratulations on your news!!! ❤
Oh now you've done it. This is on my short list for favorite song ever. Ty! You really should watch John Prine sing this. He was an American songwriting treasure. !
LOVE ME SOME BONNIE RAITT!!!! NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES, IT'S WONDERFUL!! SHE IS FULL OF SOUL AND SPITFIRE!! The woman in the song is looking for meaning in her life, which has gotten quite dull. She feels older than her years. She dreams of turning into an angel so she can fly away, or becoming a rodeo poster to feel the excitement - anything that could make her feel special. John Prine, had no misgivings about assuming a female character when he wrote the song in 1971..Bonnie released her recording in 1974....
This song originally by John Prine is written in the voice of a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage. It explores themes of aging, expectations/dreams vs reality, the possibilities of redemption and starting a new life. IMO, of course.
I've been a John Prine fan since first hearing him in the 70's. I read years ago that the "make me an angel that flies from Mongomery" line references an old chain gang saying from an Alabama prison. Pardons were granted from the governors office in Montgomery and prisoners were always looking forward to an angel from Montgomery arriving with their ticket to freedom. The character in the song felt like she was a prisoner in her own life and was waiting for a release. The "make me a poster of an old rodeo" line still confuses me, although I suspect it's real efffect is in its poetic imagery. You should listen to handsome Johnny (John Prine) do it, especially one of his later in life recordings. It's sublime!
One of my favorite songs performed by Bonnie Raitt - John Prine's original is very different, they are both great. The lyrics really fit her kind of easy, throw-away cool style. For me, this song is about regretting settling down, regretting making safe choices and not living life of freedom. That old cowboy wasn't what mamma wanted her to marry, but he was free.
I love her singing, but I love her slide guitar playing more. You should really check out her duet with John Lee Hooker (1994) on I'm In the Mood. That might even dispel your "mom" vibes for her. It's two legends proving why. If you're not sure of who John Lee Hooker is, he's the guy singing "Boom Boom" in the Blues Bothers movie.
There's a blast from the past. I loved the Jackson Browne songs she sang. Her rendition of "Thought I Was a Child" was great. I also loved her rendition of "Under the Falling Sky."
Thank you, Britt. This was a good pick. I don;t have anything to add that hasn;t already been said in the comments. I hope you are feeling well in the home stretch and excited having another child. ❤️
John Prine wrote this. One of the best story tellers in music. There's a duet Bonnie does with John that is wonderful. Look it up then check out some John Prine, I recommend "Dear Abby" to start.
Great reaction. I have come to believe that when she sings “make me an angel , make me a poster of an old rodeo,” It is short for “make for me an angel, make me a poster of an old rodeo.” Similar to - make me some eggs as opposed to make for me some eggs or make some eggs for me. I didn’t grasp the idea at first but it now makes sense. I love this song even though it is a song of a woman trapped in a life she doesn’t want.
"I am an old man,,,," My fav pair of bell bottoms were soft cotton blue jeans frayed at the ends which i slit up seams from bottom to mid calf. In the slit I sewed a piece of blue patterned white cloth that were folded so they wouldn't show when I as standing still. But when I walked they would flair. On my feet I wore a pair of square toed cowboy boots. They were red white and blue. I wore a faded red shirt with equally faded white vertical stripes. It had puffy sleeves and ruffled cuffs. I topped it of with rose colored wire framed specs ( Ben Franklin style) and a floppy hat.
Times past. They just don't last. I once was young. Doing right and wrong. No regrets, some tears. Found love, had some fears. But life has been beautiful, as I came to see. Once was dead, now looking towards eternity!!!
He was introduced to this song about a 47 year old housewife from Montgomery and been married along time and had husband who hardly talked to her, he would wake up in morning eat breakfast and go to work then come home eat dinner and watch tv and go to bed. She was sitting on her living room sofa and look out window and watch the dust settle on coffee table like little air planes, she was beside her self. Well then she reached behind her sofa and grabbed a old Martin guitar and sang this song . Well if you watch John Prine video when he was sitting at the river and wearing sunglasses, this is what he said before singing the song
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing I can hold onto To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go. I'm with you in that I don't really understand the first two lines literally ... but you don't have to understand poetry (which this is) literally. Those lines give me feelings. Regret. Desire. The last two lines, however, are explicit as hell. By getting hung up on a search for literalism in the beginning of the chorus, you miss the song's clear message: give me something to hold onto, life without that is too hard. So many (too many) songs are just an exercise in cliches and rhymes. It's natural to anticipate the next rhyme, the chorus, the crescendo But some songs (by John Prine, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, etc.) are poetry and will speak to you obliquely and abstractly. To.understand them, you need to listen ... and listen from an angle.
