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Female artists are always getting the short end of the stick. When this album was released it was generally deemed a failure and it got no airplay and fell off the charts. Listening to it 22 years later it is unbelieve how underrated it has become. If you thought Joni was just a flower-powered folk singer then you were wrong. This is some of the most spacey, haunting, and eccentric music out there. Oh, the instruments may seem familiar but the way they are used is just plain out there. Jaco Pastorius can make his bass sound like a trumpet, sax, piano, Fender Rhodes, synth and more. Joni's guitar playing had never been or never was again this powerful or primal. Joni's voice would never again be this perfect. She had trained her voice and it has never sounded better. It didn't have that high screechy, nails-on-the-chalkboard sound of her early days, nor the Tom Waits-gravel quality it has today. This is an essential part of Joni's oeuvre.
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTING
1 Happy Birthday 1975 Rap 0:57
2 God Must Be a Boogie Man 4:33
3 Funeral Rap 1:07
4 A Chair in the Sky 6:40
5 The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey 6:33
6 I's a Muggin' Rap 0:07
7 Sweet Sucker Dance 8:06
8 Coin in the Pocket (Rap) 0:11
9 The Dry Cleaner from des Moines 3:22
10 Lucky (Rap) 0:03
11 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:41
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