John Prine dove headlong into country music stylings in “Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You,” a fiddle-driven track on his 1972 album Diamonds in the Rough. Tyler Childers covers the song for an upcoming Prine tribute record, maintaining the vibe (and fiddle) of the original but …
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UPDATE (11/5): The 2021 All the Best festival — which serves as a tribute to the late John Prine — has been postponed with no new date given. The event was expected to feature Prine’s sons, Jack and Tommy. “Sixthman and Oh Boy Records feel it is only appropriate to …
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John Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 73. The cause was complications related to COVID-19, his family confirmed …
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Less than two years ago, John Prine was in a creative rut. “The one thing I can’t remember about writing songs is just how fucking simple it is,” he told Rolling Stone last year. So Prine – who has written classics such as “Angel From Montgomery” and “In Spite of …
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“I guess we’re in the forgiveness business,” John Prine told his duet partner Brandi Carlile on stage last night at his sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Celebrating the release ofThe Tree of Forgiveness, his first album in 13 years, that particular John Prine-ism perhaps best …
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