I think you talked over the best part(s) of the song. For instance, "How the hell can a person go to work in the morning (yap yap yap), come home in the evening and have nothing to say." That line is the crux of the song.
Along with your 70's clothing and shag carpet, don't forget swag lights and a lava lamp to complete the look. Oh yea, you'll also need some psychedelic posters in your bedroom and a black light to fire them up. We all had these back in the day.
This is a tough song to try to explain. A lot of times people see things like old people and rural poverty and so forth and enoble it the way it looks in a sepia toned photo of Applachia or something. John Prine's lyrics, and especially Bonnie Raitt's rendering of them like this shows the lie to that. If there was just something in this woman's life that was worth hanging on to... but instead there isn't and to believe in things the way they are as being meaningful is just a hard slog. If love were what her desires were, they'd be thunder and lightning and burn down her house. Instead, she's got an overgrown child for a husband and there's flies in the kitchen. If she still had her cowboy, even if he was nothing to look at, maybe she'd be an angel in a folk song or maybe she'd be the girl in the rodeo poster. But instead, there's nothing, and it isn't noble, it isn't poetic, it's just a hard way to go.
A song about regrets and sorrow of not living life to the fullest. Probably wondering how life would have been with that free ramblin man. Posters in her head of good times don't help with her frustrations. Apparently a spouse that goes to work at a lousy job, comes home and wants dinner with no conversation.
An angel from Montgomery is when the governor of Alabama commutes a death sentence on the day of execution. The old woman feels her existence is like a death sentence.
I would guess that a lot of folks who are into Bonnie and John Prine are probably not big fans of singing competition shows. But you might want to check out Addison Agen's take on this song from The Voice a few years ago. She was 16 at the time, but definitely with an old soul.
I just hope singers, both male and female sing this and other John Prinei songs into the deep future. He is a lost treasure to the world.I must say Bonnie does a great job on this one.
You ought to go down a John Prine rabbit hole. Spanish Pipedream is a good one. In Spite Of Ourselves is my favorite. He did a lot of duets with great women performers like Bonnie and Emmy Lou Harris.
I failed math, but I can recognize a magical formula. Great songwriter + superb vocal interpreter = music elevated to pure brilliance. Kinda similar to Ray Charles covering the previously obscure "Georgia On My Mind."
I know you were talking about motherly VIBES, and not speaking literally, but it's still ironic that Raitt never had children. lol ************* This song was written by John Prine, yet another singer/songwriter from the seventies, and one of the best. Back in the day he was considered the "next Bob Dylan," (as were many, others!). Check out "Sam Stone" or "Hello in There." Or, pick a song from the 25 John Prine songs that Rolling Stone mag considered ESSENTIAL. His style was inspired by John Steinbeck (writer). Prine passed away in 2020. *********** Trivia: Her father, John Raitt, was a well known Broadway musical star.
You should jump down the John Prine rabbit hole. Essential songs from his catalog: Sam Stone, Hello In There, Paradise, Spanish Pipedream, In Spite of Ourselves, Unwed Fathers, Bruised Orange, and many others.
If Bonnie ever felt any doubt about music as a realistic career, all she had to do was look at her dad. John Raitt was a leading man romantic tenor for decades during a "golden age" of Broadway.
To me it doesn’t matter. The 70’s it was about being on the road and the lyrics could be anything you wanted it to be in your life without being literal
Just watched again, for the third time, your reaction to Dwight Yoakam and Carrie Underwood. May I kindly and hopefully suggest you watch "The Fighter" by Keith (PDC Member) Urban and Carrie Underwood. The one from the CMA Awards. The song is great and you will get a kick out of the audience.
Here is Bonnie singing with John Prine, the author of Angel from Montgomery. This song is written from a woman's perspective but it was written by a man. Check out "Sam Stone." I too am confused by the lyric but I love it anyway. ua-cam.com/video/1T5NuI6Ai-o/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/OLVWEYUqGew/v-deo.html
As stated below, John Prine tune, many have covered it but she does it best! Too bad someone turned you on to a vid that falls way shy of her best....This is one of those songs that leaves a lot to individual interpretation. To me, it's about how so many slip into mundane life and the escapism of dreaming of something more remarkable. I also think it hints at life as a non-believer longing for meaning OR "something to hold on to". And laments, holding on to life is a hard way to go. Listen to a better version (mostly done more recently) with those thoughts in mind and the song will become something very insightful that reveals aching and longing so many experience.......
