2 hours of John Prine Stories

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  • Опубліковано 5 лип 2023
  • John Prine stories told by Shawn Camp, Todd Snider, Keith Sykes, Peter Case, Gurf Morlix, Gretchen Peters, Tim Carroll, Tim Easton, Jim Rooney, Chuck Mead, Mike Grimes and more.
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  • @otisgibbs
    @otisgibbs  11 місяців тому +89

    I made this compilation to make it easier for people to find all of these stories. These are clips from interviews I've done over the years. Feel free to share it with your favorite John Prine fan.

    • @ClintonCaraway
      @ClintonCaraway 11 місяців тому +4

      I know what I'll listen to in the shop this afternoon!!😮😊

    • @thomasclark6232
      @thomasclark6232 11 місяців тому +6

      Thanks for this Otis. Really enjoy all your videos. sezTop

    • @jeffwoods2921
      @jeffwoods2921 11 місяців тому +6

      Thanks Otis, haven’t seen anything from you That I didn’t like. You’re an Ace!

    • @owenwilberforce6138
      @owenwilberforce6138 11 місяців тому +6

      I met him once and it was one of my best memories ever. I love hearing all these stories that confirms not only was he one of the greatest songwriters, but one of the funniest and most down to Earth people ever.

    • @riceflatpicking4954
      @riceflatpicking4954 11 місяців тому +1

      Otis, I love all your videos. Thank you. Have you thought about doing one about Tony Rice?

  • @joesmith3501
    @joesmith3501 9 місяців тому +23

    That Keith Sykes part was beautiful. That’s the real deal

  • @BradExample
    @BradExample 11 місяців тому +32

    I was fortunate enough to meet John one night in Miami. was the best night of my life. the kindest, funniest, sweetest man ive ever met. people say never meet your idols. I was blessed to meet him. he was amazing. i will never forget that night. I got to go backstage and hang out with him and the band for a few hours. it was amazing. i have some pics of the night and i look star struck. thank you Otis for putting all this together. its nice to hear these stories. he truly was a man among men

    • @claudiajames891
      @claudiajames891 2 місяці тому

      John Prine is always
      a positive influence in my life 😌 ✨️

  • @yonderdan
    @yonderdan 11 місяців тому +20

    Otis please don’t stop. These stories are all most of us have to connect us to our roots. Thank you for your passion…….

  • @guitarTennisCarHomeFixFlying
    @guitarTennisCarHomeFixFlying 5 місяців тому +3

    I saw John in Greensboro North Carolina at the Carolina theater and There was a fellow next to me I didn't know him but he had too much to drink and through the whole show he was just hollering at John, way to go John, etc
    and his friend was with him , was quiet trying to quiet him down and John ends up singing his famous song I think the title is a "quit hollering at me" and gets to the last part of the song where there's a pregnant pause and this guy screams out "way to go John!" and John looks right at this guy and finishes the song singing "quit hollering at me"! It was a perfect moment!

  • @estenray5385
    @estenray5385 10 місяців тому +13

    I met John Prine when he was still a mail carrier in Chicago. It was at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago round about Oct 1970. Had no clue of who he was or would be! Just a really humorous humble man who knew how to play guitar and tell great stories! He was generous with his time and willing to entertain and enlighten a 12 year old kid who wanted to learn how to play guitar! I saw him a few years later at a couple of shows he did at place called Amazing Grace in Evanston (a small venue with excellent acoustics) it held at most a few hundred people it would be packed wall to wall if there were 200 in the audience. A cherished memory I’ll carry dearly till the day I cross over!

    • @ImaginarySusan
      @ImaginarySusan 4 місяці тому +2

      Oh how precious! ...
      Your story belongs in this interview collection!

    • @robertwelch4395
      @robertwelch4395 4 місяці тому +2

      Wow what a story.

  • @sevenmileridgeband
    @sevenmileridgeband 11 місяців тому +16

    This is fantastic. It's like the "Greatest Hits" of John Prine stories. Thanks so much for this.

