Word: cipolla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joanne Cipolla plays her guitar wrong. With the strings in an unidentified open tuning (Cipolla can't tell you what chord it is), she reaches up around the neck with her left hand and plays over the top, fingering bar chords in a style that audiences invariably compare with Joni Mitchell...
...Cipolla doesn't really like the comparison, but "People always have to compare you to someone, I guess," she says. Like Mitchell, she writes all her own material, songs that express very personal emotions about a world that sometimes moves too fast to take...
Once upon a time, when she was a student at Brown, Cipolla thought she was headed for med school. Her father is a surgeon, and the other seven children in her family are all doing things scientific. It took her some time, she says, to "stop criticizing and analyzing, to just react, spontaneously," a change she feels had to come if she was to get serious about...