From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2006 #178 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, May 6 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 178 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Myrtle [Nuriel Tobias ] On the topic of faces..... ["Garret" ] Re: Covers Vol 76 [Bob Muller ] Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC [Bob Muller ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #131 [srobe444@aol.com] Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC ["Garret" ] RE: njc Goodbye All ["mike pritchard" ] Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC [Catherine McKay ] NJC RE: njc Beth Orton - Daybreaker [Bob Muller ] GWB revives the protest song (Toronto Star article) njc [Catherine McKay ] Joni at Wembley DVD ["Ric Robinson" ] N.O. JazzFest Live Webcast njc [RoseMJoy@aol.com] njc, Leonard Cohen movie, and a rich exchange ["Patti Parlette" ] NJC Re: Leonard Cohen Cover Story ["Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" ] Re: Tori AMos NJC [Bob Muller ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 00:49:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Re: Myrtle Kate wrote: "Myrtle is one of those who care what the neighbours think, as we know from Joni's song Face Lift". A month ago, i read somewhere on the net something Joni said about what happened that night. She said that she and Don, while being at Myrtle's, decided to move the beds to the windows and that it was infront of the windows that they made love, where all the neighbours could see them, naked and making love, from down street. Seems to me that Myrtle cared not for what the neighbours might think, but rather for what they could see. Nuri Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 10:09:10 +0100 (BST) From: "Garret" Subject: On the topic of faces..... It's so interesting that this comes up on the list. This is a conversation i had recently over a few pints of guinness. Some people just have a face type. Everywhere i go people talk to me (and especially drunk people) - even when i don't want them to! Don't they realise i am an unfriendly, humourless control-freak? Every bus, train, plane i take i meet people. In fact, one of my very good friends i met on a plane (actually in the airport before boarding hte plane and then we sat together and are now good pals. OK, there's moer to this one, but still). Last week i went to Cork for a conference. The lady beside me on the train (it's a three hour journey from Dublin) took to chatting with me. It turns out she too is a Beckett fan. She retired early and has been taking it easy for the last few years and ensuring she gets a holiday every month, but she had worked in a similar enough field to myself. Yesterday on the Dart home from work a man start chatting randomly; he got off, a woman sat beside me and asked about the book i was reading (On Beauty by Zadie Smith; i utterly adore Forster's novels so had been wary about reading On Beauty; enjoying it very muchly so far). Turns out, she knows Zadie Smith. A couple of nights ago a woman from Florida started talking to me, she had missed the city centre and ended up at my stop. I was on my way to the theatre so we took the bus together. No joke, i must have a friendly face. Or sumptin' like that cos i can't get away from people chatting with me. Dermot finds it very very odd to the point that he has asked me to ensure that i don't even vaguely glance in the direction of other people, lol. I wonder if Wally K could give us some psychoanalytic explanation?? GARRET NP - Leonard Cohen, Alexandra Leaving (oh my god what a great song. His voice may not be Mariah Carey exactly, but come on fols, this is grrrrreat) Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 11:55:18 -0600 From: Kate Subject: Myrtle Bob: > Meanwhile, Myrtle was sitting there with a sour look on her face, probably > wondering "who do these people think she is - Kitty Wells?" Oh, I don't know, Bob. Some people just have that kind of face. I'm one of them. Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 11:01:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Myrtle Kate, I loved everything you said and I agree with you. I heard someone recently talking about how his face makes a natural frown. Someone asked him, "How are you today?" The sour-faced guy said, "I'm fine." And the other guy answered, "Well, tell your face!" --Smurf, who also has one of those faces . . . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 04:21:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Covers Vol 76 Hi Rebecca - thanks so much for your thoughts - so awesome to see them. And thanks for the correction on Mark Murphy, I assumed he was English so thanks for straightening me out. I hate that it takes so long to download, but even then it's faster than the mail. Keep those thoughts comin'! Bob NP: Prince, "Adore" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 04:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Sent: Fri, 5 May 2006 03:00:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #131 onlyJMDL Digest Friday, May 5 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 131 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Re: 76 Joni Covers in the big parade...(Covers, Volume 76) [Mark-Leon Tho] Re: Duplex review - april 23 [Jerry Notaro ] Re: Duplex review - april 23 [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: 76 Joni Covers in the big parade...