Most of the little I understand of the female psyche I’ve learned from Joni Mitchell.
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072: Stephen Stills, ‘Suite:Judy Blue Eyes’ (“Just Roll Tape”)
Late one night after a recording session in which he accompanied his girlfriend Judy Collins, post-Buffalo Springfield/pre-CSN Stephen Stills gave the engineer a couple of hundred dollars, and said, “Just roll tape”. The resulting recordings, acoustic demos of 13 new Stills songs, lay forgotten for 40 years.
Continue reading...258: Stephen Stills, ‘Do For the Others’
Still–he’s still Stills.
A 1970 gem you may have missed.
198: Buffalo Springfield, ‘Rock and Roll Woman’
Buffalo Springfield was a flimsy amalgam of superegos, whose main common attribute was a group identity crisis. But, oh, what music they made on the way to their dissolution.
Continue reading...144: Fleet Foxes, ‘Montezuma’
In which Jeff philosophizes about life, music festivals, old age, and jingoism; writes an advice column together with an Aztec king; and enjoys the indie band Fleet Foxes.
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