"PAUL PETERSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Here's a piece by John Rockwell, someone with a history of personal = >antipathy towards Joni's art.
Actually, Rockwell's history is that of admiration, as he writes: "As a longtime admirer of Ms. Mitchell ... I thought of her song 'Amelia,' which was once my prime evidence when I called her a 20th-century American Schubert." >The idea that John Kelly is a better >singer than Joni, past, present or future, is absurd! He doesn't say that at all; he clearly writes: "Right now, the best live Joni Mitchell is the countertenor-falsettist-drag artist John Kelly in his periodic revivals of his Joni Mitchell act, fabled in downtown Manhattan. Mr. Kelly sings Ms. Mitchell far better than she sings herself now." For what it's worth, John Rockwell is one of the few music critics I've admired, and although there are things about Travelogue I enjoy I do share many of his reservations about it, chiefly that at its worst it is bloated and self-indulgent. -Fred P.S. Rockwell mistakenly attributes the arrangements to Larry Klein instead of Vince Mendoza, and I wrote to the NYT to inform them of the error.