(Covers, Volume 76) [Bob.Muller@Fl] re: Joni thing at the Mendel ["c Karma" ] re: Joni thing at the Mendel [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: 76 Joni Covers in the big parade...(Covers, Volume 76) ["ron" ] Cover of The Rolling Stone [MINGSDANCE@aol.com] Joni on the cover of the Rolling Stone ["Patti Parlette" ] Re: Joni on the cover of the Rolling Stone [Bob Muller Subject: Re: 76 Joni Covers in the big parade...(Covers, Volume 76) Hey Bob. Another fine effort. A mixed bag as usual. My faves? Cactus Tree - Geraldine and People's Parties/Same Situation - Carolyn Montgomery. I must say though, I prefer Gregson and Collister's version of Same Situation more. Thanks so much for your continuing efforts. NP Epiphany - David Bridie - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 07:56:08 -0400 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Duplex review - april 23 I just knew you would be there. How great others came and joined you. Thanks so much. I was so anxious to hear or read something from someone who's judgment I trust! Jerry > hey, i've been crazed busy, but i did hope to review the "Tales of Joni: The > Storefront Sings Mitchell" event i attended week before last with brian > gross, michael o'malley and his partner rene. we had a short but lovely > time catching up. > > so i've been rolling thoughts around in my head > > 1) cabaret singers are extremely well trained. each of these performers > had really strong vocal technique and variety in their voices. > 2) cabaret singers really emphasize the lyrics, and this is a pleasure, > because it makes the songs extremely communicative > 3) i was also struck by how young many of the singers were. made me feel a > little old. > 4) they smile a lot, sometimes too much, sometimes when it doesn't fit the > lyric at all. > 5) no guitar at this event, just a damn fine-sounding grand piano. some of > the singers had pianists as accompanists, a couple of the singers played for > themselves. the piano work was of a very satisfying, consistently high > level. > 6) the three men who took solo songs made them distinctly gay. this is in > direct contrast with how i've heard some of the songs sung on cover frisbees > or at fests. not good or bad, and with varying degrees of success. this > brings me to the first highlight: > > - michael holland singing 'strange boy' (and his strange boy sang > 'woodstock' within the song). holland played piano and sang, his voice > wasn't striking but very smooth, and he really truly felt the song. strange > boy has always felt the most potentially 'gay' song of joni's; the attitude > toward the guy feels very familiar to me as a gay man, much more than > 'coyote' and other songs. holland just really inhabited the song, and i > think we were all in agreement that it was a great moment. > > - baby jane dexter singing 'be cool'. this was late in the show, and it > felt like an adult had come on stage, almost for the first time. i've heard > the version that showed up on a cover disk, but her dark and low voice > sounds much better live, and her rhythmic push, her sass, just work. > > - liz mccartney did a lovely job with 'night ride home' and it was great to > hear a later song. > > most of the rest of the show was very entertaining, there were many fine > voices, but i think i'm going to leave it at that. > > patrick, overscheduled again > > np - matmos - steam and sequins for larry levan - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 08:34:16 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Duplex review - april 23 Thanks for taking the time to post your notes, Patrick. The only other review I read said that Baby Jane really stole the show and held the audience in her hand. Too bad that vibe didn't translate to the two live tracks she's released (the same songs she performed at the Duplex). Michael Holland's performances were the ones I was most excited about, both in terms of obscure song selection and because I really liked his version of "A Case Of You" released a couple of years back. (Matter of fact, that whole CD was great). I was a bit disappointed with the song selections...very predictable for the most part. You'd think that someone would realize that untouched songs like "Last Chance Lost" done with such style and power by Bettye Lavette at Carnegie Hall would inspire more risk-taking. Did you catch the follow-up show this last Sunday? Bob NP: The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, "Low Down" - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. 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Since Volume 2 is a 3-CD set, I'll send out the links each Saturday, so get ready for that as well. LOTS of gems on these discs. Bob NP: The Gene Harris Quartet, "The Song Is Ended" - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:15:19 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: re: Joni thing at the Mendel Bob wrote: I loved the Ode to her Dad, so cute and heartfelt - you can certainly tell that there's a lot of love there. Of course, I was instantly transported to "Let The Wind Carry Me" when I read this portion: You don't remember birthdays or anniversaries you criticize your daughter "no paint, less powder, please!" Bill Anderson is a great guy. And VERY proud of his daughter. The highlight of my trip to "Voices" at the Mendel was (apart from Joni signing my book and my teaching her how to spell "continuum") was the brief