I think she's lonely even though she has a man. But he ignores her. Doesn't even talk to her let alone love her. She just wants to fly away from her sad life That's what I get. She needs all kinds of attention. Maybe her youthful cowboy was a rodeo guy. Bonnie didn't write this but I think she interprets it this way. It's a John Prine song. Interested in other's thoughts.
I think I understand the lyrics, mostly. But I know I feel it. Will you help me understand the last line: "To believe in this living is just a hard way to go." Is it contemplating suicide while craving to feel alive again?
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This is a John Prine tune, which Bonnie has made her own. Check out some of the duets of this song that she's done with John. Beautiful. The older I get (I'm 71), the more this song means to me.
… I’m only 67, but I have the exact same feelings… the older I get the more I enjoy Bonnie… and the more I understand this song!… and John Prine changed my life a long time ago!
John Prine was the song writers song writer! Still can’t believe I won’t see him in concert again. Bonnie made this her own!
I was thinking the same thing.
To me, this song is one of regret and longing for times past. She's old, her husband has nothing to say to her, she remembers her cowboy, she'd like to fly away, like an angel...
That's it. I'm 66 and I get it‼️
Spot on!
This is the lament of an Alpha Widow.
"If dreams were thunder, and lightning was desire, this old house would've burned down a long time ago." The late great John Prine. ☮💜🎶
When John was a mailman he met someone who used to work in the State prison in Birmingham, AL. The prisoners on death row would wait for a call from the governors office in Montgomery to give them a stay of execution. They callef them , " an angle from Montgomery ". Thats what the old lady wants. Someone to save her life.
The older we get, the more we want the stay of execution. I am 75, and I totally get this, or that's my current take on it anyway.
He was a mailman in Chicago.
I love Bonnie and her version of this song written by one of the best singer/songwriters in country/americana history, John Prine. They have a great duet together of this. He has a lot of great story songs and he knows how to "paint a picture", so to say. He does a great live version of the song "Souvenirs " with Steve Goodman (known for the song City of New Orleans).
One correction: John Prine is THE best songwriter ever period. In any genre
Britt, this was written by the great John Prine. He had written a previous song called "Hello in There", about being old. A friend had suggested that John write another song about that, but John said he had said all he had to say. He was intrigued though at the idea of something else. He had been having this image and idea about a middle-aged woman who was tired of her life as it was. She was in a rut. She just wanted an angel to come and taker her away to a more exciting place and life. John chose Montgomery because he was a huge fan of Hank Williams Sr who was associated with that city. Bonnie is one of many people who recorded this song. Oddly enough even though it's written from the perspective of the one woman, it has been most often (I believe) sung as a duet. Bonnie does a spectacular job and has done this as a duet with many people as well. I don't believe there is a song that Bonnie can't make sound like it was written either by her or for her. Stay well Britt. Looking more beautiful every day.
And Prine was only about 24 when the wrote the song.
Bonnie Raitt is one of the best performers I have ever had the chance to see. I have seen her in concert many times. We just saw her about 1 month ago. Congratulations on your news!!! ❤
Oh now you've done it. This is on my short list for favorite song ever. Ty! You really should watch John Prine sing this. He was an American songwriting treasure.
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LOVE ME SOME BONNIE RAITT!!!! NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES, IT'S WONDERFUL!! SHE IS FULL OF SOUL AND SPITFIRE!! The woman in the song is looking for meaning in her life, which has gotten quite dull. She feels older than her years. She dreams of turning into an angel so she can fly away, or becoming a rodeo poster to feel the excitement - anything that could make her feel special. John Prine, had no misgivings about assuming a female character when he wrote the song in 1971..Bonnie released her recording in 1974....
I can't tell you what "it" is, but Bonnie has "it" and always has. She could sing the alphabet and I would listen.
The older bonnie got the better she sang this song , written by the greatest of all who i pisten to everyday
"Standing in the Doorway Crying", a Dylan song. She'll break your heart. Congrats on your pregnancy Britt!! The kid will have great musical tastes...
This song originally by John Prine is written in the voice of a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage. It explores themes of aging, expectations/dreams vs reality, the possibilities of redemption and starting a new life. IMO, of course.
