Elvis Costello has written a lengthy tribute to the late John Prine. “My own introduction [to John Prine] was via an Atlantic Record single plucked out of a discount bin of 45rpm records on the counter of Rushworth and Dreaper in Liverpool,” Costello wrote in his essay, which exceeds 2,600 words.
He continued: Later in the essay, Costello recalled having John Prine as a guest on his TV series Spectacle in 2009. “I opened that taping with ‘Poison Moon’ and ‘Wave a White Flag,’ two of the songs that I told the audience were written when the height of my ambition was to be able to write with the economy and unusual subject matter of a John Prine song.” Costello also wrote, “Prine songs sometimes seem like a frayed route map of the emotions and
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