A Conversation With Brianna Falcone

So then I do want to ask you, you know, yourself, obviously, about how you got into Joanie, but you just brought up your parents.

And so I have to bring up the piece of art that's behind you on the wall.

And I have to describe this for listeners.

There is a picture framed behind Brianna of Joanie in this beautiful looking white suit, 70s.

She's got her hair parted down the middle.

It's a stunning photograph of her.

And your stepdad took that photo.

Is that right?

He did indeed.

What's the story of that? So he and my mom started dating like a few years after we moved here.

And I think your parents starting to date other people is always such a strange thing, but we ended up connecting.

really quickly because of our mutual love for music and art.

He's a visual artist and he makes music as well.

And he started a creative practice like 20 years ago where he makes something every single day.

And we soon after figured out that we both have a really tender spot in our heart for Joni.

And I think it was like a couple years into knowing him that he found this photo that he took and he brought it out of storage and gifted it to me in this very like unceremonial way which is so much better because it ended up becoming just one of my most prized possessions of my life.

Yeah, he and I have connected a lot over the years about our love for Joni and listened to her music a lot together and talked about how she affected us.

And so the story behind the photograph is he went to see her Court and Spark tour in 1974.

And she was playing at this theater that I believe is no more called the Universal Amphitheater.

It's like in Universal.

And I guess they ended up demolishing it to make Harry Potter World or something like that.

But yeah, that's where she played her show in L.A. for Court and Spark.

And he went and he said he was like in the 15th row and he brought his camera.

He's an amazing photographer as well.

He brought his camera and had like a telephoto lens.