From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #19 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org 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 Thursday, January 19 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 019 Win a free VIP ticket to Carnegie Hall! details: jmdl.com/winvip.cfm ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Goldem Reggie of Maidstone ? ["Joe Jones" ] RE: carnegie, park central., njc ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Re: a secret post njc ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] a new judee sill album!!!njc [tinkersown@comcast.net] Re: a secret post njc [revrvl@comcast.net (vince)] Re: a secret post njc [JRMCo1@aol.com] Joni Tribute JMDL Pre-Show Reception!!! ["Marianne Rizzo" ] RE: njc, (people's) park central ["Sherelle Smith" ] COUNTDOWN [LCStanley7@aol.com] Best "Old" Album of 2005 (sjc) [PassScribe@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:12:55 -0000 From: "Joe Jones" Subject: Goldem Reggie of Maidstone ? Hi Joni fans, I have explored the town of Maidstone website for mention of Joni and the elusive Golden Reggie and Sharon but to no avail unfortunately. The link is: http://www.townofmaidstone.com - if you want to take a look. I guess we'd be looking for a circa 55 year old Maidstonian - perhaps a lawyer or a car salesman or a trucker or a teacher - who knows ? I've asked the contact email on the site if they know anything - perhaps I will get a reply - anyone got any other ideas ? Cheers - Joe - St. Asaph, North Wales NP - Arcade Fire - Funeral, Plainsong - Plainsong, Stephen Stills - Manassas, Rick Derringer - All American Boy, Kaiser Chiefs - Employment Hejira . - -- Joe Jones: 07771 625411 joejones@onetel.com "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" Douglas Adams ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:27:39 -0500 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: RE: carnegie, park central., njc >Would everybody who is staying at the Park Central raise their hands? >So here's the list and send it back after you add your name: >Bree >Marianne >Laura >Ruth >Sherelle >gAry >david. . Otis & Marlena (don't contact us..we will contact you...maybe...ONLY if Joni makes an appearance) > >I know there are more but will wait for your confirmation here. . > >way to contact you? you can email me off list OR something. > > >Marianne > > > > > > >Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:58:53 -0600 >From: "J.DAVID SAPP" >Subject: Re: joni carnegie, meet up > >///I will be arriving at Park Central Hotel at around 2:30 p.m. on Feb. = >1.=20 >I will be happy to meet with >yall before the show for coffee and chatting./// > >_________________________________________________________________ >FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar  get it now! >http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:38:06 -0800 (PST) From: J Kendel Johnson Subject: Re: Goldem Reggie of Maidstone ? For what it's worth, my hunch remains strong that "Golden Reggie" is a carefully chosen, but fictitious name -- "Reggie" being her modernization of "Regis" (king) -- referring to a local golden boy/prom king/heartthrob type -- and that Joni may have had a particular guy from her youth in mind, or she may have just been referring to a general longing for her romantic ideal. J Joe Jones wrote: Hi Joni fans, I have explored the town of Maidstone website for mention of Joni and the elusive Golden Reggie and Sharon but to no avail unfortunately. The link is: http://www.townofmaidstone.com - if you want to take a look. I guess we'd be looking for a circa 55 year old Maidstonian - perhaps a lawyer or a car salesman or a trucker or a teacher - who knows ? I've asked the contact email on the site if they know anything - perhaps I will get a reply - anyone got any other ideas ? Cheers - Joe - St. Asaph, North Wales NP - Arcade Fire - Funeral, Plainsong - Plainsong, Stephen Stills - Manassas, Rick Derringer - All American Boy, Kaiser Chiefs - Employment Hejira . - -- Joe Jones: 07771 625411 joejones@onetel.com "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" Douglas Adams ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:54:03 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: a secret post njc Gerald A. Notaro wrote: > And let us not forget that the best actor award went to someone > playing a gay man, who in the 50's and 60's led his life as a gay man > despite being born and raised in a bigoted Southern town, He didn't stay in that bigoted Southern town, though, did he? Living an 'out' life among the New York glitterati is hardly the same thing, is it? Not everyone is extra-ordinarily gifted or has the desire or ability to survive in a large