The story of singersongwriter John Prine from his early days when he broke through with an album he wrote as a mailman in the Chicago suburbs and how he went on to ...

He was 73. Spirits were raised, as were a few dollars for three causes — Prine’s own Hello in There Foundation, the Whitesburg-based Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center and Western Kentucky ...

But Prine only needed another song to upend my first impression. “Old people just grow lonesome waiting for someone to say, ‘Hello in there, hello’.” His empathy for others shone through ...