great question, michael.... isn't it funny how this joni obsession of ours affects our families/friends, whether they want to be affected or not?
gisele, my partner, had never heard of joni before she met me. she was a devotee of country music, almost exclusively, so joni wasn't even on her radar, much less on her turntable. when we first got together, we did that CD swap you've-just-GOT-to-listen-to-this thing, and, because she's a singer/songwriter, i sent her home with joni. she was immediately hooked - on what i sent. she LOVES blue and c&s and stas and ti. she tolerates hissing and djrd, and detests mingus. but i still consider her a convert. she's coming to the fest and everything..... and i caught her the other day looking through "poems and lyrics"! my ex-husband wasn't a fan. he didn't fuss too much when joni was on the CD player, but he never really *got* it, either. but i happened to walk into the room one day while he was asking his father, a minister, what an "upstairs choir" was, if he'd ever heard of such a thing. guess he was listening, after all! and margaret, my 10-year old. she and i take turns in the car - i pick a CD, then she picks a CD. she always sighs when i choose joni (though not as loudly as i sigh when she picks n*stink!!), but her eyes sure lit up last week when we heard BYT in the grocery store. maybe there's hope, huh? _______________________________________ Cindy Vickery Daniel Corporation 205-443-4718 direct 205-443-4615 facsimile http://www.danielcorp.com/
