Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Why?

A tribute to Joni had all the possibilites to be a favorite in any Mitchell fans' CD collection. After all, the 2000 Tv special that featured Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Diana Krall and others was probably the most entertaining special I've seen in this decade. So having that for a seed how could this not be awesome? Well the simple answer is that it was designed to be too complicated, on the edge or whatever. Some of the performances are awesome! (Prince, E. Harris, KD Lang and JT) but some are almost unbareable and prevent any listener who is not familiar with the particular song to even understand what the heck its about. Music fans purchase at your own risk, but understand that few true Joni fans will think its a tribute or a treasure.