John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
Novelist and journalist Tom Piazza struck up a friendship with the irreplaceable John Prine in the last years of his life. This relationship, which began as a profile for a magazine, almost blossomed into an autobiography and involved a road trip in an inadvisable vehicle, has resulted in a new book “Living In The Present With John Prine”. Which involves:• setting off in a 1977 Coupe De Ville and driving “until the engine burns up”.• sitting up all night playing old country songs.• remembering how he came to write some of the greatest songs of the last fifty years• an evening’s…
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