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Michael Nicholls: A true lover of all things Joni
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Mark Angelo: Joni has been my sage since I first heard Court & Spark when I was in 6th grade. I played guitar in high school, college, and beyond. I broke one too many acoustic steel strings trying to find Joni's open tunings (which I love) and now I have a phobia about tuning musical instruments. No Roland VG-8 back then.
So I basically grew up with her music. And to this day she remains my favorite musician, with unique music and lyrics reflecting such clarity of vision, so prophetic and so disarming.
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JEFFREY WILDMAN: Big Yellow Taxi was the first song I ever heard, and of course ecology-minded and fey I loved the "tree museum "and the laugh at the end. But the first I ever knew of Joni was an advert in 'Evergreen' magazine; the line drawing on the LADIES OF THE CANYON album...I was magnetically drawn to the girl with the long blonde hair. Forty years later that girl's
dignity, seriousness, honesty, artistry and the strange combination of vulnerable and tough still holds my attention.
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Bob Aspholm: I'm an artist and long-time Joni Mitchell fan; I first noticed her song-writing genius back in 1968 when I bought a 45 rpm of " Both Sides Now" recorded by Judy Collins. In the spring of 1970 I was hearing "Woodstock" for the first time by CSN and again noticed the writer. A few years later friends and I went to see Joni in New Haven CT in 1974 and that was one of the joys of my life. Also saw her perform at the anti-nuke protest in DC in 1979. Will always be a fan no matter what.
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