Carey

<p>Cary's picaresque <strong>memoirs </strong>close-focus on his friendship with <strong>Joni Mitchell</strong> during the time while she wrote and composed the <strong><em>Blue Album</em></strong>.</p><p>In 1970 Joni and Carey met in <strong>Matala Crete</strong> fell in love and lived in a cave by the Mediterranean. For his twenty-fourth birthday present Joni wrote him <strong>the song Carey.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>All this is public knowledge; however <strong><em>Carey: Genesis of the Song</em></strong><em> </em>delves beneath superficial fan-facts found in biographies of Joni. <em>Carey</em>'s <strong>back story</strong> reveals how powerful life-forces awakening and dark-night experiences and travel adventures imprint into his character. The memoir traces Joni and Carey's interlaced paths from <strong>Crete to Hollywood</strong> to the <strong>1970 Isle of Wight Festival</strong> London and New York with Joni and <strong>James Taylor</strong> and back to California when in 1971 Reprise Records releases the <em>Blue</em> album. </p><p><br></p><p>In this year-in-the-life story while Joni was composing <em>Blue a</em> mutual quest for authenticity beauty and independence bonded them. As the memoir draws to a close Cary fast-forwards from 1971 to fifteen years later at a dinner party in his New York apartment where Joni is a guest. Cary ponders the meaning of the songs on <em>Blue</em> and the effect the album has had on his life.</p>