and very warm conversation I had with Bill Anderson. We talked about what I as a parent could do to inspire my son to develop his artistic talent. "Keep buying those pencils!", was among the sage and simple advice shared. He beamed as he told me that Joni had been offered "a great deal of money" for her self portrait after Vincent vanGogh that graced the "Turbulent Indigo" cover. CC - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:47:53 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: re: Joni thing at the Mendel Reminds me of the video footage Ashara took of Joni's painting exhibit. Bill & Myrtle were sitting up on stage where Joni was speaking at the podium, and Bill was just beaming. As a father myself, it is gratifying to see a Dad beaming over his kid. Meanwhile, Myrtle was sitting there with a sour look on her face, probably wondering "who do these people think she is - Kitty Wells?" And it's funny that you mention encouraging your child's creativity...Nate & I did a play together when he was in elementary school, but he's always been more of a sports guy. I never really pushed him to any creative or artistic bent, though he was certainly exposed to LOTS of music. Now he's a rising Junior in college, and in his second year of taking Classical Guitar, and loving it. Bob NP: Bettie Serveert, "Co-coward" - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. 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I agree with you about the Garrin Benfield band - that was a website download, sure do wish they'd do something in the studio, they bring a nice rocking sensibility to Joni's stuff and are obviously fans as they do a deep track like Black Crow. And very cool that I was able to use the track to help make a sale - that's part and parcel of the project. I was wondering if reloading those links was worth the effort, so thanks for letting me know, and I hope your cat is over the trauma. Bob NP: Joni, "Banquet" - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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Too bad that vibe didn't translate to the two live tracks she's released (the same songs she performed at the Duplex). Michael Holland's performances were the ones I was most excited about, both in terms of obscure song selection and because I really liked his version of "A Case Of You" released a couple of years back. (Matter of fact, that whole CD was great). I was a bit disappointed with the song selections...very predictable for the most part. You'd think that someone would realize that untouched songs like "Last Chance Lost" done with such style and power by Bettye Lavette at Carnegie Hall would inspire more risk-taking. Did you catch the follow-up show this last Sunday? 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I heard the reporter say: "Here's Joni!" but my sweetie on the phone said I heard wrong. He said the reporter guy said: "Here's Johnny!" Nah, I don't believe him! The reporter guy said: "Here's Joni!" I know it, I know it! Did anyone else see and hear this? Am I going off the Joni deep end? http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/9117921/2006_rolling_stone_covers/photo/10/large Love, Patti P. - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 01:26:56 +0100 From: "clive sax" Subject: linda lewis tribute to Joni Hi guys, Brighton Festival just started and Linda Lewis is Performing. She has a new Album out and one of the songs is called 'I keep a wish' . There's a really nice bit in the song about Joni. You can link to the website to have a listen here www.lindalewis.co.uk and follow the directions to MP3's and listen to the interview on radio london where they play the song. X Clive _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:31:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Joni on the cover of the Rolling Stone It's definitely Joni...behind Aretha and next to Clinton - some good company! Bob NP: Jansen & Tilanus, "River" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #131 ********************************* - ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 11:34:00 +0100 (BST) From: "Garret" Subject: Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC You're right, usually it's fun, but sometimes i just want to read me book. YOu do have a friendly face Bob. I'm not good with directions though "yea, keep going stragiht. then left. no hang on that would be right. or would it? anyway, if you come to the cross roads you've gone too far...." Plus, i think a lot of irish people are friendly and like to talk. or at lest to hear themselves talk, ah ha. GARRET NP- The Pixies, Debaser > > You do, Garret - so do I. Plus, as you mentioned, > if you make eye contact, you make that > connection. > Only difference with me is, I like it. People > really fascinate me, and I truly believe that > everyone's got something to offer, and they > usually do. > "All God's chillun' got a story to tell..." