Hearing Ronstadt’s version of “River” sent me off to find my vinyl copy of Joni Mitchell’s Blue, the album on which it first appeared. If memory serves, “River” got very little airplay at the time of release (1971); “My Old Man” and “Carey” were the two I remember hearing in regular rotation on the radio. …
Lights, power, um, hurricane lanterns? Fortunately I’d finished washing dishes. There’s always an initial period of excitement and amusement about a power outage, but when it becomes apparent that it ain’t comin’ back anytime soon, crankiness begins to exhibit. We were out from 6:45pm to about 1:30am. Hawaii Public Radio tells me that the Fire …