During my sit down interview on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, I shared my memories of meeting Elisa Casas in 1983. We lived across the hallway from each other at N.Y.U.’s Weinstein Hall and became inseparable virtually from the moment we met. As I said on the show, “I’m not sure if it was the smell of canabis or the sound of Joni Mitchell, but I drifted across the hall and I kind of never left.” Indeed it was Elisa who introduced me to Joni’s music that fall and I’ve never stopped listening to either of them. I have clear, vibrant memories of Elisa teaching me about Joni Mitchell’s importance; about her maturation as an artist and how she gradually incorporated more jazz elements into her folk pop sound. Of her relationships with James Taylor and especially Graham Nash—her “Willy.” For me this began a lifelong fascination with the music, spirit, and fashion of Laurel Canyon in the last-1960s and early 1970s, which culminated when Elisa and I launched our store Laurel Canyon Vintage several years ago. Many years later (by a complete coincidence) my cousin lived in the famous house in Laurel Canyon that Joni once shared […]
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