Review: A loving, intimate and socially distanced tribute to John Prine

There was something slightly sad about watching artists perform inside emptied-out spaces - an auditorium, a restaurant, a record store - in the virtual concert salute to singer-songwriter John Prine that premiered Thursday night on YouTube.

The spaces were empty, of course, due to fears of spreading COVID-19, the disease that took Prine's life in April at age 73 after a widely admired career that spanned decades. But it wasn't just the reminder of COVID's persistent threat that got you down;