Wasn’t sure before, but I’m now willing to bet that the Prine-y ness of Pistol Annies’ “Lemon Drop” might not be entirely accidental; I just realized Miranda Lambert covered “That’s The Way The World Goes Round” on Revolution, which—well, I’m not sure I love this as much. It’s maybe the, uh, sexiest Prine cover I’ve ever seen done? (“Dead Flowers,” on the same record, is unfortunately not a Rolling Stones cover.) Though Lambert didn’t write “Lemon Drop,” one of the other Annies did, so maybe it’s mostly irrelevant. 

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"You hear lyrics like these, perfectly fitted to Prine’s quietly confident style and his ghost of a Kentucky accent, and you wonder how anyone could have so much empathy and still be looking forward to his 24th birthday."

Roger Ebert was the first person to ever review John Prine. I did not know this but I love this.

I listened to a lot of John Prine yesterday and then decided to make you, The Internet, a playlist.

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Aside from this, this is all I want to listen to today. I love it as much as I hoped I would, which is a lot.