'John Prine'

One of the few country legends, who was a postman. Prine grew up in Illinois, served in the U.S. Army and eventually wound up in the United States Postal Service for five years in the 1960s. 

His music career took root when he attended an open-mic event and was asked if he could do any better. He got up and sang and played guitar. He became one of the main protagonists in the Chicago folk revival of the era. 

After this album was released, he was called “the new Dylan,” which is bullshit because there’s almost zero elements of the former in the latter, at least on that album. 

John Prine is plain, good country music with guitar, bass and fiddle. Not that Dylan was not capable of the same, but I think Prine’s DNA has much more Hank Williams than Bob Zimmerman.  

One of the more brilliantly good albums I’ve listened to during this project.