John Prine, Elvis Costello and a jukebox on fire
Podcast: Word In Your EarPublished On: Thu Sep 18 2025
Description: Novelist and journalist Tom Piazza struck up a friendship with the irreplaceable John Prine in the last years of his life. This relationship, which began as a profile for a magazine, almost blossomed into an autobiography and involved a road trip in an inadvisable vehicle, has resulted in a new book “Living In The Present With John Prine”. Which involves:• setting off in a 1977 Coupe De Ville and driving “until the engine burns up”.• sitting up all night playing old country songs.• remembering how he came to write some of the greatest songs of the last fifty years• an evening’s swapping stories with Elvis Costello which ends with the alarming word “the jukebox is on fire!”• what Prine’s last album “The Tree Of Forgiveness” has in common with Beethoven’s late quartetsBuy Living In The Present With John Prine: https://amzn.eu/d/9vWv9rgFind out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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