From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #208 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 Tuesday, July 13 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 208 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Yay Spain (NJC) ["John van Tiel" ] Merle Haggard - a follow-up on Crazy heart (NJC) [Lieve Reckers ] Re: Pazfest, here I come NJC [FMYFL@aol.com] Re: Pazfest, here I come NJC [Michael Paz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:59:15 +0200 From: "John van Tiel" Subject: Re: Yay Spain (NJC) Allow me to disagree (in grief). John (the Netherlands) P.S. Helen, yes New Zealand did surprisingly well. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:36:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Merle Haggard - a follow-up on Crazy heart (NJC) As I mentioned a few days ago about the marvellous film Crazy Heart: the misician they originally wanted to base the story on was Merle Haggard. But it was too hard to get the rights to his biography, so they went for an amalgum of Haggard, Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. Now I must admit I had not even heard of Haggard before until I fell for... (yes you know the story, be still my beating heart!) - so imagine my excitement when I just saw the schedule for BBC 4 for this week, and there it is: this Friday at 9pm: "Merle Haggard: Learning To Live With Myself". The blurb says: "One of the true originals of American country music, 73-year-old Californian-born Merle Haggard has always felt and expressed America's contradictions in his life and his songs. This is the journey of the former Nixon poster boy of Okie from Muskogee renown to the now outspoken critic of the Bush era, as director Gandulf Hennig explores one of the greatest songbooks in American music. Growing up in a suburb of Bakersfield, California, Haggard lost his father while aged just nine. He turned to a life of vagrancy and crime before seeing Johnny Cash while a San Quentin prison inmate in 1959 and rebuilding his life as a musician, picker and songwriter. Haggard went on to become one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music, writing songs from the perspective of the working man and the barstool, mixing prison songs like Sing Me Back Home with songs that reflected his confusion at a changing America, such as his biggest hit, 1969's Okie from Muskogee. Hennig's film is the fruit of three years spent filming with Haggard on the road and at home, recounting the man they call Hag's life as a man and a musician while getting inside the soul of a person who has created his own unique blend of country, western swing, folk and blues. Featuring extensive archive and interviews with Merle and his family, plus contributions from fellow musicians including Keith Richards, Robert Duvall, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams and Ray Price." It's a 90-minute programme that will also be repeated late on the following 2 days. The details are here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t2cw8 Unfortunately, you need to be in the UK to be able to watch it on your computer, and I will be in Belgium, so that's a bummer, but I will try to rope in my son to record it for me. All the best, Lieve in London PS I've put NJC in the header, but if in spite of that anybody is getting fed up with my posting about country music, I'll just repeat my tiny Joni-link excuse again: Kitty Wells has a song in the Crazy Heart soundtrack, and true Joni afficionados know that someone (Joni's mother?) once asked her: "Who do you think you are? Kitty Wells?" - so please let me be absolved!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:52:49 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: Merle Haggard - a follow-up on Crazy heart (NJC) Merle was featured yesterday on CBS Sunday Morning. Excellent segment. You can probably catch it on their site. Jerry On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Lieve Reckers wrote: > As I mentioned a few days ago about the marvellous film Crazy Heart: > the misician they originally wanted to base the story on was Merle Haggard. > But > it was too hard to get the rights to his biography, so they went for an > amalgum > of Haggard, Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. Now I must admit I > had not even > heard of Haggard before until I fell for... (yes you know the > story, be still my > beating heart!) - so imagine my excitement when I just saw > the schedule for BBC > 4 for this week, and there it is: this Friday at 9pm: > "Merle Haggard: Learning > To Live With Myself". > The blurb says: > "One of the > true originals of American country music, 73-year-old > Californian-born Merle > Haggard has always felt and expressed America's > contradictions in his life > and his songs. This is the journey of the former > Nixon poster boy of Okie > from Muskogee renown to the now outspoken critic of the > Bush era, as director > Gandulf Hennig explores one of the greatest songbooks in > American music. > Growing up in a suburb of Bakersfield, California, Haggard lost his father > while > aged just nine. He turned to a life of vagrancy and crime before seeing > Johnny > Cash while a San Quentin prison inmate in 1959 and rebuilding his life > as a > musician, picker and songwriter. Haggard went on to become one of the > greatest > singer-songwriters in country music, writing songs from the > perspective of the > working man and the barstool, mixing prison songs like > Sing Me Back Home with > songs that reflected his confusion at a changing > America, such as his biggest > hit, 1969's Okie from Muskogee. > Hennig's film is > the fruit of three years spent filming with Haggard on the road > and at home, > recounting the man they call Hag's life as a man and a musician > while getting > inside the soul of a person who has created his own unique blend > of country, > western swing, folk and blues. > Featuring extensive archive and interviews with > Merle and his family, plus > contributions from fellow musicians including > Keith Richards, Robert Duvall, > Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams and Ray > Price." > > It's a 90-minute programme that will also be repeated late on the > following 2 > days. The details are here: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t2cw8 > Unfortunately, you need to be in the > UK to be able to watch it on your computer, > and I will be in Belgium, so > that's a bummer, but I will try to rope in my son > to record it for me. > > All > the best, > Lieve in London > > PS I've put NJC in the header, but if in spite of > that anybody is getting fed up > with my posting about country music, I'll > just repeat my tiny Joni-link excuse > again: Kitty Wells has a song in the > Crazy Heart soundtrack, and true Joni > afficionados know that someone (Joni's > mother?) once asked her: "Who do you > think you are? Kitty Wells?" - so > please let me be absolved!