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:12:45 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: RE: njc Goodbye All << NP: Beth Orton, "Thinking About Tomorrow" >> >>Ah, Bob, I can hardly express how much I love, love, love this song! It makes me feel chilled, happy, sad, tearful, hopeful. It's an example of Beth's alchemical talent, and by several light years the best song on her very disappointing third album. Reminds me, I must check out her new one, which has been warmly received. Azeem in London<< I hate to disagree with Azeem, esp over female vocalists, but I have to say that I don't think Beth's third album was so disappointing. It was certainly different to the other two, but I think there are some excellent songs on it. I cannot stand 'Carmella', and always skip the track, but 'Paris Train', 'Mount Washington', 'Anywhere' (shades of Annie Whitehead here), 'This One's Gonna Bruise', and 'Thinking about Tomorrow' are all excellent in their own way, IHMO, of course. I still prefer her earlier work, like 'Tangent', 'Galaxy of Emptiness' and 'Central Reservation' to name just 3, but the woman is moving on. Mike np - Beth Orton - Thinking About Tomorrow ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 08:16:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: On the topic of faces.....NJC - --- Bob Muller wrote: > And Smurf & Catherine, I'm the a$$hole that's > always encouraging others to smile. Sorry about > that, but life is just too short to walk around > being a mope. Maybe it's because I always have a > song bouncing around in my head so I'm pretty > much always in a jovial mood. > The point is, it's not that I'm in a crap mood when people say this, and it hasn't happened that often, but when a complete stranger tries to give me orders, I *do* get in a bad mood. On the other hand, I've also had a fair number of people start chatting to me (they're usually a bit off!) and I've also had quite a few people ask me for directions (do I look like I know where I'm going?) The sad part about the directions is, I never know the names of streets, so there's always a lot of hand-gesturing and arm-waving involved when I try to tell them where to go, uh, how to get there. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:41:19 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: Re: njc life sentence for Moussaoui NJC and Bjork >>Is Moussaoui a French citizen? ... I can't see why France would want him.<< I don't know why France would want him, but the French government (I'm generalising, of course) do like to 'deal with' their own citizens rather than let other governments 'deal with' them, as do other governments, of course. The 'deal with' here refers to the case where French Secret Service agents Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur blew up the Greenpeace vessel 'Rainbow Warrior' in Auckland harbour in 1985, killing Fernando Pereira, a Portuguese photographer. The two agents were convicted and sentenced to 10 years jail in New Zealand and were later allowed to serve their sentence on French soil (the French military base on Hao atoll), except of course the original sentence was drastically reduced and the two agents were in fact freed after serving less than 2 years of the sentence. Full story here. http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/rw/pkbomb.html One can only speculate on what would happen if the USA agree to deport him, and Sakorzy becomes the French President in the near future. mike in barcelona NP Beth Orton - Paris Train ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 05:53:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Retro Covers: Volume 2, disc 1 In my continuing efforts to re-expose these tunes to a new audience, here's the next of the early volumes. Those of you who were around then remember the chain of events; after Volume 1 there was a buzz about gethering as many as we could find, so I had folks send me whatever they had, mostly on cassette - and while there were some obvious choices, there were many obscure ones as well. The original Volume 2 was 4-cd's worth, because I included tracks that Joni performed on as well as covers. I have since gone back and remastered it, deleting the "Contributions" and using better source recordings for the covers. This made it a 3-cd set instead of 4. Here is Disc 1: Part 1: http://download.yousendit.com/CD8289E866BF6172 Part 2: http://download.yousendit.com/DE51FB7243773CCC The tracks: Susan Webb - A Case of You Jesse Hultberg - The Priest Tuck & Patti - Woodstock Sharon Cuneta - Both Sides Now Ian & Sylvia - The Circle Game Maire Brennan - Big Yellow Taxi Nancy Wilson (Heart) - A Case of You Paul Young & Clannad - Both Sides Now Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Centerpiece Tony Rice - Urge For Going Kristen Vigard - Man From Mars Wynonna - Help Me Kevyn Lettau - People's Parties Lani Hall - Banquet Judy Collins - Both Sides Now (1998) Barbra Streisand - I Don't Know Where I Stand Judy Collins/Richard Stoltzman - For Free Betty Buckley - If I Remember You Right/I Had A King Enjoy, Bob NP: Donald Fagen, "The Great Pagoda of Funn" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 05:58:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: NJC RE: njc Beth Orton - Daybreaker I must be somewhat of a pushover because I liked it a bunch as well - it wasn't reviewed very well so there must have been something about it that they didn't like. "Concrete Sky" is far & away my favorite track but I enjoyed it a lot. Granted it was not as strong as her first 2, but all that means is that Beth isn't working to her potential, and how can *I* fault her for that. Bob NP: Built To Spill, "Liar" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:45:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: GWB revives the protest song (Toronto Star article) njc Arlo Guthrie is in concert in Toronto on Tuesday and there was an article in today's Toronto Star that might be of interest to a few of you. The url is at the bottom of this e-mail, but, because these tend to expire fairly quickly, the text is below: - ------------------------------------------------- Protest is Guthrie's birthright May 6, 2006. 