Tommy Prine is sad about something. But it’s not an indulgent, wallowing, “poor me” kind of sadness. What saddens him is just a fact of life, and he knows it has to be that way. He can’t change it, so all he can do is acknowledge it, live with it, accept it for what it is.
Oh, and one more thing: He can write a song.
The tune is “Ships in the Harbor,” and it became the 26-year-old Prine’s debut single when it was released in September, prelude to an album set for release early in the new year.
Part of the song’s brilliance is its simple, sorrowful take on the basic human experience of departure.
Prine distills the sweet sorrow inherent in every departure with a winsome tone in his voice and guitar, totally devoid of artifice.
All our lives, we wash in and out of others’ lives like the tide, sometimes in with them for just minutes or hours before washing back out to sea for days, months, years, maybe fore...
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