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INTRODUCTION: September 1, 1933. In the small Mississippi town of Friars Point, a boy named...
INTRODUCTION: September 1, 1933. In the small Mississippi town of Friars Point, a boy named...
INTRODUCTION: There are some artists who sing about sorrow, and then there are artists who...
INTRODUCTION: Some artists sing about life. John Prine seemed to sit quietly beside it. He...
INTRODUCTION: Some voices do not need to cry out to make us feel sorrow. They...
INTRODUCTION: Some songs arrive with thunder. Others arrive like a quiet voice across a kitchen...
INTRODUCTION: There are tears that belong to private rooms, and then there are tears that...
INTRODUCTION: There are moments when a song does more than entertain. It sits beside us...
INTRODUCTION: There are voices that entertain us, and then there are voices that seem to...
INTRODUCTION: There was always something disarming about John Prine. He could make you laugh at...
INTRODUCTION: There are moments in country music that feel bigger than a stage, bigger than...