From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2002 #153 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, April 10 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 153 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much 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: -------- victor and birds, njc ["kerry" ] Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater (NJC) ["Kate Bennett" ] Joni's ancestry: Scottish, Norwegian, Irish(?); Bob M., Raleigh & WQDR. [] Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress (NJC) ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater (NJC) [Susan Guzzi ] Re: birds njc mags ["Kakki" ] Re: Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress njc [Richard Goldman Subject: victor and birds, njc Sue wrote: >Speaking of birds, we have yet to see a robin and it is now the second week of April. Snow still on the ground and temps each >day in the forties. You folks in Wisconsin getting this too? I am so ready for spring! It hasn't been that bad, but we did have a brief snowfall last week. I was very excited to see a flock of robins a couple weeks ago, but my best friend (who is also a naturalist) informed me that the winter was so mild this year that they never left! I resent them anyway. Why did they choose the robin for our state bird when they all leave in the winter?! Wimps! Then Mags wrote: >the most impressive bird moment I've experienced was out in BC (Hi >Stephen!) . While driving down the road, I saw a bald eagle just >sitting on a post about three feet away . Incredible!!!! (guess she was >up visiting from the US). I had an impressive bird moment about 3 years ago. I was driving to work on a very busy freeway, when I saw a snowy owl sitting on the off-ramp! I thought I had dreamed it! Very cool. Kerry NP - The Byrds (just kidding!) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:43:49 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater (NJC) Susan, what a great story! Loved everyone's posts about Bonnie. How cool that she takes people's CDs! Oh, what I would give to have Bonnie Raitt cover one of my songs! My second born! Hahahah, I don't have one...but you know what I mean... I think I have seen Bonnie in concert more times than anyone I can think of...& most of those were benefits for someone or something. I so admire her for the way she treats others who have influenced her & the way she always thanks her crew...(she even put a photo of them on her album Road Tested ...my friend John was one of them...same friend who now guitar techs for Crosby). Her concerts are always superb! ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:39:02 From: "Timothy Spong" Subject: Joni's ancestry: Scottish, Norwegian, Irish(?); Bob M., Raleigh & WQDR. One of the "reunion" articles with a link posted to JMDL Digest 2002 99, 9 April 2002, says her parents were of Scottish-Norwegian ancestry. Other items read in the past have Joni attributing her temper to "the Irish in me." Is the latter just a figure of speech, or does the Scottish ancestry include Scotch-Irish (i.e., descendants of Scots who settled in Ireland, principally in the north), or does Joni also have true-Irish ancestry not alluded to in that article? And for Bob "SCJoniGuy" Muller: Please describe in more detail the location of the Eckerd's on Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, where you stopped to listen to Bonnie Raitt's rendition of "That Song About the Midway," so I can visualize it. Also, were you still in Raleigh when WQDR went country, and most of the WQDR programming and on-air personalities went to the then-new WRDU? That no longer exists in its original form, in turn. Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:53:14 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress (NJC) Steve & Julius...owe me a coke! ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:42:04 EDT From: BRYAN8847@aol.com Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2002 #152 - Sex Kills and Gino Perhaps the arrangement will be a S-L-O-W tempo. A sort of recitation...Anyway, I was surprised also to see SK on the list, but whatever, can't wait for this album, I mean CD. BTW, the idea of releasing the new recordings as two separately released discs is totally screwed up. Some of the marketing decisions that company makes are unbelievably stupid. Maybe they want to see if the first one flies before they commit to a second. Or maybe they'll come to their senses and release them together. Now sex with Gino, that would kill. Anyway, I've always liked him too, though of course his lyrics pale in comparison to JM's. He has a fantastic voice. I hear he lives in Portland, OR now. His web site (have lost the address) is not updated too often. Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:37:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater (NJC) Hi Murph, Thanks for your kind words. I really can't agree with you and Joni more, Bonnie is comfortable with herself and a genuine sweetheart. - --- Murphy wrote: > When I was 19 -- and even more obnoxious, if you can believe it -- I saw her > at an incredible, short-lived club in Harvard Square called the Performance > Center with a whole table full of my high school and college buddies. Now exactly what part do I not believe? That you were more obnoxious or that you can remember that far back? Murph wrote: > I approached Bonnie as she was leaving, extended my hand and said something like, "Hi, Bonnie, I just wanted to tell you that I've always loved you." (Really, whatever I said was about that lame.) Luckily, she didn't remember me from my cavalier-in-the-back-row days, and she was very sweet, very genuine. Actually Bob she did refer to this incident while she and I talked. JK! I think I put the words together, that I had prepared, in some semblance of order, as I mumbled them out. After all she did throw her arms around me and asked me to come live with her! Murph wrote: > I love the fact that she always gives credit to her musical roots -- the > blues performers who have been such an enormous influence on her work > throughout her career. And it's always a treat when she includes these living > legends in her shows. I have heard that she also works to provide financial > aid and other help to some of the blues people who were, let's face it, > screwed by the music business. This appears to be true, from all I have heard. Besides her efforts to the no-nukes campaignt, she has some sort of a pension and/or insurance like plan set up for the old Blues artists. I agree, where are the other performers with their monetary support. Even here in Chicago, everytime one of these legends get