metropolitan area. That being said, I was glad to see Philip Seymour Hoffman win if Heath Ledger wasn't going to. I haven't seen 'Capote' but I thought the casting was brilliant from when I first read that Hoffman was going to do it. He's a fine actor and perfect for that part, imo. > best actress award went to a woman who portrayed a courageous > transgendered woman who live who railed against society by living the > life she felt was chosen for her regardless of the discrimination she > lived through. I haven't seen Felicity Huffman's movie, but I've heard good things about it. I do have a great deal of respect for anybody who has that kind of courage. Mark E. in Seattle who stayed up late to see 'Brokeback Mountain' win for best director, best screenplay and best dramatic film and is very happy about it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:11:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: a secret post njc Mark Scott wrote: > Gerald A. Notaro wrote: >> And let us not forget that the best actor award went to someone >> playing a gay man, who in the 50's and 60's led his life as a gay man >> despite being born and raised in a bigoted Southern town, > > He didn't stay in that bigoted Southern town, though, did he? Living an > 'out' life among the New York glitterati is hardly the same thing, is it? No, that is exactly why he left. But living as a gay man in the 50's and 60's was still less than easy, even in NYC. In addition to being so famous he paid dearly by being ridiculed for living as a gay, effeminite man, even from the NY press. My point is that all the lists I belong to had glowing posts about the shirtless, butch, straight acting win of the cowboys, and not one mention of Hoffman's win for Capote, or Huffman's win for portraying a transsexual. I found that interesting. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:08:11 +0000 From: tinkersown@comcast.net Subject: a new judee sill album!!!njc Ron wrote: >i had to mention this here - cause this is where i got turned onto judee Yay! I will jump on the web this evening and track it down! Good news - thanks Ron! *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA tinkersown@comcast.net "The Living Tradition Concert Series" www.thelivingtradition.org "Folk Alliance Region - West" www.far-west.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:48:13 +0000 From: revrvl@comcast.net (vince) Subject: Re: a secret post njc you need to belong to better lists! Everyone I hang, it is acknowledged the two greatest male performances this past year were Ledger and Hoffman, and a third being Phoenix, the two greatest female performances were Huffman and Witherspoon I am sorry you are so down on Brokeback Mountain and I don't ascribe to your impression of Ledger and Guyenhall's performances - it is not as if they did the movie "shirtless" - we may have a cultural chasm here - I would give the Oscar to Ledger but we are making distinctions between great performances that each are triumphs, each magnificant. You make it sound as if Heath and Jake ambled through their roles. No, there was some extraordinary acting there to make those characters real. The same for Hoffman. He was not just going over the top; that was, as with Heath and Jake, a finely nuanced performance to nail the character. I don't think we need to put down one performance to prasie the other, they were all magnificant. Of course Brokeback Mountain deals with two people who love each other, cowboys, and the pain that causes - a very universal story recast marvelously by Annie Proulx.. Capote features a man who essentially falls in love with a another man, a vicious killer, and needs that man to be executed to make a better story for his book. That doesn't take away from anyone's performances, in fact, they are all astounding, just in the long run Brokeback is going to be a movie that people identify with as it speaks to their heart, not Capote. Ennis and Jack are characters that incarnate the personal experiences of many more people than Truman Capote does. That Hoffman triumphs with a difficult role is a give, so is Ledger's, and Guyenhall's, performance. With a nod to the great work of Phoenix in Walk the Line. Vince - -- Jerry wrote: My point is that all the lists I belong to had > glowing posts about the shirtless, butch, straight acting win of the > cowboys, and not one mention of Hoffman's win for Capote, or Huffman's win > for portraying a transsexual. I found that interesting. