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According to Ryan, her songs are "an expression of day-to-day life--men, women, roommates, friends, hiking boots, the homeless...Songs just come out at the strangest times--walking to class, during all-nighters." Her musical influences still include Joni Mitchell ("you can't get away from her; she's the folk goddess"), Shawn Colvin and various jazz and gospel performers. But these influences play little more than a subconscious role in Ryan's song-writing process. "I don't try to imitate," she says. "The one time I tried to imitate Haydn for class, the T.F. said...
...this quick conversational self-portrait of the artist as an inspector of milk-carton dates, even for a second, the impression is immediately erased when Joni Mitchell's new album, Night Ride Home, kicks in with the title cut. The instrumentation is spare, the melody light and tight as a fresh-spun web, the lyrics casual, conversational and smooth as a stone in a Zen garden. It takes a good deal of practical education to make something as intricate as her music seem so simple. And -- yes, all right -- so fresh...
...another odd twist for the publishing house, which is owned by S.I. Newhouse's media conglomerate. Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...
Industry insiders speculated that Joni Evans, 48, had been fired because of disappointing sales for several recent Random House books, among them Donald Trump's Surviving at the Top and Shana Alexander's biography of Bess Myerson, When She Was Bad. The principals denied that scenario: Random House expects to have "a record year in profits" Vitale said, with 18 best sellers. Friends say Evans felt crushed under the administrative responsibilities of her job and wanted to return to editing. She not only will continue at Random House but will have the cachet of her own imprint...
...INNOCENCE MISSION: THE INNOCENCE MISSION (A&M). Pleasing, slightly spacey sounds that are tinged with '60s folk rock and psychedelia, then spruced up with shades of Joni Mitchell ("I showed him my notebook/ The underside of my soul") and a little jolt of feminism. Overwrought -- but promising...