WFMU: Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 8, 2021

Listener comments!
	12:01pm Paul from Toronto: Happy Friday, Uncle Michael! Happy Friday Dinks!
	12:02pm βrian: Joni, I hear?
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: Good Friday, UM and all!
	12:02pm dan: Good afternoon all
	12:02pm Asheville Jon: pimento cheese for all! hello UM and everyone else!
	12:03pm spodiodi: are we going to the food store? woohoo! gm, UM! gm, all!
	12:03pm burke: Joni fans gettin excited!
	12:03pm Michael 98145: Joni!
	12:03pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Uncle Michael!!
	12:03pm StringOFperils: Joni jazz hands hello!
	12:03pm dan: Here are some predictions: Matthews Southern Comfort: Woodstock Fairport Convention: Chelsea Girl Counting Crows: Big Yellow Taxi
	🛒 12:04pm Franco Twinkie: I'm not even going to pretend anything is going to get done this morning Michael.
	12:04pm chresti: Hi dinks!
	12:05pm βrian: As a member in good standing of the Royal Order of Rooty-Poots, I take exception!
	12:05pm Jeff Golick: Hey, Joni! Hey, @Uncle Michael!
	🛒 12:06pm Brian in UK: Uncle, do we have to smoke like chimneys for the whole show?
	12:06pm Artie: Oh, Hi.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Paul! Brian! James! dan! jon! spodi! burke! Michael! Andrew! SOP! Franco! chresti! BiUK! Artie!Jeff!
	12:09pm Fuzzy: Hello UM and everyone! Happy Friday! I feel unfettered and alive!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Fuzzy!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Always loved ...Radio, never heard a cover. Great!
	12:10pm rw: Good morning!
	12:11pm dan: Joni Mitchell is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has several Grammy Awards, will be receiving a Kennedy Center Honor at the end of this year, but she is not inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. What gives?
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: Recalcitrant video today. We'll cope. Doc! rw!
	12:11pm Paul from Toronto: Thank goodness, I thought it was me.
	12:11pm StringOFperils: The only institution that matters is the song catalogue itself.
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: exactly
	12:12pm spodiodi: it's working somewhat at least now, UM (and the music sounds great via the stream)
	12:12pm Judy from Croton: Greetings from "regular" listener me. As the old hippies say, "Go ahead on". (I'm getting paid extra for quotation marks today).
	12:12pm Paul from Toronto: I've never been a big fan of Joni so I'm looking forward to some gateway tunes
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Judy!
	12:14pm Judy from Croton: ooh, goosebump alert for this judy collins version. I'm 14 again.
	12:14pm Jeff Golick: So many artists selling their catalogs these days. It's a bit dispiriting. I mean, they should absolutely get paid, but does it signal the further devaluing of their creativity? Are they getting out while the getting's still good?
	12:16pm Asheville Jon: is michael from the mountains related to billy from the hills?
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: restarting the video thingy
	12:17pm rw: I had the opportunity to go to Joni's house a few years ago. Unfortunately she wasn't there :( Pretty sure that GIF was from her living room.
	12:17pm dan: Whenever I think of "Help Me", I always think of South Park where is Butters singing it while playing with toys.
	12:17pm Marie: Hey UM! Did you change your hairdo recently? Hi everybody! Glad to be here and learn more about Joni--the little I know tells me she is a great songwriter.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Marie! I switched to a hairdon't.
	12:20pm spodiodi: dan, your mentioning Butters makes me want to play the Butters pinball table (from Zen... it's pretty fun)
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: Video is as good as its gonna be, now.
	12:21pm Marie: @UM--ha ha! Looks great.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Thanks. I grabbed a 4.5 when I meant to use the 6 yesterday.
	12:26pm rw: I've always liked Joni's classic songs on the radio, but haven't really delved deeply. Though the more I listen the more I appreciate. Both her songwriting and her voice. Enjoying the dive here. Thanks as always Uncle M!
	12:26pm spodiodi: now we're talkin'
	12:27pm doctorjazz: This Curry gets the furthest from the original so far. Love when an artist re-imagins a tune.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Me too, Doc.
	12:28pm sinner: Why is there no parking space out front? I had to walk 8 blocks.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: sinner! Last week you were in the pastor's space.
	12:30pm burke: Can't imagine there are too many better than Blossom Dearie's
	🛒 12:32pm Franco Twinkie: On a rainy night in 1973 this girl and I were on the Sunset Strip. She pointed at a huge billboard for For the Roses and said "I saw her at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion."Whaa...when!?" I exclaimed. A year later she took me to see Joni at The Anaheim Convention Center right after Court and Spark came out. It was a high powered show - the energy was zinging around the room. At one point Joni asked the audience if anyone had a request. I yelled out Smoke On The Water which was in heavy rotation on the radio at the time. The guffawing and gasps of horror were audible. Joni said "What did he say!?" That night we drove home in silence. My companion(Pictured at right) was so pissed she was with such an asshole. I went home alone and though 'That's it, I really did it now.' I had plenty of other girls to drive crazy I thought, but no one like her. Fortunately for me she didn't stay mad and we stayed friend until she disappeared off the face of this Earth.
	12:34pm Marie: Hey, I'd love to hear Chet's full version (with signing) of this (assuming he does one)
	12:36pm dan: 1874? I didn't know they had pop music back then.
	12:36pm Marie: Hey Franco, thanks for sharing. YOU are quite the storyteller--great memory, do you ever write them?
	12:36pm Judy from Croton: Oh Wow! Total hero worship for MM; never heard this. Brilliant.
	🛒 12:36pm PAULS: Originally released on Edison's Black Maria wax cylinder label, @ dan
	🛒 12:37pm Franco Twinkie: I do Marie. They just keep bubbling up.
	12:37pm Paul from Toronto: The guitar has a Norma Tanega vibe
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: PAULS! Marie, I doubt Chet ever sang it.
	12:40pm Marie: @Franco--that's a beautiful thing @)
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: Doc, is this Manfred reimagined enough for you?
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: Franco, never stop telling us your stories.
	🛒 12:41pm PAULS: Hey, Unc! great show especially this trippy 80s stuff
	12:41pm Marie: @UM--oh. Apropos of not much, I believe Chet does a song called Windy and Warm, which I just love
	12:41pm StringOFperils: Yeh, you're gonna tell us everything, Franco, see? Now, start talking.
	🛒 12:42pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Marie. If I can just entertain a few people, I've done my job.
	🛒 12:43pm PAULS: There's always "Warm and Willing" by Mark Wynter (not the season).
