Holy moses! I've never seen this young Joni stuff!
Great clip.
There's a new book out now about her and her
Blue
period (Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, Hejira). The author had extensive interviews with her and it was fascinating.
She started smoking when she was 9! She'd ride off on her bike and lay in the prairie grass smoking and looking at the clouds.
She had affairs with Leonard Cohen, James Taylor and (most famously) Graham Nash ("Our House"). Lots of songs about those beaus and lots of songs from them in return.
Much of
Blue
goes to her adventures in the hippie cave dwellings in Matala, Greece in 1968-9. That's where she met Carey.
"The Last Time I Saw Richard" was actually about the folk singer Patrick Sky, not her first husband as is often thought.
She had polio when she was young and her left hand is weak. That's why she started investigating unusual guitar tunings - both to make it easy on her hand to play, but also to add depth to her music because she couldn't be a fancy fingerpicker.
There was a really good documentary on Joni a few years back that ran on PBS. [link]
Oooh, looks like you can get it on DVD: [link]
The SO just played mountain dulcimer like that for church two weeks ago. They're a little country church; they really loved it.
eta: It's a super easy instrument to learn. It's open tuning, so pretty much everything you do on it sounds good.
Pete Seeger is celebrating his 90th with a concert at Madison Square Garden with Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Joan Baez, John Mellencamp and others.
I'm there. SO psyched.
The day before I'm going to Bamboozle.
This will cap off my week of music madness which began on Sunday with Fall Out Boy/Cobra Starship and continued on Wednesday with The Bouncing Souls.
I'm there. SO psyched.
Trudy... there will be no kidnapping of Tao...
I may need to be restrained when around Tao, yes...
Hee--I'm listening to my mp3 player with the songs in alphabetical order, and I just about had whiplash when Lyle Lovett's "Church" was followed by Culture Club's "Church of the Poisoned Mind"!
I just about had whiplash when Lyle Lovett's "Church" was followed by Culture Club's "Church of the Poisoned Mind"!
That's kind of awesome.
Hmm. I need some Culture Club on my iPod...
So at the screening of the Bubblegum documentary there was a live performance by the Sour Grapes Bunch (not the actual ones, but go-go-girls) which is captured here.
