by Joni Mitchell wrote:By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong.
Metrically perfect, the spirit of a hopeful decade in a few words.
Paul Simon (in Graceland) wrote:The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar.
An immediate and compelling visual image for the Great Big Muddy under sunshine, the National being the shiniest of all guitars:
But also, if you want them, there are other levels. As home of Delta Blues, the Mississippi can be thought of as 'the national guitar', the source of its music, in the same way that the Great Plains are 'the national bread-basket'. Also, the Delta is the wide spreading area at the end of the river's long 'neck', so it's (loosely) a topographic guitar slung from the nation's shoulders.
And a simpler one:
Bob Seger wrote:Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
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