Reply #59: Yep, I gotta add more comment re Joan Baez

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I had bought her album (I think it was on "Honest Lullaby") and she did Simple Twist of Fate. And I went "Aha! THAT's how the melody goes!" And yes, she was to canned and mass-produced but I didn't really hear that song as being that beautiful until I heard her do it. It is one I used to try to play with on the guitar, with the guitar book to watch the chord changes and semi-remember the words, but only after I heard Joan show me how the melody is supposed to go.

I don't know if loving Bob Dylan came 'instant' to me, I think the first song that grabbed me was Knockin on Heaven's Door, I actuallly went out and bought the 45 rpm. It was back in those days.

People are of many different vibrations. I remember a galfriend of mine said opera music brought her to tears. It about brings me crawling outa my skin. I like a variety of music but not EVERY kind of music . . . .

I think discussing this kind of thing with music here is fascinating. (We really do need a separate thread to do justice to the Neil Young topic.)