Hello In There

I'm curious too, John, because you got up on stage at the Fifth Peg in the Old Town neighborhood and when the folk scene was starting to explode, and you played, like, three songs, I guess, and they blew everybody away.

You're writing these m- masterpieces, like, almost, like, your first public performance, and you're doing songs like Hello in there, right?

Right.

And Sam Stone was in there.

I am an old woman named after my mother.

My old man has another child that's grown old.

You know, Hello in there, The Old Couple.

You know, nobody was writing about old people back then.

... that just hits.

And a song called Hello In There about- Talking to senior citizens and talking to old folks and just stopping on the street and saying hello to old folks and how much that means to them and the stories you can get and-

Mm

...

And this week for his 80th birthday, there's celebrations throughout the whole city.

There's so much cool stuff.

His wife, uh, Fiona, and his sons run the family record label, Oh Boy Records, and they run the Hello In There Foundation, which does a lot of charitable work, um, with musicians and with just all across the spectrum of good works.

Um, tonight, um, at the Metro, there's gonna be, uh, kind of a, it's, like, kind of like a presentation show about-

Mm-hmm.

Do you know John Prine's song Hello in There?

No. I'm writing it down.

No.

Ugh.

Mm-hmm

... and, and s- and just stop and say hello in there.

Ugh.