William Prince is someone I'd never heard of before he was interviewed about his album of gospel songs from the Interlake region of Manitoba. This is a good reason to look farther. Here's a haunting video of one of the other songs on the album.
Being in one more family with alcoholics and opiate addicts like he sings about, it's closer than I had expected. I wonder if it's what Charlie Parker meant when his fellow jazz musicians wondered why he played one after another country western song on a juke box one night, "Listen to the stories."
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