You are in good company, admirers of Joni! Mr. Stu, I read w/alacrity your piece and enjoyed the cruise down Memory Lane. As a teen in the early 70's I wore out my vinyl of Court&Spark, memorizing Twisted, as my robust effort to protest my parents' sending me to a NYC therapist in '75.
Her (for lack of a better term) studs always impressed me: Beatty, Browne among them. I learned from the link that David Geffen inspired the Free Man in Paris. Who knew? Now, I do! And there you go.
Thanks so much for sharing the link to Jon Dale's 2017 Uncut Magazine piece about Joni's "Court and Spark" album! I wish I'd read it before penning my "Musical Interludes" piece; I certainly could've added more details (many of which were news to me!) about the musicians she worked with. "Who knew?" indeed! (I wish I could've edited Jon Dale's piece, however; for one thing, I would have corrected his misuse of the term "fulsome.")
As to the men in Joni's life (not that it's really anyone else's business, I suppose), I recently learned that she had been involved with James Taylor. Love is indeed strange, and I guess he's not the only heroin user and former mental patient whom women have still somehow managed to find attractive, but it represents another aspect of the question "Why do women choose the men they do?" that I will never understand.
Grooveyard? I like it!
You are in good company, admirers of Joni! Mr. Stu, I read w/alacrity your piece and enjoyed the cruise down Memory Lane. As a teen in the early 70's I wore out my vinyl of Court&Spark, memorizing Twisted, as my robust effort to protest my parents' sending me to a NYC therapist in '75.
You inspired an internet read:
https://jonimitchell.com/music/album.cfm?id=7
Her (for lack of a better term) studs always impressed me: Beatty, Browne among them. I learned from the link that David Geffen inspired the Free Man in Paris. Who knew? Now, I do! And there you go.
Thanks so much for sharing the link to Jon Dale's 2017 Uncut Magazine piece about Joni's "Court and Spark" album! I wish I'd read it before penning my "Musical Interludes" piece; I certainly could've added more details (many of which were news to me!) about the musicians she worked with. "Who knew?" indeed! (I wish I could've edited Jon Dale's piece, however; for one thing, I would have corrected his misuse of the term "fulsome.")
As to the men in Joni's life (not that it's really anyone else's business, I suppose), I recently learned that she had been involved with James Taylor. Love is indeed strange, and I guess he's not the only heroin user and former mental patient whom women have still somehow managed to find attractive, but it represents another aspect of the question "Why do women choose the men they do?" that I will never understand.