I have four bootleg recordings of Joni’s evolution of “Coyote” from her first performance in Augusta, Maine, on November 28, 1975, to the nearly finished version performed in NYC on December 8, 1975. It’s an interesting trek of an artist at work.
In that recording of “Coyote” in Gordon Lightfoot’s house, you can hear an uncredited violin, which I imagine must be Scarlet Rivera, who was Bob Dylan’s “Queen of Swords” on the tour in his own coyote story.
I have four bootleg recordings of Joni’s evolution of “Coyote” from her first performance in Augusta, Maine, on November 28, 1975, to the nearly finished version performed in NYC on December 8, 1975. It’s an interesting trek of an artist at work.
In that recording of “Coyote” in Gordon Lightfoot’s house, you can hear an uncredited violin, which I imagine must be Scarlet Rivera, who was Bob Dylan’s “Queen of Swords” on the tour in his own coyote story.