Reisa Gerber

"Court and Spark" reflects a thoughtful and sensitive analysis to womenfolk and their issues in musical terms. I have a few favorites that I can think about that I carry with me on those rainy days when the blues start to threaten me... "Trouble Child" with its "blackness and blankets to lay down an impression and your lonliness" and its "river of everchanging faces, looking for an ocean"... as they "trickle through your leaky plans...another dream over the dam...and you're lying in some room feeling like your right to be human is going over too..." aptly cover it! "Just Like This Train"..."I went looking for a cause or a long cat without claws or any reason to resume...and I found this empty seat in a crowded waiting room..." Resourceful woman, right! And that forever flirtatious soul..."Raised on Robbery..." "You ain't badlooking, I like the way you hold your drinks...come home with me, honey, I ain't asking for no full length minks..." She tells the guy "I'm up after midnight, cookin', tryin' to make my rent...gin's what I'm drinking, I was raised on robbery..." and of course, "Help Me..."...we love our lovin', but not the way we love our freedom..."...and Ill finish off this review with the song "Court and Spark..." ... "his eyes were the color of the sand and the sea, and the more he talked to me, you know, the more he reached me...but I couldn't let go of LA, city of the fallen angels..." "Court and Spark" is just about beyond anything I've heard any woman from the days of the 1970's produce, and what a gift to be able to review. Thanks a lot, Joni.