He then recorded three albums with Asylum Records. The acclaim Prine earned from his first LP led to three more albums for Atlantic. Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson heard Prine at Steve Goodman's insistence, and Kristofferson invited Prine to be his opening act, leading to Prine's eponymous debut album with Atlantic Records in 1971. Army, he returned to Chicago in the late 1960s, where he worked as a mailman, writing and singing songs first as a hobby and then as a club performer.Ī member of Chicago's folk revival, a laudatory review by critic Roger Ebert built Prine's popularity. After serving in West Germany with the U.S. He attended classes at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. He was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary.īorn and raised in Maywood, Illinois, Prine learned to play the guitar at age 14.
He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death. John Edward Prine ( / p r aɪ n/ October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music.
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