Maureen, I think most people in the UK didn't get passed BLUE!
Stephen Toogood NP: Goodbye Joe ~ Laura Nyro "God goes up the cimney Like childhood Santa Claus The good slaves love the good book A rebel loves a cause" ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: re;talking about Joni Mitchell with my writing group > Yesterday at my writing group I mentioned Joni Mitchell to one of the members > of the group. This woman loves poetry and is a good writer. We started > talking about music and I asked her about Joni's writing-what she thought. > She told me she never really listened to her but disliked the few hits she > had. I told her about Joni's poetry and how well she wrote. She said,":You > sound just like this friend I used to teach with. he said she was the best > too." I told her I would copy some of her songs and she could read the lyrics > for herself. When our break was over I went over to the table and told > another member that we discussing Joni Mitchell and he said he had never > heard of her! He's about 60 or so and was a professor etc etc. My personal > experience is that most people know little or nothing about her work or > stopped listening after Court and Spark. > > Maureen Walsh
