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May 3, 2023
I like your interpretations. It seems clear, from my reading about it, that the woman in the song was Cathy Smith, a rock groupie associated first with Levon Helm, then with Lightfoot (and others), who became infamous for administering the speedball that killed John Belushi in 1982. So she did apparently function at times as "a drug connection"; and she did seem to be the sort that could trigger both passionate feelings and strong jealousy from the men who got interested in her. She seems both to have valued, and to have exercised, her independence.