i have just discovered that the best way to convert joni haters into joni
fans is to use BSN and travelogue. amazing! i don't even like those two, but
i've been trying them out on friends who before would have run out of the
room if i mentioned joni, and it works! it makes me wonder. is it because
bsn and t'log are NOT mitchellesque enough? when i play the original
versions of the tracks on t'log, the subjects of my experiment say they
prefer the new versions, particularly amelia and love. so i wonder if i'm
doing joni a service or quite the opposite. do you get what i mean?
A (sort-of) similar experience: I learned last night a friend of mine has
become a Joni fan recently, through Both Sides Now and Hits/Misses. Actually
it started when he heard Magdalene Laundries on the Chieftains' Tears of
Stone album. Anyway, he has long been a fan of 'divas' ("all divas, all the
time," he says), so BSN was a pretty good entry port for him. I want to hook
him no Hejira next.
Bryan
