A compilation which will also be liked by your mother-in-law (At seventeen esp.: a song with very strong lyrics from the ugly duckly Janis). Just nice songs which somehow, at least for me, fit together. Most songs recorded in the seventies but added some synthpop flavours with a pretty nice cover of Serge Gainsbourg (Jo Lemaire), a pretty Prince song sung by Taja Sevelle and a self written track by the Voque-0cover beauty named Rosie Vela. Gill Scott and Shuggy are terribly underrated artist which one day get more credits for their'Psychedelic Soul' (huh? Wiki, but beats me..) and Patty Griffin / Neko / IDA bring top-notch alt-country. Really love music of Joni, esp. Heijra / Hissing of Summer lawns. California is earlier work of Joni which I didn't know until I saw a really slow german movie (Plätze in Städten) where 2 lonely girls start dancing spontaneously in a deserted swimming pool. A strange uncomforting but beautiful scene which comes to mind when listining to the song :-)