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:39:05 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: a secret post njc revrvl@comcast.net writes: > >Capote features a man who essentially falls in love with a another man, a > vicious killer, and needs >that man to be executed to make a better story for > his book. > I haven't seen "Brokeback Mountain" yet, but I soon will. It is by all accounts one of the best films of the year, by a great director. I'm looking forward to it. I have seen "Capote," however. Twice. Loath as I am to disagree with my friend Vince, I beg to differ here. The film "Capote" is essentially a portrait of a brilliant writer who suffered from severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder, AKA "malignant self-love." Truman Capote's mental disorder, and Hoffman's pportrayal of him, is characterized by an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that that puts him at odds with the expectations of the world around him. The disorder colors: (1) How he perceives and understands the world around himself (2) How he responds emotionally (3) How he interacts with people, and (4) How he controls his impulses. These characteristics are true of all personality orders, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder bears it's own unique characteristics as well: Most psychoanalysts believe that true Narcissists, like Truman Capote was, are in fact incapable of love, in the normal sense of the word. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is actually defined in part by a malignant *self-love* that results from a lack of love and attention or outright abuse from one's mother during childhood. My point is this: Capote loved himself and no one else. Narcissists are often pathologically envious of others who demonstrate the ability to love. I believe these realities must be the factual basis for any analysis of the film. People who suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder have a pattern of grandiosity, a need to be admired, and a lack of empathy for others' feeling and needs. They have at least 5 of the following maladaptive traits: - - An overinflated sense of one's own importance and exaggeration of achievements or talents - - A sufferer might spend hours fantasizing about having unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or the "perfect" romance - - One is convinced that one is so "special" and unique that one should only associate with other special or high-status people and institutions - - One requires excessive admiration from others - - One feels entitled to getting special treatment or that others should automatically comply with your expectations - - A sufferer exploits others in order to get what one needs for oneself - - One is unable to recognize or empathize with the feelings of others - - One is constantly envious of other people's achievements or possessions - - One is arrogant and haughty All of these were true of Truman Capote, I believe. In summary, I believe that the main character in "Capote" wanted his book to be "special," sure. But it had nothing to do with love. Brilliant acting by Hoffman. Give him the Oscar, hands down, if you ask me. But first, I'll see "Brokeback." - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:45:06 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: Joni Tribute JMDL Pre-Show Reception!!! >There are a few nominal fees involved, but only a total of $482.50 So that's 482.00 for us to be there for ONE hour before the general public arrives? From: JRMCo1@aol.com Hi Joni-folk, I've just received what I think is an exciting and rare offer to have our JMDL pre-Tribute reception at the Citigroup Cafe in Carnegie Hall, starting at 6:00 p.m.!! There are a few nominal fees involved, but only a total of $482.50 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:00:04 +0000 From: revrvl@comcast.net (vince) Subject: Re: a secret post njc Julius, It ain't no disagreement when you provide such detailed and compelling information that adds incredible depth to one's understanding of the character, and thus what the actor has done. For me the home viewer on Oscar night, it will come down to two extraordinary performances incredibly nuanced. One is more showy than the other, but that is the exact nature of the two characters portrayed - Ennis del Mar being so repressed he could barely express an emotion, vs Truman Capote who was, Truman Capote. Incredible work by both actors. So granting incredible respect for two awesome performances, who does this home viewer pick to root for? I pick the one that I most want to go to Brokeback Mountain with. Heath, clearly. Vince - -- http://www.southsiders.net - -------------- Original message -------------- From: JRMCo1@aol.com revrvl@comcast.net writes: >Capote features a man who essentially falls in love with a another man, a vicious killer, and needs >that man to be executed to make a better story for his book. I haven't seen "Brokeback Mountain" yet, but I soon will. It is by all