2010 Newport Folk Preview - Part 6: John Prine
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 10:00AM The 51st Newport Folk Festival is just a couple days away! If you don't have tickets to the festival yet I highly encourage buying them now - I've been numerous times and it's always a blast. Watch visible voice for complete post-festival coverage!
John Prine is one of the great American songwriters. His songs take powerful lyrics full of sharp wit and social/political commentary and marry them to hummable country/folk tunes. Admittedly, I'm more familiar with his self-titled debut from 1971 than anything else - but I have no doubt that seeing the legend perform Sam Stone, Illegal Smile, Spanish Pipedream, Paradise and others as the sun sets over Naragansett Bay will be one of the highlights of the festival. Below are a couple videos of Prine at Bonnaroo earlier this summer.
