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John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois) is an / who has achieved widespread critical (and some commercial) success since the early 1970s.

The son of William Prine and Verna Hamm, his grandfather had played guitar with Merle Travis and he started playing guitar himself at 14 years old. He was a postman for 5 years and spent a couple of years in the army before starting his musical career in the Chicago area. He emerged in 1971 with a highly acclaimed debut album titled John Prine. He and friend Steve Goodman (another folk ) had been minor stars in the Chicago folk scene before being “discovered” by Kris Kristofferson. The album John Prine included his signature songs “Illegal Smile”, “Sam Stone”, and the environmentalist newgrass standard “Paradise”. The album also included “Hello In There”, a song about aging that was later covered by Joan Baez, Bette Midler, and Eddi Reader, and “Angel From Montgomery”, a song now also associated with Bonnie Raitt, who occasionally brings Prine on-stage with her for live performances of the song. The album received many positive reviews, and some hailed Prine as “the next Dylan”. Bob Dylan himself appeared unannounced at one of Prine’s first New York City club appearances, anonymously backing him on harmonica.

Later albums include Sweet Revenge (1973, containing such Prine fan favorites as “Dear Abby”, “Grandpa was a Carpenter”, and “Christmas In Prison”), and Common Sense (1975, with “Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard”).
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  • mynameisjoehann

    One of the best Folk artists ever

    last month
  • tuffentiny

    <3

    March 2012
  • smiddy012

    This guys still got it, saw him live... the instrumentals are much better than the stuff I've heard that's recorded. Much better than I thought it was going to be.

    March 2012
  • foreverapanda

    I will always love John Prince. <3

    March 2012
  • slaterbaiter

    king of the crooners.

    November 2011
  • donyo

    one of the greatest artists to ever live, just saw him at hardly strictly, can definitely die a happy man now

    November 2011
  • GreatBarcia

    this car's gonna fall into the bottomless lake

    October 2011
  • TwoRoadsDiverge

    Better than Nirvana.

    October 2011
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29 Oct 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnprine

John Prine: The Singing Mailman Delivers, CD review - Telegraph www.telegraph.co.ukJohn Prine, who is one of Bob Dylan's favourite artists, has released his very first recordings and they show t...

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