The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery" is #350 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."Prine’s most well-known song may be about, what he described as, “a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is,” but the drudgery and despair depicted in “Angel From Montgomery” is universal, delivered by Prine with characteristic warmth and empathy. “She wanted to get out of her house and her marriage and everything,” Prine said. “She just wanted an angel to come to take her away from all this.” Bonnie Raitt made the song her own with a majestic 1974 version, but even stripped bare of any music at all, Prine’s blunt words would pack a wallop."