JOHN PRINE Far from me (musical reaction) He had my attention

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JOHN PRINE Far from me (musical reaction)
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@jamesdemarco7161 Жыл бұрын

Imagine a shard of glass (from a broken bottle) in a gravel parking lot... when the light hits it, it glimmers and shines like a diamond, but when you pick it up... it's not what you thought you found. Now imagine a relationship. At first, it's shiny and new. She's pretty, and funny, and everything you thought you wanted... then some time later, the warts start to show. She's not so funny, and she doesn't think you're so dreamy. You each notice each other's flaws. The relationship isn't so shiny, and you realize what you actually have... a cheap piece of broken glass.

@AP-gb3eh Жыл бұрын

Well said

@Cheecher421 7 ай бұрын

Perfect description

@dannooozy 4 ай бұрын

You got it

@arthurdonachy 3 ай бұрын

Aww man, you just put feeling into words, I knew that but couldn't for the life of me put it on paper. good for you,,

@jonsher7682 Жыл бұрын

John told the story in concerts (and a few interviews) about the line, "a broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring." John said, "It is in reference to my childhood. We were raised close to a junkyard and one of my favorite pastimes was playing in the junkyard breaking bottles. The kids always commented that the fragments of glass looked just like a field of diamonds. The majority of my songs are written from life experiences and a lot of times there is not any symbolism but just words that take me to another place and time." ~John Prine Highly recommend for your next Prine song: Hello in There

@BOOMNERD51 Жыл бұрын

I should have read this before I made my comment!

@edprzydatek8398 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@edprzydatek8398 Жыл бұрын

"Absolutely" about "Hello In There".

@jamesbell491 10 ай бұрын

I have never been to a John Prine concert. I discovered John in my later life. I enjoy all his music and being a Canadian my favourite singer was Gordon Lightfoot. The televised concert where John sang Far from me to his song writing hero, Gordon Lightfoot who was in the audience at ,The house of strombo was one of my favourites. John sang it for Lightfoot but Gordon joined right in. I always thought the line, ,,,,,an old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring, was in reference to Cathy viewing their relationship as something worthless. An old broken bottle, while John viewed it as something precious, a diamond ring. It would depend on how you looked at it. That was my impression anyway. Been there. Next favourite Prine song is Brused Orange. Give it a listen.

@agunslinger9349 9 ай бұрын

And you could make the connection that as a kid, he loved this girl, and he could imagine marrying her, until she lets him go that night. And under this realization, seeing a broken bottle on the ground, makes him think of a diamond ring he would never give Kathy.

@neilfox4626 Жыл бұрын

An old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring when it is far, far from you.

@dougieyou Жыл бұрын

Harri, as a fan of his for over 50 years I can tell you he is a well respected musician and beloved by so many musicians. So glad you found him, take time to indulge yourself in his music even in your own time. You won't regret it.

@Alice-xy3fi Жыл бұрын

I thought maybe the broken bottle/diamond ring was a way of saying he thought she was the one (a diamond ring), or the relationship was that...but it turned out not to be a diamond, but a broken bottle (not the real thing, even though it was shiny....just something much less valuable, and flawed (broken).

@floorticket Жыл бұрын

"Angel From Montgomery" is one of the finest songs in the English language. Prine's a national treasure.

@caseyhazelman2390 Жыл бұрын

David speaks the truth.

@sbrons1 Жыл бұрын

It’s a metaphor. Broken bottles like broken relationships. It’s funny how something shiny represents love but shines just like a broken bottle. He sees the relationship has changed and so has what the shine represents.

@jonsher7682 Жыл бұрын

That is incorrect as John explained that lyric in particular -- see my comment elsewhere for the details.

@kinksfan9781 Жыл бұрын

@@jonsher7682 The line can be based on a literal happenstance and still work as a metaphor. The two are not mutually exclusive. A song, and art in general, can only be experienced subjectively. The artist releases it into the world, and cannot control its effect.

@jonsher7682 Жыл бұрын

@@kinksfan9781 Harry asked what John Prine meant and in my other comment I quoted John explaining he was being literal, referring to a childhood experience, and not being metaphorical. That answers Harry’s question. If you want to attach a meaning Prine explicitly rejected, go right ahead, but the post I replied to claimed something about what Prine believed that is incorrect. We owe it to the artist to not misstate what the artist said of his own work - once we know what the artist said.

@daviddragavon7555 Жыл бұрын

I believe he was about 21 when he recorded this. Kris Kristofferson said along the lines of a "a kid, with an old man's soul "

@fan123casual8 Жыл бұрын

Big thumbs up for John Prine. Please keep playing more of him. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. 👍👍

@CAPTWESS-nd8ep Жыл бұрын

A lot of people have left impressions on me, but no more than the great John Prine! His songwriting is the standard of how to reach down and tell a story and deliver it with humor , passion, and heartfelt sincerity only few can come close to doing! I know there's a special place reserved for you John! RIP!

