welcome, mary, and thanks for the bio. i lived in sacramento for many years (77-80, 82-86) and always loved it. first fell in love there, danced for jazzworks (now dale scholl dancearts) capitol city ballet (now defunct) even performed at music circus. went to sac state for, like, nine years!
Neil >Finn, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rickee Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, Janis Ian, >David Gray. i love your musical co-travellers. every one of these folks has bunches of fans here. i think me'shell and rickie lee are perhaps the biggest favs, here, from your list. >sure how much I am missing out on by not "having everything". i'm now a huge 'completist' and wouldn't be without a single second of joni, but the early eighties albums were definitely uneven. however, if you haven't bought night ride home and turbulent indigo, you are in for a huge treat. I have had >the pleasure of seeing Joni in concert twice in recent years. Once with >Bob and Van and the other time on the Both Sides Now tour. many many of us saw both of these tours too. you may enjoy reading the concert reviews on jonimitchell.com. >Are the rumors of a new Joni CD true? absolutely, and apparently it's in the can. no release date announced. if you remember the bsn tour, after they had played the album through, she did five additional songs with orchestra arrangements. that's the basis of the new album, more joni originals in new arrangements. i'm extremely excited. 'hejira' and 'for the roses' and 'moon at the window' were particularly amazing in that tour (i saw two shows.) i think we've actually heard of a tracklist (maybe posted here at some point). there's also a major cover album that i think was finished a long time ago and for some reason it hasn't been released. includes annie lennox' version of 'ladies of the canyon' and sarah maclachlan's 'blue', and a bunch of covers by some big folks. (k.d. lang covering 'help me', like she did on the tnt tribute a couple of years back.) it is a great list. i've been on for (wow, i think it's five years next month) and there are things called jonifests, gatherings of people from all over creation, first one in '98, and i've been to most of them. craziness, but wonderful craziness. we've had some difficult times on the list, but mostly good. and new people always make it more interesting, and usually better. much joni, patrick np - (now playing) - fauri - requiem