	12:44pm doctorjazz: The Manfred Mann was cool, as is this Veloso!
	12:45pm Marie: "Warm and Willing"--great title. I love Caetano. It's funny, his sounds kind of feminine and his sister's sounds kind of masculine, to me
	12:45pm Stork: I concur with the doctor.
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: SHTORK!
	12:46pm Rich in Washington: I saw Eugene Chadbourne (with members of Camper Van Beethoven) do a Joni cover once.
	12:46pm Marie: I left out the word "voice" about Caetano and his sis.
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: Rich!
	12:47pm StringOFperils: This reimagining is great. Caetano owns this.
	🛒 12:47pm PAULS: Just can't stop moving on this one, true
	🛒 12:48pm PAULS: Oh Canada! Sloan!
	12:48pm doctorjazz: Rich in Washington-jealous, I'm sure that was amazing (and weird)!
	🛒 12:49pm Franco Twinkie: Oh, this song!
	🛒 12:49pm PAULS: damn. my little drum disappeared!
	12:49pm StringOFperils: Mine too, paul. Is that wrong?
	12:50pm Uncle Michael: Drums don't transfer. You want a drum here, ya gotta pledge here!
	🛒 12:50pm PAULS: Ahhhh
	🛒 12:51pm PAULS: Unless you donate in Dogecoin
	12:51pm StringOFperils: My bank account is both hinky and dinky.
	12:52pm doctorjazz: We're getting further and further from the Joni versions...
	12:53pm StringOFperils: The Jungle Line probably changed how I listen to music, back in the before-time.
	12:53pm burke: Hissing of Summer Lawns is my favorite JM album.
	12:53pm Uncle Michael: The drum functions like a show-specific badge...which was an option. I'll probably have one in March. Shopping cart, mebbe....
	🛒 12:54pm PAULS: @docjazz - like we've heard it on "the X" - Mexican Radio
	12:55pm Uncle Michael: I heard it...I heard it...I heard it on the X...the ZZ Top tribute show!
	🛒 12:56pm PAULS: WE still get the jack a lanterns tho for this hell raisin thing
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: yep, punkins persist
	12:57pm StringOFperils: Jack-O-Freeform
	12:58pm Paul from Toronto: Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: I gotta rock.
	🛒 12:59pm PAULS: Sincerely
	1:01pm burke: I would like to hear a rock opera about Rousseau
	1:02pm StringOFperils: Michael Franks' Sleeping Gypsy is an LP title that references Rousseau, but there's no song on it called that
	1:03pm Paul from Toronto: Joni is from Fort Macleod, AB. Sloan are based in Toronto ON originally from Halifax NS
	1:04pm StringOFperils: Like the difference between Martha's Vineyard and Reno
	1:04pm burke: whoa!
	1:05pm chresti: Goldie!
	1:06pm dan: Goldie is like a dinner theater version of Linda Ronstadt with this song.
	1:07pm Michael 98145: yes
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: This is Anthony Wilson on guitar on Black Crow and he's fantastic.
	1:09pm Christina: I like DK, yet long for just Joni on this song.
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Christina! I understand.
	1:11pm StringOFperils: Wow, Anthony Wilson's dad, Gerald Wilson, was a pretty major jazz arranger.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: When I saw Diana with Anthony in the band, he was busy teaching at UCLA for his day job.
	1:13pm dan: Jon Hiseman was one of the greatest underrated drummers of all time. His work with Colosseum and Colosseum II is on par with Neil Peart and John Bonham.
	1:20pm melinda: howdy all, glad to be home from a long wait at the post office. I tried to retrieve my mail from a hold yesterday but the doofus there made me fill out an unnecessary 24-hour notice form and come back today.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: melinda! jeez...
	1:22pm doctorjazz: The guitar background on this Nazareth reminds me of Richard Thompsons comping style.
	1:22pm john the g: i heard recently that soon after joni mitchell first heard this nazareth cover, she would introduce this song in her live shows with "i'd like to do a nazareth song..."
	🛒 1:23pm Franco Twinkie: I can't decide if this is great or a travesty.
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: john! that's cute Me either, Franco.
	1:23pm burke: @franco no guilty pleasures around here
	1:23pm Jeff Golick: It's a gravesty.
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: hah!
	1:24pm doctorjazz: Really like this Hancock album.
	1:25pm dan: The Joni Letters winning the Grammy for Album of the Year is considered one of the biggest upsets in the Awards history.
	1:25pm Uncle Michael: Me too. This song...I'd have begged Steely Dan to cover it if I was producing a tribute album.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Arts aren't sports....or shouldn't be.
	🛒 1:26pm Franco Twinkie: Melinda, I'm so sorry about your mother. I lost my mom this past February - she just closed her eyes and BOINK she was gone. I was so disoriented I was doing some really stupid stuff.
	🛒 1:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Late ! & Ive so much to learn here. Joni def help give ♏︎Scorpio a good name... Tina wow. Nazareth works for that song just fine seems to me. Wonder what Joni ever thot about it.
	1:27pm StringOFperils: Originality gets benched in leagues of uniforms.
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: Rev!
	1:30pm Michael 98145: Enoch Light!
	🛒 1:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gratifying Joni's lived long enuff to get past the chauvinism that kept her from being widely recognized as being in the small handful of Very Greatest.
	🛒 1:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think Tina retired to Europe & Buddhism as she likes it.
	1:31pm still b/p: Think Tina choose to step back from performing/recording spotlight.
	1:32pm burke: Great NYTimes article by Amanda Hess about Tina in retirement in her castle in Switzerland. Her and her much younger German husband.
	1:33pm barrett785: Krall Demonsweatlive!
	1:33pm Jeff Golick: Is that a recent piece, @burke?
	1:35pm Uncle Michael: Pat!
	1:36pm Marie: nice
	1:36pm burke: www.nytimes.com...
	1:37pm Jeff Golick: Thx!
	1:40pm Marie: It would be fun to dance to this version
	1:41pm Uncle Michael: Do it!
	1:46pm prudy: afternoon all...LOVE Chan Marshall...
	1:47pm melinda: @Franco thank you. It is disorienting, indeed.
	1:48pm melinda: @prudy me too
	1:49pm prudy: Does Cat Power have a new release? rumor has it...
	1:50pm Uncle Michael: prudy!
	1:51pm Lane Gray: Very cool show! Due to disastrous mishaps, I'm awake while the show is on.
	1:51pm burke: Many outrageously great vocalists on today's show. "Degree of difficulty" is usually high on a JM song. To borrow a term from sports...
