I first heard JB in a coffeehouse setting in the early/mid-60s and was seriously in love with her voice. Talked with her for quite a while afterward and liked her as a person.

Several years later she was doing an open-air concert in the Cleveland Orchestra's summer home (I can't for the life of me remember the name of the place right now, tho' I went fairly often when I was living in Cleveland) and found her performance T-E-E-D-I-O-U-S. She was in her I'll-back-David-Till-My-Dying-Day mode (her activist husband, David, was in jail for one of his activities) and went on and on about it and him. About two or three months after he got out, they split. I always wondered if it was about the album she dedicated to him while he was in — one of her worst, IMHO. Haven't followed her much in the last 15 years or so, but I still love her first five albums. But then, maybe I just hit a time wall.

I'll look forward to hearing how she does in the concert.

cheers,

david