Column: Return with us now to those thrilling songs of yesteryear in ‘Chicago 1971’

Chicago Tribune / by Rick Kogan / March 4, 2026

For those of us who keep a foot firmly in the past, how fortunate to find John Ballantyne and Gus Noble, a couple of guys from Scotland, who are in the buoyant business of traveling back more than 50 years to give us a time and place and three guys who changed the face of American music in profound, thrilling ways.

Those guys were Kris Kristofferson, Steve Goodman and John Prine. The time and place form the title of their musical-theatrical show, “Chicago 1971,” and the summer night that these three songwriters met. Read More Here.