Jan 21, 2021
Today, legendary songwriter and Semisonic
frontman Dan Wilson joins me to talk about the
Joni Mitchell masterpiece that
isn’t ‘Blue’ - 1976's
‘Hejira’.
We talk about where the title came from, how a teenage infatuation
led Dan to Joni, why Jaco Pastorius is like
Hannibal Lector, the album’s lyrical themes of groundedness vs
freedom, key songs like Amelia and Furry Sings the Blues and how Dan’s relationship
with the album changed when he started writing his own songs.