Joe Hall is extraordinary. What a character! I will never forget hearing him and the Continental Drift do "Los Hablos Telefonos". Saw them at an outdoor thing with Buffy Sainte-Marie one time. Both acts were as good as it gets.

Met Joe 20 years later in Orillia one time, at another outdoor thing.

Neil Young's tunes can be very catchy. I don't consider him to be what I would call an outstanding lyricist...but every now and then he comes up with something quite memorable.

As for coasting on the past...well, the guy who most does not do that is Dylan. He remains astonishingly unique and unpredictable.

- LH