In 1995, Diana Krall’s second album came out.

Shane and I both discovered her at the same time and we’d both bought this album.

He told me this in a phone conversation that we had. He liked her a lot and I did too.

Not long after this, Bob put up the first Kingston Trio web site.

I’d been trying to get him to do this for some time, and he finally did it.

Bobbie had been after him to do it too.

She started selling CDs on the web site, and was doing well with them.

There was a section of Cds for sale that weren’t Trio CDs. They were CDs that they liked, and one of them was a Diana Krall CD.

Around Christmas that year, we got a fruit basket from Bob and Bobbie. With it came a note thinking me for getting them to put up a web site.

I’ve bought every CD that Diana has made since then.

The quality of her recordings is the best. Al Schmitt was her recording engineer. (He died last year.) The bass on her CDs is always really good.

They don’t do any overdubbing.

I can’t remember the first time we went to one of Dian’s concerts.

I think it was in the early 2020s.

She was here twice about three years ago.

The last time, the sound was the best I’ve ever heard at a concert.

She has 5 guys in her sound crew. I talked to one of them before the show.

I talked to one of them. He said he was the new guy. He’s been with her for only four years. The rest of the guys had been with her almost since she began.

Diana does three of Joni Mitchell’s songs that I know of.

She did “Amelia” at the last concert we went to.

I just found the first one below of “A Case of You.”

I have a great stereo system hooked up to my computer and the best way, I think, to see just how good a stereo system is …. is to listen to some piano music.

In this video, it seems to me that mic was a little too hot and there’s a tiny bit of distortion on some notes.

But, where there’s no distortion on some of what I call the odd notes … ones you don’t expect WOW !!!!

I find it very interesting how Diana takes Joni’s guitar playing and replicates it on a piano ….plus, I’m sure she adds some of her own feelings.

There’s another version of “A Case of You” on YouTube and on this one, Diana sings it with much less feeling.

On this one, she says, “If you want me … I’ll be in the bar.” totally different on this one, and she sounds like she really means it.

At the last concert we went to Diana flubbed a note.

I didn’t notice it. Diana said “Shit” and kept on singing and playing.

She didn’t say anything after the song was over.

I just did the math. Diana was 31 when her second album came out and now she’s 57. Hard to believe 26 years have gone by since I first heard her … along with Shane.






















For the Roses
Joni Mitchell

I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here
Seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face
So seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here
I get these notes
On butterflies and lilac sprays
From girls who just have to tell me
They saw you somewhere
In some office sits a poet
And he trembles as he sings
And he asks some guy
To circulate his soul around
On your mark red ribbon runner
The caressing rev of motors
Finely tuned like fancy women
In Thirties evening gowns
Up the charts
Off to the airport
Your name's in the news
Everything's first class
The lights go down
And it's just you up there
Getting them to feel like that
Remember the days when you used to sit
And make up your tunes for love
And pour your simple sorrow
To the sound hole and your knee
And now you're seen
On giant screens
And at parties for the press
And for people who have slices of you
From the company
They toss around your latest golden egg
Speculation-well, who's to know
If the next one in the nest
Will glitter for them so
I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here
The critic!
And they introduce some band
But they seem so much confetti
Looking at them on my TV set
Oh the power and the glory
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers
And the boards
And the nails
I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Chilly now
End of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water
Like an empty spotlight

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Joni Mitchell
For the Roses lyrics © Crazy Crow Music / Siquomb Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management Inc