Oh my, that was so fine. This hour is all about the Joni I fell in love with in 1968. As a matter of fact there is a segment shown from the first time I saw her--a black and white CBC presentation where she plays Circle Game and fingers a chord with her index finger over the top of the neck.
There's wonderful home movie footage both of her growing up and after she moves to California, as well as pictures from her wedding to Chuck (no love lost there, as Catherine has pointed out). Plus short clips of Joni singing in her folk club days and performing "Blues in the Bottle" with Chuck (I get the feeling that she was the draw in that duo: the performance was pretty standard folk fare except for the fact that Joni's voice was so divine.) My eyes got kinda misty a few times, watching clips of Joni swaying in the long velvet dresses she wore at all of the concerts I got to see in the late 60's. Did I mention I was so in love with her? For about 20 years? Interesting though that the first hour brings us only up to about 1970. That leaves one hour to span from 1970 to today. What I want now is to have access to all the footage and sound files that they used to compile this portrait. I must have it!!!! This is definitely a "no warts" portrait but that's the way I like my Joni best. Rick, rewinding as we speak.
