From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V4 #16 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Monday, January 11 1999 Volume 04 : Number 016 The Song and Album Voting Booths are open again! Cast your votes by clicking the links at http://www.jmdl.com/gallery username: jimdle password: siquomb ------- The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage is maintained by Wally Breese at http://www.jonimitchell.com and contains the latest news, a detailed bio, original interviews and essays, lyrics, and much more. ------- The JMDL website can be found at and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- NJC: Bryan Thomas Watch ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] cover tunes [evian ] Re: "Urge For Going" [kb420@webtv.net (gr8fuldave)] back to the garden [evian ] NJC: Welcome to all ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Urge For Going ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Urge For Going - a retraction ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] RE: JONI TRIBUTE ALBUM ["Luis Vilapillado" ] Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback [Mark Domyancich ] Speaking of Back to the Garden ... [LRFye@aol.com] Re: Speaking of Back to the Garden ... [RMuRocks@aol.com] Re: Speaking of Back to the Garden ... [LRFye@aol.com] Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback [Randy Remote ] Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback [Mark Domyancich ] Re: Sarah McL covering "Blue" [Marilune@aol.com] Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (teeny bit of Joni content) [G] Joni second time around=sweetest [Bounced Message ] For Free [Bounced Message ] Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (teeny bit of Joni content) [L] Re: Joni second time around=sweetest [Randy Remote ] Re: For Free [Randy Remote ] Re: For Free [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: For Free ["Alan Parsons" ] Re: Rainy Day Man [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: Male singers for tribute album [FredNow@aol.com] Re: Male singers for tribute album [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Beck & Bonnie ["Gerald Hillman" ] Re: For Free [RMuRocks@aol.com] Re: Joni second time around=sweetest [RMuRocks@aol.com] Re: Rainy Day Man [IVPAUL42@aol.com] Re: For Free [RMuRocks@aol.com] Several Threads (and Golden Needles?) [Bounced Message ] Re: Several Threads (and Golden Needles?) [Ginamu@aol.com] Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (VLJC) ["Winfried Hühn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 03:16:13 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: NJC: Bryan Thomas Watch Brian's web site says that he has a CD coming out in March. Read all about it: http://www.bryanthomas.com/now/990105jennifer.htm Anyone who heard Bryan's jazz guitar and astonishing version of "Black Crow" in Boston last year will want to check it out. [Cynics: No, Brian didn't ask me to write this.] - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:17:56 -0600 From: evian Subject: cover tunes I haven't really given it much thought, but Carly Simon would do an interesting "Car on the Hill", Paul Simon would do a good "Don't interupt the sorrow", and I think that Chrissie Hynde would do a good job at "Refuge of the Roads". And, to dream a little, I for some totally bizarre reason can picture Simple Minds doing "Dreamland", Janet Jackson doing "Morning Morgantown", JT and Carolle King doing "Good Friends", Alanis doing "the Gallery" or "Concersation", Chris Isaak doing "Blue", and Prince doing "Three Great Stimulants". LOL, maybe I am overtired, but I think it would all sound great at the moment! Oh ya, and Madonna doing "Court and Spark"! Cheers, Evian np: Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Dulcinea" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 03:26:07 -0500 (EST) From: kb420@webtv.net (gr8fuldave) Subject: Re: "Urge For Going" Paul suggested: >Alos, Mary, I meant to mention that you >should look up the Tom Rush version, >from his album "The Circle Game," which >I and many others think remains the best >version of "Urge" ever recorded. Also, a fine version by Tony Rice on his "Native American" album. gdave NP: Grateful Dead 1/10/70 Community Concourse, San Diego - ----------------------------------------------------------------- DaveBase @ http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/2349/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:30:06 -0600 From: evian Subject: back to the garden Hey, do any of you know if the Canadian Joni tribute album is still available? It was called "Back to the Garden". Evian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 03:49:52 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: