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April 8, 2020 02:55 am GMT

Legendary singer/songwriter, John Prine, has died from COVID-19

We are sad to report that, according to John Prine's family, he has finally succumbed to the COVID-19 virus that he'd been battling for the past nine days. Rolling Stone writes of Prine's career:

As a songwriter, Prine was admired by Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, and others, known for his ability to mine seemingly ordinary experiences he wrote many of his classics as a mailman in Maywood, Illinois for revelatory songs that covered the full spectrum of the human experience. Theres Hello in There, about the devastating loneliness of an elderly couple; Sam Stone, a portrait of a drug-addicted Vietnam soldier suffering from PTSD; and Paradise, an ode to his parents strip-mined hometown of Paradise, Kentucky, which became an environmental anthem. Prine tackled these subjects with empathy and humor, with an eye for the in-between spaces, the moments people dont talk about, he told Rolling Stone in 2017. Prines stuff is pure Proustian existentialism, Dylan said in 2009. Midwestern mind-trips to the nth degree.

We say goodbye to this great American songwriter with this performance of "Angel from Montgomery," recorded for Austin City Limits, in 2018.

Fly, Mr. Prine. Fly.

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