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\n\tWhen some look toward the U.S. semiquincentennial and consider what examplar might best represent American achievement or the nation\u2019s character, only one thing inevitably comes to mind: wrestling. Fortunately, there were others who put their heads together and came up with an alternative choice: John Prine. The leadership at Wolf Trap, the concert venue\/national park in Virginia just outside of D.C., had the idea to have some of the late troubadour\u2019s fellow songwriters salute him in a concert loosely tied in with the country\u2019s 250th birthday. And as Prine\u2019s songs of empathy, careful observation, pathos and droll humor rang out into the warm, Washington-adjacent night, it\u2019s safe to say that not even Lee Greenwood could have ever made an audience feel prouder to be an American, current circumstances notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

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\n\tProduced as a benefit for the Fiona Prine-founded Hello in There Foundation, the show featured 10 singer-songwriters each doing one song of their own and at least one song of the honoree\u2019s. The bill, put together jointly by the Prine family and the Wolf Trap Foundation, included Emmylou Harris, Margo Price, Allison Russell, I\u2019m With Her, Patty Griffin, Lucius, Hayes Carll, Fancy Hagood, Jobi Ricco and Prine\u2019s sons, Tommy and Jack Prine, plus a special spoken-word recitation by poetically inclined CBS newsman John Dickerson.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne\u2019s flag decal won\u2019t get one into heaven, as has been oft-noted over the last 55 years. But as it turned out, a ticket to \u201cSongwriters Salute John Prine\u201d could, and did, for three hours. It helps that a lot of Wolf Trap\u2019s regular summer patrons already think of the semi-roofed amphitheater as adjacent to heaven\u2019s gates, and on top of everything else being celebrated, it was clearly also a tacit tribute to the bond that can form between veteran artists and the few concert venues that hold a certain emotional magnetism in fans and performers\u2019 arts. With its woody setting, where actual park rangers direct arriving cars, Wolf Trap is certainly that kind of place: Prine had played there 20 times over the years, going all the way back to 1972, and had been scheduled for a 21st when COVID hit and he was struck down in 2020. His being heralded in the 2026 season sent the message most music fans know: that death and grief are no impediment to the power of song.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wolf Trap tribute followed four years of shows produced in Nashville under the \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Gold\u201d banner in 2022-2025 (followed by a feature documentary of that same name). \u201cIt is our first big event outside of Nashville,\u201d said Fiona Prine in a conversation just before Tuesday\u2019s concert, \u201cso that is significant. A lot of people, I guess, have looked on from afar and seen the kind of events that we do and how we do them. There is that long, long friendship between Wolf Trap and the Prine family, and so they called and said, \u2018Look, we want to do something for America 250 to recognize songwriting, and we would love to do that through the lens of John\u2019s catalog.\u2019 So we said yes, and then the great surprise was that our two teams worked together seamlessly. \u2026 John has a beautiful audience up in this part of the country, and a Wolf Trap audience is kind of unique anyway. First of all, they\u2019re really committed to the venue, with different generations of families that come back and support it financially, a bit like Tanglewood and those other iconic venues that are very unique in lots of ways.\u201d Together, they had gold.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarris had in common with Prine the exact number of times they\u2019d headlined Wolf Trap prior to the pandemic, though she has obviously overtaken his figure since. \u201cIs there anybody not excited when they\u2019re in the company of Emmylou Harris?