The Importance of Humor in Music

Steve Hill: I had a book called, it was an omnibus of bad poetry. He wrote some bad poetry about a kid and his dad playing the banjo. "It might make a good country song," he says; 'Daddy Played the Bad Jo' The two began writing songs together after meeting singer Edie Brekell who later married Steve's friend Paul Simon.Hill: She would send the banjo line, line the form and everything,. And then she would lyricize it and often change the lick.