On a sultry November day in the Dominican Republic in 2019, Tommy Prine was backstage at All the Best Fest, a five-day music gathering curated by his father, the legendary country-folk singer John Prine, with help from his mother, Fiona Whelan-Prine. The event featured Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, and Nathaniel Rateliff, among others, but one artist had abruptly pulled out of a noon opening slot, and the Prine team was trying to figure out a replacement. They didn’t want to ask one of the artists on-site to play an
