What a great song!

The lyric, of course, is very strong, but it's stronger when sung. And, it is even stronger when sung by Prine.

Never failing to add my irritating name dropping, I attended guitar classes with Prine back at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and have been honored to pick with him a few times. The Old Town School, where I ended up as a faculty chairman, taught a specific fingerpick guitar style, based loosely on the Travis style and influenced by the songwriting accompaniment of folks like Tom Paxton. Prine picked up this picking and, with his lyrics, turned it into gold.

He's since become an extremely successful singer-songwriter with some mainstream country hits. He used to do package shows with Bonnie Raitt opening for him, she always thanks him for helping her career and sings his song "Angel From Montgomery" in her shows.

My favorite Prine songs include this one, "Hello In There," "Dear Abby," "That's the Way the World Goes Round" and "Paradise."


You could hardly find a better songwriter to study.




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