John Prine
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John Prine: Crooked Piece of Time review – Enlightening glimpses into ‘the Mark Twain of songwriting’
- Music
- October 23, 2020, 05:00
One of the peripheral misfortunes of the death of someone such as John Prine – who died aged 73 on April 7th from Covid-19 complications – is how peop(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Trump has failed to restore blue-collar America’s lost paradise
- Opinion
- October 17, 2020
Paradise is lost again. The late, great John Prine wrote a lament about the place in western Kentucky where his parents came from. It is actually call(...)

Peter Broderick: Blackberry review – Richly honest folk
- Music
- August 21, 2020, 05:00
There’s no stopping Peter Broderick in either output or creative reach. He was once a member of Denmark’s Efterklang, and over the past dozen or so ye(...)

Bob Dylan: ‘It sickened me to see George Floyd tortured to death like that’
- Music
- June 16, 2020, 06:00
A few years ago, sitting beneath shade trees in Saratoga Springs, New York, I had a two-hour discussion with Bob Dylan that touched on Malcolm X, the (...)

President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to Grammy-winning singer John Prine
- Music
- April 10, 2020, 22:47
President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to the Grammy-winning singer John Prine who died earlier this week after being hospitalised suffering fro(...)

John Prine obituary: Songwriter with gift for tender, witty, wise lyrics
- People
- April 9, 2020, 13:00
Born: October 10th, 1946 Died: April 7th, 2020 John Prine, who has died aged 73 due to complications of Covid-19, was a highly influential American s(...)

John Prine: His truths crossed borders and cultures with ease, especially in Ireland
- Music
- April 8, 2020, 15:37
To those near and dear to him, the universe John Prine inhabited was known as Prineworld. It was a place of laughter and genial chaos, of warmth and a(...)

Coronavirus: New Yorkers cheer arrival of hospital ship as cases soar
- US
- March 30, 2020, 21:28
People cheered the US Navy hospital ship Comfort as it sailed into New York on Monday, a beacon of the national effort to stanch the coronavirus outbr(...)

From Shawn Mendes to Keaton Henson: The best pop and rock gigs this week
- Music
- April 13, 2019, 05:00
Saturday, April 13th DUBLIN IS SOUND Pillow Queens Grand Social, Dublin, 1pm €12/€10 thegrandsocial.ie Co-presented by Nialler9 (ak(...)

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019 nominees revealed
- Music
- October 9, 2018, 18:50
Folk, new wave, hip-hop, R&B, rap-rock, heavy metal and good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll are among the many genres (and subgenres) represented by (...)