NJC: Welcome to all Hi to all, Just a note to welcome all of the new folks who have recently posted / joined. The Joni Mitchell Discussion List is also home to an active community of folks trading public domain recordings Joni's music. For an overview of this process of distribution, read http://www.jmdl.com/trading/ Les has built a page of pictures of folks who have/are on the List. You can follow links from jmdl.com or go there directly at: http://www.jmdl.com/gallery/galleryp.htm - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:22:36 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Urge For Going Urge For Going is the first track from Joni's "hits" CD. It's never been offered on vinyl. My opinion on 'hits' is that it should be the last title you buy. Does anyone think that the hits CD has actually killed off her catalog sales? Does anyone know her sales figures? ============= Mary asked: has Joni ever recorded UFG? I was expecting to find it on one of the first 2 albums, but having gotten them recently, realize it's not there. Then in the last digest someone mentioned her recording of it. Where? - -- All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 05:05:16 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Urge For Going - a retraction I retract my assertion that "Urge For Going" wasn't available on vinyl. I now assert that it was not available on LP. - -- Oh God, don't let me be wrong again, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:09:51 +0100 From: "Luis Vilapillado" Subject: RE: JONI TRIBUTE ALBUM I think it would be great hear: Abbey Lincoln : Night ride home Lyle Lovett: Turn me on, I´m a radio Luis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:18:49 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Urge For Going In a message dated 1/10/99 4:23:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, jlamadoo@one.net writes: << Urge For Going is the first track from Joni's "hits" CD. It's never been offered on vinyl. >> Not quite accurate, Jim. As we mentioned before, it's the B side on a 45rpm release of "You Turn Me On," which I think also are made of vinyl. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:31:23 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback Here in Suburban Kentucky, USA, "Joni Mitchell, The Complete Poems and Lyrics" is available in paperback. The back cover notes, "This paperback edition includes the lyrics to Joni Mitchell's new album, 'Taming The Tiger', as well as an index for easy access to all titles." - -- Hoping I'm not mistaken, Jim L'Hommedieu ** Get well Wally & Chili! ** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:38:07 -0600 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback Does it include all the corrections we've found? And wasn't the first printing supposed to include Joni's line drawings? At 10:31 AM -0500 1/10/99, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > Here in Suburban Kentucky, USA, "Joni Mitchell, The Complete Poems and > Lyrics" is available in paperback. The back cover notes, "This > paperback edition includes the lyrics to Joni Mitchell's new album, > 'Taming The Tiger', as well as an index for easy access to all titles." ___________________________________ | Mark Domyancich | | Harpua@revealed.net | | http://home.revealed.net/Harpua | | http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/mark | |_________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:45:18 EST From: LRFye@aol.com Subject: Speaking of Back to the Garden ... Has anyone heard whether "A Day In The Garden" (or similar festival) will be happening at Yasgur's farm this year? It will be 30 years since Woodstock, and wouldn't it be wonderful if Joni played again? The downside, of course, would be if that weekend (presumably Aug 13-15) clashes with our plans for JoniFest '99 in Colorado ... what dates are the Colorado weekend? Lori, asking many questions in San Antonio ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:08:24 EST From: RMuRocks@aol.com Subject: Re: Speaking of Back to the Garden ... In a message dated 1/10/99 10:48:33 AM Central Standard Time, LRFye@aol.com writes: << Has anyone heard whether "A Day In The Garden" (or similar festival) will be happening at Yasgur's farm this year? It will be 30 years since Woodstock, and wouldn't it be wonderful if Joni played again? >> Hey Lori, The latest RS has an article "Woodstock Turns 30", which says: 1. Woodstock '99 will feature 8 days of concerts split between NY and Austria, possibly a third set in Brazil. 2. The European shows in Weiner-Neustadt, Austria will feature approx. 100 acts from July 14-18. (Marian makes her star-turning performance....?) 3. In the U.S. negotiations are being held with Saugerties, NY for July 23-25. 