Some people strum a guitar with a pick and some strum with their fingers and some folks

who strum with their fingers use their nails which are basically little picks.

Whether you're playing finger style with a pick or some sort of weird hybrid thing, the

important thing in the end is that you're hitting the string.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about music

strummed with a pick, music made with just fingers and sometimes music made with nails

that sound like picks.

This is a listener supported podcast which means that I keep making it because you all

pay to support it, there's Patreon and PayPal links for just that down on the show notes

and while it's easy to just sort of listen and assume other folks will chip in to support

Strong Songs, it feels really good to actually support independent shows that you like.

On this episode, a song by one of the most beloved, celebrated and widely requested singer

songwriters of all time, a beguiling artist who effortlessly merged folk and jazz into

something all her own and someone I'm really excited to talk about.

So hey, let's tune up and get into it.

When you say a song is about love, that doesn't actually tell anyone all that much.

Saying a song is about love is kind of like saying it's in the key of F or it's played

on an acoustic guitar.

It tells you something but there are so many different ways to play in the key of F,

so many different ways to play an acoustic guitar and of course there are so many different

ways that a musician can talk about love.

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