

Now it’s all over the place, and people talk about it, and they’re open about it. “In 1992 there really wasn’t very much about it in the bookstores or any resource. I think that’s the most important part of it that people don’t talk about it very much, and I think there’s been enough talk that’s gone on since he committed suicide that there was never at that point. Probably there are ways to deal with the taboo. “It’s always been a possibility, and some people do it, and some people don’t. She wrote Sanity and Grace: A Journal of Suicide, Survival, and Strength about her loss and how she dealt with it. There’s a shadow, but I’ve done a lot of work on it, and hopefully offered help to other people and feel that it’s something that we have to acknowledge is part of being human.”

“It’s always painful, but it comes and goes. Losing her son Clark Taylor to suicide in 1992 was different story. In other words, for someone who discovered Joni Mitchell and walked away from a relationship with Steven Stills who wrote “(Suite) Judy Blue Eyes” to woo her back, the pandemic became a gift more than a challenge. We found people that are working and studios that were good, and we had a great time doing that.

Then, we found this studio that was operating in 2020, and we did another session, and then we did two more in 2021. “We did our first recording session on this album in 2019. That’s a great gift, an incredible gift.”Ĭovid restrictions were not a problem. So, it gave me the time to contemplate and work on these songs, and that was fantastic. So, I work on that aspect with the sequencing. “(Variation) is a very important aspect of the show because a lot of what I do is tell stories, and I need to get a set together that’s going to increase the possibility that the stories will be fresh and new. She varies her extensive repertoire every night, using her presentation of the songs as inspiration to relay anecdotes of a life well spent. After not only surviving her son’s death three decades ago, but breaking a cultural taboo of the time by writing about it on book called Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength, she saw the pandemic as an opportunity to create new poetry and turn that poetry into music on Spellbound.
