<<Or is it because it's stuck in the end of a double live album that not that many people will have had or heard... >>
I think it's just forgotten about, Jamie, because she never recorded a studio version of it. Jericho would have suffered the same fate had she not brought it out for DJRD, it just seems so more fleshed out in its studio version. I think For Love or Money is a great song! My favorite lyrical passage: The wars of pride and property The rebel Irish and the promised land Jew Fighting behind his eyes and over seas Wounded in action and no ceasefire in view The song seems to be a bit of twist on her usual "failed relationship" song in that it's from the guy's POV and he can't get over the girl. I wounder if she was projecting any of her old lovers onto the lead character? She does reference that the guy is a songwriter, or at least a poet: He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme Describing what it is to lose He's got some just for laughs He's got some for love That mainline to his blues Could the "mainline" be a play on words referencing "Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire", that is, a heroin addiction? <<has anyone else heard the original (well, the first draft) of All I Want?>> Yes, Jamie, but it's from her 1970 BBC "Pink Dress" concert. As yet is hasn't been included as part of the video trees. There are quite a few lyrical differences between this version and what would finally show on "Blue". If anyone is interested, I can transcribe them tonight. Bob NP: Beausoleil, "Valerie"
