From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2004 #500 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 Tuesday, December 21 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 500 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- bruce njc ["Kate Bennett" ] Re: bruce njc/ best overproduced nugget [Em ] Re: Rhythm & Torch News, NJC ["Sherelle Smith" ] Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni ["Anne Sandstrom" ] Re: JT's River and other Christmas songs [Em ] ipod help njc ["ron" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:40:14 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: bruce njc Growing up as I did in Jersey, when I first heard The River (the song) (living as I was & still am in California) I was BLOWN AWAY... he wrote what I lived... then later he recorded the roller coaster I used to ride as a kid (on the song tunnel of love which was actually not a roller coaster but a 'fun house' ride- a very scary one if you were a kid & the song is a brilliant use of metaphor if you have ever been on that deceptive 'fun house' ride) ... Nebraska is sublime & 'if I should fall behind' is perhaps, the best real love song I have ever heard ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: bruce njc/ best overproduced nugget Every once in a while there *is* an oddly/overly produced number that I find fetching...and one of these is on "Darkness On the Edge of Town" - the song "Candy's Room". Dang I love that little song. Such tension and energy and we know he loves that woman. And its so beat..you know she lives somewhere gnarly and she is probably a prostitute or a junky (maybe?). Its just like he describes in the song, brilliant light flashing through the very murky darkness. What I hope to always have, and what I hope for you all and all humans, is that we can find that flash. And to me, what that means is having, at all times, something we are passionate about. Some *thing* in our live, or aspect to our lives that stokes us. Whether its being some woman's beloved stud-boy or whether its making music or other art, or whether it is, as for me lately, getting a leaky old motorcycle to stop leaking and run. Something you lie awake at night thinking about and then dream about. Like a kid. But I don't think you have to be a child anymore. Just a human still capable of passion. Who hasn't "grown up" to the extent that all fires are quelled. Otherwise, I suspect you start to die. And of course then you die anyway! :) But I do love Candy's Room and I try to get other people to listen to it, and they don't "get it". It reminds me of a Patti Smith thing. That kind of near-punk thing...but then dressed funny in all that rocket's red glare-type production. Odd but oh so worthwhile. Em ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:13:09 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re: Rhythm & Torch News, NJC Hi Steve! I'm so happy to see your music evolve and grow! I hope the show went well! Congratulations! Don't stop now! This is only the beginning! Love, Sherelle Steve wrtoe: Hey All! Well, Sunday December 19th is almost here, and we will be at the M & M Club at 124 North Water Street, Milwaukee, from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. There are some new songs in the line up, one being Joni's version of At Last, (which was an effort of love to transcribe from strings to piano, but the chord structure is just so darn beautiful that I just HAD to do it). Stephen Stills Love the One Your With gets a pumped up piano/conga version and a brand new song by yours truly, plus a few other surprises. Outbound News mentions us 3 times in 3 articles, plus gives us a little write up review of our own- in our own words- way cool! Hope to see you there. And remember, no Christmas songs shall pass our lips! (Well, maybe River...) Steve Polifka Rhythm & Torch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:35:12 -0500 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: sketches of Dylan NJC/ more rambling Em wrote: > A group of 3 abreast all with the great possibility of volatility, but then a > neat thing happened - the young rap dude starts laughing his ass off, and it > spread..I think me and the redneck tried to stifle, but pretty soon we were > laughing too, out loud and the tension was broken in a real fun way, and then > blessedly the light finally changed. Anyway, it would take you longer to read > what I just wrote than the actual incident took, but maybe you get the feel > of it. It was pretty neat. We were just all 3 sort of extreme looking > Americans, but we all cracked up. So it was good. This is a really great "best of America" story! Thanks for sharing it, Em! And congrats on getting Fidel running again!! : ) Lori, freezing in Bethesda, where it's 18.1 F (-7.7 C) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: I'm back!!! njc Hey all I'm back from my 4 months away from London. It's been an experience that I will gladly repeat again, not just because of the role and the part, but because of the people. Plymouth is a little uni-cultural for me but they understand that it's changing (it has been forgotten that Plymouth