John Prine wrote this song when he was a mailman for the postal service on his route delivering mail.
I've been a John Prine fan since first hearing him in the 70's. I read years ago that the "make me an angel that flies from Mongomery" line references an old chain gang saying from an Alabama prison. Pardons were granted from the governors office in Montgomery and prisoners were always looking forward to an angel from Montgomery arriving with their ticket to freedom. The character in the song felt like she was a prisoner in her own life and was waiting for a release. The "make me a poster of an old rodeo" line still confuses me, although I suspect it's real efffect is in its poetic imagery.
You should listen to handsome Johnny (John Prine) do it, especially one of his later in life recordings. It's sublime!
To me this song has always been about living a noneventful unhappy life and a longing for more.
Song is one of my favorite! Great lyrics and vocals
Beautiful song written by John Prine. You should really check him out too
One of my favorite songs performed by Bonnie Raitt - John Prine's original is very different, they are both great. The lyrics really fit her kind of easy, throw-away cool style. For me, this song is about regretting settling down, regretting making safe choices and not living life of freedom. That old cowboy wasn't what mamma wanted her to marry, but he was free.
I love her singing, but I love her slide guitar playing more. You should really check out her duet with John Lee Hooker (1994) on I'm In the Mood. That might even dispel your "mom" vibes for her. It's two legends proving why. If you're not sure of who John Lee Hooker is, he's the guy singing "Boom Boom" in the Blues Bothers movie.
That is a great performance.
Bonnie brilliant as always. Susan Tedeschi also does a great version of this song.
Absolutely fabulous 🌻💛🌻
There's a blast from the past. I loved the Jackson Browne songs she sang. Her rendition of "Thought I Was a Child" was great. I also loved her rendition of "Under the Falling Sky."
Thank you, Britt. This was a good pick. I don;t have anything to add that hasn;t already been said in the comments. I hope you are feeling well in the home stretch and excited having another child. ❤️
John Prine classic, one of the greatest entertaining songwriters to do it!
I can't believe I've never heard this song. Thank you!!!
I saw her sing that live in 1975 in Jackson Hole. Yes, she was that young and so was I.
John Prine wrote this. One of the best story tellers in music. There's a duet Bonnie does with John that is wonderful. Look it up then check out some John Prine, I recommend "Dear Abby" to start.
Great reaction. I have come to believe that when she sings “make me an angel , make me a poster of an old rodeo,” It is short for “make for me an angel, make me a poster of an old rodeo.” Similar to - make me some eggs as opposed to make for me some eggs or make some eggs for me. I didn’t grasp the idea at first but it now makes sense. I love this song even though it is a song of a woman trapped in a life she doesn’t want.
She's from not far from where I live. Love her. And now, you really ought to go check out some John Prine, Sam Stone for example, and, Hello in There.
She reacted to “Sam Stone” some 7 months ago.
Gotta give a like for bringing that baby up right with Ms. Bonnie Raitt 🖖
"I am an old man,,,," My fav pair of bell bottoms were soft cotton blue jeans frayed at the ends which i slit up seams from bottom to mid calf. In the slit I sewed a piece of blue patterned white cloth that were folded so they wouldn't show when I as standing still. But when I walked they would flair. On my feet I wore a pair of square toed cowboy boots. They were red white and blue. I wore a faded red shirt with equally faded white vertical stripes. It had puffy sleeves and ruffled cuffs. I topped it of with rose colored wire framed specs ( Ben Franklin style) and a floppy hat.
Times past. They just don't last. I once was young. Doing right and wrong.
No regrets, some tears. Found love, had some fears. But life has been beautiful, as I came to see. Once was dead, now looking towards eternity!!!
Ooohhhh this is a good one. Bonnie Raitt is a good one.
Britt, thank you thank you thank you. This was my Mommas favorite song.
RIP John Prine. You had to know John to click with his lyrics.
He was introduced to this song about a 47 year old housewife from Montgomery and been married along time and had husband who hardly talked to her, he would wake up in morning eat breakfast and go to work then come home eat dinner and watch tv and go to bed. She was sitting on her living room sofa and look out window and watch the dust settle on coffee table like little air planes, she was beside her self. Well then she reached behind her sofa and grabbed a old Martin guitar and sang this song . Well if you watch John Prine video when he was sitting at the river and wearing sunglasses, this is what he said before singing the song
It's poetry, which prompts thinking . . . and her voice is sublime.
