FILE — On this June 20, 2017, file picture, John Prine poses in his workplaces in Nashville, Tenn. Prine died Tuesday, April 7, 2020, from problems of the coronavirus. He was 73.(AP Photograph/Mark Humphrey, File)
MUHLENBERG COUNTY, Ky. (WEHT) — Saturday marked the start of birthday celebrations honoring the late Grammy-award successful artist John Prine at John Prine Memorial Park.
Musicians throughout the U.S. visited Muhlenberg County and have been in a position to take the stage and luxuriate in one another play Prine’s music and different songs within the folks and nation genres.
Prine was remembered Saturday as an artist who by no means forgot his Kentucky roots, which is arguably finest written in his track “Paradise,” the place he talks about his love for Kentuckians, the Inexperienced River and the Rochester Dam between Muhlenberg County and Butler County.
Prine would incessantly go to Muhlenberg County as a toddler, as an grownup and up till his dying in 2020.
“His coronary heart and soul — together with he and The Everly Brothers and Merle Travis and plenty of others — have their musical connections right here in Muhlenberg County,” mentioned Malcolm West, who serves as a committee member for the Mates of John Prine Memorial Park.
Among the many musicians in attendance was Prine’s youngest son — Tommy.
Tommy Prine traveled from Nashville to carry out “Paradise” for the viewers, and he tells Eyewitness Information that Kentucky has grow to be a second residence after visiting many instances over time.
“I feel it by no means ceases to amaze me each time I’m both at a live performance — like a tribute live performance — or once I was youthful at considered one of his personal photographs, and I see all these of us displaying as much as rejoice and hearken to music of him performing,” Tommy Prine mentioned. “And, now that he’s gone, it simply means much more that individuals nonetheless take the time and drive everywhere in the world and everywhere in the nation simply to return to Kentucky to return out and rejoice my dad.”
Prine’s followers traveled so far as Northern California, Colorado, Saskatchewan and Buffalo, New York to take pleasure in his music.
Chuck Carter drove from New Jersey this week to play a few Prine’s songs on stage.
Regardless of listening to all types of genres, Carter says Prine’s music is additional essential to him.
“I simply love John Prine a lot that I needed to be right here — even when it was simply to play two songs,” Carter mentioned. “He was simply the proper track author for his kind of music.”
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