As a young man growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, future songwriting icon John Prine and his family would spend summers in Paradise, Kentucky, the Muhlenberg County birthplace of his father, Bill Prine. The younger Prine would later immortalize the coal-mining town in his song “Paradise” and has retained a strong connection to the Bluegrass State throughout his 72 years. Now, in advance of this weekend’s Kentucky Derby, which traditionally kicks off with a singalong of the song, Prine debuts his poignant and nostalgic acoustic rendition of “My Old Kentucky Home,...
- 5/1/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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