But the most thrilling sections, written by Piazza in Prine’s own voice, are snippets and previews of what Prine’s never-completed memoir would have been. The first time I came to Nashville, in the early 1970s, my buddy Lee Clayton took me to the Grand Ole Opry and brought me backstage. Al set up a meeting, and I came down to Nashville. Way up in the next evening I had a plane booked to go home and Jack took me to the airport. Cowboy took time to teach me how to not be scared of a microphone in the studio.