Brief Stevie article in July Elle Magazine

[DeeGeMe]

It's the one with Gwen Stefani on the cover, their music issue.

The Record that Changed My Life By Stevie Nicks. Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark. I was over at Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olson's house and he had these great speakers that were as tall as me, and Joni's record had just come out, and I put it on. He went away, it was just me, and I listened to this record for three days. She was able to stuff so many words into one sentence and not have them sound crowded. She was talking about what it was like to be very famous and to be a woman living in a man's world. She had been in the world of fame much longer than me, and she had gone out with every famous rock 'n' roll staf that there was. And she was such an amazing guitarist that they all respected her. That was unheard of. She was in the boy's club. She talked about what I saw coming. Even though Buckingham Nicks had tanked, I knew that we were going to be very famous, very rich, and it was like a great old premonition just being laid out in front of me. There is a song on it called "The Same Situation" and that song just would kill me when I'd heart it. Because I knew it was coming.

[vivfox]

It could only be Ms. Joni
It was a record by one of our own that forever changed the life of Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks

Shinan Govani, National Post
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009


Apparently, there are other musicians.

In the land of the very much living, there is Joni Mitchell, who's getting a special call-out right now from Stevie Nicks (also alive and well). Asked to name one "record that changed my life" by Elle magazine, the latter named that singular '60s folkie from Canada. Mitchell's Court and Spark, from 1974, to be precise.

"She was able to stuff so many words into one sentence and not have them sound crowded," says Nicks who, we're told, listened to the album for three days straight back in the day.

"She was," says Ms. Fleetwood Mac, "talking about what it was like to be very famous and to be a woman living in a man's world. She had been in the world of fame much longer than me, and she had gone out with every famous rock 'n' roll star that there was. And she was such an amazing guitarist that they all respected her. That was unheard of. She was in the boys' club."

Nicks hadn't quite made it yet, but she knew she was going to, and Mitchell, in sum, "talked about what I saw coming." Listening to the album, in that way, was like listening to a "great old premonition."
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=1228be88-a20c-4887-ac01-6211ea843499

[ricohv]

It does seems like Stevie gives props to Joni pretty regularly (only maybe a little less than she gives props to Janis). I'd be curious to know what Joni thinks of Stevie since Joni usually has an opinion and doesn't usually mince words in giving it.
Ricoh