Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words

I wrote a review of Malka Marom's wonderful new book Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words: Conversations With Malka Marom for REBEAT Magazine if you're interested. Marom actually called it a "dream review" on Facebook, which was really lovely. You can read it here or below.

There’s a wonderful moment in Joni Mitchell In Her Own Words: Conversations With Malka Marom in which both Marom and Mitchell exchange amusing stories of Leonard Cohen, and meeting his Buddhist master, Roshi. As they banter about him and his not-so-honorable intentions, the reader feels like a guest at a first-rate dinner party, listening to incredible people tell fascinating tales about other incredible people. That is what makes this new book about Joni Mitchell so special: not the gossip, but the relationship between these two women.

Neko Case at the Union Chapel

Neko Case
Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams
Union Chapel, 15 August 2014

Back in 2000 Neko Case and her band played the Union Chapel before: it was their first time playing in London supporting The Handsome Family. I sadly hadn't heard of Neko back then so didn't witness this momentous event but Kelly Hogan, Neko's talented and extremely funny backing singer and partner in crime, tells us that someone stole Neko's blue leather jacket that night and she wants it back. "I'm over it," Neko replies, shrugging her shoulders before saying triumphantly, "it wouldn't fit me now, I'm so much skinnier."