Top 10 John Prine Songs
Since the release of his self-titled debut album in 1971, John Prine amazed fans and critics alike with his ability to put the world in a song. One of the greatest songwriters of our generation, Prine s ability to portray the truest aspects of life have been lauded by artists such as Bob Dylan and Jason Isbell, and institutions including the Americana Music Association, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and, more recently, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Recording Academy.
Whether he was telling the tragic story of a war veteran struggling with drug addiction in Sam Stone or exploring the passing of time in Summer s End, Prine made a name for himself with lyrics that are full of vivid imagery, witty wordplay and, sometimes, just a bit of snark to keep us guessing. For almost 50 years and through two dozen albums, Prine proved time and again to be one of the best storytellers in any genre of music.
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Lou Ottens has gone to another place, leaving the world to wonder whether or not he ever truly understood the exquisite misery and unbridled joy he was once responsible for.
The Dutch-born inventor, who died on March 6 at age 94, created the cassette tape. Employed by the Netherlands-based Philips tech company, he helped develop analog magnetic tape that could be used for recording and playback.
Determined to design a format that was thinner and more portable than reel-to-reel, Ottens eventually came up with the two-spool cassette. First presented to the world in September of 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show, the format became a runaway smash, racking up the adjusted-for-inflation equivalent of $1.2 billion in sales by the end of the decade.
The Pugilist at Rest, but for three or four hours, as I lie on my bedroom floor absorbing the novel from cover to cover, I hardly move, while beneath my skin I seem to possess another self, thinner and freer, made of electricity and air, which sways as I turn the pages.
I don’t feel like I’m dancing even when I’m dancing, so it takes a lot to make me feel like I’m dancing when I’m reading. At 22, I have developed the almost ritualistic habit of equating my favorite novels with my favorite albums.
Housekeeping, I decide, is Iris DeMent’s
This week, we re celebrating the 25th anniversary of
Billboard s Adult Alternative Airplay chart, which started in 1996 to recognize the rise in prominence of the adult album alternative (or Triple A) radio format.
Over the past 25 years, much has changed in Triple A both for commercial and non-comm stations in terms of the music, the technology, and the audience. To get a sense of that evolution, we asked program directors and music directors from some of the country s leading Triple A stations to answer some questions about their memories of the early days of the format, as well as how it s transformed in the last quarter century, and where they see it going from here. Check out their responses below.
“It really reminds Ryan and I of the beginning of our relationship,” Morris tells
Billboard. “It wasn’t the easiest road for us to come together. We were in separate relationships when we met. We kind of grew a love out of a friendship over many years before we were out of those other relationships and could finally be together after some time. I think it reminds us of falling in love with each other and not being able to really act on it yet.”
Written by Brinley Addington and Jerry Flowers, the sensual ballad made even more so by the sultry TK McKamy-directed video has been floating around Music Row for years. Hurd has even performed it in concert as far back as 2017, but it had never found a home on an act’s record.