| Jackson Browne – Something Fine Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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| Jackson Browne – Something Fine Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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It's about Browne's 10-day London affair with actor and photographer Sally Sasche. She was in The Trip with Peter Fonda and was tour photographer for CSNY. She's now a California artist. She told Browne she was going to Morocco - but actually went to Amsterdam! See my blogpost: https://soothfairy.com/2015/03/29/jackson-browne-and-daryl-hannah/#sasche |
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| Joni Mitchell – Not to Blame Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Not to Blame' is widely believed to be Joni Mitchell's condemnation of Browne as a wife-beater who drove his first wife to suicide and a coward who always says he's not to blame. Mitchell released this attack on Browne not long after rumours circulated suggesting that Browne had beaten Daryl Hannah. Browne denied the rumour. He's said he tried to talk to Mitchell about her song, but wasn't able to. Hannah sustained injuries during the incident, but she's never directly accused Browne. Her press release on the day of the incident said, 'She received serious injuries incurred during a domestic dispute with Browne for which she sought medical treatment'. Hannah's uncle attended the clinic and publicly confirmed the injuries. Browne has always denied assaulting Hannah but has never explained how she got those injuries. No charges were made against Browne, and there was no proper police investigation. Having carried out my own investigation, my opinion - for what it's worth - is that Browne almost certainly didn't assault Hannah. I think that Hannah might have had an autistic rage episode* during which either she inflicted the injuries on herself, or she attacked Browne and was injured when he defended himself. David Yaffe's 2017 biography of Mitchell, 'Reckless Daughter', based on extensive recorded conversations with her, shows that, 45 years after her brief relationship with Browne, she carries an intense and bitter hatred for him. Yaffe described 'Not to Blame' as 'a violent and personal attack'. See also my comment (if it's still there) under Hejira's 'Song For Susan'. That song includes a coded implication that Browne caused the suicide of his first wife, Phyllis Major. Major suffered extreme postnatal depression. She took an overdose of barbiturate sleeping pills. There's no corroboration whatsoever for Mitchell's suggestion in both 'Not to Blame' and 'Song For Sharon' that Browne drove her to it. See, if you will, my blogpost about the rumour that Jackson Browne assaulted Daryl Hannah. It includes a detailed account of Mitchell's brief relationship with Browne, and its bitter aftermath. My detailed analysisof 'Not to Blame': https://soothfairy.com/2015/03/29/jackson-browne-and-daryl-hannah/#not * https://www.theneurotypical.com/rage-cycle-in-hfa.html |
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| Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[phxvalleygirl:38908] Very nice analysis. I think you got it just right. Joni Mitchell's twisted account puts all the blame on Jackson, but the lyrics of In the Shape of a Heart and your excellent interpretation put that difficult relationship and its tragic ending into perspective. |
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| Steely Dan – Blues Beach Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Mr Bergis is right, I think, about the rehab. In the brilliant Vegas taxi ride video promo for Everything Must Go (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dimyNC1BytY&feature=youtu.be), Becker, talking about this song says, 'Down the dark ladder'. That's a quote from Joni Mitchell's song, Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire, about James Taylor's heroin addiction (https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=92). | |
| Jackson Browne – Fountain Of Sorrow Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| In his introduction to a 2014 live performance of 'Fountain of Sorrow', Browne explained that he wrote it for an ex-lover. He’d run into her some time after they separated, was impressed by her beauty, remembered ‘all the good stuff’, and wrote the song for her. His introduction concluded: ‘But as time went on, as years went on, it turned out to be a more generous song than she deserved‘. The audience’s knowing and sympathetic laughter showed they got Browne’s dry reference to Joni Mitchell and her vengeful song, 'Not to Blame'. Pressed about that introduction in an interview, Browne said: ‘The things that come to bear in that song are the healing and acceptance of each other’s differences. That’s what I meant by it being more generous than she deserved.’ In the same interview Browne was asked about the meaning of these lines: 'When you see through love’s illusion there lies the danger, and your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool'. He replied, gnomically: ‘It’s about the fact that when you fall in love with someone, when you’re brokenhearted, you don’t see them as a person.’ (See my blogpost, https://soothfairy.com/2015/03/29/jackson-browne-and-daryl-hannah) | |
| Jackson Browne – For Everyman Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Should you retreat to an elitist escape, or should you hold out for things to improve for everyone? | |
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