Thanks for sending the review, Penny. But I wonder how Julia and her fans/list may have reacted to it. I found the reviewer very condescending in portraying her as some kind of "Joni-wannabe." As far as I'm concerned she has always stood completely on her own and other than sharing an immense talent in voice and songwriting with Joni, she has never been "like" Joni at all to my ears. She is completely unique. Then he makes it sound like all the credit for her new album or new "direction" goes to Klein. Puleeze! She has created a number of incredible and outstanding prior albums without the assistance of Mr. Klein, thankyouverymuch. And she is not just now starting to explore her "Minnie Riperton" soul side, either. She has always had the range of Minnie and has always showed it off beautifully. "Carving her niche" blah, blah
BAH!! Kakki, getting increasingly crankier in her old age ;-)