\u201d said Prine. \u201cShe\u2019s iconic, she and John were friends going way, way, way back, the audience here loves her, and she\u2019s one of the most generous women I know in all kinds of ways. One of the oother ones I\u2019d single out that I have a great affection for are I\u2019m With Her. And then we have a couple of people that John would not have met but were absolutely influenced by him \u2014 Joby Riccio, for instance, who I think is just such a talent. John would have loved her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRiccio had the honor of opening the show with \u201cSummer\u2019s End,\u201d the latter-day song (off Prine\u2019s Grammy-winning 2018 album \u201cThe Tree of Forgiveness\u201d) that ended up being one of his most popular anthems, against all odds for a performer by then in his fifth decade of releasing music. There was the irony of starting with a tune anticipating the end, and literally just before the start of summer. Greater irony, perhaps, in how the \u201cCome on home\u201d refrain feels in an America where \u201chome\u201d can now feel like a moving and elusive target. Although shifting political undercurrents were rarely spoken out loud during the concert, they were clearly being felt by many, even without the D.C. proximity. And for those of a certain like-minded mindset, Prine\u2019s catalog may offer a kind of musical comfort food, in anxious times \u2014 that someone who has written of sadness can also make it sound like everything is going to be all right, and that \u201cyou don\u2019t have to be alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJohn was an incredible songwriter \u2014 we all know that \u2014 but I think what really made him unique was just how humble, down-to-earth, helpful and how kind he was,\u201d Fiona Prine said before the show. \u201cHe didn\u2019t take himself too seriously. He took his art seriously, but he was very skeptical of celebrity and of that kind of fame and never sought it, really, to be honest. So I think the man was approachable, you know, and his catalog is also approachable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHighlights of the show included Allison Russell being joined by partner JT Nero for \u201cEverything Is Cool,\u201d which has become almost kind of a Christmas standard, in the way that songs about breaking up over the holidays can be in the 21st century \u2014 followed by being joined by I\u2019m With Her to premiere a more willfully rousing original, \u201cReally Real,\u201d from her forthcoming July release.<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m With Her proved to be MVPs of the evening, as they do at almost any all-star gathering they attend, between their acoustic multi-instrumental dexterity and three-part harmonies. The trio joined up with Lucius to turn that duo\u2019s signature concert original, \u201cDusty Trails,\u201d into a luscious exercise in five<\/em>-part harmony. But first came Lucius\u2019 Prine cover, the one that his eventual charitable foundation was named for, \u201cHello in There,\u201d a song written by a fellow in his early 20s about the lonesomeness of the elderly. The two women of Lucius almost always sing in harmonic solidarity, but for this number, they took the unusual-for-them step of breaking the verses up into solo lines. Because when you\u2019re doing a song about old people living in heartbreaking isolation, the fully choral approach may suddenly be a bit counterintuitive.<\/p>\n

\n\tA few other singers worked above and beyond their two-song duties. Margo Price sang two of Prine\u2019s most famous songs, the tender \u201cAngel From Montgomery\u201d and more topically pointed \u201cYour Flag Decal Won\u2019t Get You Into Heaven Anymore,\u201d plus a heretofore unreleased original that spoke to the tangier side of Prine, \u201cScrew You and the Horse You Rode In On,\u201d before reappearing with Hayes Carll to make \u201cIllegal Smile\u201d into something doubly sly.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarll was getting his duets on in a big way, joining Emmylou Harris for the title track from Prine\u2019s album of male\/female vocal collabs, \u201cIn Spite of Ourselves.\u201d \u201cI did not have singing \u2018In Spite of Ourselves\u2019 and dancing with Emmylou Harris on my bingo card,\u201d said Carll, as if it wouldn\u2019t have taken a sneaky mastermind to engineer such a thing. Harris, for her solo part, sang her own \u201cRed Dirt Girl\u201d as the complement to Prine\u2019s \u201cSpeed of the Sound of Loneliness,\u201d a self-effacing song from the \u201980s about a red devil of a guy who eschews the comfort of relationship to be \u201cout there runnin\u2019 just to be on the run.\u201d (Prine knew all about men who need to \u201ccome on home\u201d a long time ago.)<\/p>\n

