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As the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread through the United States, I learnt that the
country folk singer, John Prine, had succumbed, dying from COVID-related complications in April. I had seen Prine in concert in Melbourne only a year earlier. It was his
Tree of Forgiveness tour, the stage illuminated by green light shining from behind the branches of an enormous tree. How wonderful it was to see the singer performing songs that I had loved for decades, songs that read like short stories, vivid and deeply empathetic to a central character. Every month of 2020, it seemed, there were losses for country music. My musical heroes are getting old.