In a message dated 4/28/01 4:50:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Philip Wrote:

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.

A very interested Coyote adds:

The April 30th edition of US News and World Report (the one with Laura Bush 
on the cover)has a feisty little article titled "Rewriting Women and Rock."  
It's an interesting, brief essay, I would suppose, on how archivists and 
others have not properly respected nor correctly understood the women of rock 
and roll's history.  And yes, there is a Joni mention and a nice (albeit very 
familiar) young Joni picture, to boot.

Dan Gilgoff reports that New York Times critic Ann Powers asked, "Are there 
20 biographies of Joni Mitchell like there are of Bob Dylan...I don't think 
so." [That's it for the Joni mention.]

Gilgoff goes on to report "When Rolling Stone released it's Illustrated 
History of Rock & Roll in 1992, only four of nearly 100 chapters were devoted 
to women.  The Ronettes, the Crystals, and the Shangi-Las were squeezed into 
a three-page chapter titled 'The Girl Groups.'  An entire chapter went to 
Phil Spector alone." 

Hmmm..

No regrets,

Coyote Rick
Casa Alegre (Finally)
Hollywood, California

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