4. No performers are being announced as yet. "There are some obvious choices. We're not going to have any three-timers, though. We don't want this becoming a nostalgia event", quote from John Scher, a co-promoter of the 25-anniversary event. Hope that helps...ask and ye shall receive :~) Bob. M in SC NP: The Doors, "Hello, I Love You" (1965 Demo) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:03:59 EST From: LRFye@aol.com Subject: Re: Speaking of Back to the Garden ... Bob in S.C. wrote: > 2. The European shows in Weiner-Neustadt, Austria will feature approx. 100 > acts from July 14-18. (Marian makes her star-turning performance....?) That would be splendid! How I wish I could travel to Austria then (especially since July 18 is my birthday)! > 3. In the U.S. negotiations are being held with Saugerties, NY for July 23- > 25. We're back to Saugerties, again? How odd. That is not the location for the original Woodstock; Bethel is. I wonder what the Gerry Foundation (who purchased Yasgur's Farm and produced last year's event) has to say about it? Thanks for the info, Bob! Lori San Antonio ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:11:29 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback Mark Domyancich wrote: > Does it include all the corrections we've found? And wasn't the first > printing supposed to include Joni's line drawings? > > Also, I read somewhere, back when they were planning these books that she > was also going to write one about her personal reminescences of the music > biz. Has anyone heard anything about that? > ___________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:19:31 -0600 From: Mark Domyancich Subject: Re: Joni's Lyric Book in Paperback I think that's going to be her second book of her 3-book deal. At 1:11 PM -0800 1/10/99, Randy Remote wrote: > >> Also, I read somewhere, back when they were planning these books that she >> was also going to write one about her personal reminescences of the music >> biz. Has anyone heard anything about that? ___________________________________ | Mark Domyancich | | Harpua@revealed.net | | http://home.revealed.net/Harpua | | http://www.jmdl.com/guitar/mark | |_________________________________| ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:46:53 EST From: Marilune@aol.com Subject: Re: Sarah McL covering "Blue" In a message dated 1/9/99 4:46:22 PM, sp@olympus.net wrote: >The track is also on the CD "Rarities, B-Sides, and Other Stuff" which was >released by Sarah's label, the Vancouver B.C. based Nettwerk, and is still >available as an "import" from Canada. Also available live on a bootleg. I like Sarah's version better than Joni's I think. I esp. love the ending. spooky. - -mariana np: belly, -king-+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:48:50 EST From: Ginamu@aol.com Subject: Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (teeny bit of Joni content) No need to mention names but I recently received a letter addressed to me only but not the Joni Discussion list correcting my spelling of "Scarlett" in a posting I made recently regarding the song Shades Of Scarlett Conquering. I spelled it "scarlet" which is the correct spelling for the color name, but not for the proper noun. I just want to ask: what is the purpose of this list? Is it to stimulate discussion and share ideas or is to correct and criticize the opinions and ideas of others? I'm new to this list only in that I've only recently begun posting. One of the reasons I've refrained was because of some of the snobbishness I see exhibited in some letters in reaction to perfectly innocent and irrelevant matters. English is my third language, so I apologize if sometimes my spelling and grammar, etc., are not what they should be. I'm afraid the spell check failed me on this one! Thank you, though, to those folks who have responded to my postings respectfully. I appreciate it and I'm learning a lot. Gina ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:08:42 -0700 From: Bounced Message Subject: Joni second time around=sweetest From: "Carrie" Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:51:04 -0500 I'm delurking. I've been reading this mail group for a few months now with no posts. I cannot resist telling how I've come to reappreciate Joni now, twelve or so years after my initial exposure. Please bear with me, and I know you will--I've come to see that all of you are warm and friendly folk. When I was a freshman in high school I decided I liked "folk" music. Bless my brother, who decided that I should listen to Joni. He bought me Blue on vinyl. I 'bout wore it out playing it so... I then went on a journey to acquire all of Joni's stuff on vinyl--original vinyl. Remember now, this was 1986 or thereabouts, so it was quite a search. I was successful