Quoting Mark or Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Travelogue she doesn't have that instrument that can reach those > heights anymore. So she takes a different route and gives the song a > weight and profundity that it couldn't have had in the original. More > than 30 years have passed since the song and the event that inspired > it. Altamont, Kent State, Watergate, the Gulf War, Chernobyl, > Exxon-Valdez, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fall of the > Berlin Wall, 9-11 - all of these things and more have come to pass in > the intervening years and have perhaps changed the way we view what > was for many, the defining moment of a generation. Woodstock, the > event is now history and the stuff of legend. Joni's latest > incarnation of the song, Woodstock achieves anthemic status in a > different way. It is now hindsight, nostalgic and colored with the > tint of myth. It has become a slow and stately march, more about the > half a million than the solitary child of God who finally, but only > for a fleeting few days, found that place of song, celebration and > naive innocence.
Mark, Welcome home! It's this kind of post that I have been missing of late. Thank you! Glad you are back, and hi to Travis. Best Stephen in Vancouver NP: Patti Witten- Sycamore Tryst
