If Dylan died tomorrow, this book would be a fitting last word.
Tag Archives: Folk
“All Romantics Meet the Same Fate Someday”: Joni Mitchell, Blue, and Romanticism
“The Last Time I Saw Richard”. . . is a Romantic tour-de-force with respect to lyrics, composition, and performance. In the folk song tradition, Mitchell sings to her own musical accompaniment, and there is no other instrument playing in the recording; yet, the melodic and harmonic complexity of the song makes for a performance farContinue reading ““All Romantics Meet the Same Fate Someday”: Joni Mitchell, Blue, and Romanticism”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 