and built my collection. The records were well worn and, in my opinion, enhanced by the pops and crackles and imperfections that someone wore into them because they loved her, too. I went to college and didn't bring my vinyl Joni collection because I had dubbed all the records onto tapes for ease of packing and transportation (and so my precious collection would not be damaged). For some reason, though, I got caught up in other music in school and Joni went by the wayside. Several moves over the past five years left my dubbed tapes boxed up and never unpacked. I always picked up the new releases (Night Ride, Turbulent Indigo, etc.), but the early albums were silenced. Then, in November, my partner surprised me. I came home from a long day and she had two tickets which she presented with a flourish--for Joni and Bob at Georgia Tech. I LOST IT! We went to the concert and my interest in Joni was truly reignited. To see her after so many years of listening...knowing that she never went on tour and that I probably wouldn't see her...I was truly aware of the honor. Shortly thereafter I searched Joni on the web and found this group and have been listening to the more recent CD's incessantly. The other day I went to the record store to get TTT, but came out with TTT, Blue, and For the Roses, and almost bought four others before I found my self-control. I sat in my car outside the record store and popped For the Roses in...I was transfixed. I was amazed at the clarity and complexity that was revealed to me for the first time in this digital form... People were waiting for my parking spot, but I couldn't move. I am continually amazed at how much the experiences from my adolescence shape my adulthood, and Joni was a key player in my teen years. To listen to her music now, as an adult, is a wonderful but eerie experience. I am finding that I am reflecting much more deeply on my teen years (and am really glad they're over), but also paying more attention to the here and now in light of these memories. And to add to this, I'm a high school teacher, so I'm developing a different sensitivity to my own students' experiences right now. Just thought I'd share... - --Carrie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:09:22 -0700 From: Bounced Message Subject: For Free From: CarltonCT@aol.com Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:11:39 EST Hello everyone - Though I have communicated with people from this list, this is my first post and ends my status as a lurker! Last night a friend of mine played a CD for me called For Free. It's all Joni, but it's a concert she gave "in harmony" with James Taylor in London in 1970. It includes a song I have never heard her sing called Rainy Day Man -- it's not the same as that wonderful Bonnie Raitt song where she "looks up her rainy day man." It also includes a version of River which she says is a song she wrote "about a year ago". It's a pretty different version. One of the things I liked about this disc is that it includes all of her talking between songs as she re-tunes her guitar or switches to dulcimer or piano. I'm so used to hearing Joni speaking in such a deep voice now -- on this record her voice is so high and soft. There was a good picture inside too, of her playing guitar on the grass with David Crosby in the background and someone nearby with long hair and a moustache who looks familiar -- any ideas? Who wrote Rainy Day Man? I think this CD must be a boot leg, but the sound quality was really pretty good, and I loved the version of That Song About the Midway. I'm getting a tape of it made. And as for Bonnie Raitt, I always thought her version of Midway is the one and only Joni song done better by someone other than its author. As a kid I loved Judy Collins singing Both Sides Now and and CSNY's powerful version of Woodstock, but the originals still have the real power. I also finished reading the Brian Hinton book recently, and I know there are inaccuracies and speculation in it, but it was very compelling. We will never know the real story of Joni until she writes it herself. One of the things this book reminds me of is what an amazing life Joni has lead. I find my own life to have been pretty interesting (and getting ready to become more interesting yet) but what an amazing existence this woman has had, what an incredible cast of characters in her narrative. Talk about the road less traveled ... Some of Hinton's interpretations of her songs are interesting and insightful, others are wrong, and gratefully, he admits (as I will now) that some of those songs are just impenetrable -- very much up for interpretation. Some of them, like Little Green, made sense after certain facts came to life. Other Joni songs have always been beautiful to me and had a