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John Prine on music, cancer and why he never thought he'd be a recording artist

NPR | By Terry Gross

Published October 9, 2026 at 12:11 PM EDT

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Pine died in 2020 from complications of COVID-19. To mark what would have been his 80th birthday, we listen to an interview from 2018 in which he talked about the surgeries that altered his voice.