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First of a series of episodes tracing the connection between John Prine and Ireland.

8. Kinvara: Searching For The Ghost Of John Prine

14 November 2023


About This Episode

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

People Of Kinvara

People of Kinvara represents voices from the village of Kinvara, County Galway.

The episode captures community memory, local identity, and shared cultural experience.

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