From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V4 #229 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk JMDL Digest Tuesday, May 25 1999 Volume 04 : Number 229 The Laborday JoniFest is happening this fall! For information: send a message to Join the mailing list at: ------- 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 http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Bob Dylan Festival Report #4 - NJC (long) [Marian Russell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:43:25 +0200 From: Marian Russell Subject: Bob Dylan Festival Report #4 - NJC (long) By the time dinner had ended (10:30 p.m.), it was really too late to set up the equipment for the open mike session. No one was in the mood to do it, which was totally understandable (setting up equipment and doing the sound checks for both bands took at least two hours on Sunday afternoon!). I felt a little disappointed that there wouldn't be an open mike session, but then one of the musicians who had been jamming earlier approached me and asked if I felt like jamming with them in the room with the open hearth and I said "Sure - that would be great!" So I went upstairs again to my cold room and got my guitar. It was wonderful to sit in the room by the warm hearth and play music for the next two and a half hours. It was entirely Dylan music, though - NJC - except I did play an arrangement I had done of the song Jokerman in a Joni tuning, and I introduced the song as "Here's Jokerman in Joni Mitchell style". Everyone seemed to really like it, which pleased me very much. The jam session featured each of the musicians: In addition to Jokerman, I did Mr. Tambourine and Michael Hedges' arrangement of All Along The Watchtower, Luigi played some of his classical arrangements, Fernanda sang One More Cup of Coffee, Forever Young and a couple of other tunes, a guy from Stuttgart sang a beautiful version of Love Minus Zero/No Limit and a couple of really funny songs - he was very entertaining - and then the Italian man with all the harmonicas did some songs. I felt like such a newbie in many ways, because Dylan has such an incredible body of work and I'm familiar with only a very small fraction of it - so for most of the evening I just played along, trying to follow the chords that the other guitarists were playing. It was really great fun - as much fun as I had playing music at the Pittsburgh and Boston Jonifests. There's something really wonderful about sharing music with other people. Around about 1:45 a.m. I was really starting to fade, so I said goodnight to everyone and ascended the three spiral staircase flights from the cellar to my room. It was really cold - maybe especially so because of the contrast of having been in the room with the hearth. I climbed into bed with all of my clothes on, including my sweater and pulled the covers up over my head. But I was so jazzed that I couldn't fall asleep, so I did some preparations for the Sunday evening performance to try to wind down and finally fell asleep around 2:45. Considering how late it was when I went to sleep, I awoke pretty early on Sunday morning (around 8:00 a.m.). I showered, had breakfast with Sixt, then returned to my room and played my guitar for about an hour. Fernanda, hearing me playing my guitar in my room, knocked on my door and insisted that I join her in the common room just outside for a jam session. We spent at least two hours making music together and it was great fun. I played some Joni songs for her and she played me some Argentinian songs. She taught me a song in Spanish that her grandmother used to sing to her and I taught her one of my favorite modern American folk songs that has especially beautiful harmonies. Luigi joined us just before lunch and generously taught me some of the basic chords to blind Willie McTell, but it's going to be awhile before I will be able to even approximate his beautiful playing. Getting to know Fernanda and Luigi was one of the highlights of the weekend for me. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:52:16 -0700 From: "P. Henry" Subject: martin sexton - vljc recently several people have related the experience of hearing a song or two by someone they weren't familiar with, loving what they heard and having to go about trying to link a name with the sound they were hearing... about a year ago a friend who shares my love for Joni's music turned me on to a cassette tape he'd made thinking I'd probably like it... with no label on it... well, from the first time I stuck it in the player I was hooked! I just put that thing on continuous play and literally every single song hit home with me! I liked the singing style... I liked he lyrics... I liked the acoustic guitar work and the melodies... and though I played it over and over again I just never got tired of it! ok, to try to make an already too long story a little shorter, I didn't run into this friend for quite a while and when I did I kept forgetting to ask him who this guy was... until last week when I found out that what I have been listening to and enjoying so much is an album called 'Black Sheep' by a singer/songwriter named Martin Sexton, which can partially be experienced at http://www.folkweb.com/martinsexton/ along with parts, also in 2 min. song segments, of his first album, 'In The Journey'. I also found out that he has a new album, basically a compilation of the best of the first two, more professionally recorded with more of a band sound, which was, incidentally produced by JT's old 'Flying Machine' sidekick, Danny Kortchmar, who also plays acoustic guitar on the album, called 'The American'. so I was just wondering if any of you new england area jmdlers, or anyone else for that matter, are familiar with his music... if not you might find it well spent time to give him a listen. I have to say, Martin Sexton has not produced a great amount of work since his first album came out in 1990 but what he has put out is excellent, IMHO. just wanted to share... *S* pat Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V4 #229 ************************** The Song and Album Voting Booths are open! 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