David Lahm replied:
"I've said it onlist several times before, but I don't mind once again
contending that Joni Mitchell is as great a songwriter as there's been in the
English language for the second half of the last century."
What's this ? He's stealing my lines. OK. I'll compete. If we throw in the
singing, arranging, instrument playing. production skills and paintings, I
would venture to amend the following:
1. Change "a songwriter" to "an artist"
2. Change "language" to "speaking world"
3. Change "second half" to "third third" (I am an actuary - not some
decimal in Ray's Dad's class - and I cannot speak to the pre-1968 period with
any conviction on account of my youth - I was only two when the second half
ot the 20th century began - in 1951 by the way).
Young Grampa Bob S.
