Tyler, this is a subject that sometimes pisses people off around here and so I'll try to flameproof myself in advance ;-)
> Is there a definitive source for this? Has Joni > mentioned in interviews that particular songs are > based on real people and experiences? If not, how can > we be sure they are 'true', or at the very least, not > composites of several events/persons? The general answer is that she has sometimes identified a specific person, sometimes indicated it is a composite and sometimes said it is up to the listener to take their own individual meaning from any particular song. She has voiced not liking to have songs attributed to a specific person but then she has gone ahead and identified the person herself sometimes. There are many sources for what she has voiced one way or another - in the articles in the JMDL database, in books and in live performances over the years that have been preserved on tape. Kakki
