By Chris Willman Music Writer Just days after he shared an appreciation of his recently departed friend Hal Willner, Elvis Costello has taken to social media to write an even longer tribute to another contemporary who has fallen victim to Covid-19, John Prine.
It’s one of the most richly detailed and thoughtful paeans yet to the much mourned singer-songwriter, who died April 7 at age 73.
Costello writes in his 2600-word Facebook post that “when I was 19 and only pretending to be a songwriter, I too wanted to be John Prine,” who he says had “a talent more akin to a 1930s short-story writer or humorist than a folk singer.” He tells of falling in love with the first Prine 45 he bought as a teenager, becoming enamored of both the tragic
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