Irish Examiner View: John Prine 1946-2020 - A true original

The American singer-songwriter John Prine, who died this week aged 73 because of Covid-19 complications, would have bucked at the idea that he, out of the near 100,000 pandemic deaths, should be singled out for particular tribute.

His who-me? reticence would have been genuine and it would have highlighted the rootedness, the empathy with humanity in all its wild and wonderful iterations, that made his work so beguiling, relevant and reassuring.