Rating: 4/5
Review:
Great music, lots of talk
This is a recording of an interview interspersed with live songs
broadcast on the day of release of Turbulent Indigo in 1994. The
cover says it is a Canadian broadcast, but the interviewer says
clearly that it’s a Southern Californian station.
The music is great.
It is always a pleasure to hear Joni play live and she’s terrific
here. The word genius is now overused and devalued, but I think she
is genuinely someone to whom it can be justly applied; she’s
fantastically talented and skilful, and she also thinks and composes
in ways that ordinary mortals don’t, however good they are.
There’s a good mix of songs, with several from Turbulent Indigo, of
course, and her voice and guitar work are sensational, as always.
Much of the disc is
talk. The interviewer isn’t bad; she sounds a little out of her
depth sometimes, but fair enough – I most of us would be if we
were interviewing Joni Mitchell. It’s interesting to hear Joni
talk, of course, but as an album to keep and play repeatedly...hmmm.
There are just six songs here among the talk (around 25 minutes of
music in total) and, excellent though they are, that’s not a lot of
music really.
So...I’d say this
is one for the completists. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with
any of it and the sound quality is fine, but you’ll need to decide
whether it’s something you’re really going to play enough to make
it worth buying.
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