accounts one of the best films of the year, by a great director. I'm looking forward to it. I have seen "Capote," however. Twice. Loath as I am to disagree with my friend Vince, I beg to differ here. The film "Capote" is essentially a portrait of a brilliant writer who suffered from severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder, AKA "malignant self-love." Truman Capote's mental disorder, and Hoffman's pportrayal of him, is characterized by an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that that puts him at odds with the expectations of the world around him. The disorder colors: (1) How he perceives and understands the world around himself (2) How he responds emotionally (3) How he interacts with people, and (4) How he controls his impulses. These characteristics are true of all personality orders, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder bears it's own unique characteristics as well: Most psychoanalysts believe that true Narcissists, like Truman Capote was, are in fact incapable of love, in the normal sense of the word. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is actually defined in part by a malignant *self-love* that results from a lack of love and attention or outright abuse from one's mother during childhood. My point is this: Capote loved himself and no one else. Narcissists are often pathologically envious of others who demonstrate the ability to love. I believe these realities must be the factual basis for any analysis of the film. People who suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder have a pattern of grandiosity, a need to be admired, and a lack of empathy for others' feeling and needs. They have at least 5 of the following maladaptive traits: - - An overinflated sense of one's own importance and exaggeration of achievements or talents - - A sufferer might spend hours fantasizing about having unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or the "perfect" romance - - One is convinced that one is so "special" and unique that one should only associate with other special or high-status people and institutions - - One requires excessive admiration from others - - One feels entitled to getting special treatment or that others should automatically comply with your expectations - - A sufferer exploits others in order to get what one needs for oneself - - One is unable to recognize or empathize with the feelings of others - - One is constantly envious of other people's achievements or possessions - - One is arrogant and haughty All of these were true of Truman Capote, I believe. In summary, I believe that the main character in "Capote" wanted his book to be "special," sure. But it had nothing to do with love. Brilliant acting by Hoffman. Give him the Oscar, hands down, if you ask me. But first, I'll see "Brokeback." - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:22:33 -0600 From: "J.DAVID SAPP" Subject: re - carnegie, park central., njc i'll be there about 2- how about we all meet in the lobby about 5 or = something like that? peace, david No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 1/18/06 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:18:02 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Joni Tribute JMDL Pre-Show Reception!!! Awesome initiative and organizing, Julius! And your generosity -- wow! Bless you, bless you, and thank you -- both you and Gail. Dites-moi, monsieur: do you like Joni Mitchell very much? Please count me in for $42.50 to round off the bill for Our Secret Place. No dark cafe days for us! No siree, Bobs! We want EVERYBODY comin' over to our tables, we got something to talk to EVERYBODY about! Love, Patti P. NPIMH: Some enchanted evening Someone may be laughin', You may hear her laughin' Across a crowded room And night after night, As strange as it seems The sound of her laughter Will sing in your dreams. I WANT TO HEAR JONI LAUGH!!!!!! Like that big hearty "bwww ha ha" after the Richard Nixon/Gomer Pyle comment on MOA. Think that will happen? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:38:44 EST From: JRMCo1@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Tribute JMDL Pre-Show Reception!!! Bless you back, Patti Parlette! With your pledge, we're just $50 short of the mark, but I've already accepted the Carnegie Hall JMDL Pre-Tribute Reception proposal on a leap of faith. :-) Mark your dancecards for 6:00 p.m. in NYC, Carnegie Hall, Feb 1, everyone. Stay tuned to the JMDL for the formal invitation/announcement in the next couple days. There will be live music by our own musicians, fyi.. - -Julius In a message dated 1/18/06 11:27:27 AM, loveuconn@hotmail.com writes: > Awesome initiative and organizing, Julius! And your generosity -- wow! > Bless you, bless you, and thank you -- both you and Gail. > > Dites-moi, monsieur: do you like Joni Mitchell very much? > > Please count me in for $42.50 to round off the bill for Our Secret Place. > No dark cafe days for us! No siree, Bobs! We want EVERYBODY comin' over to > our tables, we got something to talk to EVERYBODY about! > > Love, > > Patti P. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:10:33 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, (people's) park central Marianne wrote: Would everybody who is staying at the Park Central raise their hands? "Oh, Teacher! Teacher! Teacher of Love and Peace and Harmony projects, please call on me!", calls out Miss P., waving wildly from a French classroom at UConn. (Where, by the way, many French and German and Spanish and Italian classroom numbers are mixed up on this, the second day of classes, because the person in charge of the scheduling is nearly incapacitated with JMAD -- Joni Mitchell Anticipation Disorder.) So here's the list and send it back after you add your name: Donna Bree Marianne Laura Ruth Sherelle gAry david. . Patti P. + Mary M. (in the "alliteration suite") We're gonna settle down into the clickety clack and arrive at Grand Central Station around 1 or 2 p.m. Every time a new name is added (here, there, and everywhere) I say to myself: "And the hits just a keep on a comin'!" Will our sweet (song)bird Sherelle sing us lullabyes to end our enchanted evening? Hard(ly) at work, Patti P., dreaming of the pleasure I'm going to have meeting you all! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:44:42 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: RE: njc, (people's) park central Dear Patti, "All the people at this party, they've got a lot of style...." I plan on pulling into Penn Station around 11:15 or 11:30, I forgot which time! I'll be dragging my luggage around with me but since I can only stay one day, I wanted to make the best of it! I'll be a little lost puppy so I'm going to try to get to the Park Central lickety split and stay as put as possible! Sherelle >From: "Patti Parlette" >To: joni@smoe.org >CC: treegreen1@hotmail.com, sherellesmith@hotmail.com >Subject: njc, (people's) park central >Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:10:33 +0000 > >Marianne wrote: > >Would everybody who is staying at the Park Central raise their hands? > >"Oh, Teacher! Teacher! Teacher of Love and Peace and Harmony projects, >please call on me!", calls out Miss P., waving wildly from a French >classroom at UConn. (Where, by the way, many French and German and Spanish >and Italian classroom numbers are mixed up on this, the second day of >classes, because the person in charge of the scheduling is nearly >incapacitated with JMAD -- Joni Mitchell Anticipation Disorder.) > >So here's the list and send it back after you add your name: > >Donna >Bree >Marianne >Laura >Ruth >Sherelle >gAry >david. . >Patti P. + Mary M. (in the "alliteration suite") > >We're gonna settle down into the clickety clack and arrive at Grand Central >Station around 1 or 2 p.m. > >Every time a new name is added (here, there, and everywhere) I say to >myself: "And the hits just a keep on a comin'!" Will our sweet >(song)bird Sherelle sing us lullabyes to end our enchanted evening? > >Hard(ly) at work, > >Patti P., dreaming of the pleasure I'm going to have meeting you all! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:38:31 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: a secret post njc Gerald A. Notaro wrote: > Mark Scott wrote: >> Gerald A. Notaro wrote: >> He didn't stay in that bigoted Southern town, though, did he? >> Living an 'out' life among the New York glitterati is hardly the >> same thing, is it? > > No, that is exactly why he left. And my point is that not everybody has the option of escape. Some people are not equipped to leave the environment they find themselves in and some just plain don't want to. Why should they have to? If someone is not cut out to live in a large city and would find it impossible to do so, why should they have to endure being ostracized and possible physical harm in order to live where they want to live? Just because of their sexual orientation? Not all gay people are inclined to cultural refinements and have a desire to live in NYC or San Francisco, believe it or not. And it's still pretty scary to be 'out' in places like the backwaters of Wyoming and Texas. Matthew Shepard comes to mind. 1963? Forget it! My point is that all the > lists I belong to had glowing posts about the shirtless, butch, > straight acting win of the cowboys, and not one mention of Hoffman's > win for Capote, or Huffman's win for portraying a transsexual. I > found that interesting. I do see your point here. It's