\n\tPatty Griffin got what could easily have served as an end-point song for the concert, the posthumously released \u201cI Remember Everything,\u201d if the show was not predestined to end with a full-cast group-sing of the tune he always ended his shows with, \u201cParadise.\u201d If you want someone to sing a song that is apparently coming from the other side \u2014 or at least that we interpret that way, after the mournful way in which it came to us \u2014 then you couldn\u2019t pick a better channeler than Griffin.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the most emotional moments may have belonged to Tommy Prine, who first sang a song his dad had written as a worldly teenager, \u201cFar From Home,\u201d and then provided his own sort of answer song with \u201cShips in the Harbor,\u201d an elegy for all that is transitory in life, before it\u2019s specifically about his father. \u201cIt must be the morning again \/ The sun through the window felt good on my skin \/ So, it must be leaving soon as it should,\u201d the son sang, eventually concluding: \u201cWhen I\u2019m by peaceful waters, it\u2019s harder and harder \/ I\u2019d do anything just to talk to my father \/ But I guess he was leaving soon as we do \/ And yeah, I guess he was passing through, and I am too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe senior Prine is someone that lovers of singer-songwriters will inevitably drift toward when they think about loss. But John Dickerson, who had profiled Prine for a CBS News segment, was on hand to speak to how the singer-songwriter could bring people together.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlmost to the day, I first saw John Prine 35 years ago in Charlottesville. I was dating a girl who was a waitress in a bar in Tennessee, which almost sounds like a John Prine song, but this waitress friend had seen him in the club in Tennessee and said we must go see him in Charlottesville.\u201d He talked about that woman became the mother to ther son, who used to be put to sleep singing Prine songs like \u201cParadise\u201d as a lullaby, a boy that ended up seeing Prine at Wolf Trap when he was a teenager, with \u201cJohn singing those walk-the\u2019floor songs from here, and that 16-year-old was singing them right back to him. And sitting next to him was his mother, that waitress from 35 years ago.\u201d He added, \u201cWe have a younger son who also wrote me a couple years ago from college and said, \u2018You know, when I\u2019m doing laundry or I\u2019m cleaning up or something and there\u2019s no music playing, the songs that play in my head that I sing to myself are John Prine songs. And I have you to thank for that.\u2019 You may not believe this,\u201d Dickerson told the audience, \u201cbecause what child writes home from college? Or does their own laundry? But this is a sign of the magic of John\u2019s music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd, the newscaster added, \u201cIt is magic how one person\u2019s imagination that comes up with lyrics on a mail route, or scribbles them in a bathroom in a Chicago club \u2014 or, like with \u2018Sam Stone,\u2019 writes them out on the insert to a pantyhose box \u2014 how that imagination creates a thing that goes into another human brain and then down and becomes knit in the life of their child. That\u2019s magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a pre-show conversation held for hardcore members of the Wolf Pack crowd up the hill from the amphitheater, Allison Russell spoke to her own experiences with using Prine music in the aid of child-rearing.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf Prine\u2019s songs, Russell said, \u201cI think we\u2019re all striving to be that elemental, and that poetic, and that immediate, and that accessible, and that memorable all at the same time. The catalog is so vast. One of the things that we did in 2020 when we were all in mourning in many, many ways was go back through John\u2019s entire catalog. JT just naturally started at the beginning, and I remember our daughter getting really involved in listening to the songs as well. She always had been on tour with us. Her favorite as a little baby was \u2018Storm Windows,\u2019 which she called \u2018the baby down song,\u2019 because of that beautiful refrain, \u2018Don\u2019t let your baby down.\u2019 When we were playing something else that she didn\u2019t like, she\u2019d say, \u2018That\u2019s not my music. I want the \u201cbaby down\u201d song,\u2019 and we\u2019d put that on instead. Literally the soundtrack of our lives, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRussell said that songwriters are \u201call striving\u201d to reach something that approaches \u201cthe love that he had for humanity that comes through. Obviously we\u2019re living through a time of extreme empathy deficit, and we are seeing the manifestations of that in horrific ways which have body counts I don\u2019t need to tell y\u2019all. You know, you\u2019re living it daily. And I think that John\u2019s songs have something to teach America, about