“Angel From Montgomery” by John Prine appears on his self-titled debut album – 1971. It’s a story song, sung in the first person by a middle-aged woman.

Prine said in an interview that he was intrigued by the idea of “a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is.”

He had a mental picture of a woman standing over the kitchen sink, lamenting her lot in life, old before her time and married to a cowboy who’s grown old and contrary.

Like several of Prine’s other songs about relationships, “Angel from Montgomery” evokes strong mental images as you listen.