a no-brainer that a movie that features the likes of Jake Gyllenhall in and out of cowboy drag is going to have a lot more appeal on a purely sensual level than a movie that focuses on pudgy Philip Seymour Hoffman in bald pate and thick-rimmed classes talking in an effeminate, lispy voice. Most people don't go to the movies to be intellectually stimulated. They go to be entertained and pretty people usually draw more than unpretty people at the box office. Whether this is a good or a bad thing, it is unfortunate that films like 'Capote' and 'Transamerica' tend to be banished to the arthouse circuit and too many people miss out on experiences that just might enrich their lives and change their point of view. *However*, to dismiss 'Brokeback Mountain' as a beefcake movie is to do it a horrible disservice and to grossly underestimate it. There is plenty of food for thought and soul-searching in this movie. This is not a Hollywood programmer. It has a great deal of depth, imo. The actors may be good-looking (Gyllenhall floats my boat more than Ledger) but their performances are no less powerful. Both are extraordinarily good, imo. I could also ask the question, what is 'straight acting'? But maybe we shouldn't get into all of that. I started a new job recently and my gaydar has been misfiring like crazy if one takes the number of married men I work with at face value. Some of them sure 'act gay' in my estimation! Makes me wonder exactly what *that* means to me! On the other side of the coin, to describe the film 'Capote' as I did above I'm sure does it a lot of disservice as well. I can't say for sure since I haven't seen it yet. But I have every intention of doing so. I must say I found Julius's post to be highly enlightening and very interesting. Thanks, Julius. I do remember seeing Truman Capote on various talk shows. He always seemed to be terribly impressed with himself and full of catty remarks about just about anybody who was anybody back then, if you know what I mean. (Do I know what I mean?) Didn't he say that Jacquelyn Susann looked like a truck driver in drag? He also said that most actors with any talent were basically unintelligent, if I remember correctly. When the inteviewer brought up Jill St. John (I think that's who it was anyway) as supposedly having a high IQ, Capote's come back was 'Yes, but she can't act!' I was both fascinated and vaguely repulsed by him. Not sure what that says about me. Mark E. in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:55:23 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: COUNTDOWN 14 DAYS ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:45:48 EST From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Best "Old" Album of 2005 (sjc) I thought you folks might be interested in a review I just wrote for my Writers' Journal: Ken Finds A Classic From 1971 Bruce Cockburn - High Winds White Sky During the course of 2005, I was constantly hearing music from various artists that I liked and wanted to check out further. Sometimes, I visit the East Meadow Public Library and borrow CDbs from their vast inventory that I may like enough to buy or make copies of. A recent album by Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Co-burn) had some good tunes on it but I wasnbt impressed enough to add it to my collection without hearing more; I checked with the library and found they didnbt have it. While I was browsing through the many titles at the library, however, I came across an early album by Cockburn entitled, High Winds White Sky, so I brought that home to listen to. Ironically, I loved this collection of sensitive and finely crafted tunes that are somewhat simpler than his newer material, and I was glad I found it. There are ten original songs in all and I think every one is a keeper. The vocals and acoustic guitar on the first tune, bHappy Good Morning Bluesb, reminded me of Paul McCartneybs upbeat style from his Red Rose Speedway days. bLet Us Go Laughingb is a slower, more deliberate ballad, and therebs a great, lilting piano riff throughout bGolden Serpent Bluesb butbironicallyb no one is credited in the liner notes as playing piano on this album. Fine acoustic guitar work, neat chord changes and thoughtfully poetic lyrics in the title cut, bHigh Winds White Skyb, bLifebs Mistressb, and bShining Mountainb , remind me of early Joni Mitchell on her JM/Song To A Seagull, Clouds, or Ladies Of The Canyon albums. Ibd guess itbs long out-of-print but, if you can find it, Ibd highly recommend this collection to anyone seeking intelligent, easy-listening music from a singer-songwriter with something to say. Kenny B ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #19 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------