My never-ending search for Joni covers has given me lots of fun contacts. I mentioned a week or so ago about a German jazz trio named "My Flexible Friends". I was excited about their CD as they've done a cover of "You Dream Flat Tires", a Joni tune I love (I'm in the minority, I think), and the only YDFT cover I'm aware of! Anyway, thanks to Helga my interpreter, the CD is on its way...I asked Birgit (the vocalist) how they came to select this song to cover, here's her response which I thought some of might find enjoyable:
"Let me tell you that we (my flexible friends) once were two musicians, the bass player and me, the voice. We made music together for some years with a jazzband and with a showband (Top 40 and (for us) horrible things like that, but good music often does not bring lots of money, you know...) One day we did one more soundcheck for a boring gig, and there was that incredible room in a museum where we had the gig, and the other musicians except the bassman and me weren4t ready. The bass player started to play some notes of another Joni Mitchell song called MOON AT THE WINDOW, and I began to sing, and it sounded so very strong and good, and we looked at each other and I think we both knew that we had found something new at this moment. It was a moment four years ago, and still we do that song on stage but we don4t have a good studio version . These days we play the song with our third man, the drummer, There are just 2 J.M. songs in our program, Joni is too unusual to cover lots of her songs, we tried to play her phantastic version of Goodbye Pork Pie H. but we almost despaired ... ... So I hope you will enjoy our music, it is a very good feeling to know that our little CD will be in the USA (WOW), all you will hear we did on our own without a label or a manager or a producer or anyone else, except the man who recorded the songs. Tell us if you like it, and even tell us if you don4t because we want to know why, I4m serious!" All I can say is I'm pretty jacked to hear it... Bob NP: Dylan, "Honest With Me"
