Best-selling book brings back painful memories for Simon

Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

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Winehouse Dominates Grammys From Afar

Amy Winehouse, Herbie Hancock and Kanye West didn't provide quite enough drama to enthrall television viewers. Preliminary estimates Monday indicate the Grammy Awards telecast was watched by 17.5 million people.

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Joni Mitchell's Muse Returns on 'Shine'

A few years ago, Joni Mitchell had rejected her musical muse, refusing to write or even play music as she devoted her life to painting, watching old movies on TV and reconnecting to the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965.

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Bylin's probing interview of Amanda Palmer is a hard hitting perspective about the relationship of musicians to the larger entities they aspire to have relationships with in order to "Make It".

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Talking about Woodstock is like talking about the Second World War," says Graham Nash, whose recall of the three-day festival which defined the hippie dream for decades, gives the lie to the adage that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there.

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Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock"?

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Against a pop landscape dominated by musicians who write their own songs, cover albums often loom as wild cards. Sets devoted to material from other artists can reveal sides to our favorite stars that we never knew existed, sometimes exciting but as often flat-out embarrassing.

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Jane Devin has written a wonderful article on Rosie O'Donnell, her controversies and generational influences.

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The title track is about a woman who is being treated as part of her husband's portfolio, with the central image an imagining that the sprinklers on suburban lawns are in some way expressing disapproval at the materialistic culture contained in those houses...."

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Five years after she told the 'pornographic pigs' of the music industry she was through, Joni Mitchell is back: feisty, funny and doing a mean Dylan impression. By Paul Sexton

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Crooks & Liars put this up: Joni Mitchell has always been a favorite of mine. Her work has the same relevance now that it did when she wrote them in her 20s, and the subsequent years have only brought more poignance to her lyrics.

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