He recalled imitating him "in order to raise and find my own voice" Elvis Costello has shared a lengthy tribute to the late John Prine, who died last week with coronavirus-related complications.
The US country and folk musician passed away in Nashville on Monday, April 6. He had been hospitalised on March 26 with a “sudden onset” of COVID-19 symptoms.
Posting to his official Facebook account yesterday (April 13), Costello recalled how he “wanted to be John Prine” when he 19 years old and “pretending to be a songwriter”.
Later in his message, the singer recounted discovering Prine’s music for the very first time. “My own introduction was via an Atlantic Record single plucked out of a discount bin of 45rpm records on the counter of Rushworth