{"id":806513,"date":"2020-04-17T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=985997"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:57:00","slug":"watch-jeff-tweedy-ashley-mcbryde-jim-james-and-others-pay-tribute-to-john-prine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-jeff-tweedy-ashley-mcbryde-jim-james-and-others-pay-tribute-to-john-prine\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jeff Tweedy, Ashley McBryde, Jim James, and Others Pay Tribute to John Prine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the course of his 50-year career, John Prine<\/a> influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Bon Iver, Kacey Musgraves, Swamp Dogg, and more.<\/p>\n

The influence of Prine, who died last week from complications related to COVID-19, is clear in the latest installment of our In My Room series. We asked some of our favorite artists (and some of Prine\u2019s) to play one of his classics. They didn\u2019t disappoint. Fellow Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy<\/a> plays \u201cDonald and Lydia<\/a>,\u201d the 1971 ballad Prine wrote on his mail route about a couple that \u201cmade love form ten miles away.\u201d Ashley McBryde<\/a> performs a mini-set that includes a mournful take on \u201cThat\u2019s The Way the World Goes Round<\/a>\u201d and a deeply moving \u201cMexican Home<\/a>,\u201d the song where Prine addressed the death of his father. (McBryde  becomes emotional at one point, and needs to stop herself). Todd Snider<\/a> plays the underrated \u201cIt\u2019s a Big Old Goofy World<\/a>.\u201d Jim James<\/a> puts his own stamp on songs such as \u201cSpeed of the Sound of Loneliness<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSpanish Pipedream<\/a>\u201d and \u201cParadise<\/a>.\u201d Margo Price<\/a> and Jeremy Ivey<\/a> play a gospel version of \u201cAll the Best<\/a>\u201d in their family home.<\/p>\n

Prine made a major impression on these artists. In his memoir, Tweedy said Prine was an early songwriting influence on him, for \u201cwriting songs that weren\u2019t that far removed from our own experiences.\u201d In 2017, Ashley McBryde played at a Prine family reunion<\/a> in Kentucky and drank whiskey with her songwriting hero. Prine signed Todd Snider to his Oh Boy Records label in the Nineties, and they were performing together as recently last year. Jim James once performed on Letterman<\/em> with Prine<\/a>, and Price and Ivey were close friends with the Prine family, sometimes having dinner at Prine\u2019s Nashville home.<\/p>\n

After Prine\u2019s death, his family asked that, in leiu of flowers, fans donate to one of the following non profits: Thistle Farms<\/a>, Room in the Inn<\/a>, or the Nashville Rescue Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the course of his 50-year career, John Prine influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Bon Iver, Kacey Musgraves, Swamp Dogg, and more. The influence of Prine, who died last week from complications related to COVID-19, is clear in the latest installment of our In My Room series. We asked some of our favorite artists […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 19:37:47","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}