sick, there are huge fund raisers to cover medical costs. As big as Koko Taylor is, even nationally now, she is just now beginning to reap the financial rewards - and she's in her 70's. And where are the Stones with all their lip service & faux reverance. Murph wrote: > Bonnie has also shown impeccable taste in choosing songs to record over the > years. In all this talk about Methany, someone mentioned a song called "You." > I wonder if that's the same beautiful song Bonnie recorded (written by Bob > Thiele, Jr., Tonio K and John Shanks) on her "Longing in Their Hearts" album. > I wouldn't be surprised if she actually did listen to your friend's CD, > Susan. Wouldn't it be great if she chose to record something! She, Dawn is certainly a hard working blues lady, I wish something like this for her with all my heart. Although I sang back-up with her, I don't think I realized how good she is - until the past few days hen I've really been listening to her CD. As I said not what I would describe as the best blues voice, but she knows what she can do and does well with it. Something I need to learn! Bob wrote: > I know I've been rambling, so I'll close with this: Do you remember the old > Cloris Leachman series, "Phyllis?" There was an elderly lady who played, I > think, Cloris' mother or grandmother on the show and every time someone > talked about Charles Bronson, she would put down her needlepoint and > wistfully (and somewhat lustfully) sigh, "Charles Bronson . . ." Lust aside, > that's pretty much how I feel whenever anyone mentions Bonnie! > > --Bob, putting down his needlepoint and sighing . . . I absolutely remember that series and Cloris's mother-in-law or whatever, she was a hoot! Take care of where you set that needlepoint down Murph! Peace, Susan Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:44:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater njc - --- kerry wrote: > Kerry wrote: > Thanks for your review. I saw her in Milwaukee the night before and I > wondered if she'd even make it to the Chicago gig. She apologized all night > for her voice, but I probably wouldn't even have noticed if she hadn't said > anything. It was truly one of the best concerts I've been to (and my date > wasn't bad either!) > > Kerry > Cool Kerry, glad you got to see her,too. Plus, it gave you and that "date" of yours "something to talk about!" Peace, Susan Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 23:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan Guzzi Subject: Re: Bonnie Raitt Chicago Theater (NJC) Hey Julius! You know I totally forgot about Bonnie Raitt's GREAT version of "That Song About The Midway!" You are sooo right - it challenges Joni's. Unfortunately, she did not do this at the show the other night, to be sure I would have mentioned it. I agree she does have the cutest dimples since Shirley Temple. I sure hope she didn't mind my poking my fingers at them the other night. I believe John Cleary and his band opened the show for Bonnie. He also came out and played piano and sang with her during her set. I can't be 100%, because I could never hear Bonnie talk in between songs, due to her voice and her introductions taking place while the applause was still going on. Oh and that woman behind us who talked through the whole show. Well not exactly after about 5 or 6 songs she began puking her guts out and her friends had to escort her out. Definitely bad coke ... or good, depending on how you look at it! I knew when she sat down she was going to be trouble. Anyway, if this was John Cleary - he was hot and the crowd definitely dug him! Sounds like it was him because I did catch that he was from New Orleans. Yes I definitely have to get some more Bonnie or a compilation going as I looked over my sorry-ass Bonnie Raitt library! Thanks Julius. Peace, Susan Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:40:13 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Willy Porter NJC Kerry wrote: >Yes, Willy is just one of the many talented >musicians to come out of Wisconsin. I would >also highly recommend, "Dog Eared Dream." I must have been overwhelmed by all the great details of Paz's party that I missed the Willy Porter reference the first time. Kerry and I did a CD exchange last year and I received the wonderful "Dog Eared Dream." It's one of the best CDs I've heard in years. Get him down to Nawlins for a show, Paz! ;-) Kakki NP: Our own Sherelle - "Our Day Will Come" INCREDIBLE! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:51:12 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: birds njc mags Mack wrote: > Mags, I bet the bald eagle was magnificent. Thanks for sharing that. I long > to see one myself. Maybe someday. I've been to every national park in the west and have never seen the mysterious bald eagle anywhere. However, a few years ago I was driving up the road to Mt. San Jacinto near Palm Springs when one suddenly flew out in front of my car. I was stunned at how huge it was - kind of like a pterodactyl! I guess you never know where one will turn up! Kakki NP; Sherelle - Eleanor Rigby (best version I've ever heard) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 23:53:21 -0700 From: Richard Goldman Subject: Re: Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress njc Joan Baez returns to Teatro Zinzanni April 24 - July 17, 2002 in a role especially created for her - La Contessa ZinZanni. "Teatro Zinzanni: Love, Chaos & Dinner" originated in Seattle and moved to San Francisco in March 2000. Performed in a spiegeltent at Pier 29, this spectacular combination of European cabaret, theater, circus art, music, comedy and a five-course gourmet dinner is truly a unique experience. Pier 29, 438-2668, http://www.teatrozinzanni.org. Media contact: Brenda Hughes, 438-9933. Check out this link/page for the press release and photo of her, when she debuted in this role last year, not long after Mimi's passing, in 2001. http://baez.woz.org/zinzanni.html Richard in San Francisco At 9:54 PM -0400 4/9/02, JMDL Digest wrote: > >Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:01:18 -0700 >From: "Kate Bennett" >Subject: Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress njc > >The New York Times >April 9, 2002 > >Joan Baez Remembers High Times, High Stress >By PETER MARKS > >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/arts/music/09BAEZ.html?ex=1019395268&ei=1& >en=b4eee4922d9b2c9e > >******************************************** >Kate Bennett >www.katebennett.com >sponsored by Polysonics >Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: >http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2002 #153 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?