Hi Mike.   Just sitting down to computer after lunch and saw your posing.   Love this.   A great toe tapping song and you have the twang down pat.   Always nice to hear your songs.   Take care. - D

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(Writer: John Prine         Original performance: John Prine) 
John Prine was one of the best songwriters of my generation, sadly taken from us in 2020 due to complications from catching Covid during the pandemic. For some years before that he had had health problems that had probably left him especially vulnerable.

I must give credit to my daughter Lucy for first persuading me to find out more about John Prine and his music. She had recorded a BBC ‘Songwriters’ compilation of sessions done for ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ , made before she was born and when I ought to have been watching OGWT more! John Prine was one of the songwriters and performed ‘Dear Abby’. Once I’d heard a couple more John Prine songs, I was hooked.

Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody was released as one of the songs on the album Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, produced by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein and released in 1995. The song was inspired by one of the singer's childhood trips to the beach and would be chosen to be Prine's second music video (the first having been "Picture Show") [source: Wiki]. For the rest, there’s not much to say about the song except it’s the second one from the album Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings that I have covered (the first being ‘Same Thing Happened To Me’). I saw John Prine on a Youtube recording of a live performance of the song introducing it by saying that he was awake at 4am and was expected to have a song ready to record at noon that day. Not wanting to be late delivering, he quickly wrote this song.

I recorded my version of it because Prine is just fun to do, I like the wit in songs like this, and it is not especially taxing from an arrangement and production point of view (though I will admit that getting the ‘mojo’ I was after into the song took longer than it should have – I hope I have managed it).

Fab bass work is again down to Paul ‘Family Man’ Jennings, so a big thanks to him. Hope you enjoy this simple foot tapper and please share it with others if you do.

Mike O’Neill
5th April 2024

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