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‘It’s not always easy to be a Joni Mitchell fan, but her illness devastates me’

April 6, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Whereas I’m not a fan at all:

I’m too much of a musical nitwit to appreciate her “open tunings” or whatever, and through no fault of her own, she personifies a generation I loathe — writing a song about “Woodstock” without being there, for millions of boomers who weren’t there, either…

But fandom fascinates me, so…

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