{"id":1320422,"date":"2020-06-09T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821918"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:54:36","slug":"stars-are-aligning-for-the-picture-show-a-tribute-celebrating-john-prine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/stars-are-aligning-for-the-picture-show-a-tribute-celebrating-john-prine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Are Aligning for the Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:693283?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">21m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>While so many of the country artists in and out of Nashville are still reeling from the news of John Prine\u2019s death on April 7, many of them have found a way to mourn and cope: they\u2019ve signed up for the live-stream event that will honor the Songwriters Hall of Famer and all the music he made throughout his 50-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Prine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1819669\/songwriting-hero-john-prine-dies-at-73\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died from complications of COVID-19<\/a> at just 73.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the guest list for Thursday evening\u2019s (June 11) <em>Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine<\/em> is long and it is varied.<\/p>\n<p>Prine\u2019s widow Fiona Whelan Prine, his three sons, and his longtime band members \u2014 Kenneth Blevins, David Jacques, Fats Kaplin, Jason Wilber \u2014 will all be there, along with some of Americana\u2019s and country\u2019s finest singer-songwriters. Among them, Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves, Vince Gill, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, Amanda Shires, John Paul White, Rita Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, The Secret Sisters and more. Even celebrities from outside of Nashville\u2019s music scene, like Bill Murray, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Billy Bob Thornton and others will be part of the show to honor Prine. And Dr. Bren\u00e9 Brown, the celebrated social-worker-turned-research-professor and bestselling author will be there.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Prine\u2019s songs were covered by everyone from Zac Brown Band, George Strait and Miranda Lambert to Don Williams, David Allan Coe and Bonnie Raitt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaHNUYAKDn4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaHNUYAKDn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s show will be produced by the Prine family and their record label Oh Boy Records, and will launch at 6:30 p.m. CT on Prine\u2019s YouTube, Facebook and Twitch channels. Contributions made during the show will benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Alive, and Make the Road New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1AwIq7lzw4\">pic.twitter.com\/1AwIq7lzw4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Prine (@JohnPrineMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPrineMusic\/status\/1263561636734021634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1821918\/stars-are-aligning-for-the-picture-show-a-tribute-celebrating-john-prine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 21m ago While so many of the country artists in and out of Nashville are still reeling from the news of John Prine\u2019s death on April 7, many of them have found a way to mourn and cope: they\u2019ve signed up for the live-stream event that will honor the Songwriters Hall of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1320422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 08:39:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}