AFTER NEARLY HALF A CENTURY OF SINGING THIS SONG TOGETHER, BONNIE RAITT AND JOHN PRINE GAVE “ANGEL FROM MONTGOMERY” ONE OF ITS MOST MEANINGFUL FINAL CHAPTERS. When Bonnie Raitt and…
A Love Story. A Murder Case. Four Italian Sausages on a Grill. Somehow, John Prine Turned It All Into One of the Greatest Songs of His Career. There are songs…
A Funny Song About Marriage That Quietly Reveals Something Much Sadder JOHN PRINE INSISTED THIS SONG WASN’T AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. THEN HE ADMITTED HIS WIFE MADE HIM SAY THAT. When John Prine…
A Song About Pluto, Hurricanes, and the End of the World Became One of John Prine’s Most Touching Final Statements When John Prine stepped onto the stage of Live from…
In 1992, John Prine Turned “Picture Show” Into a Joyful Celebration of Old Movies, Small-Town Dreams, and the Power of Imagination When John Prine appeared on The Texas Connection in…
JOHN PRINE TURNED LIFE’S MISERY INTO LAUGHTER AND MADE EVERYONE FEEL LESS ALONE In 1978, a young John Prine stood onstage with a guitar, a crooked smile, and a song…
A QUIET WARNING HIDDEN INSIDE A LOVE SONG For John Prine, love was never just romance. It was tenderness, regret, loneliness, and the kind of fire that could warm a…
WHEN JOHN PRINE AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON SANG “PARADISE” AT BONNAROO, IT FELT LIKE AMERICA’S MEMORY WAS SINGING BACK TO ITSELF On a warm Tennessee night during Bonnaroo 2010, thousands of…
A WEARY MAN’S PLEA FOR SILENCE IN A WORLD THAT NEVER STOPS TALKING By 1995, John Prine had already spent more than two decades proving that he could say more…
In One Quiet Austin Night, John Prine Turned “Summer’s End” Into a Gentle Prayer for the Lonely and Forgotten When John Prine returned to Austin City Limits in 2018, he…
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