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While I may not be involved, I have a sneaking suspicion that John Prine, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Bill Murray would be quite happy to hang as a four-piece. Why? Well, the three latter names in that group all share one thing: a love for John Prine.

The truly gifted songwriter who could encapsulate the peaks and troughs in a way few others could. His observations were so astute that he garnered a dedicated fan base of high-brow artists who stood alongside him in the creative breaches, in complete awe of his ability.

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"Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism," he (Dylan) said.

"And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene.

All that stuff about Sam Stone' the soldier junky daddy and Donald and Lydia,' where people make love from ten miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that."

"It's a vast, enduring treasury, a beacon of light in these ever-weirder times," Plant said when discussing Prine's intricate work, "You know, sometimes it seems like you're writing for all of us, which in fact you probably are."

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"So, once upon a time, it was the first time in my life I was, not what people call clinically depressed,' but a real bummer to be around, like, a real downer to be around," Murray explained.

"And I just couldn't get myself to having any fun and I thought to myself, I remembered something my friend Hunter S. Thompson said during kind of an addled state he said, We're going to have to rely on John Prine for a sense of humour.' Which I thought was one of those addled things that you say."

But Murray followed Thompson's instructions and spun Prine's record, Great Days. A move that would forever change his life.

"I'm thinking to myself, Who the hell put him in charge of a sense of humor,' as I'm going way into this record," Murray said.

"But, there it was, this song Linda Goes To Mars.' And I heard the song and I went, Huh.' And that was the beginning of the return."

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