From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #848 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, June 26 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 848 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Paul Simon [Michel BYRNE ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:01:15 +0000 From: Michel BYRNE Subject: RE: Paul Simon I agree, Dave, that the Paul Simon claim has always seemed pretty preposterous, as well as demeaning to a fellow songwriter (and a great one at that). It first surfaced in public in an interview between Joni and Elvis Costello, in the '90s, I think. Unless, of course, Joni heard from some credible source that Simon was influenced by her. Perhaps this is just Joni's very idiosyncratic (and egocentric!) way of saying that she consciously changed her own lyric style in reaction to Paul Simon's overloading (in the 1990 Rhythm of the Saints, for example)... M ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #848 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------