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Title: John Prine’s John Prine
Author: OSMON ERIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/12/2021
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album s release, John Prine chronicles the legendary singer-songwriter s Middle American provenance, and his remarkable ascent from singing mailman to celebrated son of Chicago. Illegal Smile, Hello in There, Sam Stone, Paradise, Your Flag Decal Won t Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Far from Me, Donald and Lydia, and Angel from Montgomery are considered standards in the American Songbook, covered by legions of Prine s peers and admirers. Through original interviews, exhaustive research, and incisive commentary, author Erin Osmon paints an in-depth portrait of the people, places, and experiences that inspired Prine s landmark debut.
After exploring his roots in rural Western Kentucky and suburban Maywood, Illinois, the book takes readers on an evocative journey through John Prine s Chicago. Its neighborhoods, characters, and clubs of the 1960s and 70s proved a formative and magical period in Prine s life, before he was a figurehead of the new Nashville scene. It s both a journalistic inquiry and a love letter: to Prine s self-titled debut and the Midwestern city that made him.
Series: 33 1/3
ISBN: 9781501379239
Dimension: 7in X 5in
Pages: 160