  • @Nomadahtous
    @Nomadahtous 2 місяці тому +2

    An amazing interview… I absolutely love that I grew up listening to all these old greats and that I caught John Prine on tour in 2012 at Wolf Trap Virginia… he was an amazing man, musician singer/song writer… I raised my sons listening to all the same old greats of that ERA as did my father raised my sister an I… music is the gift that keeps on giving♥️🎶♥️

  • @walter2990
    @walter2990 11 місяців тому +9

    I'm sorry, but I'm so depressed that I've got to go watch some old videos of John Prine singing. But, thanks for this video and I pray that all of these friends have nothing but wonderful memories of John.

  • @foghornleghorn2975
    @foghornleghorn2975 11 місяців тому +9

    Prine was one of the top 5 live shows that I ever saw...blasted for 90 minutes, no prisoners. I love this channel!

  • @anthonystephan656
    @anthonystephan656 11 місяців тому +7

    I had a 8 hour drive last week and put this on the car sound and just cruised. Thank you Otis. The Todd Snider bits resonated with me.

  • @patrickhite3026
    @patrickhite3026 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you Otis..What a nice tribute to one of America's treasures..John Prine was the best.

  • @robertcronin6603
    @robertcronin6603 9 місяців тому +5

    Can't believe I found this....phenomenal! 🔥

  • @Caperhere
    @Caperhere 11 місяців тому +10

    I just love Shawn Camp. He’s so cheerful and upbeat.❤️

  • @wittry2
    @wittry2 11 місяців тому +6

    Wow. Just got through the whole compilation. I met John in the 1980’s. I think I told the story on here a while back. He married a girl from my hometown. I miss the hell out of John Prine. Thank God I have his music. Thanks Otis and friends!

  • @floydstowe
    @floydstowe 11 місяців тому +5

    He was and is one hell of a musician and human being awesome stories

  • @brianfrost2695
    @brianfrost2695 11 місяців тому +8

    Thank you Otis for compiling this collection of tributes of John. I love him like a childhood friend. I cried like a baby when I heard of his passing. It will take me some time to get through all of these great clips. It's a joy to hear from folks that loved him equally.

  • @kurtdavidson9808
    @kurtdavidson9808 11 місяців тому +10

    Hey Otis I want to thank you for your videos. I really enjoy them. It’s the first thing I look for on Saturday and I check every day after work. Thank you

  • @thomasclark6232
    @thomasclark6232 11 місяців тому +7

    Never got to meet him but I was blessed to see him perform his wonderful tunes at the Paramount Theater in Austin. He had an amazing band. But, when he performed solo was the best part of the show. RIP, JP!
    All his tunes are my favorites, hard to pick just one out of all his gems. sezTop

    • @speedfreak8200
      @speedfreak8200 11 місяців тому +2

      As soon as I heard Sam Stone, I ran to the record store and bought the album.

  • @zigzagwanderer9531
    @zigzagwanderer9531 4 місяці тому +2

    John Prine was the king of "three chords and the truth" writing and storytelling. Knowing now that he loved to fish and cook, it all makes sense. The mind is most creative when wandering while the body is doing mundane stuff like cutting grass and washing dishes (or hunting and gathering). Comic genius Andy Kaufman knew this and had a side job busking restaurant tables.

  • @claudiajames891
    @claudiajames891 3 місяці тому +3

    Thank you for your
    EXCELLENT footage of John
    Prine!❤😊

  • @williamdavis8161
    @williamdavis8161 11 місяців тому +6

    Saw him a few times at a place in Bloomington on north walnut. It changed owners and names over the years (Oscar's/Time Out ). He came there relatively often, always tried to catch him. It was an intimate setting, especially with him. Good memories!

  • @joyceb.sachsesachse1242
    @joyceb.sachsesachse1242 11 місяців тому +8

    Love ya OTIS, great stories combined is great .

  • @artbascomb1336
    @artbascomb1336 17 днів тому

    Thanks so much for this treasure Otis. And double Thanks for sending me back down the Jessi Zazu rabbit hole with that little reminder during the Todd Snider portion. And I guess lastly, but not leastly (woo, making up words now), Thank You to all of your friends for sitting down and sharing these memories and the stories. ❤

  • @danielholman7225
    @danielholman7225 6 місяців тому +2

    I like all kinds of music. Often times I listen to music that is good and music that is great but it may not be mainstream - artists like Dylan, Prine and Steve Earl. During Vietnam I got a John Prine disk but at the time I was into Rock and I guess it sounded too country. Then, I guess, 15 years later a friend said I should listen to Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings. So I went out and bought that tape and listened to it over and over. Then a few years later I got In Spite Of Ourselves - his songs but sung by female artists. That was another great one. A lot of folks haven’t heard of John Prine but, yeah, they have missed out on some one great.I’ve often wondered what he was like in person and now I’am getting the lowdown. I knew early on that he was a mailman. Now Iam seeing that he liked to hang out w friends, fishing, playing cards, meatloaf and some ‘shine. I was lucky enough to see him in person 15 years before he died. He performed in my hometown. I loved every song.

