John Prine would have turned 79 years old on Oct. 10. To celebrate his life and legacy, we joined Prine’s widow Fiona Whelan Prine and country music legend Carlene Carter at one the late songwriter’s ...
POMEROY — Byron’s, 111 S. Ontario St., Pomeroy, is holding a show with John Prine’s touring band, “John Prine — Songs and Souvenirs,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Tickets are only available online at ...
John Prine didn’t need much to tell a great story. He just needed a guitar, a sharp line, and something worth saying. And when it came to songwriting, he had nothing but respect for the people who did ...
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 ...
There is no question that had movie critic Roger Ebert not walked into the Fifth Peg club one night in 1970 and heard an unknown singer/songwriter named John Prine, that Prine still would have found ...
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, ...
When I first heard "In Spite of Ourselves," I thought my neighbor George —the one who brought his guitar to every 4th of July bonfire and made our spirits sing with a worn outlaw voice and worn, ...
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 ...
For a man who sang an awful lot about dying while he was still alive, John Prine’s death still came as a major shock to his fans back in 2020. From moments like “Please Don’t Bury Me,” where he asks ...
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine, Vol. 2, the new tribute album from the late legend’s Oh Boy records label, is out today. In addition to previously heard covers like Sturgill ...