John Prine's Sam Stone
There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.Jesus Christ died for nothin’ I suppose. Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. On the liner notes to John Prine’s self-titled debut, Kris Kristofferson writes about “the late-night morning” when Steve Goodman introduced him to the artist who many at the time thought would be the next Bob Dylan. Prine sang about a dozen songs in an empty bar, among them “Sam Stone,” and Kristofferson describes the experience as “One of those rare, great times when it all seems worth it, like when the Vision would rise upon Blake’s ‘weary eyes, Even in this Dungeon, & this Iron Mill.’” Kristofferson was spellbound--”Twenty-four years old, and he writes like he’s two-hundred and twenty.” He and Goodman “went away believers, reminded how goddamned
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Approximate Word count = 625
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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