Greetings, Joni fans. I found some really interesting (interesting to me, anyway) Joni recordings and thought this would be a good excuse to re-join the list. (It's been a long time, and I was always more of a lurker than a poster anyway, but perhaps some of you remember me.)
All of the recordings seem to pre-date the Miles of Aisles album. The earliest probably dates back to 1969 (?)... some of the song titles on the disc I have are just plain wrong, and the audio quality on this one is rather poor. The first track is "Night In The City." It's listed on the CD I have as "Lights Out In Georgia." The next one is a song I've never heard, "Gift of the Magi," (which Joni adapted to a poem and then a song lyric from the O'Henry story of the same name.) She does several other songs from the early days, including "Morning Morgantown" (she hits a few wrong notes on this one) and "For Free." The last track on the disc is "The Fiddle And The Drum," but the disc lists it as "And So Once Again." Does anybody have any clue as to where this recording came from? The next one is a show with Joni and James Taylor. The first track is Taylor's "Steamroller." Joni then sings "The Gallery." There are several songs from Blue on this one, and the last song is "The Circle Game." The audio quality on this disc is much better. I'm wondering if this is the BBC radio show Joni and James Taylor did in London... anybody have a guess? I'm in the process of cleaning up the recordings right now. There are two other discs, one called "Winter Lady" and the other called "Spring Songs." They both have songs I've never heard before. Is there a Joni bootlegs expert on the list? If so, please chime in. - John in North Carolina