certain unconscious power, an intriguing quality in their lack of an easy interpretation. Don't Interrupt the Sorrow would be one, and The Three Great Stimulants is another. And as for DED, I have been playing it every day for a couple of months now since I got it "back" on CD. I love this album, regardless that it seems very much a product of the Eighties and is somewhat dated in its political material. It still has some wonderful, original music and is largely lacking in melancholy. I always have loved Joni's happy songs and her angry songs too. It's been great to read your posts! Other than my sister Jill on this list, I know few others with a real jones for Joni. Some of my friends confuse her with Janis Ian or think she was a protest singer back in the Sixties. Most of my male friends are gay, like I am, and they are into all the usual gay divas. It's my straight buddies, many of them musicians, who love and respect Joni. Clark np: Dvorak, New World Symphony ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:22:31 -0700 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (teeny bit of Joni content) At 1/10/99 03:48 PM , Ginamu@aol.com wrote: >I just want to ask: what is the purpose of this list? Is >it to stimulate discussion and share ideas or is to correct and criticize the >opinions and ideas of others? Open, honest communication of ideas, thoughts, and opinions - free of intimidation - is what we strive for on this list. As with any community, some people tend to get a bit uppity. But overall, I think you will find that the vast majority of us on the list adopt a "live and let live" philosophy. Don't let the occasional scrooge get you down! Keep on postin'! Les ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Joni second time around=sweetest Carrie- welcome. that was an interesting post RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:08:01 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: For Free > > I also finished reading the Brian Hinton book recently, and I know there > are inaccuracies and speculation in it, but it was very compelling. > Some of Hinton's interpretations of her songs are interesting and > insightful, others are wrong, I've only been on the list a couple months, so maybe this topic has been covered. I noticed some errors in Hinton's book, too, and considered contacting him. I wonder if anyone on the list has done this or made a list of the errors? For instance, he states that Joni played with Albert King at the Bread and Roses benefit in Berkeley 1980, but it was BB King (who, with his band, horribly disfigured "Coyote"). She also did a stunning duet with Herbie Hancock at the grand piano, "Sweet Sucker Dance" that was better than the original, as well as introducing songs that she was about to release on WTRF, all of which Hinton does not mention. His song interpretations are at times interesting and illuminating, other times totally off ("Not To Blame" is obviously directed at Jackson Browne, not OJ Simpson, for instance) BTW welcome out of the lurk! RR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:23:42 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: For Free In a message dated 1/10/99 6:13:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: << It includes a song I have never heard her sing called Rainy Day Man -- it's not the same as that wonderful Bonnie Raitt song where she "looks up her rainy day man." >> Yes, it is. It's a James Taylor composition, I think on his "Mud Slide Slim" LP. Either that, or the song titles on your bootleg CD are messed up. Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:40:23 -0600 From: "Alan Parsons" Subject: Re: For Free Hey there! It sounds like he CD is a bootleg of a joint BBC concert between James Taylor and Joni. James wrote Rainy Day Man, he's the guy with long hair and mustache. I personally LOVE that bootleg. I was surprised at hearing her voice, too, since I had only heard her "more mature" voice. if it's the same bootleg I'm thinking of, it also has the duet between Joni and James doing "You Can Close Your Eyes," probably my favorite song on the disc right now. The version of "Circle Game," with Jt singing backup is pretty good, too, and nice and LONG. Alan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:42:57 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Rainy Day Man In a message dated 1/10/99 6:13:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: << Who wrote Rainy Day Man? >> James Taylor RAINY DAY MAN What good is that happy life? All you wanted from the start was to cry. It looks like another fall, your friends , they don't seem to help at all. If you're feeling cold and small. Call on your rainy day man. It does you no good to pretend, child. You made a hole much too big