guess what!!!
joni definately is planning a christmas album for next year.
in fact she's already recorded it!!!!
i know someone who works at nonesuch
and he sent me a pre release of most of the songs
she recorded most of them when she did "travelog"
and others he recorded in her home studio
here's the line up
1. river --(no suprise here except she adds a verse
or two from "rockin around the christmas tree")
2. away in the manger--(modled after the mahalia jackson version with percy faith
strings. in fact the strings outstring percy!)
3. santa must be a boogie man (such a clever reworking)
4. the christmas song --(a duet with cher-this one brought tears to my eyes)
5. barangril-- (with a spooky sample of nat king cole coming and going all thru the
song)
6. rudolph the red nosed reindeer--(a fine version altho somewhat marred by joni
saying "nice rudy rudy" oh well)
7. all i want {for christmas is my 2 front teeth}-- (just darling with joni singing
the entire thing in a baby like voice. sigh...)
8. adeste fidelis-- (another duet-this time with bing crosby-although sometimes its
hard to tell who is singing)
9. carole's lawn is sparklin again --(a beautiful sequal to "chinese cafe"
10. that bitch carly simon stole my man--(an original, tho it seems somewhat out of
place here on a holiday album-nice glokinspeil accompaniment though, does add a
festive touch.)
11. the 12 days of christmas -- (i won't spoil the surprise about the wonderful gifts
joni recieves from her true love---altho day 6 she does get "6 cans of moosehead
beer"--ah those canadians--they love their beer)
12. suzy snowflke--(a rather stark reading of the old chestnut, ala "fiddle and the
drum")
13. i've got my love to keep me warm--(very jazzy--very nice--altho joni questionably
uses some mingus dialog outakes, mostly along the lines of "pass the applesauce" and
"are you sure you wanna do this?" and the like)
14. marcies revenge--(sigh--just brilliant)
15. the holly and the ivy--(sung with a very heavy swedish accent)
16. we three kings- joni did a watercolor sketch for this one in the liner
notes--hilariously she used crosby still and nash as the models---the rendering is
amazing--every little wrinkle--ahh that joni-ya gotta love her)
thats it
16 holiday gems
just wait till you hear this one
the threads on this list will never stop!
happy holidays!
walt
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