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

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Terry Gross
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Fresh Air | Oct 9

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.

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