@jimbrentar Жыл бұрын

try Illegal Smile, Sam Stone, Spanish Pipedream, Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore... he's got a lot of great songs. Also, Angel From Montgomery

@Jacksswastedlife Жыл бұрын

Throwing the best of the bunch in as an afterthought!!! J/k John Prine is the best, RIP

@supasoulproductions Жыл бұрын

Imagine an old smashed bottle in the road. Now imagine some one tosses a few small diamonds on it. Could you tell the difference?

@billsmith2041 Ай бұрын

"A june bug flew, from the warmth he once knew" Such a deep lyric. Prine was simply the best. RIP.

@timothyallen4267 Жыл бұрын

John Prine was one of Bob Dylan's favorite song writer's imagine that for a moment 😎✌️

@pattiaustin1808 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Harri, it’s all about the lyrics with John Prine. You gotta listen to him. Carefully. He’ll make you grin and he’ll break your heart. And although it may seem subtle at times, the musicianship of John and his players is extraordinary. Keep looking and listening to John Prine. He’ll make your life better, I promise.

@aaronhaupert3015 Жыл бұрын

The two best to me are Dylan and Prine. for what its worth.

@AP-gb3eh Жыл бұрын

I adore John Prine he made me laugh made me cry made me feel human my entire life. We lost him to Covid💔 May I recommend IN SPITE OF OURSELVES. It’s a wonderful funny love song

@ptournas Жыл бұрын

I second that motion 😊

@timothykelley3635 10 ай бұрын

Saw Prine open up for the Cowboy Junkies. Who. You're right. They couldn't follow John. The crowd wanted him back. His personality was the best

@billsmith2041 Ай бұрын

Cowboy Junkies? They should have been privileged to have opened for Prine.

@santinocorleone1204 Жыл бұрын

Former mailman from Maywood, Illinois. A Chicago treasure. Makes me proud. Thx Harri. "Hello in There" and "Sam Stone" will rip your heart out

@jasonveldman4784 Жыл бұрын

Please do Lake Marie from same show. Amazing story telling!

@zenhaelcero8481 Жыл бұрын

Nice! There's not nearly enough John Prine reactions up on KZfaq. Prine said this was one of his favorite songs. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin said the same thing.

@dscotthoward7467 Жыл бұрын

From his first album to his last almost 50 years later, John was an amazing teller of tales. And one of the truly good guys.

@northernlight2598 10 ай бұрын

Someone once characterized country music as " three chords and the truth". Love your reactions Harri!

@ptournas Жыл бұрын

I think it's a shame so many people don't who he is. They don't know what their missing! Thanks for the reaction and exposing more people to some great music.

@gaillouise8310 8 ай бұрын

Every time I hear John Prine, I tear up... can't help myself!! About the broken bottle, all glass seems to sparkle, if the light hits it the tight way.

@stephaniebaldwin7645 3 ай бұрын

My favorite John Prine Song. Beautiful writing. I leaned on my left leg, in the parking lot dirt....

@alanbrown8527 Жыл бұрын

To me the broken bottle symbolizes the broken relationship. The broken glass reflects light like a Diamond ring which reminds him of the romance he once had.

@jpotter2086 Ай бұрын

It sure is a pretty one, and it will be so forever.

@dusty4835 Жыл бұрын

Hello In There, Sam Stone and Spanish Pipedream are three that'll be a great introduction to his catalog. There's a video of him singing Sam Stone from The Old Grey Whistle that's as stark as it is sad, but spot on.

@mikewatts867 4 күн бұрын

I have taken that line about the broken bottle looking like a diamond ring as a man who is an alcoholic and putting that ahead of the woman he fell in love with, being married to the bottle instead. And maybe the bottle being broken is him realizing that. And seeing that broken bottle in the gravel gives him that realization. Not saying that was his intention, but that’s what it means to me anyway. And I think John had an amazing voice. Unique and maybe not a traditionally good voice, but as you said, those voices are sometimes the most beautiful and authentic.

@dewdrop7648 Жыл бұрын

A unique voice indeed. Like another amazing song writer... Kris Kristofferson.

@donnaneville192 Жыл бұрын

Such a great talent! He was loved and respected by his fans and his peers.

@davebzen795 Жыл бұрын

Frank - I really enjoyed this John Prine performance, and there are so many to choose from.

@jamestaylor2920 Жыл бұрын

He was a folk singer that just kept writing and releasing albums. Angel From Montgomery, Unwed Fathers, Speed Of the Sound of Loneliness were Prine songs that other artist scored hits. 6:50 His death was one the first Big Name Artist attributed to COVID.

@juliecrane9647 Жыл бұрын

I cried when he passed and couldn't play his music for a few weeks after.

