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Richard Daigle

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I'm a late bloomer artists, released my first CD in 2020. Here's a nice review that came out, check it out! I’m a retired writer/editor and communications specialist turned singer/songwriter the last several years. Things happen in life and we all find ways of processing. Songwriting is often that for me. I was so blessed and fortunate to be married for 34 years to Jan White Daigle, a fine woman, beautiful inside and out. She loved God and loved people, always cheerful and faithful. In 2014, cancer took away what should’ve been a fuller life but she made the most of the years she had and she touched so many people with me at the front of that list. Since then, I’ve met some wonderful women and had relationship and life experiences that have inspired songs. When it comes to songwriting influence, John Prine is at the top of the list. Someone turned me on to his first album when I was in college in the mid to late 70s and I was hooked. I first saw him in 1977 at a bar at the foot of Sunshine Bridge near Donaldsonville, La. Glad they didn’t call the fire marshal because we were sardines in there, packed to the gills. Then, around 1979 or so, he played a show in Jekyll Island. I was a reporter for The Brunswick News daily paper and I interviewed him. As my song "John Prine, A Friend of Mine" details, he invited me for dinner, broke several guitar strings that night, and then I saw him decades later at a New Years Eve 2016 show in Nashville with Jason Isbell and Kacey Musgraves. The woman I was dating at the time won the tickets when she heard it on the radio. I always wish I could have met him again because I’m sure he would’ve gotten a kick out of remembering the Jekyll Island show and my interview with him (which I doubt he ever got to read). John Prine songs say so much in so few words. Beyond his songwriting genius, he was a regular and a really good guy.

















































































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