From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2008 #147 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, July 27 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 147 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: clouds or bsn? [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Blue - The Music of Joni Mitchell [Bob Muller ] NJC Van Ronk [Chuck Eisenhardt ] Joni live at the Target Center - Minneapolis, MN 10.23.98 [Bob Muller Subject: Re: clouds or bsn? I have to agree with Monika. The view of clouds is only one small part of the analogy of Joni's philosophy of looking at life as a whole. What about love and life? Both Sides, Now is the more important phrase. It is what she is trying to understand about life in general and explains the process of growing. Mark in Sydney NP Free - Curiosity Killed The Cat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:38:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Blue - The Music of Joni Mitchell Be on the lookout or encourage your local performance space to consider booking this touring Joni tribute: http://www.theshowstore.com/shows/view/240 I see where the show is booked at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, FL for part of their '08-'09 season. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:53:50 -0400 From: Chuck Eisenhardt Subject: NJC Van Ronk Judy Collins' treacly version of BSN was my first exposure to Joni (in the commons of a dorm at Mt. Holyoke, because men were not 'allowed', on a mono portable 'record player'. But Van Ronk's 'Clouds' fragment was the second. His voice by this time was 'an acquired taste'... Otherwise he's probably most lauded for the version of 'House of the Rising Sun' that we think of as canonical. Van Ronk heard a field recording of this on a Lomax Smithsonian set and arranged it pretty much as we know it in the Dylan version, and later the Animals. Dylan appropriated the song in the Village days for his album, and thereafter people began asking Van Ronk to 'play that Bob Dylan song'. So he stopped doing it (as did Dylan when the Animals had the hit). The 'House' in question was not a bordello, but a New Orleans women's prison, so named because there was a stylized carving of the rising sun carved in the lintel over the entrance. I have seen a photo that I believe was printed in Eric Von Schmidt's 'Baby Can I Follow You Down' (Happily, this book has been reprinted). Van Ronk states in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' that he first heard the song done by Hally Wood in the 50's, who got it from an Alan Lomax recording of a Kentucky woman named Georgia Turner. np: Keb Mo' Love Train... Chuck ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:08:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Joni live at the Target Center - Minneapolis, MN 10.23.98 https://www.yousendit.com/download/Q01HU2V2YWIwZ252Wmc9PQ The set list: Big Yellow Taxi Just Like This Train Night Ride Home Crazy Cries Of Love Free Man In Paris Harry's House Black Crow Amelia Hejira Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Facelift Sex Kills Magdalene Laundries Moon At The Window Trouble Man Comes Love Note: The audio quality for this one is excellent. One of the few performances of DJRD on the tour, she struggles with it a bit but her heart, humor and humility shine through. Hard to believe this was almost a decade ago! Bob NP: Elvis Costello, "Must You Throw Dirt In My Face" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:37:16 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: Joni live at the Target Center - Minneapolis, MN 10.23.98 Hi Bob, thanks for sharing this. This set list is fantastic. I'm downloading it now, looking forward to listening to it. How cool would it be for Joni to tour again? On a total aside, I loved Minneapolis when i was was there last summer. I got to the state fair - it was so much fun. I got to have fried green tomatoes, corn fritters, cheese curds (which might sound disgusting but were very tasty), i found out what a corn dog is and had a beergharita. All in all, a recipe for indigestion, but fun nonetheless. I also found out about some of the many uses for corn, saw Minnesota's biggest pig (Pretty Ricky), and had the misforutne to see a mini-horse give birth. GARRET NP - Gillian Welch, I want to sing that rock and roll On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Bob Muller wrote: > https://www.yousendit.com/download/Q01HU2V2YWIwZ252Wmc9PQ > The set list: > Big Yellow Taxi > Just Like This Train > Night Ride Home > Crazy Cries Of Love > Free Man In Paris > Harry's House > Black Crow > Amelia > Hejira > Don Juan's Reckless Daughter > Facelift > Sex Kills > Magdalene Laundries > Moon At The Window > Trouble Man > Comes Love > Note: The audio quality for this one is excellent. One of the few performances of DJRD on the tour, she struggles with it a bit but her heart, humor and humility shine through. Hard to believe this was almost a decade ago! > Bob > NP: Elvis Costello, "Must You Throw Dirt In My Face" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:02:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Joni live at the Target Center - Minneapolis, MN 10.23.98 On a scale of 1 to 10? An eleven. Doesn't sounds disgusting to me...I love me some cheese curds, nice & squeaky. Bob NP: John Hiatt, "Hangin' 'Round Here" ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2008 #147 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------