Native son uses his comeback to fill in `The Missing Years'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: November 10, 1991| Author: DAVE HOEKSTRA | Copyright information

NASHVILLE John Prine is just a regular Joe.

It's just taken 20 years for some people to realize that. The Maywood native burst on the scene in 1971 with his American Gothic "John Prine" debut album. Since then, Prine has been produced by Atlantic Records' Arif Mardin (on his first three records), Barry Beckett (who has handled everyone from Bob Dylan to Southside Johnny), Steve Cropper, the late Steve Goodman and Jerry and Knox Phillips, the sons of Sun Records legend Sam Phillips...