I really joined in again to see what the die-hards all thought, but things have been eerily silent on the subject.
'Cuz our Mama's taught us - "if you can't say something nice about something, don't say anything at all" ;~) OK, not totally true about the lackluster (to me) T'log. Firstly, it's disappointing to me that Joni must consider herself 'used up' to continue to recycle her old material. By doing so, she's just playing into the hands of the biz that says that when a performer hits 6-0 or thereabouts they're good for revues and that's about it. Personally I think Joni is capable of her best work yet, so I wish she would push herself harder than she's doing, working with the same songs, the same players, and adding Mendoza's predictable & mostly tiresome arrangements to some of her best work. On the upside, I LOVE what she does with "Flat Tires", she should have employed Billy Preston's organ-playing more than she does, and I also love her expansion of the audio colors on "Dawntreader". Both of these tracks hint at what a creative expression Travelogue COULD HAVE been, instead of the tedium that it actually is. Of course, lots of folks here love every nanosecond of it, and I couldn't be happier for them. Bob NP: Jackson Browne, "These Days", live '73
