Joni won a Grammy too

I, for one, wasn't mad at all that Herbie Hancock won album of the year Sunday night -- "River: the Joni Letters" was on my Top 10 too. But let's not forget that the goddess herself released some outstanding music last year too: "Shine," her Hear Music debut, was brilliantly cranky and shimmeringly wise. You'd never know it from Sunday night's broadcast (which was alarmingly light on actual awards), but Joni got a tiny gramophone too -- in the best pop instrumental performance category, for the album-opener "One Week Last Summer." You can read reviews of "Shine" (including mine) at the lovingly maintained fansite.

And here's a link to another track from "Shine," the slinky "Night of the Iguana."

-- Ann Powers