Who would uh thunk it? But I was in Duane Reade drugstore on 86th and Lex,
NYC, buying my bottle of water, and who do I hear on the MUSAK but JM
herself, and not just "Help Me" JM or "Big Yellow Taxi" JM or even "Both
Sides Now" JM, but "EDITH AND THE KINGPIN" JM! You don't hear that very
often on your elevator music playlist. So I stood among the batteries and the
greeting cards listening to the end.
What incredibly beautiful music!
Maybe it was some kind of weird prefigurement of the sight later that night
of Joni at the Grammies. She seemed as out of place as "Edith and the
Kingpin" did in Duane Reade.
Paul Peterson
