Will Hoge once had a random encounter with John Prine in Nashville traffic that lodged in his memory. “I look over and Mr. Prine was next to me in his Cadillac, shades on, music loud enough you could kinda hear it through the window,” Hoge says in a statement. “He …
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John Prine‘s all-star show at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival will be released on vinyl in October. The late songwriter’s set features guest spots from Roger Waters, Jim James, Justin Vernon, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff and Lucius. The festival announced the double-LP, John Prine and Friends, on social media, writing, …
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Brandi Carlile and Dierks Bentley will headline the 2020 Shaky Boots Festival. The country-music weekend, set for May 8th and 9th, returns after a five-year absence to stage its second incarnation at Atlanta’s Central Park. The time off did the festival well: this lineup is particularly satisfying and eclectic, with …
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After being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame earlier this month, John Prine was scheduled to play one of his only East Coast shows of the summer at the Rockland-Bergen Music Festival in Tappan, New York. But that changed today, when the festival was canceled due to unsafe conditions …
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John Prine puts a characteristically wistful, sweet spin on Stevie Wonder‘s 1984 hit “I Just Called to Say I Love You” in a new Spotify Singles session, released today. Replacing Wonder’s mix of synthesizers with his trademark fingerstyle guitar playing and his plainspoken vocal delivery, Prine brings out the endearing …
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“Thank you to the Americana fans, because, without you, there might be no other place for me,” said Amanda Shires, collecting her award for Emerging Artist of the Year at Wednesday’s 16th annual Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville. And she’s right: as guests filtered into the Ryman Auditorium, Sam …
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