I'm trying unsuccessfully to remember who was talking about her last night (NOT Liam Clancy) but he was saying she was little more than a teenager hanging out in the village when they met. Not having seen her for weeks or maybe months, he spotted her one cold February day, and asked where she'd been. She told him in Florida. He wondered at her lack of a suntan, and she explained she'd been indoors most of the time because Albert (Grossman, her manager - and Gord's) wanted her to be the pale blond in the trio, which strategizing completely turned him off. You can almost watch the seam splitting between folksinging 'purists' and the development of the folksinger as commercial product in this film. Fascinating.
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