Opinion: nprscottsimon remembers the renowned Americana singer/songwriter John Prine, who died this week of complications from COVID-19. He was 73.
He told me once that as he carried his mailbag through neighborhoods with small, one-story wooden homes he often saw old faces, peering through the blinds of front windows. He realized that those two or three times he stopped by each week, if only with bills and junk mail, might have been just about the only visits the people inside ever got.
John Prine's voice was as rough as flint but caught fire. He was acclaimed the next Bob Dylan and never quite matched Dylan's fame. But John became revered as a favorite of American folk legends including Dylan, Steve Goodman, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson andAfter treatment for cancer on his neck in the late 1990s, a doctor told Prine he might never be able to sing again. Prine said to the doctor,"You obviously have never heard me sing.
Prine won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in January after surviving another round of cancer. He was 73 when from coronavirus this week. His passing might make you think of the powerful song he sang for some of those who might feel most uneasy and overlooked in these times:But what could I say if asks"What's new?"And spot some hollow ancient eyes
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