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1. John Prine is a national treasure. Other people do his songs, usually very well, but....

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 12:24 AM

Mar 2020

....when he sings one of his own tunes he really owns it. No less a songwriter than Bob Dylan said he was the best songwriter around.

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Speed of the Sound of Loneliness John Prine/Nancy Griffith [View all] ALBliberal Mar 2020 OP

+1 KT2000 Mar 2020 #2

OMG, for once it wasn't me being the DU URL monitor lol ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #5

Did I do something wrong? ALBliberal Mar 2020 #6

Only trying to learn.... ALBliberal Mar 2020 #9

because you sued the link button and did not trim it, it has this Celerity Mar 2020 #10

Awesome ... and I like Nanci Griffith too ... nt mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #4

Aw, thanks for posting this. tanyev Mar 2020 #11

Sam Stone was the first Prine song I ever heard pecosbob Mar 2020 #12