Organized by his widow Fiona, 'Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine' has Kacey Musgraves, Eric Church, Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlile, Bill Murray.
— about their dreams and their frustrations and all the ways they rely on one another.
Not seeing people where they should’ve been, then, gave a touch of melancholy to the otherwise warm “Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine,” which featured, Eric Church, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Margo Price and Brandi Carlile, among others, each doing their thing separately instead of crowding the stage before an audience at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, say, as they likely would have in normal times.
With archival video footage peppered among the new performances, the concert covered most of Prine’s best-known material — including half of his instant-classic 1971 debut — though it had some deep cuts too forIsbell and his wife, Amanda Shires, opened the show with “Hello in There,” Shires’ mournful fiddle licks echoing through a deserted Ryman; Carlile, Shires’ bandmate in the Highwomen, did a spirited “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore” from a home-studio situation decorated...
Musgraves, accompanying herself on a pink acoustic guitar, sang the wry “Spanish Pipedream” but also did her own “Burn One With John Prine,” which she said she wrote shortly after she moved to Nashville in the hopes that she’d someday meet the man who “singlehandedly influenced me and my songwriting more than anybody else on the planet.”
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