[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Very interesting observations! I've felt that the music was intended to
> sound this way for the very same reasons. What amazes me is that the period
> pieces, Edith and also the title tune, sound so much like my own memories of
> childhood. My Mom listened to Herb Alpert a lot and I have vivid memories of
> playing in the sprinkler on the lawn in the late afternoon sunlight while
> this music was playing. When I hear those muted horns on Hissing (The song)
> I am completely reminded of Herb Alpert, and childhood and summertime. Just
> another way that Joni has painted with words and music and the accurate
> colors of the way she chose the music to sound.
Funny. As much as I was not much enamored of HOSL when it came out, I think it
sounds much less dated than DED or WTRF.
Jerry
np: some great blues on WMNF
