#750 Raphael Saadiq, Remembering John Prine
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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week Sound Opinons welcomes prolific singer, songwriter, and producer Raphael Saadiq. Perhaps most widely known as a member of the 1990s R&B band Tony! Toni! Toné!, he's also released five critically acclaimed solo albums, all the while producing notable work for others, including "Lady" by D'Angelo, and "Cranes In The Sky" by Solange. Plus, Jim and Greg bid farewell to legendary songwriter John Prine.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to sound opinions once again recording each of us in isolation. |
| 0:06.0 | This week we are talking with singer, songwriter, and super producer |
| 0:10.2 | Raphael Sadiq. |
| 0:11.8 | But Greg, first we have some sad news after a battle that lasted a couple of weeks. |
| 0:17.0 | John Prine, singer-songwriter originally from the Chicago area, passed as a result of a battle with COVID-19. |
| 0:25.0 | Yes, Jim said indeed, John Prine dead at the age of 73, |
| 0:30.0 | had a remarkable career that began in the late sixties in the chicago |
| 0:34.1 | folks scene and was soon championed by people like chris cholversen and bob dillen |
| 0:38.4 | among others |
| 0:39.4 | we had a great opportunity to speak with him a couple of years ago |
| 0:45.2 | when he was coming off one of the triumphs of his career the tree of forgiveness |
| 0:49.8 | record is first one in more than a decade uh decade that won all sorts of accolades and John |
| 0:56.2 | stopped by our studio and we were able to have a great conversation with him. There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes. |
| 1:07.0 | Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose. |
| 1:15.0 | The famous story about John Prine as he started out delivering the mail in Maywood, Illinois. |
| 1:20.0 | And on his route he was writing these songs including some stone cold classics like |
| 1:24.7 | Sam Stone and Hello in there. This guy wrote a bunch of tunes finally debuted |
| 1:29.6 | them at a club in Chicago was reviewed by none other than Roger Ebert, the famed film critic. |
| 1:38.0 | My friend and colleague. |
| 1:39.0 | Caught a show was one of the first big reviews that Prine got. |
| 1:42.0 | His career took off from there. The list of people |
| 1:45.1 | who look up to John Prine, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Rate, Chris Christopherson, Paul |
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