John Prine
He was a combination of Will Rogers, Bob Dylan, George Carlin, Mark Twain and Garrison Keillor. His songs made people laugh. “Dear Abby” and “Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian” are only the tip of his deep wellspring of humor. Yet John Prine was able to couch that humor with an all-abiding essential wisdom that made everything seem so righteous and real. You believed him. The characters that inhabit his songs are unforgettable, be it “Donald and Lydia” (the two societal cast-offs who each made love by themselves), Sabu (in what he called
