Ohmagawd, I love John Prine. He is absolutely one of my favorite songwriters. "Souvenirs" is a favorite of mine, "Grandpa Was a Carpenter" (some of y'all may have noticed that I DO call my husband Mister), "Paradise," "Angel from Montgomery".... there's just too many to name. One of my favorite lines, although not from a favorite song, is "There were spaces between Donald and the things that he said/Strangers had forced him to live in his head."

I think the Anthology is a good place to start just because it has some of his best songs on it.