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John Prine Hospitalized With COVID-19 Symptoms: ‘His Situation Is Critical’
“John was hospitalized on Thursday,” family says in statement. “He was intubated Saturday evening, and continues to receive care”

By DANIEL KREPS



John Prine performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, in Manchester, Tenn2019 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival - Day 3, Manchester, USA - 15 Jun 2019
John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday after suffering from symptoms synonymous with the novel coronavirus.

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John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday after suffering from symptoms synonymous with the novel coronavirus. While Prine’s exact medical condition is unclear, “his situation is critical,” his family said in a statement Sunday.

“After a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday. He was intubated Saturday evening, and continues to receive care, but his situation is critical,” the Prine family wrote.

“This is hard news for us to share. But so many of you have loved and supported John over the years, we wanted to let you know, and give you the chance to send out more of that love and support now. And know that we love you, and John loves you.”


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An update on John

On March 20th, Prine’s wife Fiona revealed that she had tested positive for the coronavirus, and while her husband also tested, his status remained “indeterminate” at the time.

“There’s a chance he may not have this virus,” Fiona Prine said on Instagram, “and we are working really, really hard and being really diligent about all of the protocols. We are quarantined and isolated from each other and members of the family. It’s hard, I won’t lie, but it’s absolutely important.”

Prine’s health issues over the past few decades have been well-documented, as has the singer’s comebacks: In the late-Nineties, Prine was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer in his neck; after rounds of radiation, surgery and a year of rehabilitation, Prine returned to music, his deepened voice a battle scar from the cancer fight. In 2013, Prine announced he had an operable cancer, “non-small cell carcinoma,” in his left lung, briefly sidelining him.

How old is he?

73 yo

Kent

This is real bad news for John Prine

ya!


GWB

Love Prine. Wish him the best.

Would love to see him perform in the future.

Love some of his music, would've thought he was a lot older than 73.

Hopefully it’s not Covid

When is this thing gonna stop am getting tired already

Sad news.
Prine has been battling other health issues for a while.
Heck of a songwriter. Hope he can pull through.

This^^

All the Best.

we've gone to see him play every chance we get the last couple years..., that old boy still had a lot of energy...I hope he pulls through.

I'm hoping there's NOT a hole in God's ground where Johnny goes.....at least not from this.

Lots of good songs he wrote. I'll second "Hello In There" isn't a good song... it is a GREAT one. Dear Abby, Angel From Montgomery and many more. Lines like"if it wasn't so expensive I'd wish I was dead."

One of my all-time favorite artists. I saw him perform live in '78. I will pray for John Prine.

His wife tested positive and his test has not come back...

Davidson county Tennessee isn't a good place to reside at present.

My wife got a message from someplace saying John does have Covid

When I was at Fairhaven college in 1971-1972 most students listened to Led Zeppelin.
But the students who were the best musicians listened to John Prine.

Amen to that....we're rootin for ya out here in the American hinterland there John...

What does synonymous mean in this context...?

Sorry to here that, he's has always been a favorite of ours. The wife and I saw him and Iris DeMint a couple of years ago and he was still sounding great

I see that now. He’s got a real uphill battle

I suspect “consistent with” but it is an odd wording for sure.
Rolling Stone ...

Guess we all better brace for some more celebrity names to come down with this crap... and even pass from it..

too bad some high ranking democRATS probably won't be on that list, I'll bet..

such as HIllary, Nancy, Chuckie, and Schiff for starters....

Joe Diffie died from covid19. Only three threads on him here. So far.

Hope John pulls through this. A gifted musician for sure. I really enjoy his music. Man with a big heart. I never had the opportunity to go to one of his live performances.

The fact he is intubated makes it very serious for him. A huge percentage of people in that condition do not make it...

Dear Abby is my favorite John Prine song.

"When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am"

I hope and pray it isn't his time yet, loved some of his songs.

My wife just told me about his condition. I've been a big fan for a long time. For a lot of us fans, It's gonna be a long Monday

"Woke up this morning,
Put on my slippers,
Walked in the kitchen and DIED.
And oh what a feeling when my soul went thru the ceiling
And on up on into Heaven I did rise."

Or:

"While out sailing on the ocean,
While out sailing on the sea.
I bumped into the savior and he said 'Pardon Me".

I said 'Jesus you look tired'
And he said 'Jesus...so do you'.
'Won't you sit down son cause I got some fat to chew'.

Or:

"And you may see me today
With an illegal smile
It don't cost very much
But it lasts a long while. "

Saw him several times in the 70s. He's an icon. God bless him please.

I hope he doesn't pass.

But when he goes, if this is his wish, I hope it's granted. (First song of his I learned to sing around a campfire. .....We were straight )





Geno

Good lines all, but the ones that really hit me were a little different...

The olfactory reference in Paradise hauled me right there...
"Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill"

The incredible power in Sam Stone shook me at a critical time...

There was nothing to be done,
But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill,
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,

And then there was the story of Prine and Kristoferson finding some guy singing in a Chicago bar and bringing him in... and Steve Goodman had his start.

SP- R S ?

Always have been a big fan. I wish him the best.

I know a guy that's got a lot to lose.
He's a pretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused.
He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used.
Thinks he own half of this town.

Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose.
Beats his old lady with a rubber hose,
Then he takes her out to dinner and buys her new clothes.
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

That's the way that the world goes 'round.
You're up one day and the next you're down.
It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown.
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes,
When the radiator broke, water all froze.
I got stuck in the ice without my clothes,
Naked as the eyes of a clown.
I was crying ice cubes hoping I'd croak,
When the sun come through the window, the ice all broke.
I stood up and laughed thought it was a joke
That's the way that the world goes 'round.

What in the worlds come over you
What in Heavens name have you done
You’ve broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You’re out there runnin just to be on the run

Hang in there Johnny