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:21:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Subject: Re: Merle Haggard - a follow-up on Crazy heart (NJC) Saw him live at the Ryman Auditorium back in 2000. A great showman, he put on an amazing performance. Truly unforgettable... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:31:14 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Dave and Robin playing in England soon! Wouldn't that be a revelation? To discover Joni has been reading all our posts all this time, shaking her head in disbelief at the tangled web of lyric interpretations we get ourselves into, and wondering why we don't get a life! On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:00 AM, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:21:58 +0100 > From: Anita G > Subject: Re: Dave and Robin playing in England soon! > >> I wrote: >> BTW, Joni if you're reading, I'll keep you a place if you'd like it, >> For Free. I am sure you'd like the garden and the house dates back to >> 1654 so it has quite some spirit. I also know you'd love Robin and >> Dave. Contact me off list if you're coming. XX >> > And another thing - I'll dig out your old Ibanez for you and you can > blow along, or Dave'll play, you can sing and me and Robin and > everyone else will do backing vocals. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:22:17 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Dave and Robin playing in England soon! Dave, I am absolutely certain that you, Robin, Catherine, Lieve, Paz, Patrick, Jim, Muller and ALL the wonderful folk who inhabit the JMDL space have 'a life.' We just all know that our lives are further enhanced by the thoughful, insightful discussions and, at times, the kind support that we are priviledged to enjoy on this list that come courtesy of the love of an artist's music which has unusual depth and, I would dare say, an element of mysticism. Yours not at all sycophantically if you ever ARE reading this, dear Joni, but i simply LOVE the people on this list Anita :~) What a good title for a thread. Joni Mitchell - artist,mystic or both? On 12 July 2010 15:31, Dave Blackburn wrote: > Wouldn't that be a revelation? To discover Joni has been reading all our > posts all this time, shaking her head in disbelief at the tangled web of > lyric interpretations we get ourselves into, and wondering why we don't get > a life! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:41:55 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Pazfest, here I come Sorry for the lack of NJC, but I'm so psyched about Pazfest in N.O. this Labor Day. Mikey needs to post the talent again that will be paying tribute to Joni. There's some great artists. Just booked the flight for Ed and me, and now I'm really excited. Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:52:30 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Pazfest, here I come Just got back from vacation, and will be making my reservations this week. And bringing my son to join in the madness. Looking forward to it. Speaking of Pazfest, Kevin Danzig played at the last one and some of us caught him playing some live Joni at a street cafe during Davefest too. Just found out that he has a new CD out with a Joni cover on it...you guessed it, BSN. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/KevinDanzig1 (Sidebar to Paz: I see that he has a song called "Freda" on it as well...hmmmm....) Bob NP: Led Zep, "Your Time Is Gonna Come" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:00:38 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Pazfest, here I come Yes his wife is Freda pronounced FreeeeeeedaH Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Bob.Muller@Fluor.com wrote: Just got back from vacation, and will be making my reservations this week. And bringing my son to join in the madness. Looking forward to it. Speaking of Pazfest, Kevin Danzig played at the last one and some of us caught him playing some live Joni at a street cafe during Davefest too. Just found out that he has a new CD out with a Joni cover on it...you guessed it, BSN. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/KevinDanzig1 (Sidebar to Paz: I see that he has a song called "Freda" on it as well...hmmmm....) Bob NP: Led Zep, "Your Time Is Gonna Come" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:31:55 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Pazfest, here I come NJC In a message dated 7/12/2010 1:54:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bob.Muller@Fluor.com writes: > Just got back from vacation, and will be making my reservations this > week. And bringing my son to join in the madness. Looking forward to it. > Bob, that's great you'll be bringing Nate. Seems like yesterday when we were wishing him a Happy 13th Birthday. Guess you'll be on your best behavior this year, NOT!!! Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:49:48 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Pazfest, here I come NJC LMAO!!!! Yea you rite!!! Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:31 PM, FMYFL@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 7/12/2010 1:54:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bob.Muller@Fluor.com writes: > Just got back from vacation, and will be making my reservations this > week. And bringing my son to join in the madness. Looking forward to it. > Bob, that's great you'll be bringing Nate. Seems like yesterday when we were wishing him a Happy 13th Birthday. Guess you'll be on your best behavior this year, NOT!!! Jimmy ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #208 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------