> I had heard it was about Roger McGuinn; the reference to
> "Chestnut Mare" (one of his songs) would seem to bear this
> out.
> RR

Well, people like to say that bits of Idiot Wind, like bits of Tangled Up In
Blue, are addressed to various different people as the song goes on.  It's
hard to listen to the whole thing without mainly hearing a gloriously bitter
lost love song, though.  Joni singing it would, of course, put a new spin on
it.  (And if you only know the furious Blood on the Tracks version of Idiot
Wind, I urge you to listen to the plangent New York outtake on The Bootleg
Series Vol. 2.  Stunning.)

Adam

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