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WEBMISTRESS speculates:
[If you want a laugh, read the following interpretation that I made in ignorance - but the real deal is below in Jamie's speculation!] Who is Johnny Stew? I think it's Lindsey with Multiple Personality Disorder! A "stew" of different aspects of Lindsey! The "Johnny" aspect sounds like the superstar one he puts on for the crowds (like Stevie's in Sisters of the Moon). Everybody wants something from him, and while people think "they kn[o]w him", he's still been "left alone." Still, "everybody's talking about" him, they want to know everything about him, and it's a strain. That strain shows in his music - "it takes a worried man to sing a worried song." And that just makes him fodder for more talk - like my speculations, for instance! P.S. What's with the funky noises at the end?
JAMIE speculates:
I think (or rather read) that "Johnny Stew" is written about John Stewart, a man from the Kingston Trio whom Lindsey taught himself to play guitar from by listening to the records his older brother had. Though John Stewart played the banjo (this is why Lindsey picks the strings on his guitars with his fingers, rather than using a pick). The lyric "It takes a worried man to sing a worried song" is a line from the Kingston Trio song "..." Funny thing is that John Stewart learned to play the electric guitar from listening to Lindsey on the Buckingham Nicks album. They taught themselves how to play the guitar. Funny thing. By the way, John Stewart wrote a song called "Liddy Buck" about Lindsey.