John Prine. Excellent!
The Jimmy Buffett cover of “Paradise” was on the radio yesterday when I was picking my daughter up from work. The whole line (wouldn’t fit in the tagline field) is, “And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered, So many times that my memories are worn.”
His was Paradise, Kentucky. Mine is Leonard, Missouri.
Funny, I just looked it up to check the lyrics, and Wikipedia says it was recorded in 1971. We sang it in elementary school in 1973 or so; my brother played the guitar.