thanx MG, you asked...i remember playing joni circa 1979,
while i was on the road playing in small alberta towns...singles lounge
music...you plugged into a sleazy shag carpeted lounge and a sleazy motel
room...and you were all alone somehow...i found locals in small town weren't
very approachable...they cam into drink and that was it...and quite intent on
being distant so the 'city slicker' didn't feel above them...23 years
old...would return home to practice...there was really only the joni albums
that spoke of more warmth and hope...until i met ex-wife...who was in age,
looks, and background so similar to joni....her father also
a air-base commander wwII in moose jaw, sask...what journeys we weave...often
the album most going at the time,
lingering on prairie highways was HOSL.thanx for the shared
perception of lesson in survival....shane
