John Prine‘s ability to weave sublime musical stories around topics that would otherwise seem mundane is a gift that’s propelled his decades-long career and delivered a volume of cherished choruses in the Americana songbook. From a childhood singing and playing guitar on the front porch of his...
TheCivil Warsmember John Paul White, who took the reigns of Prine’s classic “Sam Stone,” likened Prine’s mastery of words to the language of a Yoda-like figure and recalled a story where he recruited Prine to appear on one his albums. “I asked him, ‘Can you play guita...