	1:51pm Andres: Joni!Jony!Joné! Digging it all, Uncle Michael!
	🛒 1:51pm Franco Twinkie: This song was brought to my attention by someone when I was acting like an insufferable idiot.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Lane! I'm sorry! Glad to see you! Andres!
	1:54pm melinda: For some reason I can hear the lyrics better when sung by other people
	1:54pm Marie: @Burke--good for Tina! I thought she was with an Italian guy... maybe she was in the past
	1:55pm Michael 98145: nice version
	1:55pm Uncle Michael: melinda, you just keyed in on the major reason for these tributes.
	1:55pm Gerry from Miami: Warning---cleaned-up lyric in the Minnie Riperton song. Doesn't harm a fine interpretation at all.
	1:56pm melinda: @UM you too, then?
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: Gerry! Yes, melinda...breaking the song away from the version the brain takes no trouble with has that effect.
	2:01pm melinda: the GTDS artists tributes have been very timely for me. My mom was a Silent Generation person who stopped paying attention to popular music some time in the early 60s, I think, and over the last ten years or so I liked introducing her to singer-songwriters she may have been somewhat aware of but didn't really know. Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot were two she really liked.
	2:08pm doctorjazz: I like this Cee Lo Green version.
	2:08pm Marie: This is really beautiful. I've always loved this song.
	🛒 2:09pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: I'm loving this show, UM! I was one of those girls who always hauled a guitar around and played all of Joni's songs, but it's been a long time and I've forgotten so many of them. Thank you!
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: Lizzie! You're very welcome. And thank you.
	2:12pm Marie: My God, this is so great. UM, you are putting on a fantastic show. I have a new appreciation for Joni.
	2:13pm dan: I'm hoping the next songwriter tribute is Gordon Lightfoot. Another fellow Canadian.
	2:13pm Michael 98145: What Marie just said
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: I'll file that idea, dan. It's not, but that's a pretty good idea.
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: In two weeks (after singles going steady), I'll be presenting a tribute to a songwriting team.
	2:15pm melinda: Until right now I thought this was a Fairport original. Now I can hear Joni in it though.
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: FC recorded several Joni songs very early on.
	2:17pm prudy: did you play Lee? I didn't hear him...
	2:17pm StringOFperils: Nice curating, UM!
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: not yet! oops
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: thanks, SOP
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: I feel unfeathered.
	2:20pm Fuzzy: This song could almost be about Henry Miller. That's how I like to imagine it.
	2:20pm prudy: I'd love to hear a Lee Hazlewood tribute...not that I don't venerate Joni...
	2:20pm doctorjazz: Been doing office/computer work, been really enjoying the show (but can't comment that much). The texture of this King cover is nice, if that makes any sense to anyone.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Great idea, prudy. It does, Doc. I like the arrangement and production more than his vocal.
	2:22pm melinda: Night in the City is such a great song
	2:23pm Webhamster Henry: Just popping in now ... did you talk about Joni's guitar tunings?
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: Lot's of great covers of it too.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: Henry! Nope. Feel free.
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: "without meter maids...or peace parades"
	2:26pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know that much about it , I was hoping someone else does! I love those realllly early Jonis that popped up last year.
	2:27pm Uncle Michael: yeah!
	2:27pm doctorjazz: As per Webmaster Henry 2:23, if I remember, Joni is a self taught guitarist, and used many open and unusual tunings on her guitar. A link about it: acousticguitar.com...
	2:29pm doctorjazz: Another link, more technical, for you guitar players out there: jonimitchell.com...
	2:30pm StringOFperils: I don't want to further distract even myself from this show, but here's an interesting look at Joni's tunings, and capo positions
	2:30pm StringOFperils: jonimitchell.com...
	2:30pm dan: Eva Cassidy is like Tupac or Zappa. There's just as many or more material released posthumously than in life.
	2:30pm Michael 98145: { such a hope-filled time }
	2:31pm StringOFperils: Hah...doc jazz
	🛒 2:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: She had Polio when young - & one reason she played dulcimer was it didn't take great strength. Probly same for alternate tunings.
	🛒 2:31pm Franco Twinkie: Forget about hippies rolling in the mud - I don't know who I am, but life is for learning. That's the line you can take to the bank.
	2:32pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, guitar tuning fans!
	2:32pm Marie: loved that Eva Cassidy (got the chills)--I know nothing about her
	2:36pm Pedro in Arlington: When the Borders opened in the District at 18th and L NW around 1993, there was free beer that Friday night and music from Eva Cassidy and Chuck Brown. I only vaguely knew who they were.
	2:36pm Doug Schulkind: "Not the end of it..."
	🛒 2:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: MOJO Innovators podcast episode on Joni is good for catching up : planetradio.co.uk...
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: Pedro! Doug!
	🛒 2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the My Favorite Album podcast with Jeremy Dylan will feature many episodes dedicated to Joni - so much he presumably puts a moratorium on Blue & the like...
	2:42pm StringOFperils: Nice! Hoyt!
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Man, Hoyt sings the crap out of this...
	2:43pm Uncle Michael: I guess it's ok that he changed the title, then.
	2:44pm spodiodi: olo doctorjazz
	2:46pm dan: Any version of Coyote?
	2:46pm Uncle Michael: nope, didn't find a cover that moved me
	2:47pm Gerry from Miami: Sorry, Uncle Mike. I have been listening to the entirety of this great show today, but have been unable to actively participate in the comments as my phone is playing catastrophic games with me. The device is all I have at the moment and is on its death bed. Nonetheless, you have done us all a great service with this program in tribute to one of the greatest pop artists of our lifetime. Thanks so much. I will be playing this one back again from the Archives, I'm sure.
	2:47pm Marie: I've said it before on FMOO but I love Harry Belafonte--really appreciate his voice and everything. Also, I saw Richard Thompson last night at the 7-Second Delay anniversary party--he was great, of course.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Richard Thompson?!
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Gerry.
	🛒 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tom Rush too obvious I suppose with the old ones...
	2:48pm StringOFperils: That must have been fun. Thompson's kind of a cut-up, not to mention being a guitar god of course
	2:50pm melinda: love Bonnie's cover, it was the first version I heard.
	2:51pm doctorjazz: Love Bonnie-she can sing Itsy Bitsy Spider, will be great!
	🛒 2:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another ♏︎Scorpio Sistah. Wow. Bumped my current estimation back up...
	🛒 2:52pm Franco Twinkie: This has been a revelation Michael. Perfect soundtrack for a day of real weather in L.A. Thanks.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: This Bonnie is just laying me out...inside.
