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About Joni, I remember seeing her and Van and Zim at UCLA just before moving back to New York the first and last time in 1994. It was an amazing concert and I huffed and I puffed and I tore the house down with my enthusiasm for the lyrics and the liquid soul up there on the stage.

But Joni? Not so much. I found myself twiddling my spiritual thumbs as I waited for her to finish so I could dig Bob. Sorry, Mitch, didn’t have the patience, and you know I am a jazz buff. Roland Kirk, Coltrane, Miles, “Summun Bukmun Unyun” yeah, but your cousin Joni not so much.

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