The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.