>>saying she would never take another deal in the record business, "which means I may not record again".<<
who knows... but NEVER taking another record deal is one thing... & MAY not record again is another...hope springs eternal... pssst....Joni, you can do this on your own...you don't need no stinkin record company...there is a lot of great music out there! pay no attention to what the mainstream biz is producing these days...you won't find it too much of it there...that doesn't mean it isn't alive & well...your songs stand up on their own...remember when you recorded with just a vocal & guitar/piano? & blew us all away...c'mon...you still have a lot to say... stephen wrote >>But she said: "no one wants to listen to what I have to say." She seemed extremely pissed, and rightly so, that she has not received the "recognition" she truly deserves.<< i know she feels this way & i can understand where she is coming from only in the context of where the music biz has gone...but i believe she is looking in the wrong direction for recognition...the music biz is indeed as she describes it but so what?...she can just go around it...i really wish she'd stop looking at her music reflected through the biz & start looking at what other folks (especially woman) have done recently ... 2 great examples are jonatha brooke & aimee mann...they've had more success & recognition on their own terms than they ever had when they had a record deal...joni may not have the widespread commercial success of some other, less talented, 'artists', but that has never been her priority... she has a significant fan base that i am convinced would buy an album of her new songs (!) if she were to release them independently & she'd be keeping all the profits from the sales instead of handing it over to a label... ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ********************************************