@jamestaylor2920 Жыл бұрын

@Julie Crane if memory serves, I first heard of John Prine in 1991 on a late night AM radio talk show while driving through Norfolk VA. He sang "Illegal Smile", "Paradis", "Sam Stone" and I was hooked. It was several years later that I found some of the hits that he wrote and other artists recorded. I saw him in concert in 2019 shortly before Covid struck. A great Singer Songwriter gone much to soon.

@fotosbyduane Жыл бұрын

Gotta react to “Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody “

@ancil57 Жыл бұрын

John was only a bit older than me. Sodas didn't come in cans or plastic bottles when we grew up. They came in glass bottles. Those bottles would be discarded here and there, and some of them would get broken. Occasionally, while driving or walking along, you would see something sparking like a diamond out of the corner of your eye on a sunny day. It was the light hitting that broken bottle. So, for that moment, "a broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring." John has a similar line in the song "Bruised Orange." "It ain't such a long drop. Don't stammer. Don't stutter. From the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter." Again, when the sunlight hits sidewalks made with certain forms of concrete, it will reflect what appears to be shiny diamonds. So, it isn't too far from that clean sidewalk to the dirt next to it in the gutter. John was so observant that way. He often said "Far From Me" was his favorite song. I think even he didn't entirely understand its subtleties.

@Newfie-zc7ug 11 ай бұрын

John Prine.................a true CLASSIC anyway you want to cut it ! Great people like this don't come around that often...we were soooooooooooooo............lucky to have him .

@BOOMNERD51 Жыл бұрын

I like his irony the broken bottle/diamond ring metaphor is much like his honesty about life changing suddenly. Whether she literally through his ring back, unlikely or in the still moonlight a broken bottle reminded him of how his ring now meant nothing to her. Another song of his said it again. "I've been pulled up from zero and pulled back there. Sat on the park bench, kissed the girl with the black hair, while my head shouted down to my heart 'Hey look out below! It ain't such a long drop-dont stammer don't stutter from the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter, and you carry those bruises bruises beside you wherever you go.'" Sorry carried away but I've been listening to Johns songs since 1972.

@oldgrizz8720 6 ай бұрын

Broken glass sparkles in the light just like a diamond ring. John Prine is had a unique outlook on life and found beauty even in the broken. Such an incredible story teller and songwriter and just great human being. RIP John Prine.

@charleshenry338 4 ай бұрын

They both reflect light in a similar manner.

@mikewindisch9021 11 ай бұрын

Broken glass sparkles like a diamond!!

@had64198 Жыл бұрын

So grateful I got to see him live in the 80s

@kentharris3878 Жыл бұрын

I think he's talking about how a piece of a broken bottle sparkles in the moonlight...just like a diamond sparkles...or so It plays in my mind. I think that's really the point...it makes you think. What's so important about material things...they all sparkle...but without someone close to you what do they matter? "But it's far, far from me..."

@guygranger7894 Жыл бұрын

John Prine is one of my all time favorite song writers and singers. He also sings and likes others songs that are similar and his unique voice sings them well. Somehow a voice like his and similar to Dylan`s gets you involved with the story better than a beautiful singing voice. My take on the broken bottle is ,that he`s drinking the trouble away,throws the empty bottle thinking of the diamond ring. Ive done this myself.

@nunuvyabusiness8550 Жыл бұрын

Love John Prine! So many great songs.

@thomasgalbraith3725 Жыл бұрын

I read somewhere how 2 people may look at one of those rohrshach blotches and see something completely different. He saw the diamond ring and she saw an old broken bottle.

@smileyd419 Жыл бұрын

his older stuff his voice sounds different than anything after 97 because he had Oral Cancer in 95 and was back at it in 97

@indef2def 10 ай бұрын

You ought to react to Dar Williams' "The Ocean", an astounding lyric that has John Prine coming in at the end.

@Bamaboompa 11 ай бұрын

50 years ago as a 19 year old John’s words knocked me out for the first time. My thought about “the line” is a diamond ring is the symbol of your love of a lifetime. Or it might just be a worthless piece of broken glass. I invite you to experience his “Hello In There” I ASSURE you the meaning of that one has changed a lot now that I’m 69 years young. 👍

@malcolmplatt3768 Жыл бұрын

I miss this man and his music badly. One of my all time favorite singer/songwriters. RIP John, thank you for singing the stories of my life. The line about the broken bottle and a diamond ring is all about perspective and what influences it, IMO.

@teresajohnson142 Жыл бұрын

An old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring because they are both sparkly and shiny until you are close enough to see it clearly

@jch928 Жыл бұрын

John Prine, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen in no particular order. These are possibly the greatest song writers of all time however the latter two had much, much more commercial success than John. However if you asked your favorite songwriter who their favorite songwriter is there is a high probability they would say John Prine. He is most songwriters favorite songwriter i.e. Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and many more. The funny thing is that if you picked 10 random people out of a crown and asked them who John Prine was, 9 of them would say they've never heard of him. He is true Americana! You must review "Speed of the sound of lonliness", "Christmas in Prison", "Spanish Pipedream", "Angel from Montgomery" and "Donald and Lydia".