	2:53pm StringOFperils: She really shows off her vocal chops on this....with a band playing perfection, pretty much
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Franco.
	2:53pm doctorjazz: Love Richard Thompson, hate Zoom concerts. Wasn't able to catch him at his last shows in the area.
	2:53pm Marie: I love Bonnie but just was thinking the music behind her is often not great...
	2:53pm melinda: I think this was the song that inspired me to buy my first Joni album in my early 20s.
	2:54pm doctorjazz: Michael, fabulous show!!!! Thanks much!
	🛒 2:54pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Her voice is perfect for this song. Adore her.
	2:54pm Michael 98145: Thank you!
	2:54pm Marie: Hey Dr. J--he performed live; it was in Montclair
	2:55pm dan: Joni would be proud UM. Great show
	2:55pm Uncle Michael: You folks have a way of making me glad that I do this. Thank you all.
	🛒 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Raitt's a little close to the MOR YachtRawk demographic for my tastes - but it's clearly in her if it wants to come out...
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Sounds a lot like Tom Rush's version (not sure which was first). Marie-I didn't see anything about that (couldn't have gone anyway, work late Thursday nights), bummer!
	2:56pm spodiodi: thanks, UM! loved hearing the Joni Mitchell show
	🛒 2:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A lot.
	2:56pm Andres: This Lee, a beaut!! An eye opening show, Uncle Michael. Thank you!!
	2:56pm doctorjazz: Hazelwood has a bit more "screw you" than Tom Rush, though...
	2:59pm chresti: Thanks UM!
	2:59pm Marie: Dr. J.--you didn't get the memo? Hey UM, absolutely fantastic show! Grazie!
	🛒 3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah of course. Rush's is more haunted.
	3:00pm Webhamster Henry: Nice collection, Uncle Michael!
	3:00pm melinda: great tribute, thanks UM
	3:01pm StringOFperils: Thanks for pushing the Bonnie Raitt threshold, you've got the right stuff! No, really, I understand....ok, well, thanks UM!!!!
	🛒 3:01pm WR: Thank you Uncle Michael, interesting survey. 👍
	3:01pm burke: Bon week-end!
	3:01pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, UM! See you next week!
	🛒 3:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always UM ~ Appreciate the effort you put into the likes of this - & the value it has for us.
	3:03pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone!
	3:04pm Listener Robert: Aw, you didn't wave bye-bye. I waved back, though.

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 8, 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Uncle Michael	Hinky Dinky Time Open
Gail Davies	You Turn Me on I'm a Radio	single (b/w All The Fire Is Gone)	Warner Bros.	1982		0:02:59 (Pop-up)
Jude	Morning Morgantown "Morning Morgantown" by "Jude"	prev. unr.	n/a	1970	(From: Red Dirt II)	0:05:45 (Pop-up)
Jennifer	Chelsea Morning "Chelsea Morning" by "Jennifer"	I Can Remember Everything	Parrot	1968		0:08:18 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins	Michael From Mountains	Wild Flowers	Elektra	1967		0:10:33 (Pop-up)
K.D. Lang	Help Me "Help Me" by "K.D. Lang"	A Tribute To Joni Mitchell	Nonesuch	1999		0:13:37 (Pop-up)
Tim Curry	All I Want "All I Want" by "Tim Curry"	Read My Lips	A&M	1978		0:17:25 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	Big Yellow Taxi "Big Yellow Taxi" by "Bob Dylan"	Dylan	Columbia	1973		0:21:45 (Pop-up)
Blossom Dearie	Both Sides Now "Both Sides Now" by "Blossom Dearie"	That's Just the Way I Want to Be	Fontana	1970		0:23:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chet Atkins	Both Sides Now "Both Sides Now" by "Chet Atkins"	This Is Chet Atkins	RCA Victor	1970	(From: Solid Gold '69)	0:27:03 (Pop-up)

Mark Murphy	Barangrill "Barangrill" by "Mark Murphy"	Mark II	Muse	1974		0:33:02 (Pop-up)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Banquet	Criminal Tango	10	1986		0:35:41 (Pop-up)
Caetano Veloso	Dreamland "Dreamland" by "Caetano Veloso"	A Tribute To Joni Mitchell	Nonesuch	1999		0:40:53 (Pop-up)
Sloan	A Case Of You "A Case Of You" by "Sloan"	Back To The Garden - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell	Intrepid	1992	(From: Back To The Garden: Tribute To Joni Mitchell comp)	0:45:41 (Pop-up)
Thomas Dolby	The Jungle Line "The Jungle Line" by "Thomas Dolby"	Jungle Line (EP)	Happy Birthday	1981		0:49:26 (Pop-up)
Chaka Khan	Ladies' Man "Ladies' Man" by "Chaka Khan"	Funk This	Burgundy	2007		0:53:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gabor Szabo	Both Sides Now "Both Sides Now" by "Gabor Szabo"	Gabor Szabo 1969	Skye	1969		0:56:55 (Pop-up)

Goldie Hawn	Carey "Carey" by "Goldie Hawn"	Goldie	Reprise	1972		1:01:45 (Pop-up)
Diana Krall	Black Crow "Black Crow" by "Diana Krall"	The Girl in the Other Room	Verve	2004		1:04:27 (Pop-up)
Colosseum II	Down To You "Down To You" by "Colosseum II"	Strange New Flesh	Bronze	1976		1:09:13 (Pop-up)
Nazareth	This Flight Tonight "This Flight Tonight" by "Nazareth"	Loud'N'Proud	Mooncrest	1973		1:18:09 (Pop-up)
Herbie Hancock (Featuring Tina Turner)	Edith And The Kingpin	River: The Joni Letters	Verve	2007		1:21:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Enoch Light & The Brass Menagerie	Both Sides Now	Enoch Light & The Brass Menagerie	Project 3 Total Sound	1969		1:26:51 (Pop-up)

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau	Marcie	Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau	Nonesuch	2017		1:31:55 (Pop-up)
Swingle II	In France They Kiss On Main Street	Lovin' You	CBS	1976		1:36:32 (Pop-up)
Lani Hall	Sweet Bird "Sweet Bird" by "Lani Hall"	Sweet Bird	A&M	1976		1:39:34 (Pop-up)
Cat Power	Blue "Blue" by "Cat Power"	Jukebox	Matador	2008		1:42:31 (Pop-up)
Minnie Riperton	Woman of Heart and Mind	prev. unr.	n/a	1979	(From: The Best of Minnie Riperton)	1:46:13 (Pop-up)
