Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We can only look behind from where we came" -- "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed" -- "And the sun poured in like butterscotch" -- "I feel the earth move under my feet" -- "We just come from such different sets of circumstance" -- "In the river I know I will find the key."

"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.