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Nov 15 01:28 UTC 2001

  Lately I've been listening to a lot of Emmylou Harris, particularly
  several more recent albums ("Wrecking Ball", "Spyboy", and "Red Dirt Girl",
  all courtesy of the King County Library..)  Although it's probably the
  weakest of those three albums, I've been listening to two tracks from
  "Spyboy" over and over:  "Tulsa Queen" and "My Songbird"..

  I was interested enough in "My Songbird" to use the All Music Guide
  (always deserving of a plug:  http://www.allmusic.com ) to track down
  its origins.  It's apparently the work of a guy named Jesse Winchester,
  who was apparently an up-and-coming folkie in the 60s until he fled to
  Canada to avoid being sent to Vietnam.  For several reasons this seems
  to have dealt a death-blow to his career -- at any rate he was forgotten
  enough that I'd never heard of him.  Does anyone more familiar with the
  music of that era remember anything about him or have any opinions about
  his music?  "My Songbird" is a heartbreaking song, at least as Emmylou
  performs it..