Encountering ‘Prine on Prine’: Holly Gleason on Assembling a Book of Conversations With the Irreplaceable John Prine
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variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For the millions who loved him, John Prine was an angel from Illinois.
The singer-songwriter had a 50-year career trajectory that went the full distance from being part of the “next Dylan” brigade in the early ’70s to inspiring Next-John-Prines by the thousands before his death in April 2020.
He would have turned 77 on Oct. 10, and the phrase “would have” isn’t just a figure of speech here; for all his health issues over the years, his being cut down by COVID at the beginning of that epidemic felt like seeing an oak unfairly felled in its prime.
But “John Prine” as a lingering presence, as a brand and as an aspiration isn’t going to slip away in the culture any year soon.
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