For me it has to be BLUE. It was my first Joni album buy and I was entranced by her cheekbones and the cast of her eyes. I loved the album (and still do...it resonates in my life today as strongly as it did then). I had not long got my first guitar and I spent ages pestering my mother to let my dye my long brown hair blonde, so that I could gaze soulfully down as I played the guitar and people would think that I was maybe Joni... I practised singing LIttle green for ages but couldn't make it fit the two chords I knew at the time....... and "All I want" was beyond me
It was unlikely they ever would ever think I was Joni......... as I was a good 2 stone heavier, had no cheekbones to talk of, and my mother very sensibly decided to take me to a wig shop and try on long blonde wigs.. I DO NOT have the colouring for blonde hair.. so I remained a dark haired person... and concentrated on being Joan Baez instead... However, I don't think either Joni or Joan have ever sung "Streets of London" and my renditions of their songs were soooo bad that no-one (even had I gone blonde) would have mistaken me for "Joni sings Ralph McTell" nor even when I died my hair black, did I look anything like Joan Baez. I did consider changing my name to JOANI to combine the two but was not allowed to.... So Blue it has to be for all the memories of trying to find an image and remaining me... I was better off trying to sing like Sandy Denny and had some success with that.. now where is my old cheesecloth dress with the embroidered hem? hmmmm I must go and look... "farewell, farewell, to you who would hear, you lonely travellers all" Lucy
