{"id":11217,"date":"2020-04-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:28:54","slug":"please-dont-bury-me-in-memory-of-john-prine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2020\/04\/please-dont-bury-me-in-memory-of-john-prine\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don\u2019t bury me: In memory of John Prine, a Transylvania professor&#8217;s reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This article by English professor Maurice Manning is part of&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/tag\/on-resilience\/\"><em>a series<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;by the Transylvania community on the theme of our academic year: Resilience. As we face the biggest public health crisis in a generation, we\u2019re digging deep to find what it takes to bounce back, to face adversity with both grit and kindness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angel From Montgomery (John Prine) - Reed Turchi &amp; His Kudzu Choir\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1aUeVZrYHY?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><em> Maurice Manning on vocals\/guitar on this bonus track of raw, unedited footage from <a href=\"https:\/\/reedturchi.bandcamp.com\/album\/angels-share\">the album &#8220;Angel&#8217;s Share,&#8221;<\/a> recorded at Willett Distillery in May 2019<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In my years of teaching poetry I\u2019ve suggested that my students ought to have two arts \u2014 one to study and deeply learn, and another one for the sheer fun of being creative. While I have chosen poetry as my first art, my second art has always been music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My music, such as it is, usually consists of playing guitar and sometimes banjo, and singing. I like to play old folk songs, bluegrass tunes, blues and ballads. I\u2019ve tried to get pretty good at finger-picking a guitar, because I like the challenge and I like a snappy rhythm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also love the content of songs, songs that mourn leaving\nhome or losing someone dear, songs that relish freedom, songs that recognize\nthe value of a place. But I have never aspired to write songs of my own;\ninstead, the far greater pleasure has been playing and singing songs that\nsomeone else wrote, often songs that have changed and varied through the years.\nSuch music, while it may originate with one individual, eventually becomes\ncommunal, a voice we have in common, filled with the feelings we all experience\nand struggle through.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s one appeal I\u2019m drawn to, because I\u2019ve learned\nwe\u2019re in this life together, no matter what. But I also like a good tune and a\ngood song that leaves me thinking and feeling well after the last note is\nplayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite songwriters is John Prine, who died last week as a result of complications from the novel coronavirus. He was 73. One of his signature songs is \u201cParadise,\u201d an understated title if there ever was one.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It begins, \u201cWhen I was a child my family would travel, down\nto western Kentucky where my parents were born, and there\u2019s a backwards old\ntown so often remembered, so many times my memories are worn.\u201d The chorus goes\non to lament that Paradise is no more because \u201cMr. Peabody\u2019s coal train has\nhauled it away,\u201d a moral clash Prine put his finger on when he recorded the\nsong, back in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in \u201cParadise,\u201d one of the verses goes like this: \u201cThen\ncoal company came with the world\u2019s largest shovel, and they tortured the timber\nand stripped all they land. Well they dug for their coal till the land was\nforsaken, and wrote it all down as the progress of man.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While one may view this song as a protest against environmental carnage, I think in its quiet way, the song gives voice to a fundamental human predicament: We can never escape the irony of our actions. The world\u2019s largest steam shovel mentioned in the song was real. It had to be transported piece by piece on rail and was assembled on-site in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 20 stories tall. The boom of the shovel could reach out\nthe length of a city block, and the bucket could scoop a football field of\nearth at a time. Eventually, of course, the steam shovel was no longer feasible\nto operate. So the engineers and coal company executives decided the shovel\nwould dig its own grave and bury itself. And that\u2019s just what happened.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the heyday of the steam shovel\u2019s career my mother and\ngreat-grandmother drove me over to western Kentucky to have a look. I must have\nbeen four years old. Prine wrote the song about the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Prine song, \u201cSweet Revenge,\u201d begins: \u201cI got kicked\noff of Noah\u2019s ark, turned my cheek to unkind remarks, there was two of\neverything and one of me.\u201d His songs are about people, people who have\nsuffered, people who are lonely, people who have lost someone, people who have\ncome home wounded from war and cannot belong to their country anymore.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Prine also found humor in the human experience, and in particular the American experience of being human. I\u2019ve realized during this worldwide crisis that all living things are profoundly vulnerable \u2014 that is one condition of being alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all living things, including humans, are also profoundly\nresilient. No songwriter I can think of better captured that paradoxical\nreality than John Prine.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I have mourned the loss of this good man and musical craftsman, I have sure been glad to listen to his music. His songs, moving and sad as they can be, are also consoling.&nbsp;That must be one of the reasons we have music, and why we enjoy sitting around with a guitar and picking out a few tunes, and singing along.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refrain of another Prine song wryly observes: \u201cOoh,\nbaby, it\u2019s a big ole goofy world.\u201d That\u2019s some useful wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over Memorial Day weekend back in 2019 a friend of mine who\u2019s a tremendous slide-guitar player, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reedturchi.com\/\">Reed Turchi<\/a>, invited some of his friends to join him and record an album. We made the recording in a bourbon warehouse at the Willett Distillery, near Bardstown.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The object was to make <a href=\"https:\/\/reedturchi.bandcamp.com\/album\/angels-share\">a live recording of traditional and old Gospel tunes<\/a>. We had a dobro player, two guitars, a sax player and a keyboardist. Reed\u2019s wife Kathleen and his mother Laura sang backup harmonies and Laura also played viola on a few songs. Reed\u2019s father, Pete, took photos.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an occasion of great fellowship, and we had a purpose: to get the songs right, to put our talents together and make a joyful sound. The result is Reed\u2019s album, &#8220;Angel\u2019s Share.&#8221; In addition to the musical recording, the sessions were recorded on digital video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the end of that Memorial Day, we realized we needed another song. Reed scratched his head and said, \u201cHow about \u2018Angel from Montgomery,\u2019\u201d one of John Prine\u2019s finest mournful songs.&nbsp;It was the last song we recorded and seemed to be exactly the right song to conclude our time together.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening Mr. Prine died Reed emailed me a video of all of\nus playing \u201cAngel From Montgomery,\u201d nearly a year ago, back when this great\nAmerican troubadour was very much alive, probably playing somewhere himself\nbringing joy to his fellow human beings. The chorus goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Make me an angel, that flies from Montgomery,<br>make me a poster of an old rodeo.<br>Just give me one thing I can hold onto,<br>to believe in this living is a hard way to go. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed has kindly <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/M1aUeVZrYHY\">shared this video<\/a> with all of our community. And that\u2019s one thing we can do right now \u2014 we can share, our talents, our time and our common spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the author: Maurice Manning<\/em>, a <em>Transylvania<\/em> <em>English<\/em> <em>professor and writer-in-residence, has published multiple books of poetry, including&nbsp;&#8220;The Common Man,&#8221; which was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His first collection,&nbsp;&#8220;Lawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions,&#8221; was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has had works in publications including The New Yorker, Washington Square, The Southern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah and The Virginia Quarterly Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing we can do right now \u2014 we can share, our talents, our time and our common spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[181,472,220],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-faculty","tag-on-resilience","tag-transy-faculty"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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