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Originally Posted by realsavagelike
Edit-- Oh, except according wikipedia that JW song came out in '72. He did say the whole album The Confessor ('85) was about Stevie, though.
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He said that the album wouldn't have gotten made without her, but he's never said any of his songs were about her. Indeed, if you look at the material on
The Confessor, you'd be hard-pressed to associate much of it with Stevie. For instance, he explicitly said "Dear John" was about his former wife.
Joe rarely talks of Stevie, and only does so when asked direct questions about her.
Joe actually said some rude crap about her in the early 90s and made fun of her at his shows when he opened for the Doobie Brothers in 1990, but since he got sober in 1994 he stopped that kind of thing and now, on the few occasions he speaks of her, it's with fondness. I remember him calling her a "good witch" in a 2010 interview with Mark Lane that I'm having trouble finding, or I would link to it.
I'd like to ask him what he thinks about the things Stevie says about him nowadays! Surely he must at least be flattered.
(My apologies for going somewhat off-topic, but this is tangentially related at least)