22 years old. (Laughs)
Goodness. He’s like a freak man. He was so…he’s great you know.
Yeah. And funny, he’s so funny, and I love the songs that we’ve written. There’s one on my new album,“Oldest Baby in the World” that we wrote. That was the first song we ever wrote together.
I love that. I love that song. I play it a lot in my solo shows. Oh, thanks. Thanks. I love it too.
And you know, when he did it on his live album, and he introduced it and he talked about you, that was funny and he said it took, what did he say? He said it took longer to do that introduc- tion than it did for the song to play. (Laughter) It’s true. The intro was longer than the song was.
Yeah. That’s right. He’s one of the really, really special people. Not only as just as a human, obviously as a talent… he’s one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known. He tells a story in my documentary about he and Al Banella, who was his man- ager… I was having a lot of health problems and actually I had to have a kidney trans- plant, and he and Al were on the way down to Birmingham to see me and he had just had a hip replacement and Al had just had like quadruple heart bypass so we were all banged up pretty good. And he said somebody called him on the way down there, and they said, “Well, what are you doing, John? What are you doing?” And he said, “My new hip and Al’s new heart are going to go visit Donnie’s new kidney.” (Buffalo laughs.) So… that’s John Prine right there.
Oh yeah, funny! Well, the one other person that I wanted to ask you about is a guy that I’ve been friends with for quite a few years now and I recently got to spend time with him, a good bit, be- cause his band was on tour this past summer. Mr. Billy Bob Thornton. Oh yeah, Billy, yeah. I love Billy too. He’s an- other great talent and a really good-hearted guy in a very tough business of course. He’s got a great movie coming out in a couple of weeks. (Our Brand is Crisis) I’m proud for him. But Billy and I met when they were doing The Alamo. I went down to see uh, you remember Steven, don’t you? Steven Bruton?
Yes! Very much. Did you ever know Steven?
Didn’t really know him well but I met him a few times. Steven had a small part. Steven was our gui- tar player for years with Kris and he worked with Bob Dylan and with Bonnie Raitt so he was a wonderful musician and songwriter. Anyway, I went down to visit him, he had a small part in that movie and then we got to spend the day with Billy. That was the first time I got to meet him. And we hit it off and uh, next thing you know I was spending a week or so at his house in Los Angeles and we were writing out there and it was just so much fun. We wrote a bunch of songs to- gether and we got to be really close friends. I got to see him, he played here about a month ago and we got to spend some time together. He also was in my documentary and he was, so great. It just really worked out where, he called me last Christmas, you know, just for a Christmas call and we hadn’t talked for a cou- ple of months and I said, “Well, they’re doing this documentary and I sure want you in it, but it’s like, I don’t know how we could all get together.” He said, “I’m going to be in Nashville,” and he told me the dates and he
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