Rest in Peace Richard Wright, keyboardist for Pink Floyd. Smoke a doobie and listen to "Us and Them".

What a great song. Nice choice!

I'll never forget the time that, as a "kid" from CA, first time in The South, I drove from Owensboro, KY to Gulf Shores, AL. I was in no big hurry, and spent the night, the Saturday before Father's Day 1997, in in a cheap motel in Montgomery, AL. I drove the final few hours on Sunday morning, and ended up at a roadhouse called the Florabama that was literally a stone's throw from FL. I called my dad (now passed on) from a payphone in front of the bar to wish him a happy Father's Day, and went in for a drink. A band was just warming up (at noon, on a Sunday!--they didn't do this shit back in Cali, I thought...). After greeting the crowd and saluting the dads for Fathers Day, the band breaks into "Angel From Montgomery"...Was all I could do to keep from losing it. I later went up to the singer and gave her my receipt from that dumpy little motel and thanked her.

RIP Dad. I miss ya.

Richard Wright is now playing at "The Great Gig In The Sky."

dg...that's some sweet music.

Thanks for the tunes.

First heard in Austin, Texas, 1981. Lying on the grass at Town Lake, with Walker, Keen, Raitt and other. For 96 cents (or was it 69 cents?). Saw the Thunderbirds and Vaughn there later that summer, close enough to feel the sweat.

Where did actual music go?

Ahhhh....

What a beautiful song, sung by voices can make me tremble and cry.

I needed this after today's financial and political bad news.

Great song. Bonnie Raitt had and has a gift for choosing wisely -- "What Do You Want the Boy To Do?" and several seminal Jackson Browne songs. I love and collect recordings of live concerts, and Bonnie Raitt's "Wolftrap, 1977" is among my very best. Thanks.

How have we lost our way so completely?

Bonnie Raitt reminds me of everything that this country has done well with best intentions.

This song pops up in my life every so often - usually at a point when I need a good cry to relieve the stress. Of course - here it is again. I first heard it while in the middle of my divorce and ultimate discovery of who I am and what I went through to get there. That was a wierd, hard, struggling time...now I'm in my 40s, rheumatoid arthritis, diagnosed with MS a year ago, just started 4 shots of insulin a day and rediscovering myself yet again - somewhere along the way, in the midst of daily struggles and pain, I forgot why I stand for the things I stand for, why I'm baffled by people who just don't seem to care about anything but their own pocketbook.

Prine has so much to say about the act of living - getting up every day, going to work, coming home, 'having nothing to say' yet, he's got his political side.

Check out his song "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" - it ranks right up there with Todd Snider's "Conservative, Christian, right-wing Republican, Straight, White American Male" - by the way - they use the same publisher - OhBoy records.

Thanks for the reminder - and for the music...

Shirl

Love Wright, Love Raitt, love Prine.

"I ain't hurtin' nobody. Ain't hurtin' no one."

"Dark Side of the Moon" is still one of the masterworks.

With or without headphones; stoned or straight.

i have had the wonderful experience of seeing Prine in concert 8 times, once with Stevie Goodman, who is one of our modern day saints. John Prine is one of the best songwriters since George Harrison. He is a gentle soul. Check out his newest album with 'Some People Ain't People".............it is so fantastic!

Mr. D. Glass, you are entirely too cool for school, sir! I've been a Bonnie fan for about 35 years or so, and this has ALWAYS been a particular favorite. To hear her sing it accompanied by the song's creator, John Prine, is almost heaven. It don't get much better than this!

Mike@#2 and GondoD@#8 are both right, though: Please do a Pink Floyd LNMC for tonight, though, to mark the passing of Rick Wright, their magical keyboard specialist. I'll miss him like a part of my own body; RIP, my beloved friend.

nrdesieyes @ 5:

Interpreting all these lyrics literally with random photos detracts from the song.

lighten up, Frances

Seek out Susan Tedeschi's version if you haven't yet.

I've seen them play this together, and separately. One of the most moving, and memory-inducing songs I've ever heard. Great version by Bonnie Raitt on No Nukes. I so feel like I've lost my way...

Here's the Susan Tedeschi version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlcP3FOTM0U. If you like that, try my favorite song of hers, Just Won't Burn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxImAz18nNI. She's married to Derek Trucks--wonder how well their kids will be able to play guitar.

It was a lifetime ago, 1977 in fact, when I was introduced to John Prine. A boy from a small Canadian prairie town I went to Toronto - the big city - and univeristy. My musical world opened up REAL quick. Prine, along with Steve Goodman, Roger MQuinn, Dylan (of course) and on the other end Bowie and The Clash - became staples in my "LP" library.

Today, when I need to retreat and escape I listen to Prine and Goodman - just not on "LPs" anyomre. Probable the saddest, most moving and loving song ever recorded is Goodman's "The Dutchman."

First fell for this tune in the '70's, when my mother had just died from leukemia, had moved home from college to help, and had lost my first love. Can't listen without still wanting something to hold on to and having involuntary tears drip. Bonnie got me through those days. Then 25 years later, when fighting infertility, Bonnie came through again with Nick of Time. Now, I look into that mirror and feel weird about being an adult, when I still feel all the same things I first felt when I connected to her music. Kudos also to John Prine for one of the most transcendental, moving pieces of music written; another in his long list of fine contributions to the human soul.