The singer-songwriter John Prine has been playing his distinctive country-folk music on the road for nearly 50 years. He is currently touring in support of his newest album, “The Tree of Forgiveness.”

Mr. Prine and his wife, Fiona, are based in Nashville but spend much of the year in the St. Petersburg, Fla., area where they do very little. “Fiona is a beach person. I just bought a 1977 Cadillac Coupe DeVille and I’ve got that down at the house in Florida, so I usually take that to the carwash and go get a hot dog and wait for Fiona to come back from the beach, and then we go out to a nice restaurant at night.”

They also spend a lot of time in Galway, Ireland, where Ms. Prine has family. There, he says, he likes to “sleep all day and go to the pub at night. We’re very relaxed people.”

On tour he travels with three bags stuffed with old hotel keys, newspapers, shoehorns, corkscrews and much, much more. “I have one huge suitcase that’s usually overweight, so I pay extra money for it, and two garment bags that look like body bags; they’re stuffed — overstuffed — with clothes and suits that are too small. I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.”