Love this song 🎵 John Prine wrote this ❤
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing I can hold onto
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go.
I'm with you in that I don't really understand the first two lines literally ... but you don't have to understand poetry (which this is) literally. Those lines give me feelings. Regret. Desire.
The last two lines, however, are explicit as hell. By getting hung up on a search for literalism in the beginning of the chorus, you miss the song's clear message: give me something to hold onto, life without that is too hard.
So many (too many) songs are just an exercise in cliches and rhymes. It's natural to anticipate the next rhyme, the chorus, the crescendo But some songs (by John Prine, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, etc.) are poetry and will speak to you obliquely and abstractly. To.understand them, you need to listen ... and listen from an angle.
Easy Tiger!
Has she done "Hallelujah", either the Jeff Buckley or Leonard Cohen version? Cuz that's one of the best auto-cry songs ever.
Drive down the road turn it on It can be whatever you want it to be when you’re on the road or wherever
I think you talked over the best part(s) of the song. For instance, "How the hell can a person go to work in the morning (yap yap yap), come home in the evening and have nothing to say." That line is the crux of the song.
She does that a lot.
Well, yall are mean. And you need Jesus
Was not meant to be mean but she does tend to talk over parts of songs from time to time.
Yes, when you talk over a phrase … rewind it a bit, so you can actually hear it.
I like her version of this song from her Road Tested concert in like the mid 90's
Along with your 70's clothing and shag carpet, don't forget swag lights and a lava lamp to complete the look. Oh yea, you'll also need some psychedelic posters in your bedroom and a black light to fire them up. We all had these back in the day.
It cant be quantified how much I loved and miss John Prine
My father tells the story of seeing Bonnie and Bruce Springsteen playing clubs in Cambridge while he was at Harvard.
Morgan James covers, "Angel from Montgomery" acapella, must listen, good for YOUR soul!!!🎶🎶🎶🎶😂😂😂
Along that line, Susan Tedeschi was a monster on guitar and singing the Blues.
Great song. Written by the late great John Prine.
Check out all of her work. She’s phenomenal!
This is a tough song to try to explain. A lot of times people see things like old people and rural poverty and so forth and enoble it the way it looks in a sepia toned photo of Applachia or something. John Prine's lyrics, and especially Bonnie Raitt's rendering of them like this shows the lie to that. If there was just something in this woman's life that was worth hanging on to... but instead there isn't and to believe in things the way they are as being meaningful is just a hard slog. If love were what her desires were, they'd be thunder and lightning and burn down her house. Instead, she's got an overgrown child for a husband and there's flies in the kitchen. If she still had her cowboy, even if he was nothing to look at, maybe she'd be an angel in a folk song or maybe she'd be the girl in the rodeo poster. But instead, there's nothing, and it isn't noble, it isn't poetic, it's just a hard way to go.
i second John Prine Spanish Pipedreams
John Prine’s ‘souvenirs’ version of this is the best ever.
A song about regrets and sorrow of not living life to the fullest. Probably wondering how life would have been with that free ramblin man. Posters in her head of good times don't help with her frustrations. Apparently a spouse that goes to work at a lousy job, comes home and wants dinner with no conversation.
An angel from Montgomery is when the governor of Alabama commutes a death sentence on the day of execution. The old woman feels her existence is like a death sentence.
You must react to 'just like that "by Bonnie 2023 Grammy song of the year ❤
My favorite John Prine sonf and she makes it her own
Great John Prine rabbit hole to check out,may he RIP
I would guess that a lot of folks who are into Bonnie and John Prine are probably not big fans of singing competition shows. But you might want to check out Addison Agen's take on this song from The Voice a few years ago. She was 16 at the time, but definitely with an old soul.
I just hope singers, both male and female sing this and other John Prinei songs into the deep future. He is a lost treasure to the world.I must say Bonnie does a great job on this one.
You ought to go down a John Prine rabbit hole. Spanish Pipedream is a good one. In Spite Of Ourselves is my favorite. He did a lot of duets with great women performers like Bonnie and Emmy Lou Harris.
Probably Mr Prines most recognized song. Bonnie does it well.
I'd put it right behind Sam Stone, the song that introduced John to the world and showed his ability to write from the heart and meaning.
John Prine wrote this. You will LOVE his work!
I failed math, but I can recognize a magical formula. Great songwriter + superb vocal interpreter = music elevated to pure brilliance. Kinda similar to Ray Charles covering the previously obscure "Georgia On My Mind."
