> First off I have to say one of the best feelings of the album has to be when > Jaco's base spills into the intro of Cotton Avenue...
So true, Erica, and I think it completes the thread that ends Hejira. Listen to the end of "Refuge Of The Roads" with the volume cranked way up, and dig the bass bombs that Jaco ends with. Like the curtain drawing on Act I. Then the curtain rises again on DJRD with that dreamy soundscape that is Joni's vocal and guitar, and then Jaco comes in, and it's almost like Joni is saying, "I'm back, and I brought my friends!" ;~) I was blown away the first time I heard Cotton Ave. and continued to be so to this day. > Then I was wondering if anyone else might also see how possible a song like > "Talk 2 Me" might rub you in an Ani Defranco kind of way. I was wondering if > she was influenced by this album at all. I don't know much Ani, but what I > have heard I definitely liked. How can she not be moved by > joni?? She has in no subtle way said that Joni was a major influence. Indeed, when you hear her work you know that the statement is superfluous; Joni's stamp is all over Ani's work. I'd imagine that DJRD was one of the more influential records for Ani, but I've not heard anything to that effect. Keep digging it, Bob NP: Bruce, "Light of Day" 8/22/99
