--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<who do you think Bob (et al) that joni loved , and
> therefore would still play a role in her creative
> consciousness?>>
>
> Shane, thanks for the good words; unfortunately,
> this topic is not one that holds much interest for
> me. When I think of Joni's songs, whether from Blue,
> Hejira, whatever, they WORK for ME because they
> speak to me about MY life, not about hers. Like the
> aforementioned Circle Game, to me it's about my son
> Nathan, not about Neil Young.
Nice one, Bob. Like you,who Joni wrote these songs
about doesn't interest me much. Well, maybe just a
little - it does add context in some cases. But I
find the whole business of trying to find out who the
lover du jour was voyeuristic somehow. The thing
about Joni's songs is that, even if they are about
particular people (and I believe that many of them may
start out that way), or composites of people (which is
what I think), they are universal - they speak to many
of us who connect Joni's words with events in our own lives.
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