He definitely deserves his own thread. Could a moderator break out the posts about the great Mr. Prine?
He wrote an awful lot of great songs. Some not mentioned (I think) yet here: Angel from Montgomery (brilliantly covered by many, but especially by Bonnie Raitt), Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Illegal Smile, Clay Pigeons, Paradise etc. I could keep going.
His last recording, The Tree of Forgiveness, is great, too. It includes a song titled "When I Get To Heaven", which I hope means that John Prine was at peace with dying.
He did a great interview on NPR's Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, when Tree of Forgiveness came out:
https://www.johnprine.com/news/liste...th-terry-gross
One of my favorite Prine stories came out after his second duets album, "For Better, or Worse", about how a pedal steel guitar can change any song:
'We cut every one of them live except the Alison Krauss track ("Falling In Love Again"). The band was really hot one night, and we had done three artists, and still had an hour left over. We cut the track, and I sang on it. It came off so good. [Producer] Jim Rooney asked me 'How in the heck can that be a country song?" I told him to put some steel on it. That's how we pitched it to Alison.'
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...221012143.html