OH Lori, you and your poor cold toes in that blizzard going to buy Hejira... you wonderful obsessive....
Dare I admit this? IS IT TIME FOR ME TO MAKE A REVELATION.....Oh will I be de-listed..WILLL MY FRIENDS NEVER MAIL ME AGAIN?. AS I FACE MY NEMESIS I SALUTE YOU AND THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ALLOWED ME THIS BRIEF TIME OF HAPPY TOGETHERNESS..... Me and Hejira... the album.... I was given a "burned copy" of Hejira last year and only started to listen to the album when I joined the list...(December last year). The words to the songs (those that I have read) on Hejira are wonderful... but musically it does not do a lot for me. All that fretless bass wobbling about... I have tried listening to it as background music, listening to it in total concentration, listening to it in the bath, listening to it in the car.. Believe you me I am trying here. AM I TRYING TOO HARD? I don't know what it is. I mean, MIngus (first heard by me in 2000) as an album is challenging, but I don't find myself wincing at the music...well not as much as I do in Hejira.(with AMelia as the exception).. and maybe its a thing I have about "being sure I am not being IN to jazz"..and for me the freeform feel of some of the Hejira songs makes them slide off me..... but the words I have read are wonderful and poetic........ so I don't lose out really, just makes it hard to listen....... May I say, however that I LOVE the recording of Hejira (and Amelia) on Travelogue. Maybe its because of the maturity of her voice and I can hear her voice so much better.... and get the rhythm of the vehicle in which she is travelling.... Maybe it IS easier listening and more accessible. I also liked BSN..(I am really in trouble now arn't I) .. Perhaps its just that I bought nothing of Jonis after HOSL.... and only came back to her ... in 1999/2000 .and I still do not hve tons of her music...... Maybe being a later returner gives me a looser perspective, and makes me less of a purist. It neither makes me better or worse than anyone else. It would be interesting for me to know if those who like T'Log are late returners, or able to demonstrate their fidelity to Joni with having bought, at the time it was issued, every single album she has produced. T'log is as far from C&S and Blue as you could hope to get, but I really do like it..... Hejira? well I have a long drive up to a school this afternoon and its my aural project still so...who knows..today may be the day "I GET HEJIRA" maybe not..... Lucy (Who hopes she will not be de-listed for such heresy)