Annie Lennox	Ladies Of The Canyon	single (b-side to No More “I Love Youʼsˮ)	Arista	1995		1:49:53 (Pop-up)
Tom Rush	Tin Angel "Tin Angel" by "Tom Rush"	The Circle Game	Elektra	1968		1:53:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dick Hyman	Both Sides Now "Both Sides Now" by "Dick Hyman"	The Age Of Electronicus	Command	1969		1:56:43 (Pop-up)

Cee Lo Green	River "River" by "Cee Lo Green"	CeeLo's Magic Moment	Elektra	2012		2:03:18 (Pop-up)
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Song To A Seagull	Fire & Fleet & Candlelight	Vanguard	1967		2:07:09 (Pop-up)
Fairport Convention	Eastern Rain "Eastern Rain" by "Fairport Convention"	Fairport Convention	A&M	1969	(From: What We Did On Our Holidays)	2:10:24 (Pop-up)
June Tabor	The Fiddle And The Drum	Abyssinians	Shanachie	1983		2:13:57 (Pop-up)
Jonathan King	A Free Man In Paris	single (b/w The True Story Of Molly Malone)	UK	1975		2:16:15 (Pop-up)
The Pipe Dream	Night In The City "Night In The City" by "The Pipe Dream"	Wanderers / Lovers	RCA Victor	1969		2:18:43 (Pop-up)
Noel Harrison	Nathan La Franeer "Nathan La Franeer" by "Noel Harrison"	The Great Electric Experiment Is Over	Reprise	1969		2:21:29 (Pop-up)
Eva Cassidy	Woodstock "Woodstock" by "Eva Cassidy"	Time After Time	Didgeridoo/Hot	2000		2:24:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Don Randi	Both Sides Now "Both Sides Now" by "Don Randi"	Plays The Love Theme From "Romeo And Juliet"	Capitol	1969		2:28:31 (Pop-up)

Björk	The Boho Dance "The Boho Dance" by "Björk"	A Tribute To Joni Mitchell	Nonesuch	1999	(From: B-Sides)	2:34:38 (Pop-up)
Hoyt Axton	He Played Real Good For Free	Pistol Packin' Mama	Jeremiah	1982		2:39:39 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte	The Circle Game "The Circle Game" by "Harry Belafonte"	The Warm Touch	RCA Victor	1971		2:43:00 (Pop-up)
Bonnie Raitt	That Song About The Midway	Streetlights	Warner Bros.	1974		2:47:00 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood	Urge For Going "Urge For Going" by "Lee Hazlewood"	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	Viking	1973		2:51:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac	Albatross "Albatross" by "Fleetwood Mac"	single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues)	Blue Horizon	1968		2:57:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm Paul from Toronto: Happy Friday, Uncle Michael! Happy Friday Dinks!
	12:02pm βrian: Joni, I hear?
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: Good Friday, UM and all!
	12:02pm dan: Good afternoon all
	12:02pm Asheville Jon: pimento cheese for all! hello UM and everyone else!
	12:03pm spodiodi: are we going to the food store? woohoo! gm, UM! gm, all!
	12:03pm burke: Joni fans gettin excited!
	12:03pm Michael 98145: Joni!
	12:03pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Uncle Michael!!
	12:03pm StringOFperils: Joni jazz hands hello!
	12:03pm dan: Here are some predictions: Matthews Southern Comfort: Woodstock Fairport Convention: Chelsea Girl Counting Crows: Big Yellow Taxi
	🛒 12:04pm Franco Twinkie: I'm not even going to pretend anything is going to get done this morning Michael.
	12:04pm chresti: Hi dinks!
	12:05pm βrian: As a member in good standing of the Royal Order of Rooty-Poots, I take exception!
	12:05pm Jeff Golick: Hey, Joni! Hey, @Uncle Michael!
	🛒 12:06pm Brian in UK: Uncle, do we have to smoke like chimneys for the whole show?
	12:06pm Artie: Oh, Hi.
	12:07pm Uncle Michael: Paul! Brian! James! dan! jon! spodi! burke! Michael! Andrew! SOP! Franco! chresti! BiUK! Artie!Jeff!
	12:09pm Fuzzy: Hello UM and everyone! Happy Friday! I feel unfettered and alive!
	12:10pm Uncle Michael: Fuzzy!
	12:10pm doctorjazz: Always loved ...Radio, never heard a cover. Great!
	12:10pm rw: Good morning!
	12:11pm dan: Joni Mitchell is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has several Grammy Awards, will be receiving a Kennedy Center Honor at the end of this year, but she is not inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. What gives?
	12:11pm Uncle Michael: Recalcitrant video today. We'll cope. Doc! rw!
	12:11pm Paul from Toronto: Thank goodness, I thought it was me.
	12:11pm StringOFperils: The only institution that matters is the song catalogue itself.
	12:12pm Uncle Michael: exactly
	12:12pm spodiodi: it's working somewhat at least now, UM (and the music sounds great via the stream)
	12:12pm Judy from Croton: Greetings from "regular" listener me. As the old hippies say, "Go ahead on". (I'm getting paid extra for quotation marks today).
	12:12pm Paul from Toronto: I've never been a big fan of Joni so I'm looking forward to some gateway tunes
	12:13pm Uncle Michael: Judy!
	12:14pm Judy from Croton: ooh, goosebump alert for this judy collins version. I'm 14 again.
	12:14pm Jeff Golick: So many artists selling their catalogs these days. It's a bit dispiriting. I mean, they should absolutely get paid, but does it signal the further devaluing of their creativity? Are they getting out while the getting's still good?
	12:16pm Asheville Jon: is michael from the mountains related to billy from the hills?
	12:17pm Uncle Michael: restarting the video thingy
	12:17pm rw: I had the opportunity to go to Joni's house a few years ago. Unfortunately she wasn't there :( Pretty sure that GIF was from her living room.
	12:17pm dan: Whenever I think of "Help Me", I always think of South Park where is Butters singing it while playing with toys.
	12:17pm Marie: Hey UM! Did you change your hairdo recently? Hi everybody! Glad to be here and learn more about Joni--the little I know tells me she is a great songwriter.
	12:19pm Uncle Michael: Marie! I switched to a hairdon't.
	12:20pm spodiodi: dan, your mentioning Butters makes me want to play the Butters pinball table (from Zen... it's pretty fun)
	12:21pm Uncle Michael: Video is as good as its gonna be, now.