08:35 AM BY GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST The sudden re-emergence of pointed protest and political commentary in popular music is no surprise to Arlo Guthrie. As the son of America's most beloved and outspoken folk laureate, Woody Guthrie, Arlo was raised by people for whom expressing liberal-humanist political beliefs through populist art was one of the benefits of living in a democracy. So Arlo, now 59, more or less expected something like this. "We couldn't have asked for a better president to help the nation sharpen its appetite for protest," he said in a phone interview last week during a stopover in Massachusetts. "There's a whole culture that has been waiting a long time for a guy like him to come along and front a very dangerous, very greedy political agenda. It's a good thing Bush's government fell apart on its own. Now people can see it for the sham it is." Guthrie doesn't even think it's unusual that much of the pungent rhetoric seems to be coming from the likes of Neil Young, with his new CD Living With War, Kris Kristofferson with This Old Road, Janis Ian with Folk Is The New Black and Bruce Springsteen with We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a tribute to Pete Seeger, America's pre-eminent folk artist and a musical and political mentor in the 1940s and '50s of Arlo's dad. These artists' dissent is not the innocuous, war-hurts whine of U2, R.E.M., Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams or the Dead Kennedys that has passed in recent years as an expression of conscience, but a rage-grounded strain that sounds a lot like the potent snarl of the dispossessed and betrayed. These are musicians and songwriters of the era in which Arlo himself waved the flags of political activism  albeit with a tame and amusing talking blues song, "Alice's Restaurant," about a hapless hippie litterbug who stumbled on a novel way of avoiding the Vietnam draft. That the song achieved iconic proportions in the 1960s and beyond, and symbolizing individual empowerment in the face of official oppression, is something of a mystery for those who were there at the time, including Guthrie, who stopped performing it in the late '70s and vowed to play it only during his once-a-decade "Alice's Restaurant Massacree Tour." (The tour name is a nod to the son'g orginal title.) "I would give people their money back if they were angry when I didn't play it," said Guthrie, who for 30 years has headlined a sold-out New Year's folk music concert at Carnegie Hall. "I just didn't want to get locked into being a nostalgia act. I didn't even want to be a musician in the first place  I had made up my mind to be a forest ranger." The fourth version of the Massacree show  a juggernaut of story and song featuring son Abe on keyboards, multi-instrumentalist Gordon Titcomb and an ensemble that occasionally includes daughter Sarah Lee and son-in-law Johnny Irion  rolled out of home base in Florida last June. It concludes later this summer, long after Tuesday night's stop at Massey Hall. The lingering impression of Guthrie as activist may be due to his philanthropic efforts. In December he and his family rode Amtrak's City of New Orleans train from Chicago to New Orleans, performing benefit concerts along the way that raised $140,000 for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In 1991 he bought the Stockbridge, Mass., church that had inspired "Alice's Restaurant" to house The Guthrie Center, named for his parents, a not-for-profit interfaith foundation with programs ranging from baking to an international Huntington's Disease Walk-a-thon. Many simply believe protest is in the Guthrie blood. "I do come from people with a long tradition of always having something to say, and though I've never thought of myself as a protest singer, I've never missed the opportunity to express an opinion when I'm on stage, provided it's mixed with humour and some kind of personal experience to back it up," he said. As to whether there's an ideology, a guiding principle behind the current wave of protest music, as there was in his father's day, Guthrie's not so sure. "But what's happening now is all very familiar to anyone who was growing up in the 1960s. Forty years ago there were no political leaders in the protest movement, though Johnson and Nixon tried to convince themselves there were. It was a spontaneous national uprising of young people who could see clearly that those who were governing them were clinically insane. The response of those administrations was to try to track down their imagined opponents by using all kinds of dirty tricks  and Bush is doing the same thing now." And despite the frenzied attention accorded the recent resurgence of protest music by American media, Guthrie doubts music has the power in the Internet age to change the world, as he believes it did in the 1960s. "Back then music was the cultural medium. It carried the ideas of a generation and passed them along. There are so many other ways of communicating now, so many other ways to reach into the world. The Internet has replaced popular music as the great voice of enlightenment and encouragement. "The problem is that there are so many messages out