John Prine brought the light while never forcing us to forget the darkness
-- demoted from being a planet -- might view a job like this: I could nearly picture him writing a ditty about a lonely reporter in quarantine typing obituaries and taking momentary solace in something small and beautiful just outside. Maybe a flower, a creaky screen door, a squirt of the right kind of mustard on a hot dog .
Seeing the world though that lens was how he lived, and how he made music -- his songs made you remember that love was as hilarious and imperfect as it was fulfilling, and that people were just people, doing the best they can. That the world was much more kind than it was cruel. Prine painted his stories with the details that so few of us stopped to see -- “Prine-isms,” you could call them, those quirky little tidbits that are especially missed in a world obsessed with the ephemeral. Other artists have tried for years to sing about the banal in the way Prine could, and most of them have failed: Prine never did it just for kicks, but because he saw the magic where most didn’t.
“Sometimes my old heart is like a washing machine, it bounces around 'til my soul comes clean,” he sang on “Boundless Love,” off of 2018’s, his last record. “And when I'm clean and hung out to dry, I'm gonna make you laugh until you cry.” Few lines encompass Prine like that one does -- that combination of perfect poetry with the mundane, that takeaway that kicks you in the gut.
Prine became a legend in his lifetime, a patriarch and a collaborator at the same time: he wrote, sang and nurtured an entire generation of songwriters simply because he loved and believed in them, from Margo Price, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires to Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers and his label, Oh Boy’s, newest signings, Kelsey Waldon and Tre Burt.
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