was usually the first port of call for the ships bringing Black slaves into Britain and now there is a growing tension with the Kurdish asylum-seekers that have been sent to the area, but it's changing.) I hope all is well. I had a few joni-moments while I was away - seeing the advert for 'Dreamland' twice on TV was amazing; staying in farmhouses with musicians who had original issue LPs of FTR and HOSL that were given as gifts from loved ones. Now I'm back and what did I treat myself to after being on the road? Yes. Both sides of Travelogue Much Joni Jamie Zoob - --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:02:47 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni OK, Catherine, I'll play... Thinking out loud here. Well, a drink in honor of Joni would have to be kind of smoky I think, definitely not fruity. Fine Scotch comes to mind. Oh, but there is a wine - Stag's Leap cabernet sauvignon that would be a good basis for a Joni concoction as well. And the color of the drink would be kind of cloudy, not just for the obvious reason, but because Joni is definitely not transparent. So, I'm thinking that duality is an important ingredient here. Like fire and ice. So maybe Stag's Leap on the rocks, flambee? Well, I'm no bartender (as you can see), but maybe someone else can come up with something that you could actually drink LOL!!! lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:30:38 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: JT's River and other Christmas songs I bought JT's Christmas CD a few weeks ago, and finally got around to downloading River. I really like it (River, that is). I think he's done some inventive things with it, staying true to the original, but making it his own too. And, while I'm talking about River, does anyone remember a version from about 5-6 years ago that was played on "new age/smooth jazz" type stations? (And, while we're at it, if Joni were to actually record a Christmas album (record execs would probably have to put a gun to her head or some such thing), what songs do you think she'd record? As for James' Christmas album - I'm kind of underwhelmed. My favorites are "Some Children See Him" (which I probably know best from George Winston's December) and Auld Lang Syne. Maybe I need to listen a few more times, but I'm just not that thrilled with it. (Even though I've contended lately that James could sing the ABCs and I'd swoon...) Oddly enough, I had a similar reaction to Shawn Colvin's Holiday Songs and Lullabies CD. Actually, I find her voice kind of grating on some of it. Not to get too personal, but I've often wondered if her being pregnant made it harder for her to breathe from the diaphram. It just sounds like she's singing closer to her throat, which makes her sound a bit shrill sometimes. So, back to Joni's imaginary Christmas CD: River (of course...) Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel (minor key enough for our Joan) I Wonder As I Wander Christmas Bells (which John Gorka does on the Windham Hill "A Winter's Solstice III") Another Auld Lang Syne (the Dan Fogelberg song w/ lyrics adapted by Joni) Old City Bar (from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD "Christmas Eve and Other Stories") Do They Know It's Christmas/Ethipa (done as a sort of medley) I Believe in Father Christmas (the ELO song) Awaiting the Snow (the Lui Collins song) Chinese Cafe / Christmastime is Here (instead of Unchained Melody, use the song from the Charlie Brown special) So, there you go. Do you suppose Joni ever sings along to the radio - or maybe she avoids Christmas music altogether (hard to do, but you never know...) lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:48:32 -0500 From: Subject: Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni I heard a few years ago that Joni often drinks a Cosmoplitan. That makes sense to me so I'd rename it a "Joni". Then I'd raise a toast, "Merry Christmas, Joni. You taste so bitter / but you taste so sweet." Lama >From: Catherine McKay >if you were going to make a drink named for Joni Mitchell, how would you make it, what would you put in it?> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:53:19 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: JT's River and other Christmas songs - --- Anne Sandstrom wrote: > So, there you go. Do you suppose Joni ever sings along to the radio - > or maybe she avoids Christmas music altogether (hard to do, but you > never know...) Hi Anne, I have this strange desire to hear and SEE Joni do "Cinammon Girl"..a rockin version. And she needs to play it too. I know, not Christmas music...but.... :) Rm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:31:14 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: ipod help njc hi how does one get rid of that horrible buzzing sound when pressing pause on an ipod i managed to get rid of it previously - not sure how - but when i updated the software it came back & wont go away & why would they put such a ridiculous feature - or is my ipod broken???? ron ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2004 #500 ***************************** ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)