> Kakki, please share your intuitions with us, flamers or not. Your intuitions > & reflections based on your knowledge of so many historical details are > always very enlightening. Thanks, Kate - some of it is probably projection of what the song means to me. The first time I heard "Blue" (the week it came out) I strongly related to the sense of sadness and futility Joni conveys because so many around me, including someone I loved very much, were also sinking in the then-hip hell of drugs and the rest. I never learned until much later, as chronicled by many, including Crosby himself in a few books, just how wild and dark and crazy the scene became. In the past few years Joni has expressed that the 60s were a bad time for her. That really surprised me at first, but thinking upon it some more, her bad memories may not have only been because of the loss of her child or the way the music business treated her. > I have always been so drawn to the photos of Joni & Graham, especially the > one in the car where she is writing & he is looking on. There is something > so sweet there between them that is relflected in her song, Willie, and in > his song, Our House. Most of those photos were taken by Henry Diltz. You may already know this story - Diltz mentions in his "Under the Covers" CD-Rom that when he some years later enlarged one of the photos of Joni and Graham in the limo traveling to a CSN photo shoot in Big Bear, he saw that what she was writing was the first lyrics to "Willie." >I also hear it in way she sings "I Love You" in Blue. Makes this song much more poignant to me now, hearing it is about Graham. Kakki NP: Don Henley - My Thanksgiving - Walecki Benefit
