Anyone else love Welcome to the Room... Sara????

[Johnny Stew]

I like "Welcome To The Room... Sara" quite well.
Not one of my all time favorites, or anything, but I think it's a pretty impressive song.

You have to give Stevie a lot of credit for writing about her experiences in rehab, which had to be both humiliating and harrowing for her.

A reviewer once compared Stevie's writing style to that of David Crosby's... and in the fact that they both write extremely introspective, "navel-gazing" kinds of songs, that's definitely true.

One of the great things about this track, and so many of Stevie's other songs, is that even though we know what it's about, it's still open-ended enough to allow for our own interpretations.

It takes guts to write that honestly... even if Stevie does put a pretty little bow on it, to help make it more palatable to the masses.

I think quite a few people actually enjoy this song... but being that it's so often lambasted, most people are afraid to admit it.

And, of course, now that this thread has been started, let's see how many people jump in to bash it.

Nature of the beast, I guess.