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John Prine is tagged as: folk, singer-songwriter, country, americana, alt-country

John Prine (born October 10, 1946 in Maywood, Illinois) is an american country/folk singer-songwriter 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 singer-songwriter) 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 ...
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Top 10 John Prine Songs
Paradise
Lake Marie
My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight
The Great Compromise
Illegal Smile
Angel From Montgomery
Sam Stone
Hello In There
Spanish Pipedream
Christmas In Prison
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Top 10 John Prine Albums
John Prine
Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
German Afternoons
Aimless Love
Fair & Square
Prime Prine: The Best of John Prine
Sweet Revenge
In Spite of Ourselves
The Missing Years
Bruised Orange
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