After travelling, your home has a different context within the world and California captures that. It’s pure Joni.Ĭalifornia, which she wrote in Paris, is a coming home song. It thrives on her voice, melody and personality. Blue’s brilliance lies in its minimalism. There were very few people in the sessions. It felt natural and easy for me to play on the album. She quit smoking and her voice was excellent. It was a calm, peaceful, amazing, creative time. I’m not saying I was sober, but my then addiction to heroin was relatively quiet. We moved in the same circles and ended up together. After a year or two travelling in Europe with her portable dulcimer, she came back with lots of songs and ideas. ![]() She had a house and an automobile and wanted to have fun and see the world. Photograph: Jim McCrary/Redferns James Taylor: California ‘It’s one of the best things in my life that I’ve known her’ … James Taylor with Joni around 1970.
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