Thank you for uploading this track...I have listened to John Stewart's music for years...there has been no one else so honest, so authentic, and yet so hopeful. He sang the essence of America at her best...as she has been and as she carries on. Hats off to E. A. Stuart and to all of the E. A. Stuarts out there who take to the ring every day, unsung. Godspeed to you, John...you are sorely missed on this small planet you have left behind.
ONe of America's greatest....yet relatively inknown. Amazing, that several reflect on tearing up to this song............How many of John's songs did that to ya? A lot of them did it to me!! Absolutely a great talent and so underrated,Thank you John........I love your music!!!!
I first heard this song around the very beginning of the '70's, covered by a band called "Orcrist Goblin Cleaver" at a club called "The Cellar" in downtown Dallas. I spent the next two decades before eventually succeeding in finding out who wrote and originally performed it. Ever since I first heard it performed, it has been one of my favorites.
I bought this album in 1969, John's first. Each time I heard "...E.A. Stuart driving stone blind...with Sweetheart on Parade, tears and shivers really did come. What a song. What an incredible artist.
This song is such a fine example of how amazingly talented this American storyteller was. When John would play this live it would bring tears to your eyes. Hearing is now some 30 years later, tears on my face, again....
I think 1969 I still have the LP. Robert Hilbern in the LA Times raved. He was right. John was , and is under appreciated. Play Mother Country for kids today... and they tear up!
Thank you for uploading this track...I have listened to John Stewart's music for years...there has been no one else so honest, so authentic, and yet so hopeful. He sang the essence of America at her best...as she has been and as she carries on. Hats off to E. A. Stuart and to all of the E. A. Stuarts out there who take to the ring every day, unsung. Godspeed to you, John...you are sorely missed on this small planet you have left behind.
tb30486 1 week ago
@tb30486, thank you for your heartfelt comment!
I really miss John Stewart, a true storyteller of American music.
SuperMazu 1 week ago
ONe of America's greatest....yet relatively inknown. Amazing, that several reflect on tearing up to this song............How many of John's songs did that to ya? A lot of them did it to me!! Absolutely a great talent and so underrated,Thank you John........I love your music!!!!
drdangerousmd 3 months ago
@drdangerousmd, thank you for a comment!
I always want to cry when I listen to the song "Missouri Birds"...
SuperMazu 3 months ago
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fleetwood1111 5 months ago
Thank you Love this.
joycelittlewhitedove 7 months ago
@joycelittlewhitedove,thank you for a comment!
This is more than a song, a great story, indeed!
SuperMazu 7 months ago
I first heard this song around the very beginning of the '70's, covered by a band called "Orcrist Goblin Cleaver" at a club called "The Cellar" in downtown Dallas. I spent the next two decades before eventually succeeding in finding out who wrote and originally performed it. Ever since I first heard it performed, it has been one of my favorites.
MickeyMudTurtle 8 months ago
@MickeyMudTurtle, thank you for letting me know your precious memory!
John Stewart must be one of the great story tellers in the music scene, I believe.
SuperMazu 8 months ago
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Immense! Listen to the musicians as the song enters the final straight - as a reviewer once wrote, "Those cats are playing their ***** off"!
1togger 8 months ago
Listen to the musicians as the song enters the final straight. As a reviewer once wrote - "Those cats are playing their ***** off"! Immense.
1togger 8 months ago
@1togger, thank you for a comment!
Truly one of the greatest story-telling song in the music history!!!
SuperMazu 8 months ago
I bought this album in 1969, John's first. Each time I heard "...E.A. Stuart driving stone blind...with Sweetheart on Parade, tears and shivers really did come. What a song. What an incredible artist.
mrjaysnipes 1 year ago
@mrjaysnipes, thank you for a comment!
Couldn't agree more! What a great story song!!!
SuperMazu 1 year ago
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SFO2NH 1 year ago
This song is such a fine example of how amazingly talented this American storyteller was. When John would play this live it would bring tears to your eyes. Hearing is now some 30 years later, tears on my face, again....
SFO2NH 1 year ago 2
@SFO2NH, thank you for a comment!
I absolutely agree with you! John Stewart is a truly amazing American stolyteller, indeed.
SuperMazu 1 year ago
Never fails to make me cry... Wish I was there back then...
Flyboy207 1 year ago
@Flyboy207 Anyone have the chords?
Flyboy207 1 year ago
@Flyboy207 I have the words and the chords from The Phoenix Concerts songbook.Just send me a mail and I'll send you the scan of it pygroleau@msn.com
3Pitous 9 months ago
@Flyboy207, thank you for a comment!
I always thought that this song is like a little movie, just like directed by John Sturges and acted by John Wayne!
SuperMazu 1 year ago
I think 1969 I still have the LP. Robert Hilbern in the LA Times raved. He was right. John was , and is under appreciated. Play Mother Country for kids today... and they tear up!
wellsfarg 1 year ago
@wellsfarg, thank you for a comment!
Your kids are sane, yeah,very sane, that are moved by this great storytelling song!
I recommend that the first album of another great SSW, Guy Clark's "Old No.1". Some songs on that album always move me very much!
SuperMazu 1 year ago
my parents were huge john stewart fans.
california bloodlines was always playing in our house.
this song never fails to make me cry.
maxxpup 1 year ago
@maxxpup , thank you for a touching comment!
Also "Missouri birds" always makes me cry.
SuperMazu 1 year ago
Pretty up & walking good indeed.
Mr. Stewart, you are sorely missed. You have been a favorite of mine for decades.
R.I.P.
doggzma 1 year ago
@doggzma , thank you for a comment!
Couldn't agree more! John Stewart was truely great american poet and storyteller, I believe. R.I.P.
SuperMazu 1 year ago
First time I knew of John was from the KT reuinion special on PBS. What a talent, to me his era of the group was their best.
CadillacL 2 years ago
Thank you for a comment, CadillacL！
A great american poet,indeed.
Another his song that I like is the Runaway Train, which performed by himself and Rossanne Cash.
SuperMazu 2 years ago
Oh, Mother Country, I do love you . . .
rbhumes 2 years ago
Thank you for a comment, rbhumes!
"California Bloodlines" album is full of greta songs, like "Missouri birds" "Some lonesome picker" razor back woman" and many more!
SuperMazu 2 years ago