Ep523: Celebrating John Prine w Jack Prine
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Jack Prine shares intimate stories about his legendary father John Prine, discusses the new "You Got Gold" movie, the history and state of "Oh Boy Records" and reveals intentions for unreleased recordings from the family archives.
Check out screenings of "You Got Gold - A Celebration of John Prine" here
Topics Include:
- Jack Prine discusses "You Got Gold" film celebrating his father John Prine's legacy
- Film originated through family friend connection at Radical Media, directed by Michael John Warren
- Documentary captures 2022 Ryman concert series benefiting the Hello In There Foundation
- Foundation started after John's death in April 2020, helping family navigate grief
- Jack reflects on balancing family's personal grief with fans' collective loss
- Film features collaborators like Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams sharing stories and performances
- Many people know John Prine's songs without realizing he wrote them
- Movie bridges generations from Dwight Yoakam to Tyler Childers and Jason Isbell
- Tyler Childers shares quirky story about John keeping Dairy Queen coupon in wallet
- Jack's legal name is John Patrick Prine; uses Jack to separate identity
- Growing up in Nashville, didn't have special musicians' kids friend group
- Jack joined family business at Oh Boy Records after college, learning the ropes
- Worked in warehouse initially, understanding physical product and distribution fundamentals
- Oh Boy Records started in 1984 as fiercely independent label maintaining creative control
- Archives contain decades of unreleased recordings being carefully curated for future releases
- Lost Dogs deluxe edition recently released with unheard track "Hey, Aw, Nothing"
- John Prine disliked his debut album cover showing him on hay bale
- John was technologically simple, kept flip phone until he died, browsed cars on eBay
- 80th birthday celebration planned for October, possibly in Chicago rather than Nashville
- Jack's lessons from father: live in the moment and always give to others
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:10.1 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:13.5 | Oh, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to episode 523 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:23.0 | And ladies and gentlemen, you know, we have lots of great artists here on the show. |
| 0:28.1 | And from time to time, we've even had the children of great artists here on the show. |
| 0:32.9 | And we find out all about the record collections, rare recordings growing up with them, etc. |
| 0:39.0 | Most recently, we had Shooter Jennings on the show, but in the past we've had the likes of John Carter Cash, multiple Zappa siblings, etc. |
| 0:47.6 | Well, today we've got the son of another legend on the show talking about the work of his father. |
| 0:54.0 | It's Jack Prine discussing his father John Prine, and Jack is still working in the family business. |
| 0:59.9 | Most recently being an exec producer on the new film You Got Gold, a celebration of John Prine. |
| 1:06.6 | And this is a really great film, really is. |
| 1:10.1 | Largely concert footage and interviews of many |
| 1:13.2 | artists discussing their love and respect to the late John Prine. And today, his son Jack and I |
| 1:19.0 | discuss not only the film, but growing up with John Prine, the stories, the early records, |
| 1:25.0 | the recordings. We discussed the record label John started in the 80s, |
| 1:29.3 | Oh Boy Records. |
| 1:30.7 | We talk about balancing the family grief with that of the fans |
| 1:34.2 | and collaborators of John and a whole lot more. |
| 1:37.4 | Jack is a lovely dude. |
| 1:38.8 | Huge heart, and I think you'll all want to check out this movie, |
| 1:42.6 | You Got Gold, a celebration of John |
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