Joni's voice has always had a sorta gruff edge to it cause she has smoked cigs since she was very young. I have been wracking my brain trying to think of a KB song that reminds me of Joni's stuff, and i can't...maybe its that rural Canada vs urban UK thing that seperates their styles so? But just as Kate paved the way for so many others i think Joni paved the way for Kate(and others)..hard to be uninfluenced by that
oh and juniper try The Whole Story and go to Hounds from that
hmmmm there is a cut from hounds on TWS, but mostly it is slices of older stuff
dwain