prince, an old-time admirer of joni dares to tackle one of her greatest songs, a case of you. with mixed results. his falsetto reaches record-breaking highs but it even irritated the bernese mountain dog next door who couldn't but respond with a drawn-out bark. the piano improvisations in the middle of the song are quite charming though. if it was prince himself, he should definitely play more piano.

and on it goes with blue. sarah mclachlan, a fellow canadian who must have been compared to joni a lot does an excellent version of it. it's very close to the original, some synths here and there but the most amazing is her voice. if i wouldn't have known that it was hers i might have taken it for joni's before the smoking took its toll on her vocal cords. very expressive and pure.

annie lennox sings ladies of the canyon. the instrumentation sounds false like coming from a musical box, probaly a laptop. an unnecessary version.

magdalene laundries is next. country chanteuse emmylou harris delivers a soporific performance for completists.

elvis costello and edith and the kingpin. an extremely slow, solemn version with classical instrumentation sucking out all the life and beauty from the original. unbearable crap, elvis, please shut up you bore.

k.d. lang covers help me. okayish but too slow again as this song lives from the speed in which the words are delivered.

finally james taylor finishes off this dispensable tribute album with river. the last yawn is the best.