to mend, now When it looks like you'll lose again, my frield. Look up your rainy day man. Rainy day man, he don;'t like sunshine He don't chase rainbows, he don't need good times Gray days roll in, empty feelings, now you need him. All those noble thoughts, they don't belong. You can't the truth with a happy song. Since you knew where you stood all along. Go look up your rainy day man. Now simple pleasures all evade you. Storebought treasures? None can save you (no how) Look for signs to ease the pain, ask again, child, pray for rain. It looks like another fall. Your good friends, they don't seem to help at all. When you're feeling kind of cold and small, time to look up your rainy day man. All you got to do is look up your rainy day man. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:14:45 EST From: FredNow@aol.com Subject: Re: Male singers for tribute album IVPAUL42@aol.com wrote: >>How about someone like Al Jerreau doing "Goodbye Prok Pie Hat"? "Prok Pie Hat" ... is that the Thai version? - -Fred ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:22:04 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Male singers for tribute album In a message dated 1/10/99 8:21:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, FredNow@aol.com writes: << >>How about someone like Al Jerreau doing "Goodbye Prok Pie Hat"? "Prok Pie Hat" ... is that the Thai version? -Fred >> Looks more Cambodian to me, now that you mention it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:51:03 -0600 From: "Gerald Hillman" Subject: Beck & Bonnie Just read the latest at http://www/JoniMitchell.com/upcoming2.html . Isn't it great to read these kinds of quotes from artists such as Beck & Bonnie Raitt. It just makes my day. Thanks again Wally for researching and relaying *all* the Joni news. Good luck with the operation, Wally. You know there will be a collective of positive vibes headed your way. Gerald ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:24:43 EST From: RMuRocks@aol.com Subject: Re: For Free In a message dated 1/10/99 6:33:19 PM Central Standard Time, IVPAUL42@aol.com writes: << Yes, it is. It's a James Taylor composition, I think on his "Mud Slide Slim" LP. >> Paul, it's not on Mud Slide, it was originally released on his Apple debut, the same one with "Carolina On My Mind" (produced by the OTHER Paul, the cutest Beatle). He then re-recorded it on "Flag" in the late seventies. Bonnie R. also does a great version of the tune... Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:28:14 EST From: RMuRocks@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni second time around=sweetest In a message dated 1/10/99 5:13:23 PM Central Standard Time, Carrie writes: << The other day I went to the record store to get TTT, but came out with TTT, Blue, and For the Roses, and almost bought four others before I found my self-control. I sat in my car outside the record store and popped For the Roses in...I was transfixed. I was amazed at the clarity and complexity that was revealed to me for the first time in this digital form... People were waiting for my parking spot, but I couldn't move. >> Carrie, Great Post! Thanks for de-lurking...this moment above is great and one I'm sure we can all relate to. Keep it coming!! Bob M. in SC NP: The Doors: "Orange County Suite" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:29:46 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Rainy Day Man In a message dated 1/10/99 9:24:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, RMuRocks writes: << Bonnie R. also does a great version of the tune... Bob >> Yes, I was just listening to her version from "Streetlights" along with Joni's "That Song About the Midway" and John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery." Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:31:10 EST From: RMuRocks@aol.com Subject: Re: For Free In a message dated 1/10/99 5:13:24 PM Central Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: << And as for Bonnie Raitt, I always thought her version of Midway is the one and only Joni song done better by someone other than its author. >> Congrats to you too, for coming out of the shadows and into the light! And for the record, I am 100% in agreement with your opinion of "Midway". Bob M. in SC ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:27:08 -0700 From: Bounced Message Subject: Several Threads (and Golden Needles?) