No one writes the way John Prine did. As Bob Dylan once remarked, Prine’s lyrics are “pure Proustian existentialism, Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree.” Before his death in 2020, he left behind ...
While most people have an absolute favorite John Prine song, trying to rank his work is like trying to pick your favorite cousins at a four-generation picnic. Like all great big, tangled-up families, ...
John Prine’s reputation as a songwriter is unmatched, especially when it comes to the respect he earned from his peers. Even before the public truly got wind of what he could do, people like Kris ...
You know, sometimes a fella has to take a break from all the sad news found on TV and circulating around the world. If one is not careful, and has too few healthy habits to escape from all the bad ...
John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died Tuesday at ...
The time was late 2021. Music venues were slowly — make that, very slowly — reawakening after an extended purgatory dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite that, Grayson Jenkins felt there was a ...