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In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, John Prine performs at the Americana Honors & Awards show in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
John Prine, a songwriter who changed American music with stories of ordinary people told in plainspoken language set to acoustic guitar, died a year ago. He was 73 and died in Nashville from complications related to the coronavirus.
The ballad “I Remember Everything,” released two months after his death, earned him two posthumous Grammys and debuted at #1 on Billboard Rock Digital Sales Chart. The song thoughtfully inventories what was meaningful in Prine’s life: the places he saw, the songs he sang, and the people who smiled on him.