if you meant no offense, why did you bother to post that at all? Should we all do that whenever one of the artists you happen to like gets mentioned? How is "she just doesn't do it for me" informative to anyone?
I agree 100% with Ubulele. If you have nothing constructive or interesting to say, say nothing at all.
Perhaps Westy doesn’t care for Joni’s music and that is fine but does he know the long, long list of very fine musicians who do love Joni’s music? If he’s interested he could do some research. Jaco Pastorius for one accompanied her. Perhaps someone will care to shout out that they’ve never heard of Jaco and therefore he doesn’t matter?
How about Prince’s lovely take on Joni’s A Case of You? Ever heard of CS&N, close friends of Joni and great admirers of her music?
I don’t necessarily like everything she has done but I know that I’ll never be the musician she is, never even close. She is extremely sophisticated. I would be very surprised and pleased to see a book that actually captures what she creates. Her chords and tunings are for the very advanced. She also had a habit of singing absolutely on pitch.
Joni played dulcimer on A Case of You.
Maybe Westy could open a thread and enlighten us with a list of whom else he dislikes and then others could join in.
For example:
I don’t like jazz. I don’t like classical music. I don’t like country music. I don’t like blue grass. I don’t like world music.
Very interesting. Chopin? Bob Wills? Monk? Stockhausen? Shania Twain? The list goes on.