	12:21pm Marie: @UM--ha ha! Looks great.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: Thanks. I grabbed a 4.5 when I meant to use the 6 yesterday.
	12:26pm rw: I've always liked Joni's classic songs on the radio, but haven't really delved deeply. Though the more I listen the more I appreciate. Both her songwriting and her voice. Enjoying the dive here. Thanks as always Uncle M!
	12:26pm spodiodi: now we're talkin'
	12:27pm doctorjazz: This Curry gets the furthest from the original so far. Love when an artist re-imagins a tune.
	12:27pm Uncle Michael: Me too, Doc.
	12:28pm sinner: Why is there no parking space out front? I had to walk 8 blocks.
	12:28pm Uncle Michael: sinner! Last week you were in the pastor's space.
	12:30pm burke: Can't imagine there are too many better than Blossom Dearie's
	🛒 12:32pm Franco Twinkie: On a rainy night in 1973 this girl and I were on the Sunset Strip. She pointed at a huge billboard for For the Roses and said "I saw her at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion."Whaa...when!?" I exclaimed. A year later she took me to see Joni at The Anaheim Convention Center right after Court and Spark came out. It was a high powered show - the energy was zinging around the room. At one point Joni asked the audience if anyone had a request. I yelled out Smoke On The Water which was in heavy rotation on the radio at the time. The guffawing and gasps of horror were audible. Joni said "What did he say!?" That night we drove home in silence. My companion(Pictured at right) was so pissed she was with such an asshole. I went home alone and though 'That's it, I really did it now.' I had plenty of other girls to drive crazy I thought, but no one like her. Fortunately for me she didn't stay mad and we stayed friend until she disappeared off the face of this Earth.
	12:34pm Marie: Hey, I'd love to hear Chet's full version (with signing) of this (assuming he does one)
	12:36pm dan: 1874? I didn't know they had pop music back then.
	12:36pm Marie: Hey Franco, thanks for sharing. YOU are quite the storyteller--great memory, do you ever write them?
	12:36pm Judy from Croton: Oh Wow! Total hero worship for MM; never heard this. Brilliant.
	🛒 12:36pm PAULS: Originally released on Edison's Black Maria wax cylinder label, @ dan
	🛒 12:37pm Franco Twinkie: I do Marie. They just keep bubbling up.
	12:37pm Paul from Toronto: The guitar has a Norma Tanega vibe
	12:39pm Uncle Michael: PAULS! Marie, I doubt Chet ever sang it.
	12:40pm Marie: @Franco--that's a beautiful thing @)
	12:40pm Uncle Michael: Doc, is this Manfred reimagined enough for you?
	12:41pm Uncle Michael: Franco, never stop telling us your stories.
	🛒 12:41pm PAULS: Hey, Unc! great show especially this trippy 80s stuff
	12:41pm Marie: @UM--oh. Apropos of not much, I believe Chet does a song called Windy and Warm, which I just love
	12:41pm StringOFperils: Yeh, you're gonna tell us everything, Franco, see? Now, start talking.
	🛒 12:42pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you Marie. If I can just entertain a few people, I've done my job.
	🛒 12:43pm PAULS: There's always "Warm and Willing" by Mark Wynter (not the season).
	12:44pm doctorjazz: The Manfred Mann was cool, as is this Veloso!
	12:45pm Marie: "Warm and Willing"--great title. I love Caetano. It's funny, his sounds kind of feminine and his sister's sounds kind of masculine, to me
	12:45pm Stork: I concur with the doctor.
	12:45pm Uncle Michael: SHTORK!
	12:46pm Rich in Washington: I saw Eugene Chadbourne (with members of Camper Van Beethoven) do a Joni cover once.
	12:46pm Marie: I left out the word "voice" about Caetano and his sis.
	12:46pm Uncle Michael: Rich!
	12:47pm StringOFperils: This reimagining is great. Caetano owns this.
	🛒 12:47pm PAULS: Just can't stop moving on this one, true
	🛒 12:48pm PAULS: Oh Canada! Sloan!
	12:48pm doctorjazz: Rich in Washington-jealous, I'm sure that was amazing (and weird)!
	🛒 12:49pm Franco Twinkie: Oh, this song!
	🛒 12:49pm PAULS: damn. my little drum disappeared!
	12:49pm StringOFperils: Mine too, paul. Is that wrong?
	12:50pm Uncle Michael: Drums don't transfer. You want a drum here, ya gotta pledge here!
	🛒 12:50pm PAULS: Ahhhh
	🛒 12:51pm PAULS: Unless you donate in Dogecoin
	12:51pm StringOFperils: My bank account is both hinky and dinky.
	12:52pm doctorjazz: We're getting further and further from the Joni versions...
	12:53pm StringOFperils: The Jungle Line probably changed how I listen to music, back in the before-time.
	12:53pm burke: Hissing of Summer Lawns is my favorite JM album.
	12:53pm Uncle Michael: The drum functions like a show-specific badge...which was an option. I'll probably have one in March. Shopping cart, mebbe....
	🛒 12:54pm PAULS: @docjazz - like we've heard it on "the X" - Mexican Radio
	12:55pm Uncle Michael: I heard it...I heard it...I heard it on the X...the ZZ Top tribute show!
	🛒 12:56pm PAULS: WE still get the jack a lanterns tho for this hell raisin thing
	12:56pm Uncle Michael: yep, punkins persist
	12:57pm StringOFperils: Jack-O-Freeform
	12:58pm Paul from Toronto: Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.
	12:58pm Uncle Michael: I gotta rock.
	🛒 12:59pm PAULS: Sincerely
	1:01pm burke: I would like to hear a rock opera about Rousseau
	1:02pm StringOFperils: Michael Franks' Sleeping Gypsy is an LP title that references Rousseau, but there's no song on it called that
	1:03pm Paul from Toronto: Joni is from Fort Macleod, AB. Sloan are based in Toronto ON originally from Halifax NS
	1:04pm StringOFperils: Like the difference between Martha's Vineyard and Reno
	1:04pm burke: whoa!
	1:05pm chresti: Goldie!
	1:06pm dan: Goldie is like a dinner theater version of Linda Ronstadt with this song.
	1:07pm Michael 98145: yes
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: This is Anthony Wilson on guitar on Black Crow and he's fantastic.
	1:09pm Christina: I like DK, yet long for just Joni on this song.
	1:09pm Uncle Michael: Christina! I understand.
	1:11pm StringOFperils: Wow, Anthony Wilson's dad, Gerald Wilson, was a pretty major jazz arranger.