I know you were talking about motherly VIBES, and not speaking literally, but it's still ironic that Raitt never had children. lol
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This song was written by John Prine, yet another singer/songwriter from the seventies, and one of the best. Back in the day he was considered the "next Bob Dylan," (as were many, others!). Check out "Sam Stone" or "Hello in There." Or, pick a song from the 25 John Prine songs that Rolling Stone mag considered ESSENTIAL. His style was inspired by John Steinbeck (writer). Prine passed away in 2020.
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Trivia: Her father, John Raitt, was a well known Broadway musical star.
Love me some Bonnie Raitt
there's an interview with John Prine about what the song means :)
She's speaking of life as a journey. She's asking for that slideshow of memories like stamps in her passport.
RIP John Prine
My favorite John Prine song
Saddest song ever written
I suspect John Prine wrote this with Bonnie in mind as it's obviously written for a woman to sing it and, really, who better than Bonnie.
cute, great reaction as always, cordial greetings from 🇺🇾 Uruguay
Love this song!
You should jump down the John Prine rabbit hole. Essential songs from his catalog: Sam Stone, Hello In There, Paradise, Spanish Pipedream, In Spite of Ourselves, Unwed Fathers, Bruised Orange, and many others.
One of John Prine's best songsl
I see it as a longing for old, simple times. Montgomery Al is the birthplace of hank Williams sr.
My favorite live performance of hers is Blender Blues (Live) From The Lost Broadcast. Sadly, there’s only audio. She’s at her youthful best
If Bonnie ever felt any doubt about music as a realistic career, all she had to do was look at her dad. John Raitt was a leading man romantic tenor for decades during a "golden age" of Broadway.
And a big I Concur with all the folks saying "listen to John Prine".
I love your show. I'll bet a lot of guys have a big crush on you.
Love your channel! Try Steely Dan’s “Peg or “Reeling in the Years or Haitian Divorce”and tell us what you think.
#1 You should listen to Morgan James' (& The Mel Tones) A Capella version of this... 🔥🔥
#2 Do like Morgan does, shop at Vintage Clothing Shops.
I love this! check out the version by Megan Daniella on American Idol this past season , You will love it also
She looks like the green chick from the Avengers.
Written by the late great John Prine
To me it doesn’t matter. The 70’s it was about being on the road and the lyrics could be anything you wanted it to be in your life without being literal
next try for Bonnie Raitt: "Blender Blues" - big sassy surprise song for sure
You should listen to "Homeward Looking Angel" by Pam Tillis.
Just watched again, for the third time, your reaction to Dwight Yoakam and Carrie Underwood.
May I kindly and hopefully suggest you watch "The Fighter" by Keith (PDC Member) Urban and Carrie Underwood. The one from the CMA Awards. The song is great and you will get a kick out of the audience.
Written by the great John Prine
Just so you know, John Prine wrote this song.
You should check out John Prine (The writer of this song)
She is wishing she could fly from her dull home and loveless marriage in Montgomery.
Please add in some John Prine. Hello In There or Souvenirs.
Here is Bonnie singing with John Prine, the author of Angel from Montgomery. This song is written from a woman's perspective but it was written by a man. Check out "Sam Stone." I too am confused by the lyric but I love it anyway.
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As stated below, John Prine tune, many have covered it but she does it best! Too bad someone turned you on to a vid that falls way shy of her best....This is one of those songs that leaves a lot to individual interpretation. To me, it's about how so many slip into mundane life and the escapism of dreaming of something more remarkable. I also think it hints at life as a non-believer longing for meaning OR "something to hold on to". And laments, holding on to life is a hard way to go. Listen to a better version (mostly done more recently) with those thoughts in mind and the song will become something very insightful that reveals aching and longing so many experience.......
I think she's lonely even though she has a man. But he ignores her. Doesn't even talk to her let alone love her. She just wants to fly away from her sad life
That's what I get. She needs all kinds of attention. Maybe her youthful cowboy was a rodeo guy.
Bonnie didn't write this but I think she interprets it this way. It's a John Prine song.
Interested in other's thoughts.
I think I understand the lyrics, mostly. But I know I feel it. Will you help me understand the last line: "To believe in this living is just a hard way to go." Is it contemplating suicide while craving to feel alive again?
Just sounds like “ this life sucks” to me. Never thought it bordered on suicidal, just depression.
create for me something that will take me out of my mundane existence
john prine song , should react to some of his stuff !!