What do you mean, so what? Why shouldn't Bob be held
accountable for his "inappropriate" use of sources?
Imagine what HE'D be like with the shoe on the other
foot if "Nettie Moore" had been swiped from him.
Candice
--- MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I can't argue with that list, whatever Bob lifted
> from civil war poets
> (so what? as others have remarked) - and I haven't
> even heard the new
> Lucinda Williams yet (still reeling from WWT),
> though I might choose
> Elvis Costello or Gillian Welch instead of Joni
> Mitchell.
> mj
> Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
> > The only recent Cohen album I haven't liked is
> Dear Heather. I think
> > Ten New
> > Songs, The Future & this new Blue Alert are all
> fine. There's only one
> > clunker on Blue Alert, but I leave it to you to
> find it. Anjani's voice
> > seems the perfect vehicle.
> >
> > Neil Young's lyrics are often appalling, I think:
> Portentous claptrap,
> > romantic sap, bad & I mean really bad rhymes. But
> when he sings them with
> > Crazyhorse, it all makes perfect sense to me.
> >
> > In the spirit of Hornby's novel, which is full of
> Top Five Lists, here
> > are
> > my top five contemporary pop lyricists:
> >
> > 1. Bob Dylan
> > 2. Tom Waits
> > 3. Joni Mitchell
> > 4. Leonard Cohen
> > 5. Lucinda Williams
> >
> > jd
> >
>
> --
>
> The art of being civilized is the art of learning to
> read between the lies. - Kenneth Rexroth
>
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