The Ireland Podcast14 Nov 2023

8. Kinvara: Searching For The Ghost Of John Prine

First of a series of episodes tracing the connection between John Prine and Ireland. Here's some highlights from his wikipedia entry:

Prine won four Grammy Awards out of 13 nominations, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1971, Prine was playing regularly at the Earl of Old Town. Steve Goodman, who was performing with Kris Kristofferson at another Chicago club, persuaded Kristofferson to go see Prine late one night. Kristofferson later recalled, "By the end of the first line we knew we were hearing something else. It must've been like stumbling onto Dylan when he first busted onto the Village scene."
One admirer, Bob Dylan, once described his canon as 'pure Proustian existentialism' and 'Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree.'
Johnny Cash, in his autobiography Cash, wrote, "I don't listen to music much at the farm, unless I'm going into songwriting mode and looking for inspiration. Then I'll put on something by the writers I've admired and used for years—Rodney Crowell, John Prine, Guy Clark, and the late Steve Goodman are my Big Four ..."

0:00:00 Intro

0:07:40 Arrival in Kinvara

0:12:00 Sextons Bar

0:16:00 Tim the Bar Manager, Connolly's Bar

0:21:12 Sarah the Proprietor of a Dog Business who sings with her husband late at night

0:23:00 Maeve the singer from Fling - check out Fling's album on Spotify

0:29:25 Julian the Marathon Runner

0:42:15 Mary Green

1:00:17 Seán Óg McKiernan in South Korea

1:02:22 Summer's End/Watching The Detectives Mash Up by Fender Jackson

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