Kris Kristofferson

Bruce Springsteen said he was "overwhelmed by The Loss " of the US country-folk singer John Prine .

The Grammy award-winning songwriter, died on Tuesday at the age of 73, due to Covid-19 complications, His publicist confirmed.

Prine was in the hospital in Nashville since last week with coronavirus symptoms, with His wife and manager, Fiona Whelan Prine, posting updates about His condition online.

Prine was revered by His peers, including Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash .

"John and I were" New Dylan "together in the early 70s, and he was never anything other than the lovliest guy in The World ," tweeted The Chef.

"A true National Treasure and a songwriter for the ages. "

Prine a recording contract with Atlantic Records and released His self-titled debut album in 1971, according to fellow singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson , he saw in a Chicago club.

The Album also songs like Angel from Montgomery, Paradise, Sam Stone , which was bittersweet tragic-comical snapshots of American society and feeding into the anti-war movement.

After he was a messenger in the U.S. army in Germany during the Vietnam War , Prine returned home to Chicago, where he worked as a post.

While they nights His E-mail circular, he wrote songs that would see arising to him, from the open-mic, as a key player on the windy city's folk revival scene in the 1970s and Go On one of America's most influential artists.

"I compared the E-mail forwarding to a library without books. She had just time to be quiet and think, and the is would come, where I, with a lot of songs," Prine said.

"If The Song was not good, I could memorize it and later

record", the Dylan - who performed with Prine - described His music as "pure Proustian existentialism".

"Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. "

Robbie Robertson from The Band , which can be used to back-Dylan

"His Work . a shining clear White Light cutting through the Dark Days ," added the former Led Zeppelin frontman and Solo Star Robert Plant . "His charm, Humor and irony, we will miss her very much. "

He won His first of four Grammy Awards in 1991 for The Missing years, the in bags the best contemporary folk album. It was a category, he would. again in the year 2005 for Fair and Square

"We unite The World In Mourning the passing of the revered country and folk singer/songwriter John Prine ," the Recording Academy, wrote in a statement.

"to come Widely praised As One of The Most influential songwriters of His generation, John's influence will continue to be, the musicians delight you for years. We send our deepest condolences to His loved ones. "

Prine underwent a cancer Operation on His neck in 2008 and on His lung in 2013, But joked that it was actually improved His voice.

"If I can make myself laugh, to cry, what should I be, that's Pretty Good ," He Said .

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