Remembering John Prine five years on

[cbabe]

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[marble falls]

1. This is song that gets me. Bonnie Riatt's version is almost as good. Their duet is sooo good, too ...

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[Midnight Writer]

2. You can't go wrong with John Prine.

[red dog 1]

3. A truly great musician! I love all his songs, especially this one:

[cbabe]

4. The power of Prine's song

https://www.themountaineagle.com/articles/years-later-peabody-still-angry-over-classic-song-from-john-prine/

Years later, Peabody still angry over classic song from John Prine


By Mountain Eagle Staff
on July 08, 2015

By BEN NEARY
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo.

More than 40 years after it was first recorded, a strip-mining protest song still rankles one of the nation’s largest coal mining companies.

Peabody Energy Corp., which operates major mines in Wyoming, asked a federal judge in Casper to strike lyrics of singer-songwriter John Prine’s 1971 song “Paradise” from a federal lawsuit filed by a pair of environmental activists who claim they were jailed for demonstrating at a company shareholders meeting.

The couple’s lawsuit opens by quoting lyrics of Prine’s song, including this verse:

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[red dog 1]

5. I wonder how that court case turned out.

That July 8, 2015 Mountain Eagle article doesn't say.

The article ends with Darold Killmer (the lawyer representing the two activists who filed suit against Peabody) saying:
"Anytime anybody criticizes Peabody, they get angry and they retaliate, and that's what happened here."

[cbabe]

7. Wyoming college, police lieutenant, Peabody Energy settle 2015 lawsuit over coal protest arrest

https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/article_6a61e1af-deab-5b7f-b5b5-23fea317a1ef.html

Wyoming college, police lieutenant, Peabody Energy settle 2015 lawsuit over coal protest arrest

By Shane Sanderson Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange Jan 23, 2019

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Tuesday, civil rights lawyer Darold Killmer, who represented the Colorado residents in the lawsuit, said the settlement totaled almost $400,000. Peabody paid $290,000 to the two protesters as part of a settlement agreed upon this spring. The Northern Wyoming Community College District and campus police agreed to pay another $80,000.

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[red dog 1]

8. Thanks for that

[red dog 1]

6. "In accordance with John Prine's lyrical wishes, expressed in his song 'Paradise'

some of his ashes were spread in Kentucky's Green River." (Wikipedia)

[JoseBalow]

9. I was lucky to catch him at Hardly Strictly a few times

Always a great show. He is missed.