On the Sunday edition, on NPR, an artist Kim Richey was introduced who has written several country song hits for other and the host Brian Nailer (not the usual host Liane Hansen) made a reference to her "stoking the star making machinery" for others, like Trisha Yearwood,
but then the artist was asked for her musical influences and the first one she mentioned and the absolute main influence, was, of course, Joni Mitchell. The only other influence mentioned was I think john Sebastian but I could be wrong on that because I was typing her so fast. http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/index.html