	1:13pm Uncle Michael: When I saw Diana with Anthony in the band, he was busy teaching at UCLA for his day job.
	1:13pm dan: Jon Hiseman was one of the greatest underrated drummers of all time. His work with Colosseum and Colosseum II is on par with Neil Peart and John Bonham.
	1:20pm melinda: howdy all, glad to be home from a long wait at the post office. I tried to retrieve my mail from a hold yesterday but the doofus there made me fill out an unnecessary 24-hour notice form and come back today.
	1:21pm Uncle Michael: melinda! jeez...
	1:22pm doctorjazz: The guitar background on this Nazareth reminds me of Richard Thompsons comping style.
	1:22pm john the g: i heard recently that soon after joni mitchell first heard this nazareth cover, she would introduce this song in her live shows with "i'd like to do a nazareth song..."
	🛒 1:23pm Franco Twinkie: I can't decide if this is great or a travesty.
	1:23pm Uncle Michael: john! that's cute Me either, Franco.
	1:23pm burke: @franco no guilty pleasures around here
	1:23pm Jeff Golick: It's a gravesty.
	1:24pm Uncle Michael: hah!
	1:24pm doctorjazz: Really like this Hancock album.
	1:25pm dan: The Joni Letters winning the Grammy for Album of the Year is considered one of the biggest upsets in the Awards history.
	1:25pm Uncle Michael: Me too. This song...I'd have begged Steely Dan to cover it if I was producing a tribute album.
	1:26pm Uncle Michael: Arts aren't sports....or shouldn't be.
	🛒 1:26pm Franco Twinkie: Melinda, I'm so sorry about your mother. I lost my mom this past February - she just closed her eyes and BOINK she was gone. I was so disoriented I was doing some really stupid stuff.
	🛒 1:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Late ! & Ive so much to learn here. Joni def help give ♏︎Scorpio a good name... Tina wow. Nazareth works for that song just fine seems to me. Wonder what Joni ever thot about it.
	1:27pm StringOFperils: Originality gets benched in leagues of uniforms.
	1:27pm Uncle Michael: Rev!
	1:30pm Michael 98145: Enoch Light!
	🛒 1:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Gratifying Joni's lived long enuff to get past the chauvinism that kept her from being widely recognized as being in the small handful of Very Greatest.
	🛒 1:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think Tina retired to Europe & Buddhism as she likes it.
	1:31pm still b/p: Think Tina choose to step back from performing/recording spotlight.
	1:32pm burke: Great NYTimes article by Amanda Hess about Tina in retirement in her castle in Switzerland. Her and her much younger German husband.
	1:33pm barrett785: Krall Demonsweatlive!
	1:33pm Jeff Golick: Is that a recent piece, @burke?
	1:35pm Uncle Michael: Pat!
	1:36pm Marie: nice
	1:36pm burke: www.nytimes.com...
	1:37pm Jeff Golick: Thx!
	1:40pm Marie: It would be fun to dance to this version
	1:41pm Uncle Michael: Do it!
	1:46pm prudy: afternoon all...LOVE Chan Marshall...
	1:47pm melinda: @Franco thank you. It is disorienting, indeed.
	1:48pm melinda: @prudy me too
	1:49pm prudy: Does Cat Power have a new release? rumor has it...
	1:50pm Uncle Michael: prudy!
	1:51pm Lane Gray: Very cool show! Due to disastrous mishaps, I'm awake while the show is on.
	1:51pm burke: Many outrageously great vocalists on today's show. "Degree of difficulty" is usually high on a JM song. To borrow a term from sports...
	1:51pm Andres: Joni!Jony!Joné! Digging it all, Uncle Michael!
	🛒 1:51pm Franco Twinkie: This song was brought to my attention by someone when I was acting like an insufferable idiot.
	1:52pm Uncle Michael: Lane! I'm sorry! Glad to see you! Andres!
	1:54pm melinda: For some reason I can hear the lyrics better when sung by other people
	1:54pm Marie: @Burke--good for Tina! I thought she was with an Italian guy... maybe she was in the past
	1:55pm Michael 98145: nice version
	1:55pm Uncle Michael: melinda, you just keyed in on the major reason for these tributes.
	1:55pm Gerry from Miami: Warning---cleaned-up lyric in the Minnie Riperton song. Doesn't harm a fine interpretation at all.
	1:56pm melinda: @UM you too, then?
	1:57pm Uncle Michael: Gerry! Yes, melinda...breaking the song away from the version the brain takes no trouble with has that effect.
	2:01pm melinda: the GTDS artists tributes have been very timely for me. My mom was a Silent Generation person who stopped paying attention to popular music some time in the early 60s, I think, and over the last ten years or so I liked introducing her to singer-songwriters she may have been somewhat aware of but didn't really know. Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot were two she really liked.
	2:08pm doctorjazz: I like this Cee Lo Green version.
	2:08pm Marie: This is really beautiful. I've always loved this song.
	🛒 2:09pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: I'm loving this show, UM! I was one of those girls who always hauled a guitar around and played all of Joni's songs, but it's been a long time and I've forgotten so many of them. Thank you!
	2:10pm Uncle Michael: Lizzie! You're very welcome. And thank you.
	2:12pm Marie: My God, this is so great. UM, you are putting on a fantastic show. I have a new appreciation for Joni.
	2:13pm dan: I'm hoping the next songwriter tribute is Gordon Lightfoot. Another fellow Canadian.
	2:13pm Michael 98145: What Marie just said
	2:14pm Uncle Michael: I'll file that idea, dan. It's not, but that's a pretty good idea.
	2:15pm Uncle Michael: In two weeks (after singles going steady), I'll be presenting a tribute to a songwriting team.
	2:15pm melinda: Until right now I thought this was a Fairport original. Now I can hear Joni in it though.
	2:16pm Uncle Michael: FC recorded several Joni songs very early on.
	2:17pm prudy: did you play Lee? I didn't hear him...
	2:17pm StringOFperils: Nice curating, UM!
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: not yet! oops
	2:17pm Uncle Michael: thanks, SOP
	2:20pm Uncle Michael: I feel unfeathered.
	2:20pm Fuzzy: This song could almost be about Henry Miller. That's how I like to imagine it.
	2:20pm prudy: I'd love to hear a Lee Hazlewood tribute...not that I don't venerate Joni...
	2:20pm doctorjazz: Been doing office/computer work, been really enjoying the show (but can't comment that much). The texture of this King cover is nice, if that makes any sense to anyone.
