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Billy Prine With Special Guest Scarlett Egan.
Billy Prine is a natural-born storyteller, just like his late, great brother John Prine was a natural-born songwriter. John was a great communicator of the human experience, whittled down to the best words. His big, little brother, owner of a rich, booming voice yet full of subtleness, is one of the finest orators you’ll ever hear, also choosing just the right turn of phrase.
During these concerts celebrating John’s life in song, Billy will tell stories about or surrounding some of John’s most beloved songs before leading his band through his version of John’s timeless masterpieces. As an example, fans will get to hear the first time John played his classic song “Paradise” for their father as the family sat around the kitchen table.
Songs are stories, novellas, if you will, and stories often become songs. It is only fitting that in the course of each show during this tour, Billy relates – as only he can – the stories that surround the songs of his dear brother John.
Billy Prine formed and led his first bar band in Chicago at the tender age of twelve. Chicago in the 1960s and early 1970s was wide open, just as FM radio was evolving, with all types of music, but especially the blues from the famed Chess Records and country music with the National Barn Dance, which was a precursor to the Grand Ole Opry. Growing up in such a rich musical city allowed Billy to develop his unique style of American roots music and absorb a myriad of influences firsthand by seeing Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, The Rolling Stones, and Chicago’s innumerable blues legends such as Howlin’ Wolf, Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters, Michael Bloomfield, and many more.
Scarlett Egan from Germany grows roots in Songwriter City soil
Moving to Nashville one day is a big dream for musicians from all over the world. The same goes for Scarlett Egan from Heidelberg, Germany. From an early age, she was exposed to American Country and Folk music as her parents had their own touring Country band. Growing up in a tiny town, she would spend all her free time learning the songs of Patsy Cline, James Taylor, Janis Joplin, and the Chicks, until she herself joined the band as a teenager, touring heavily throughout Europe for the next decade.
Over the years, she built Nashville connections backing up artists such as Paul Overstreet, Billy Yates, Daryl Singletary, and opening up for acts like Toby Keith, Albert Lee, Chely Wright, and Asleep At The Wheel.
At 19, she had saved up enough money from her shows to fly to Nashville and record her first original Country album with some of Nashville’s top studio musicians. Standing in front of the world-famous Blue Bird Cafe, she had a strong feeling she would be back one day.
After finishing her degree as a jazz vocalist in Saarbrücken, Germany, she packed her bags and bought another ticket to Nashville for three months to see where it would take her. Her love of songwriting made it very clear that she was in the right place after all, and she's lived there ever since.
Scarlett’s songs are refreshingly genuine, clever, and beautifully heartfelt. A mix of classic Country, honest Americana, and some edge added in there, her EP: “The Next Man Who Loves Me” is a collection of songs she wrote about the path of coming out of unhealthy relationship patterns. With a compassionate, but unfooled, sometimes even ironic look at herself.
A new album is in the works and eagerly awaited for next year!
She is a natural entertainer who catches every audience's attention with humor, ease, and grace. She can be seen at Nashville’s writers rounds, especially at the renowned Listening Room, and currently continues to tour with Billy Prine, brother of the late John Prine.