there, and no way yet to organize honest, organic dissent, the way Pete (Seeger) could do during the union marches in the 1940s and '50s when he conveyed powerful ideas and the history behind them just by singing in the street, walking along and picking his banjo. "You can't expect every generation to learn from the past. But you can give directions to the well, and when people get thirsty enough, they'll drink." History has been lost in the computer age, he believes. And that loss impedes efforts to organize protest against and political alternatives to what he sees as "sophisticated global greed, something that has taken root in the world and has no more to do with America than water and air." And the Internet has done nothing to impart any sense of the past for its users, he added. "When people meet me for the first time and ask who I am  and they often do  I say, `Woody Guthrie's son.' The next question is inevitably, `Who's Woody Guthrie?' and I say, `The guy Bob Dylan loved so much.' "Then they want to know who Bob Dylan is." - ---------------------------------------------- Popular protesters Several new and recent musical protests against the policies  foreign and domestic  of the Bush administration include: # Green Day's album American Idiot, a literate pop-punk assault on the Republican agenda and twisted logic that led to the invasion of Iraq, went to No. 1 on U.S. charts, won a Grammy in 2005 for Best Rock Album and has sold more than 5 million copies. # Bruce Springsteen's The Seeger Sessions: We Shall Overcome, a powerful tribute to the protest song itself and to the humanist idealism of America's most beloved folk singer, Pete Seeger. # Pearl Jam's Pearl Jam, "a roar of desperation ... and (an) angry lob from the trenches," says the Houston Chronicle's Michael D. Clark of the American rock band's latest opus, released this week. "Some songs opt for something closer to the `make love, not war' credo of the Summer of Love," he adds. # Neil Young's Living With War, a blistering, musically cohesive attack on the Bush administration and the U.S. president's penchant for mendacity from Canada's own folk-rock poet laureate, who supported the Patriot Act and was inflamed enough by 9/11 to invoke the cause of freedom in the song "Let's Roll." # Rock Against Bush, a two-volume collection of rebellious protest songs targeting the U.S. invasion of Iraq by 26 bands, including Sum 41, OffSpring, and the Ataris, rounded up by Fat Mike, frontman for the veteran punk outfit NOFX. It climbed high into the American charts last year and spawned a tour. # Tom Waits' 2004 CD Real Gone contains one of the best anti-war songs of all time, "Day After Tomorrow," a three-hankie ballad about a soldier in Iraq yearning for the comforts of home  "shovelling snow and raking leaves." # American roots rocker Steve Earle's The Revolution Starts ... Now, released in 2004 in a post-election fury, damns the war-mongering behaviour of his own countrymen and, in "Rich Man's War," approaches the quiet, lean elegance of Woody Guthrie's best narrative compositions. # Rickie Lee Jones's new CD The Evening of My Best Day skewers the U.S. president in the vitriolic rant "Ugly Man," and "Tell Somebody (Repeal the Patriot Act Now)" is a sharply focused political manifesto in song form. - -------------------------------------------------- http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146741320488&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630 Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 15:51:06 +0100 From: "Ric Robinson" Subject: Joni at Wembley DVD I've just copied the disc I received from Mauro, so it is now available = to pass on. First email gets it as usual. Cheers, Ric [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of Ric.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 11:05:04 EDT From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: N.O. JazzFest Live Webcast njc Don't forget now....Sunday May 7th from 2:00-7PM (CST) Sunday's Webcast will feature the great Fats Domino, Paul Simon, Jimmy Buffet, Herbie Hancock and much much more...check out the schedule _http://music.msn.com/music/neworleansjazz_ (http://music.msn.com/music/neworleansjazz) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 15:34:28 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, Leonard Cohen movie, and a rich exchange Bon Chelsea matin, tout le Joni monde! Ron wrote: lots of info on the new movie & links to the trailer here: http://www.leonardcohenimyourman.com/ looks pretty good!! - ------ Darn right! Thanks for sharing that! I occurs to me yet again how much I learn from the JMDL. It's my best source for news! I often find myself running around town or the workplace saying: "Guess what? Blah blah blah! I heard it on the Joni List!" ("They shake their heads", they say I'm nuts, but I don't care babies, if I'm so Joni square!") Always getting something to feed and grow on here. A rich exchange, for sure. Smiling or frowning, friendly or cutting, bless you all. Love, Patti P., getting ready for a big surprise party -- "a really big show!" -- tomorrow, "carrying an armload of bright balloons" that say "Class of 2006" to tie out on my mailbox NP: Circle Game, MOA version ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:51:03 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: How Would A Patriot Act? (political content PC - NJC) Thank you for this link Marian. He is very convincing, especially