[godfreydaniel]

Thanks for this thread - I hadn’t listened to Iris in awhile, so I listened to the songs here and some others. She’s wonderful. I also visited her website, and read her thoughts about John Prine’s passing. Here’s the end of what she wrote, which I found very moving:

John Prine was, without a doubt, one of the greatest songwriters this world will ever know. Many people more qualified than me have written about why that is. And many more will follow. Greatest or not, here’s what it comes down to for me and here’s why he rests on my heart’s mountain top: Because he cared enough to look — at me, you, all of us — until he saw what was noble and then he wrapped us up in melodies and sung us back to ourselves.

That was the miracle of John Prine. And it was enough.