{"id":6855,"date":"2022-10-29T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:42:50","slug":"music-jonis-for-the-roses-50th-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6855","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Joni\u2019s For The Roses, 50th Anniversary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5112-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s incredibly rare that I hear of this sort of thing before it happens. More typically I learn about it long after. And frequently &#8211; the Burt Bacharach or Magma complete box-sets, for example &#8211; it\u2019s so long after that they are no longer available at anything but insanely high prices, if at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, for once, I\u2019ve heard some fab news with almost perfect timing. Joni\u2019s <em>For The Roses<\/em>, released in \u201872, the year I was born, is now, like me, 50 years old. And it has been released in a remastered form, on vinyl. Including a rather snazzy blue version. So I\u2019ve ordered me a copy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5113.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5113.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5113-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joni, Nordic mermaid nature girl Goddess.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa and I are currently on holiday in Cardiff, with family, visiting my sister Abbie, and her husband Dan, who\u2019re now living here, in the Welsh capital. When I learned of this reissue, yesterday, I immediately ordered it. And today I got an email confirming it has been dispatched. We travel home today, so I\u2019m looking forward to it arriving soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For The Roses<\/em>, her fifth studio album, is part of Joni\u2019s early years run of pure gold. Rather like Woody Allen\u2019s purple patch, or Tom Waits in his prime; such artistic genius and musical gloriousness is to be savoured and treasured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5114.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6858\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5114.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5114-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_5114-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overshadowed by her two best-selling albums &#8211; <em>Blue<\/em>, which was her previous release, and <em>Court And Spark<\/em>, which came next &#8211; I hold <em>Roses<\/em> to be an overlooked meisterwerk. My picks\/favourites are Barangrill, Electricity, and Woman Of Heart And Mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Wikipedia article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/For_the_Roses\">For The Roses<\/a><\/em> \u2018she originally intended for the cover to be a drawing entitled <em>For the Roses<\/em>, the imagery in which relating to her feelings on the music industry.\u2019 I\u2019d love to see the artwork in question! I wonder if I can do some sleuthing in that direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s incredibly rare that I hear of this sort of thing before it happens. More typically I learn about it long after. And frequently &#8211; the Burt Bacharach or Magma complete box-sets, for example &#8211; it\u2019s so long after that they are no longer available at anything but insanely high prices, if at all. But, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Joni\u2019s For The Roses, 50th Anniversary Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,89,73,90,124,68,114,71,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1Mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}