Title: Joni didn't get around to writing any tunes
Review: Apparently, she went into the studio with an acoustic guitar & Jaco Pastorius & not much else. There's one great track called OFF NIGHT BACKSTREET, which includes a fun recurring appearance of Jaco's high-register bass-pings. The title track is a mediocrity that uses a glissando bass-pulse. At the end of the title track, Joni threw in some background singing. Too little too late. The title track would've been a lot more interesting if it had contained her background singing all the way thru it. TALK TO ME is a pretty good song lyric. Unfortunately there's no tune attached to it. Which raises the obvious question: is TALK TO ME deliberately tuneless for the purpose of expressing the desperation of the narrator?
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