Mullardman
Moderately extreme...
Part of the way through the first disc, which is 9 songs recorded for Joni at CFQC AM in 1963,to use as a Demo. Plus a live set at somewhere called the Half Beat... and other stuff.
It plays well into the reflective mood and musings on the passage of time which are being discussed in the 'Off Topic' at present.
It's wonderful. I've always had a special affection for 'historic' recordings..and even more so if they are of musical heroes/heroines. Joni's voice is clear as a bell and she is bang on pitch. I'm still staggered that such stuff has seemingly been hidden, and in some cases I think 'lost' for more than half a century.
In the same way that early Ray Charles recordings on Downbeat and Swingtime betray his attempts to emulate Nat 'King' Cole.. Joni's voice and phrasing here owes much to Joan Baez. But... there's enough of Joni's own voice, self-accompaniment etc... to point to her future. All she had to do.. like Charles.. was to learn to trust her own vocals, and unlike Ray, to begin to write the phenomenal stuff of her own which soon followed.
It plays well into the reflective mood and musings on the passage of time which are being discussed in the 'Off Topic' at present.
It's wonderful. I've always had a special affection for 'historic' recordings..and even more so if they are of musical heroes/heroines. Joni's voice is clear as a bell and she is bang on pitch. I'm still staggered that such stuff has seemingly been hidden, and in some cases I think 'lost' for more than half a century.
In the same way that early Ray Charles recordings on Downbeat and Swingtime betray his attempts to emulate Nat 'King' Cole.. Joni's voice and phrasing here owes much to Joan Baez. But... there's enough of Joni's own voice, self-accompaniment etc... to point to her future. All she had to do.. like Charles.. was to learn to trust her own vocals, and unlike Ray, to begin to write the phenomenal stuff of her own which soon followed.