with his legal background & his formerly apolitical opinions. Whenever I read stuff like this that is so logical there is a small part of my brain at work that is able to look at the information through the funnel of a couple of people I know who will probably defend this administration to the bitter end. Because of their deep evangelical beliefs (& how they have put aside certain critical thinking in favor of following a religious dogma) I think their view would be that the bible should trump the constitution. I still have hope for those people who still support this administration but who are not deeply embedded in the administration's false interpretation of what it means to be a follower of Christ. NPIMH Dylan "How many times must a man turn his head & pretend that he just doesn't see" >Have been reading Glenn Greenwald's blog in the last months. His book 'How Would A Patriot Act?' will be published on 15 May. I would urge anyone concerned about the state of the union to at least have a look at the book website here: http://www.workingassetspublishing.com/ and if you have time, try to read some of his postings at his blog, Unclaimed Territory, here: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/ I find his writings very clear and convincing and, in my opinion, they would be of interest to persons of both liberal and conservative persuasions. He encourages dialog from everyone, even (and maybe even especially) from people who hold views different from his own. Marian< ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 18:33:50 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: [none] "Reading the news, and it sure...." sets me off w/ another JMOCD attack (though, admittedly, it doesn't take much): Headline in the Hartford Courant sports page (from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, about the Kentucky Derby): "A Rush For The Roses" For The Roses....beautiful song! I hear it in the wind today, as I gaze out on the "lilac sprays" outside my window. "Look through any window, yeah, what do you see?" Joni everywhere! Love, Patti P. NPIMH: two songs at once! uh oh...and now three! ("my analyst told me, that I was out of my head....") ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 18:56:22 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" Subject: NJC Re: Leonard Cohen Cover Story I agree with your kids about Leonard Cohen. I think I borrowed a disc or something. On some songs, he sounded like he's on a ledge, >says he's thinking of jumpin'>. On others, he just sounded like a big crybaby. I guess I can't like 'em all. On the other hand, there's a new album called "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions"... Jim L'Hommedieu Catherine McKay said, >I was listening to some Leonard once when the kids were younger and they asked me if we could listen to something else, because "that man sounds scary."> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 17:27:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: NJC Re: Leonard Cohen Cover Story / now Seeger Sessions - --- "Jim L'Hommedieu, Lama" wrote: > On the other hand, there's a new album called "We Shall Overcome: The > Seeger > Sessions"... CMT's been running a 1 hour program about the making of it. Really good to see! I got the tunes and I love the music. They made it hard to get tho, go tot he store and buy a 2 sided CD (which won't play on my puter), OR if I wanted to download the whole album for 10.99 that included damn videos, so it wouldn't download with my older OS. So I bought them one by one, cost a couple bucks more that way. Really joyful stuff though! I was pleasantly surprised and have been rocking around to it for 24 hours or so. Well I did sleep, too.... :) Em ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 00:35:12 +0000 From: "Michael O'Malley" Subject: Sid Marty - Depression Days I heard an interview with beloved Canadian poet, songwriter and park warden, Sid Marty, on CBC radio this week. He spoke of his early days as a performer in Calgary, remembering evenings at the Depression Coffee House, when fellow performers would flip a coin to see who got to sing Four Strong Winds. Speaking about his peers, he fondly remembered a certain Joan Anderson, who played ukelele. He sounds like a great guy. Bet he has a few good stories... Les? http://sidmarty.com/biography.htm Michael in Quebec NP: Sid Marty - Two Pink Flamingos _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft. SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 20:47:17 -0400 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Tori AMos NJC Oh my....I'm listening to Tori Amos sing .." Smells Like Teen Spirit" how moving...I'm in a trance..haunting. (the King Cobra's don't hurt either) Happy safe saturday to one and all! Bree PS. I'm thinking of Sherelle singing this...a little depart..but I can just hear her. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 18:04:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Tori AMos NJC Dang - are y'all having a King Cobra night, and didn't invite ME?? And you're spot on about that Tori cover - she does an amazing job with Smells Like Teen Spirit, and also REM's Losing My Religion, and of course A Case Of You too. That'll be coming up later this month as we roll through Volume 2. Bob NP: Lynyrd Skynrd, "I Need You" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2006 #178 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------