	2:22pm Uncle Michael: Great idea, prudy. It does, Doc. I like the arrangement and production more than his vocal.
	2:22pm melinda: Night in the City is such a great song
	2:23pm Webhamster Henry: Just popping in now ... did you talk about Joni's guitar tunings?
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: Lot's of great covers of it too.
	2:23pm Uncle Michael: Henry! Nope. Feel free.
	2:26pm Uncle Michael: "without meter maids...or peace parades"
	2:26pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know that much about it , I was hoping someone else does! I love those realllly early Jonis that popped up last year.
	2:27pm Uncle Michael: yeah!
	2:27pm doctorjazz: As per Webmaster Henry 2:23, if I remember, Joni is a self taught guitarist, and used many open and unusual tunings on her guitar. A link about it: acousticguitar.com...
	2:29pm doctorjazz: Another link, more technical, for you guitar players out there: jonimitchell.com...
	2:30pm StringOFperils: I don't want to further distract even myself from this show, but here's an interesting look at Joni's tunings, and capo positions
	2:30pm StringOFperils: jonimitchell.com...
	2:30pm dan: Eva Cassidy is like Tupac or Zappa. There's just as many or more material released posthumously than in life.
	2:30pm Michael 98145: { such a hope-filled time }
	2:31pm StringOFperils: Hah...doc jazz
	🛒 2:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: She had Polio when young - & one reason she played dulcimer was it didn't take great strength. Probly same for alternate tunings.
	🛒 2:31pm Franco Twinkie: Forget about hippies rolling in the mud - I don't know who I am, but life is for learning. That's the line you can take to the bank.
	2:32pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, guitar tuning fans!
	2:32pm Marie: loved that Eva Cassidy (got the chills)--I know nothing about her
	2:36pm Pedro in Arlington: When the Borders opened in the District at 18th and L NW around 1993, there was free beer that Friday night and music from Eva Cassidy and Chuck Brown. I only vaguely knew who they were.
	2:36pm Doug Schulkind: "Not the end of it..."
	🛒 2:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: MOJO Innovators podcast episode on Joni is good for catching up : planetradio.co.uk...
	2:38pm Uncle Michael: Pedro! Doug!
	🛒 2:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...the My Favorite Album podcast with Jeremy Dylan will feature many episodes dedicated to Joni - so much he presumably puts a moratorium on Blue & the like...
	2:42pm StringOFperils: Nice! Hoyt!
	2:43pm doctorjazz: Man, Hoyt sings the crap out of this...
	2:43pm Uncle Michael: I guess it's ok that he changed the title, then.
	2:44pm spodiodi: olo doctorjazz
	2:46pm dan: Any version of Coyote?
	2:46pm Uncle Michael: nope, didn't find a cover that moved me
	2:47pm Gerry from Miami: Sorry, Uncle Mike. I have been listening to the entirety of this great show today, but have been unable to actively participate in the comments as my phone is playing catastrophic games with me. The device is all I have at the moment and is on its death bed. Nonetheless, you have done us all a great service with this program in tribute to one of the greatest pop artists of our lifetime. Thanks so much. I will be playing this one back again from the Archives, I'm sure.
	2:47pm Marie: I've said it before on FMOO but I love Harry Belafonte--really appreciate his voice and everything. Also, I saw Richard Thompson last night at the 7-Second Delay anniversary party--he was great, of course.
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Richard Thompson?!
	2:48pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Gerry.
	🛒 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Tom Rush too obvious I suppose with the old ones...
	2:48pm StringOFperils: That must have been fun. Thompson's kind of a cut-up, not to mention being a guitar god of course
	2:50pm melinda: love Bonnie's cover, it was the first version I heard.
	2:51pm doctorjazz: Love Bonnie-she can sing Itsy Bitsy Spider, will be great!
	🛒 2:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Another ♏︎Scorpio Sistah. Wow. Bumped my current estimation back up...
	🛒 2:52pm Franco Twinkie: This has been a revelation Michael. Perfect soundtrack for a day of real weather in L.A. Thanks.
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: This Bonnie is just laying me out...inside.
	2:53pm StringOFperils: She really shows off her vocal chops on this....with a band playing perfection, pretty much
	2:53pm Uncle Michael: Thank you, Franco.
	2:53pm doctorjazz: Love Richard Thompson, hate Zoom concerts. Wasn't able to catch him at his last shows in the area.
	2:53pm Marie: I love Bonnie but just was thinking the music behind her is often not great...
	2:53pm melinda: I think this was the song that inspired me to buy my first Joni album in my early 20s.
	2:54pm doctorjazz: Michael, fabulous show!!!! Thanks much!
	🛒 2:54pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Her voice is perfect for this song. Adore her.
	2:54pm Michael 98145: Thank you!
	2:54pm Marie: Hey Dr. J--he performed live; it was in Montclair
	2:55pm dan: Joni would be proud UM. Great show
	2:55pm Uncle Michael: You folks have a way of making me glad that I do this. Thank you all.
	🛒 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Raitt's a little close to the MOR YachtRawk demographic for my tastes - but it's clearly in her if it wants to come out...
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Sounds a lot like Tom Rush's version (not sure which was first). Marie-I didn't see anything about that (couldn't have gone anyway, work late Thursday nights), bummer!
	2:56pm spodiodi: thanks, UM! loved hearing the Joni Mitchell show
	🛒 2:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A lot.
	2:56pm Andres: This Lee, a beaut!! An eye opening show, Uncle Michael. Thank you!!
	2:56pm doctorjazz: Hazelwood has a bit more "screw you" than Tom Rush, though...
	2:59pm chresti: Thanks UM!
	2:59pm Marie: Dr. J.--you didn't get the memo? Hey UM, absolutely fantastic show! Grazie!
	🛒 3:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah of course. Rush's is more haunted.
	3:00pm Webhamster Henry: Nice collection, Uncle Michael!
	3:00pm melinda: great tribute, thanks UM
	3:01pm StringOFperils: Thanks for pushing the Bonnie Raitt threshold, you've got the right stuff! No, really, I understand....ok, well, thanks UM!!!!
	🛒 3:01pm WR: Thank you Uncle Michael, interesting survey. 👍
	3:01pm burke: Bon week-end!
	3:01pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, UM! See you next week!
	🛒 3:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always UM ~ Appreciate the effort you put into the likes of this - & the value it has for us.
	3:03pm Uncle Michael: Thanks everyone!
	3:04pm Listener Robert: Aw, you didn't wave bye-bye. I waved back, though.

Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael: Playlist from October 8, 2021

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