A Case of You

I never rewrote much of anything.

Here I would see page after page where she's rewritten something like A Case of You.

She's rewritten it like four or five times.

And I'm going, that's way beyond what I've been willing to commit.

So artists would debut songs in concert first.

But Joni, you can imagine her singing River and, and Case Of You, and then you've got to sort of memorize them on one hearing and have the feeling of them and the playing.

And then you went, sat, and we listened.

We went and bought the record the day it came out and sat at Tony's house and listened to it for a whole day.

he

always also do a cover of A Case of You? Yes.

The Joni Mitchell.

That's actually one of the first like songs I heard of him.

At Paisley Park, he performed intimate shows in which he revisited songs from throughout his career.

He played songs associated with his earlier years, including Seventeen Days, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, sometimes as in April, The Beautiful Ones, and A Case of You.

And there was something particularly moving about the concept.

Prince, who had spent his entire life reinventing himself, was now stripping everything back.

Right?

What is this? Oh, the photo of her singing, uh, Case of You? Yeah.

Okay.

She took out the dulcimer recently, and she went...

Can you tell me which tracks? Can you remember which tracks?

No, the Case of You.

Case of You,

which I

always thought was something she'd done with the guitar because she's always been famous for her interesting tunings.

California.

Probably a case of you.

Okay.

And