And then we could always take Joni's advice and not read too much
specificity of intent or interpreetation
into her work.
Jerry
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> << I don't feel particularly enlightened about
> any of her material having read it and for me personally it is a little more
> than I want to know about Joni's personal life. >>
>
> Well, let's not be TOO tough on Marcel...while I mostly agree with you, I
> think it was an interesting exercise. I don't think it sheds any light on
> anything...there are SOME songs where the subject is KNOWN and where the
> writing was immediate, like some of the Blue & FTR stuff. But then there's
> "Beat of Black Wings", written over 20 years AFTER she met & talked with
> "Killer Kyle" and first mentioned him in "Cactus Tree":
>
> "There's a man who sends her medals,
> He is bleeding from the war"...
>
> So it would be a false assumption to think that the songs in each period
> revolve around who she was romantically linked to, and like Victor says,
> doesn't provide much illumination.
>
> What WOULD be interesting, and far more meaningful I think, would be to match
> Joni's albums with partners for ourselves. One of the reasons Hejira
> resonates so much with me has nothing to do with Joni's relationship to John
> Guerin or whomever, but rather what *I* was going through with a girl named
> Laura (not the coupon queen! :~D).
>
> So maybe that's more of a key to why Joni is special to us; not an analysis
> of what the songs are about to HER, but rather what they mean to us on a
> purely individual level.
>
> Bob
>
> NP: Rickie Lee Jones, "Show Biz Kids"
>
