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John Prine, a ‘Songwriter’s Songwriter,’ Remembered by His Music Publisher
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variety.comBy Justin Kalifowitz John Prine, who died Tuesday of complications from coronavirus, might not have been a household name — at least not in households that didn’t contain songwriters — but he was certainly one of the greats of the past 50 years: Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt and virtually every tunesmith in Nashville hold him in the highest possible regard.
Downtown Music became Prine’s publisher in 2018, and last June the company held a special tribute concert for him, where Raitt, Norah Jones, Stephen Colbert and many others performed his songs — and he and Raitt capped off the night with his “Angel From Montgomery,” which she made a hit in the 1990s.
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