  • @scazmando1930
    @scazmando1930 7 місяців тому +2

    Tears & laughter--the best!

  • @1972tommyc
    @1972tommyc 23 дні тому

    1973 I was just back from Vietnam stationed in San Francisco Bay Area. Radio station KSAN (RIP Dusty Sreet) played a lot of JP’’s “Common Sense” and I was hooked! My family roots are Hopkins County, KY, and I remember as a very young tike being taken to see the Peabody drag line working a surface seam near Paradise, KY. Who was this guy that synergized rural KY, Vietnam, and the S.F.Bay area in the early 1970’? “Come back to us Barbara Lewis, Hari Krisna, Beauregard”😍

  • @anthonywhite2960
    @anthonywhite2960 11 місяців тому +2

    Over 2 hours of heaven right here.

  • @user-mc1ul9mo9f
    @user-mc1ul9mo9f 7 місяців тому +2

    Thank you so much

  • @otisgibbs
    @otisgibbs  11 місяців тому +7

    What's your favorite John Prine song? Did you ever get to see him live?

    • @sayeager5559
      @sayeager5559 11 місяців тому +2

      I was listening to Iron Ore Betty today, I replayed it about half a dozen times.

    • @keithrichardstaunton
      @keithrichardstaunton 11 місяців тому +2

      ain’t hurtin nobody is songwriting perfection. Never got to see him. Kickin meself as Fiona Prine ☘️might say
      He’s a huge star in 🇮🇪

    • @foghornleghorn2975
      @foghornleghorn2975 11 місяців тому +3

      Picture show, I guess....House of Blues New Orleans on the "Lost Dogs" tour.
      I expected an old man trying to keep up with himself....what I got was a packed house and one of the best shows that I ever saw, and I've seen a few.

    • @swingandshout
      @swingandshout 11 місяців тому +2

      I’ve always loved The Missing Years.

    • @catheryndenton1766
      @catheryndenton1766 11 місяців тому +1

      Saw him at the Richmond Mosque. Now called Altria Theatre. Fabulous venue & off the charts show🎉! Loved him!!

  • @dunebats5357
    @dunebats5357 11 місяців тому +2

    A treat, Mr Gibbs, thanks

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 11 місяців тому +3

    thanks for doing these brother otis....to prine is divine much love - SJOCR

  • @frogmorepipester7490
    @frogmorepipester7490 10 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for inviting me to your living room.
    Cheers from the South Carolina Lowcountry:

  • @JamesSterling
    @JamesSterling 5 місяців тому +1

    I really like Gretchen Peters and can see why John liked her company. She is very insightful.

  • @drjsmajor
    @drjsmajor 11 місяців тому +2

    Thank you @Otis Gibbs for making this compilation

  • @martybrown6095
    @martybrown6095 11 місяців тому +2

    Great video Otis. Thank you and much love to you

  • @speedfreak8200
    @speedfreak8200 11 місяців тому +7

    John told a funny story about wanting to meet Blaze Foley and was told he had met him before, but had no recollection! John prine "Clay Pigeons" (LIVE)

    • @21danny17
      @21danny17 11 місяців тому +1

      I remember him hinting that dancing powder must've been involved that night haha

    • @speedfreak8200
      @speedfreak8200 11 місяців тому

      @@21danny17 Too bad the Dancing 💃 Powder Days are Over

  • @wctyre49
    @wctyre49 9 місяців тому +1

    Great story,thanks for sharing.

  • @wittry2
    @wittry2 11 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for the compilation, Otis! Perfect!

