BONUS: John Prine's 'Lost Dogs' and Legacy

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this very special bonus episode of Nashville Now, we celebrate the legacy of John Prine with his widow Fiona Whelan Prine and country music legend Carlene Carter at one of Prine’s favorite Nashville haunts: Brown’s Diner. On what would have been Prine’s 79th birthday, Fiona Prine and Carter share stories about the creation of his album Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, which was just reissued by Oh Boy Records in a 30th anniversary edition. It’s an emotional, poignant, and often humorous conversation focused on one of America’s greatest ever songwriters. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our ⁠Hear Now⁠ playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.7	Jack, one, two.
0:34.4	All right.
0:35.5	We're going.
0:36.6	Yeah, glad we don't have a higher slate.
0:42.0	There you go.
0:45.1	Well, welcome to a very special episode of Rolling Stones' Nashville Now podcast.
0:50.2	I am your host, Joseph Hudak, senior music editor at Rolling Stone.
0:53.4	As you can tell, we are not in the Nashville now cabin this week, but we are in a place that is very, very special to the man and the music that we're about to talk about with two very cool guests.
1:07.4	We are here at Brown's Diner in Nashville.
1:12.3	Tell everybody why we hear all these noises.
1:16.3	Oh, we're going to tell them why because people are eating lunch and having a good time and watching us have a conversation here. And the conversation is with Ms. Carleen Carter.
1:22.3	Tada.
1:23.8	And Miss Fiona Prime. Hi. Great to be here. It's great to be here with Carly.
1:28.3	It's good.
1:29.3	Hey, people are clapping.
1:30.3	I love when people clap.
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