> Catherine wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
My opinion on this varies. I'm not really sure what's right. Knowing the
background dosen't make a song any more enjoyable but it's certainly
interesting to know some of the context. Joni is an important poet and
academics in universities spend time discussing who Auden or Yeats were
talking about in poems. Maybe it's time that Joni was awarded an
honorary doctorate in music. Bob Dylan and some other pop people, Paul
McCartney I think, got them.
Philip
NP Bruce Springsteen TV concert - ripping it up on Badlands.
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