BREAKING: The folk-country singer John Prine, one of the most revered songwriters of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 73 from complications related to COVID-19.
Even as a young man, Prine — who famously worked as a mailman before turning to music full-time — wrote evocative songs that belied his age. With a conversational vocal approach, he quickly developed a reputation as a performer who empathized with his characters. His beloved 1971 self-titled debut features the aching"Hello In There," written from the perspective of a lonely elderly man who simply wants to be noticed, and the equally bittersweet"Angel From Montgomery.
And"Christmas In Prison" boasts one of his best lyrics —"She reminds me of a chess game with someone I admire" — while embodying his quiet irreverence."It's about a person being somewhere like a prison, in a situation they don't want to be in, and wishing they were somewhere else," he wrote in the liner notes to 1993's, adding that"I used all the imagery as if it were an actual prison. ... And being a sentimental guy, I put it at Christmas.
Raised in Maywood, a suburb of Chicago,, the young Prine devoured 45s from Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and Little Richard, and soaked up the country music his father loved, such as Hank Williams Sr., Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff. More crucially, Prine learned rudimentary guitar skills from his oldest brother, Dave, a folk fan who memorably gifted him a Carter Family LP."I learned all those songs," hein 2018."And not too long after that, I started writing when I was 14.
Prine received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 1972, on the strength of his debut, and started turning out records at a brisk pace for the rest of the 1970s. Almost immediately, his songs were covered by other artists: Bonnie Raitt did a version of"Angel From Montgomery" , while Bette Midler, Everly Brothers, Swamp Dogg and, later, the Highwaymen also recorded Prine-penned songs.
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