Susan McNamara wrote: > Although I LOVE > Cool Water. Willie works on that song. >
Oh, Susan, I have to disagree on that - personal taste, totally subjective - that songs is so obvious to me, it cloys at me. Listening to it today, Tea Leaf prophecy was not as good as I remembered, Dancing' Clown was far better than I remembered (No, Bob, i was smoking anything), but the one song on the album that really worked for me was Beat of Black Wings. On the other hand, I found all of DED to be much better than I had remembered it as being - Joni was experimenting with different things like any great artist. I thought even Smoking Try Again - which I haven't listened to in several years - was pretty good! (No, Bob, I wasn't smoking anything.) The song almost rocks out - a lot of that album almost rocks out - if Joni had kept working that vein, I think she would have nailed it. And the lyrics to Tax Free were astounding appropriate to the current world situations. When Rod Steiger was going on and on about attacking that island country, I thought of other people going on and on about attacking other countries... NRH was my big disappointment. Other than the opening song, Night Ride Home, the rest of the album did little for me and it used to be one of my favorites. Maybe I was influenced in the past in that Night Ride Home is IMHO one of Joni's most beautiful songs.
