Ric, here's my complete list, after much enjoyable listening and mind-changing:
Urge for Going (deceptively simple and with basic Joni themes; plus any beginning
songwriter who writes such a pleasing tune and lyrics like "I'll lock the vagrant
winter out and I'll fold my wandering in" is going places)
STAS:
Night in the City
Cactus Tree
CLOUDS:
Roses Blue
Tin Angel
LOTC:
Conversation
For Free
BLUE:
Carey
River
FTR:
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
Judgement of the Moon and Stars
C&S:
Free Man in Paris
Trouble Child
HOSL:
Don't Interrupt the Sorrow
Harry's House/Centerpiece
HEJIRA:
Coyote
Hejira
DJRD:
Dreamland
Silky Veils of Ardor
MINGUS:
God Must Be a Boogie Man
Dry Cleaner from Des Moines (including Mingus talking about being lucky)
WTRF:
Be Cool
Wild Things Run Fast
DED:
Impossible Dreamer
Ethiopia
CM:
My Secret Place
A Bird that Whistles
NRH:
Night Ride Home
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
TI:
Magdalene Laundries
How Do You Stop
TTT:
Harlem in Havana
Stay in Touch
BSN:
A Case of You
Comes Love
And also give him the S&L cd so he can hear some Joni classics and good jazz too.
It seems too jarring to intersperse her live recordings with the studio albums, and
too confusing timewise.
Tough choices, and really difficult being limited to only two songs from some of
the cds and leaving off some favorites in an attempt to please the Prof. It would
be easier to make a list of what NOT to give him.
I look forward to reading your final choices, Ric. Every list so far makes me go,
oh yeah, of course, he HAS to hear that one, so... good luck to you.
Debra Shea
NP: Joni singing Stay in Touch. I like this cd more each time I listen and this is
an especially tender and beautiful song. "let the worries hush..."
