Hi, gang, Speaking of Joni in fiction, don't you always love it when, in writing about the late sixties, Woodstock (the event) is almost always mentioned, and inevitably, the writer always describes a hush in the crowd as Joni walks onto the stage, and then proceeds to sing the song. As if (a) she'd actually attended, and (b) she'd already written the song before Woodstock had actually happened.
Also -- unrelated -- but since CMIARS has been mentioned a lot lately -- frequently as many people's "worst Joni" album -- didn't anyone else like "Snakes and Ladders"? I thought it was the best song on the album. Admittedly, the theme wasn't exactly new -- rise and fall of a marriage -- but I love the call and response thing going on between Joni and Don Henley. She certainly was into call-and-response on that album, and i remember a fellow Joniphile complaining that she wasn't writing songs anymore -- just dialogs. Anyway, saying "joni's worst album" is like saying "the worst orgasm i ever had was..." warmly, walt
