I get people to actually stop me on the street now going who are you don't I know you or I mean they would say hey you're John Bryan

They want me to tell them who I am. What do you say? I go no. No no I'm not him.

This is death, sex and money.

Look I got a gun out there in my purse.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

You got a wife somewhere, you remember that 50.

And need to talk about more.

Because we have the money right now, sir, you see the parking meter is running outside.

I'm Anna Sale.

John Prine is 71 years old and right now having the best album sales of his career.

His new record is called The Tree of Forgiveness. We talked in New York just as it was coming out.

Last night we ate a really sw swinging restaurant here in New York City and I'm a meat and

and potato sky but they served me something to look like a baby hedgehog, right? With liverworsed inside, but it was pretty darn good and pretty

expensive too.

I ain't got nobody hanging around my doorstep

ain't got no loose chain just a hanging around my chains.

John's been in the music business for 47 years. He's never taken more than a year off from

touring and when we talked he was getting ready for a big sold-out show in New York.

I just had a knee replacement exactly six weeks ago.

Really? And I threw my cane away three days ago.

And I'm going to play radio sitting on Friday night

and hopefully dance off the stage.

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