I am glad Joni did go on making records. I would not have liked being deprived of songs like “Passion Play”, “Come in from the Cold”, “Two Grey Rooms” (i love this one), “Sunny Sunday”, and the list goes on. I love those songs. Some songs are sad, others are more contemplative and mystical. Try to find an honest and real sad song these days! I love the fact that she is real and sings about what is real to her.

Thank you, Joni. “Shine”, the song, reminds me a lot of “Taming the Tiger”, which is a style I like. I’m not a fan of jazz, and so even though Joni does have a lot of jazz influence, I like it more when she waxes a little more symphonic or expansively feeling type of making music and singing. To me it is like the jazziness sometimes takes away from the deep feeling that a poetic story teller sometimes comes to. This is why I like songs like Grey Rooms which are more calm and less ’spikey’. But that is of course just me. She can be such a soothing story teller, and I love that about her.