ourselves and about each other \u2014 that we don\u2019t have to fear each other, and that we don\u2019t have to fear any differences, that we can celebrate what\u2019s humorous and ridiculous about us and still love us, you know? And I think his songs just do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the show, Fiona Prine told Variety<\/em> about the nature of the work the Hello in There Foundation is doing, with $1.4 million given out in grants so far. \u201cWe\u2019ve raised more of course, and we have to be fiscally responsible. We\u2019re in the process of setting up an endowment, and I think it takes quite a number of years for a foundation to build the public trust. I really do feel like that that has happened this year, the last 18 months. People know the work we do and appreciate the kinds of folks that we help, so it\u2019s very gratifying. I get so much from it. We spent the morning at a veterans\u2019 facility in the city, in D.C., and just to look into these faces of these older people who\u2019ve served\u2026 many of them knew who John was and just were so grateful that we showed up. It\u2019s a win for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe further explained the impetus for the foundation to the Q&A audience. \u201cThe initial mission statement was that we would look for the people who were in the smaller, quieter corners that needed a \u2018hello in there.\u2019 And it was not hard to do. There are many, many people suffering in small and in very big ways, be it from disruption, displacement, dislocation. If it\u2019s veterans who are homeless; if it\u2019s a young woman who wants to be the first in her college in her family to get a degree from college, and she has a child, she\u2019s a single mother, she needs help, she needs resources in order to do that. So we\u2019re nothing if we\u2019re not imaginative, and I guess we\u2019ve all become observant and observers of life, more so since we lost John.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWill there be more such tribute-benefits like this, in other cities besides Nashville, now? There\u2019s one happening in Chicago, Prine\u2019s hometown, at the Chicago Theatre on Oct. 8, \u201cSouvenirs: 80 Years of John Prine,\u201d with artists including host John C. Reilly, Steve Earle, Ratboys, Margo Price, Alynda Segarra,Amos Lee,\u00a0Jon Langford,\u00a0Josh Ritter,\u00a0Joy Oladokun,\u00a0Kathleen Edwards and others. It\u2019s a good start \u2014 so, selfishly speaking, how about L.A., next?<\/p>\n

\n\tPrine doesn\u2019t seem quite ready to promote a whole tour of her husband\u2019s music, as some of us might wish, but she\u2019s edging toward expanding what was previously done annually in Nashville nationwide. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to do the next one in collaboration with the Illinois governor\u2019s office, the city of Chicago and of course with the Old Town School of Folk Music where John had his start. So that\u2019s gonna be very exciting. This is kind of our first time doing it outside of Nashville. I mean, we\u2019ll see. I\u2019ve been thinking about the Troubadour. It\u2019s amazing because when we put out the call, so many artists sign up quickly and easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nSetlist for \u201cSongwriters Salute John Prine\u201d at the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia, June 9, 2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tJobi Riccio, \u201cSummer\u2019s End\u201d
Jobi Riccio, \u201cIdaho\u201d
Fancy Hagood, \u201cI Just Want to Dance With You\u201d
Fancy Hagood, \u201cTo the Moon\u201d
Allison Russell, \u201cEverything Is Cool\u201d
Allison Russell, \u201cReally Real\u201d
I\u2019m With Her, \u201cBruised Orange\u201d
I\u2019m WIth Her, \u201cWild and Clear and Blue\u201d
Margo Price, \u201cYour Flag Decal Won\u2019t Get You Into Heaven Anymore\u201d
Margo Price, \u201cScrew You and the Horse You Rode In On\u201d
Margo Price, \u201cAngel From Montgomery\u201d
Emmylou Harris and Hayes Carll, \u201cIn Spite of Ourselves\u201d
\u2014 intermission \u2014
Lucius, \u201cHello in There\u201d
Lucius and I\u2019m With Her, \u201cDusty Trails\u201d
Patty Griffin, \u201cI Remember Everything\u201d
Patty Griffin, \u201cLove Throw a Line\u201d
John Dickerson, \u201cMexican Home\u201d (spoken)
Hayes Carll with Margo Price, \u201cIllegal Smile\u201d
Hayes Carll, \u201cBeaumont\u201d
Emmylou Harris, \u201cSpeed of the Sound of Loneliness\u201d
Emmylou Harris, \u201cRed Dirt Girl\u201d
Tommy Prine, \u201cFar From Me\u201d
Tommy Prine, \u201cShips in the Harbor\u201d
Full cast, \u201cParadise\u201d<\/p>\n

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