In the Satuday Globe and Mail (Canada's National Newspaper, which I read
religiously every Saturday morn) there was a great little bit about k.d.
Lang's desert island discs, as noted recently in Downbeat Magazine. Downbeat
asked the 41-year-old native of Consort, Alberta to name the five recordings
she would need lf stranded on the proverbial desert island. Bobs take note:
Her choices: Hejira by Joni Mitchell (yeah!); Latin a la Love, by Peggy Lee;
Season of Glass by Yoko Ono (not for the faint of heart); the songs Let's Get
Lost and Lush Life, as performed, respectively, by Chet Baker and Johnny
Hartman with J. Coltrane, and Warm Valley or Blood Count by long-time
Ellington saxophonist, Johnnny Hodges. Ya got to give her credit, this lady's
got taste, eh!
The same day I read this, I read on the Joan Baez list-service digest -- I've had several days' backlog of JB and JM list digests to read -- a post containing the full text of a magazine or newspaper article, an interview with Ms. Baez where she names Joni's "Turbulent Indigo" (describing it as "so beautiful") and a Leonard Cohen album (which I can't now identify; that digest has been deleted from my account) as two for her desert-island collection. And to sort of close the loop, new JMDL member Emiliano (!Bienvenido! Bemvindo! Bienvenu! Benevenuto!) signs off one of his posts with NP: Silver Dagger -- Joan Baez.
Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A.
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