wallyk wrote:
> i devoted twenty years to the exclusive study of joni mitchell. when i
think
> about dylan, i feel like an 80-year-old engineer who is told all of a
sudden
> that he needs to get a degree in medicine too. call it narrow-mindedness,
> but with joni, wagner, strauss, rickie, and the rest of the artists that
> wrote and/or performed the music on my more than three thousand cd's i
have
> quite enough yet to discover and study. i believe that on the verge of my
> forties, i'm already too late to change majors.
I sometimes think that too, but then I get an album or two of a "new"
artist, really like them, and then just can't help myself! I thought that
way about The Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge for a long time, mainly
because I wanted to avoid the stereotypes, ie. gay people must own/love
"gay" music. Then I heard an Indigo Girls song (Power of Two) on the Boys
On The Side soundtrack (which I bought for Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks)
and loved it so much I had to go buy the album. And now I've got almost all
of them, and almost all of Melissa Etheridge's!
Mind you, the thought of starting with Dylan is fairly daunting, considering
how many albums there are, so maybe you've got a point!
Hell
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