I’m not gonna belabor any points here, or take up a lot of your time with a whole history lesson, I’m just going to say this: I bought John Prine’s first record in 1971 when I was still a hippie because he was marketed as “A New Dylan.” I bought all of “The New Dylan’s” first records: Prine, David Blue, Loudon Wainwright III, later Bruce Springsteen and Elliott Murphy, which was kind of strange because I wasn’t all that big a Bob Dylan fan by the early-1970’s.
To sum up: John Prine was a genius singer/songwriter and I’ll miss him. Here’s three videos I want to offer up as just a tiny sliver of that genius…….
John Prine isn’t the first musician we’ve lost to Covid-19 - and I fear he’s not going to be the last - but I just wanted to throw in my two cents to honor him today. - Ricki C. / 4/9/2020