  • @mikebunch3443
    @mikebunch3443 6 місяців тому +1

    Love these stories Otis, the people in the music industry are some of the most down hone lovable people ever and that's the way it should be, STOP THE HATE !

  • @charlessoukup1111
    @charlessoukup1111 11 місяців тому +3

    So weird, but I am SURE I met John Prine (at the time I thought he'd said John Prime) at Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, very close to where he grew up and I visited an Aunt near there every year living in SW Michigan. We were..hmmm...8, 9, 10 or so, happened two families get on the train at Main Gate same time & we ended up together, found out were same age born 6 months apart on different sides of Lake Michigan, so talked as we took a few rounds around on the train, hung out a while.... Never connected it of course to anything until way later.

  • @robocepeck1814
    @robocepeck1814 4 місяці тому

    Thank you. Wonderful

  • @christophertew5242
    @christophertew5242 4 місяці тому

    Otis, thanks for all you do. These stories behind the songs are fantastic. PS I grew up in Carmel, but live in Germany these days.

  • @guidedbyvoices23
    @guidedbyvoices23 10 місяців тому +1

    So welll done, thank you sir

  • @gregoryforde7447
    @gregoryforde7447 9 місяців тому

    Many Thanks Otis.
    I just put my guitar down long enough to listen.

  • @patrickjoneill4551
    @patrickjoneill4551 8 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful ❤

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    @otisgibbs  11 місяців тому +4

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  • @timothycarter8049
    @timothycarter8049 11 місяців тому +1

    Did Keith Sykes write "Country Morning Music."? The one Guy and Rodney perform in Heartworn Highways.

  • @frankrussell4664
    @frankrussell4664 4 місяці тому

    Man, Peter Case's take on Greil Marcus' book is exactly what I thought of it.

  • @michaelmilam5439
    @michaelmilam5439 9 місяців тому +1

    Wow!

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 5 місяців тому

    grateful heart! im tryin ringo trying.....saint john prine brings out the best in everyone....to prine is divine..... im not a diverger! love to rev todd brother otis and anyone who sees this - SJOCR

  • @keenosaabi4530
    @keenosaabi4530 11 місяців тому +1

    Otis, is that a new "used hat?"

  • @elaztec.aztecca
    @elaztec.aztecca 8 місяців тому

    Wonder what happened to John’s ‘59 Porsche, who owns that now?

  • @BST501
    @BST501 7 місяців тому

  • @MrFrogman54
    @MrFrogman54 11 місяців тому

    Rich !

  • @chiledoug
    @chiledoug 11 місяців тому +1

    PARADISE My great grandfather was from western KENTUCKY well not from paradise

  • @artemisXsidecross
    @artemisXsidecross 11 місяців тому +1

    👍

  • @stevehesse4172
    @stevehesse4172 9 місяців тому

    Hi

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 5 місяців тому

    i think Cobain belongs in the list......speculatroily, as a not dave grohl fan however a nice guy he clealrly is Nirvana was fine with the Bleach drummer and Grohls banging helped launch their live career out of the statrosphere and thanks to Andy Wallace and the not nearly as likable Butch Vig their recordings were great, but i suspect, esp given the announced collab between Cobain with Michael stipe which would have surely been unqiue and given Cobains prowess as a writer poet artist, that Nirvana would not have lasted, how could it have.....and Grohl would have baged away in a different direction...(im ean the dude made insnae money as th star of a band whos name he admits he doesnt like come on man lol) anyway i agree with almost everything rev todd ever says, just like brother otis, but i do think he could include Cobain but aint no feelings hurt.....love love love....when i get ot heaven, im gonna shake johns hand and thank him for more great music poetry soul saving than one man could stand then ima have a cockatil and cig 9 mile long wiht my dad too and unless i get up there before Rev Todd with him too.....anyone is welcome but we sitll got some l i v i n to down here thanks brother otis! - SJOCR

    • @scm731
      @scm731 5 місяців тому

      John’s name is on Jeffery’s list.

    • @julesotis13
      @julesotis13 5 місяців тому

      Jeffrey?

  • @julesotis13
    @julesotis13 11 місяців тому

    im not a diverger

  • @stephendavis6066
    @stephendavis6066 9 місяців тому

    Great artists need a great audience....maybe he meant...sorry man I m not your great audience ....

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu 11 місяців тому

    👍