Kacey Musgraves Honors John Prine After Coronavirus Death: He 'Singlehandedly Impacted My Songwriting More Than Anyone Else'
Get push notifications with news, features and more.“John Prine singlehandedly impacted my songwriting more than anyone else. He’s the king of turning phrase but keeping it simple,” Musgraves, 31, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes, but you’ll never meet someone as truly genuine as he was.”cruise, during which they duetted on his songs “Illegal Smile” and “Paradise.
“There are two times I’ve ever seen my dad cry: my Memaw’s funeral and the time I got to play with John Prine,” Musgraves adds. Prine actually inspired one of Musgraves’s early songs: “Burn One with John Prine,” an ode to both the icon and pot. Five years ago, Prine reminisced on meeting a young Musgraves years before at one of his annual Christmas parties.
“This little girl comes up to me with her buddy…. They wanted to take me out in the parking lot and get me high. I said, ‘Uh, gee, thanks but… no, thanks,’” Prine said at the time, per. “We had our picture taken together and the next thing I know, I’m over at my record company, Oh Boy Records, and I hear this tape. It’s Kacey singing this song about how she’d like to burn one with John Prine.”
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