Obit: Angel from Montgomery. John Prine died of coronavirus this week. He was 73.

As a songwriter, Mr. (John) Prine was prolific and quick. In the early days, he would sometimes dash off a song while driving to a club.

“Sometimes,the best ones come together at the exact same time, and it takes about as long to write it as it does to sing it,” he told the poet Ted Kooser in an interview at the Library of Congress in 2005. “They come along like a dream or something, and you just got to hurry up and respond to it, because if you mess around, the song is liable to pass you by.

(N.Y Times obit/profile)

Wikipedia:
"Prine believes he likely was drawn to Montgomery as the song's setting by virtue of being a fan of Hank Williams, who had ties to that city.^[2] "Angel from Montgomery" is a concert staple of Hank Williams' granddaughter Holly Williams."