This is the same session as Songs For Torching, and to be honest it sounds like one album. I guess there were limitations around what could fit on LPs, otherwise you might imagine this would have been wrapped up in one package.

There are fewer household name songs on this one, and it's none the worse for that. I wonder when her drug problems started to kick in. I'll watch the documentary in the next week or two. It already sounds like she's drifting, absentminded melodies, a soft focus approach.

We're definitely moving in a bluesier direction, no doubt about it, though to be fair I've Got a Right To Sing The Blues is not exactly mournful. Alto sax. There's an instrument you could have a lot of fun with.