May 3, 1999

Posted May 03, 1999

I want to thank everyone who's sent me their best wishes for my health and happiness. In fact, many of you wrote and said that you joined in the visualization exercise I wrote about in my last memo to the homepage. Very cool! And I'm pleased to tell you that the after-effects of my recent chemotherapy treatments were not as horrendous as they were at the previous session. I had just one particularly bad day and night, and believe me, that's a major improvement over last time.

I was finally able to connect and have a conversation with musician, David Lahm. He's a very smart and entertaining guy and I think you'll learn a great deal about him and his new album, "Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell," by reading my interview. Our conversation has already been transcribed by the swift and gracious Susan Chaloner, and should be ready to put up on a page sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. Thanks for talking with me, David, and by the way- your album was last month's 3rd largest-selling item purchased from CDNOW.COM through a JM.COM link, right behind Joni's live video "Painting With Words And Music," and the gold disc version of "Blue."

My sincere thanks to all of you who've been shopping at CDNOW.COM through the JM.COM links. With the recent release of the "Painting With Words And Music" video, and other new JM related products, the homepage account has been quite healthy. Thank you all! To make it easier to get to a particular item, I've expanded the "SHOP" page to include an image of and a link to all the recent products. Remember, if you want the homepage to get a share of your purchase, you must enter CDNOW.COM directly through one of the links on JM.COM every time you shop. One way to be certain that you're shopping in that manner is that you'll see a "Return to: JONI MITCHELL HOMPAGE" link in the upper right above the light blue line that displays the artist name on each page you go to within CDNOW. I truly appreciate your generosity and caring.

The Joni Mitchell Homepage was born in August of 1995, and I'm proud to say that sometime last week, Visitor number 1,000,000 (one million) accessed the entrance page to the site. To celebrate this milestone, and in response to a bunch of requests, I've put up a new page with some additional photos from my first meeting with Joni at The Gorge in George, Washington on May 16th, 1998. Thanks for the interest.