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:38:24 -0500 From: "Steve Garrison" a) "Urge for Going" covers. Tom Rush's is still nearest and dearest to my heart, but I am sometimes ravished, as well, by Mary Black's. Although slightly over-produced for my taste, her vocal is haunting and affecting. She really puts the lyric across. b) I was glad to see the recent mention of Bonnie Raitt's wonderful recording of "Midway." I'll go along with the endorsements. However, this leads me to the third thread, that of male vocalists for a Joni Tribute album. Hang on, this is scary. c) Tom Waits could do a killer "over the top" rendition of "Midway." Honest to God, I can just hear it. I'm not sure I'd Like it, but I'd sure listen to it. Steve NP: John Martyn: "The Church With One Bell" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:02:36 EST From: Ginamu@aol.com Subject: Re: Several Threads (and Golden Needles?) In a message dated 1/10/99 11:31:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: > ) Tom Waits could do a killer "over the top" rendition of "Midway." > Honest to God, I can just hear it. I'm not sure I'd Like it, but I'd sure > listen to it. > > Steve You may not like it at first, but, after all , Tom Waits is an acquired taste...I think this idea is fabulous! Gina ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:42:38 +0100 From: "Winfried Hühn" Subject: Re: Personal Mail generated from this list (VLJC) Gina wrote: > No need to mention names but I recently received a letter addressed to me only > but not the Joni Discussion list correcting my spelling of "Scarlett" in a > posting I made recently regarding the song Shades Of Scarlett Conquering. I > spelled it "scarlet" which is the correct spelling for the color name, but not > for the proper noun. > Oh, no! The JMDL-police is out there again! ...mirrored sunglasses with the mirrors on the inside..... (Robin Williams) Winfried, taking full cover ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:54:56 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Levon Helm + other stuff (VLJC) Hello All- Ok I'm busted I have been lurking around mostly catching a little read here and there and have not posted lately. Alot of you are in my thoughts though especially since for the past few days I have been working with Levon Helm. My company is installing a sound system in his new Club here and he was a guest on Louisiana JukeBox this past Thursday night. The Band (yes with Danko and all except Robbie of course played a couple of times over last week end and Garth, Danko, and Levon have all played solo a few gigs as well. Mavis Staples was suppose to be here this past week end but she got snowed in Chicago (she is being rescheduled for around Jazz Fest time). Levon had surgery on his throat for cancer and is not singing that well these days, but he is going to start a therapy program and hopefully he will improve. He was pretty damn good singing only 3 songs on the show (Ophelia, The Weight, + Rag Mama Rag) It was pretty darn cool. I went to the club after I got Thursday and he bought me a Martini (Kakki) and thanked me for a great show. In further news: Louisiana Jukebox is now on Channel 15 in Austin, Texas on tape delay Saturday Nights (around 7pm I think).One more great music town added to our list. As far as songs that make/made me cry: Two Grey Rooms-JM For The Roses-JM Somewhere Over The Rainbow-JG You Can Close Your Eyes-JT Cherokee Louise-JM Chinese Cafe-JM Hold ON-SM Sons and Daughters-Neville Bros. I am off to sleepytown. Hope to write more tomorrow. Peace and blessings, Paz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:48:17 EST From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Personal Mail generated (NJC) In a message dated 1/11/99 12:44:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, whuehn@stud.uni- goettingen.de writes: << but I recently received a letter addressed to me only > but not the Joni Discussion list correcting my spelling of "Scarlett" in a > posting I made recently regarding the song Shades Of Scarlett Conquering. I > spelled it "scarlet" which is the correct spelling for the color name, but not > for the proper noun. > Oh, no! The JMDL-police is out there again! >> Wasn't me!!! ;>) I'm color-deficient to red, so I don't know one Scarlett from another. Paul I ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:50:06 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Personal Mail generated (NJC) > Oh, no! The JMDL-police is out there again! > >> >Wasn't me!!! ;>) >I'm color-deficient to red, so I don't know one Scarlett from another. >Paul I Uh oh, if it wasn't you Paul, then we may be dealing with roving underground agents! Better stay in the slow lane for now and watch our rear view mirrors. Kakki NP: Money - Laura Nyro "I found the system and I lost the pearl...." ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V4 #16 ************************* There is now a JMDL tape trading list. Interested traders can get more details at http://www.jmdl.com/trading ------- JoniFest 1999 is coming! 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