@Gordy63 Жыл бұрын

He’s like the country version of Bon Dylan. Great stuff! To this day, I say the best John Prine song is Angel From Montgomery, but sung by Bonnie Raitt. You HAVE to check out her singing this song - it is an all time classic!

@mrnobody9104 Жыл бұрын

great storyteller i could've sat in a car in the driveway listening to his stories and had the time of my life. Legend RIP John

@bretthardin9239 Жыл бұрын

you have the same reaction we all do when john sings

@jimbrown9915 5 ай бұрын

appearances deceive is my interpretation - the lady looked like his forever mate at first but on closer inspection she had decided he wasn’t that for her

@Derrick1762 7 ай бұрын

Great song

@jhericravens1434 9 ай бұрын

Dude, an old broken bottle, at the right angle in the sun, will sparkle -- just a flash maybe -- right in your eye.

@bradsense7431 Жыл бұрын

More John Prine please. Amazing lyrics, storytelling.

@lauriecole3092 6 ай бұрын

Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) has the most astonishing lyric “ a heart stained in anger grows week and grows bitter , you become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap of your very own chain of sorrow” !! Love John Prine, so happy I got to see him live once.

@karowak1 Жыл бұрын

Genius

@caroleann_2142 Жыл бұрын

Hey Harri, Came across Fly me to the Moon, like you've never heard it, by Bobby Womack, Its from 1969. I think you'll Love it❤😊

@clemsontoby 5 ай бұрын

John Prine is amazing. My Mexican Home is my favorite

@reflexflow9088 7 ай бұрын

My Thinking is that although He may not be a diamond (I would argue He Is a True Diamond) his Girl used to think of him as shining bright in her eyes, (Like the broken bottles under the lights) but he no longer doe's! Just a thought? Please play "Sam Stone" John Prine at his Best!!

@rwh2559 Жыл бұрын

"A june bug flew, from the warmth he once knew, and I wished for once I werent right". I think this is such a powerful lyric. He is the June bug. so heavy, ...Dude was a genius. It is a privilege to listen to his music.

@stevenwurtz4193 Жыл бұрын

My favorite musician

@ukbbqmansmokin7972 7 ай бұрын

Sometimes I think John Prine was following me around making up songs …….

@SEANMCAD 8 ай бұрын

what the lyric 'broken bottle looks like a diamon ring' mean is wealth and extravagance can be as simple as a broken bottle.

@SEANMCAD 8 ай бұрын

if your willing to look

@dantallman5345 Жыл бұрын

Dear Abby is a really fun song by John Prine.

@brendanc.8019 11 ай бұрын

Love your reaction. Perfect take on his voice, so distinct. He once said he was finally getting comfortable with his voice at 70 something years old.

@spikebeans9563 Жыл бұрын

Oh cool. He has some great music. He at one time lived about a mile from me, in his younger years. Thanks. Enjoy.

@tkengathegrateful4844 Жыл бұрын

In the last verse, I'm still trying to figure out who asks the question - it works whether John is the asker, or if she asks him and he already knows the answer he's going to give. Maybe in another 35 years I'll figure it out.

@anniecoleman6483 Жыл бұрын

Harri, how wonderful to watch your discovering of John Prine. I'm like others here , long a fan! It is a genuine pleasure watching these videos of yours. I don't know if you've discovered Greg Brown? Another huge favorite...(Dream onn, little dreamer~ dream onnnn...the world ain't what you think it is, it's just...what it is!)

@PatrickFitzgerald-wt9fc Жыл бұрын

I'm blessed to have seen him twice! Love this tune! Thanks Harri!

@davidbooth7778 Жыл бұрын

What a story-teller! Right up there with Guy Clark. Prolific catalog.

@kevinmills7067 11 ай бұрын

It's a metaphor. He gave a girl a diamond and she rejected it. So he is sitting on a curb drinking and he sees a piece of broken glass and it reminds him of that diamond. Ain't funny how and old broken bottle can look just like a diamond ring? When it's far, far from me...

@hlawrencepowell Жыл бұрын

A piece of broken glass and a diamond might look the same at first glance, but they're not the same. Just like a relationship may seem great until it isn't. The shine wasn't real.

@fleegerbriggs5694 Жыл бұрын

You think the relationship is THE one. You look at it as this is the girl I will marry (diamond ring), but she is going to end it (broken bottle).

@jamesbell491 10 ай бұрын

Harri check out my reply to a comment made by another listener. It’s a reference to the line, ,,,,,an old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring.