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John Prine: In Spite of Himself

Legendary singer-songwriter John Prine is best known for writing "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone," and "Paradise." 

His musical career began humbly in the late 1960s while he was still working as a mailman in Illinois. Five decades later, Prine is a Nashville icon who has won a litany of awards, including two Grammys and a lifetime achievement award for songwriting from the Americana Music Association

North Carolina music journalist Eddie Huffman wrote the first-ever biography of Prine that traces the musician from his family roots in Kentucky through struggles with alcohol and cancer in his adult life, to where he stands in the music scene today. 

We'll talk with Mr. Huffman, contributing music writer for the Greensboro News & Record and Winston-Salem Journal, about his new biography John Prine: In Spite of Himself. Huffman will be reading from his new book at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham on March 25 and at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro on April 10.

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