Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:26:26 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.......
"Have you ever grown to love any of Joni's work many years after it was released? Am I going to be put in the JMDL slow class for admitting this? " WELCOME TO THE CATCHING UP CLUB... I am catching up after a 16 year gap... and catching up on Joni is not something you can rush is it. Also I think Joni's music is something that when you come back to it, you discover what it was you had been missing...."you don't know what you've got til its gone" I had to go out and buy my vinyl Joni's on CD when my ex and I split as he took the record deck and HIfi system. But Joni had just about been banned in our house anyway so I had rarely had a chance to listen to her in the 16 years I was with my ex...Pathetic isn't it! I am not that person anymore and Joni's music has played a huge part in that. I had "boarded the train" with BLUE, but now realise that "Ladies of the Canyon" was when I started to hear Joni. I had bought Court and Spark and played it to death, and Hissing too..... but there are huge gaps in my collection and indeed my listening until 4 years ago, when I finally bought my house and was free to buy and listen to what I wanted. I had the luck to meet someone who lent me some of their Joni CD's which I stored on my Real Player. (Shadows and Light, DJRD, Mingus, Turbulent Indigo, Both Sides Now) but gradually I am buying my own copies as I hate to be harnessed to the computer. I have yet to hear Taming the Tiger, and quite a few of the other albums, but I wlll get there.... I bought T'Log and it grows on me. This train will run and run. A turning point for me was a wonderful spring day, in 2000, and I had bought bunches of daffodils and irises, had cleaned the house (for once) had the windows open and sunlight was pouring in at the back of the house, birds were singing and everything looked glazed in that freshness that April has to it... I turned on the radio and "Chelsea MOrning" started to play, as if it had been waiting for me. I stood in my kichen and realised for the first time in years that I was happy. Joni's music playing loudly in my house and no one to turn it off, and no one to criticise the buying of flowers..... And coming back to Joni, or even discovering her older works ..... only 4 years ago... is something I am enjoying sooo much, the lists, whether Joni only or the digest list, are wonderful places to gain different view points on what the songs are about. In art appreciation the "beholders share" is important to the person looking at the painting...... I think the "listeners share" is something I am finding as hearing Joni unlocks me from a rather lonely aural tomb! Thank you, Murph, for admitting your newness to some of it too....I don't feel such a twit! Lucy, on a very Chelsea morning in England.
