From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #339 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 Saturday, November 13 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 339 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: love songs [Bob Muller ] RE: BBC looks at singer-songwriters, njc [Susan Tierney McNamara ] how did you find her [Mags ] Re: how did you find her ["mack watson-bush" ] Re: New Joni book in the works? [T Peckham ] RE: how did you find her ["Richard Flynn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: love songs Hi Scott - long time no talk and all that. The cover hasn't been mentioned on the list but I was aware of it and added it to our database a while back. It's a very nice recording, available as a download both on Amazon and I-Tunes or of course you can purchase the disc at your favorite independent record store or online. And always nice when an oft-ignored gem like 'Marcie' gets a little light shone its way. Happy Friday JMDL hippies! Bob NP: Acoustic Soul, "Big Yellow Taxi" - ----- Original Message ---- From: "seulbzzaj@aol.com" To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 11:49:43 PM Subject: love songs Hi, Not sure if it's been mentioned, but mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Brad Mehldau just released a cd titled "Love Songs," which includes Joni Mitchell's Marcie. - - Scott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:04:54 -0500 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: BBC looks at singer-songwriters, njc Ram is my very favorite Paulie record! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jim Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:05 PM To: JMDL Subject: BBC looks at singer-songwriters, njc This is cool. There's interesting stuff in here, including lots of footage I had not seen before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DQVF7oL6c&feature=player_embedded Biggest surprise, for me, was the Billboard top 3: 1. Tapestry 2. Sticky Fingers 3. Ram ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:12:19 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Elly's Band - Chelsea Morning Thought I would pass along this nice little note from Eilid Forster of Elly's Band who just released a nice cover of 'Chelsea Morning': "I love Joni Mitchell and my mum loves her too. Ibm drawn to her interesting lyrics and beautiful melodies so I just knew I had to cover one of her songs. The hard part was choosing which one to sing! I wantedB it toB compliment the rest of my album so it had to be light and fresh. Chelsea Morning is perfect. Itbs all about observing the simple things and living in the moment. That makes it timeless and something everyone can relate to. I love the picture it paints of the morning sun pouring in her window - itbs a special time of the day that holds so much promise. It also inspired my song First Light. I feel privileged to sing Chelsea Morning and am very grateful to Joni. Thanks Joni. x" You can hear a sample and buy the track here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ellysband Bob NP: Harry Nilsson, "Without You" (still on my Harry kick) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:16:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: how did you find her how did you find her...Joni..when was the first time and what did you think, what did you feel? Sure, we've gone on about this ad nauseum, but tis the season of her birthday and I love hearing stories..so tell me.... Mags, listening at last ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:53:52 -0600 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: how did you find her My friend Jeff and I were laying about getting stoned, we did that a lot, and he put a Joni album on. This was years before I could grasp her genius for I just wasn't ready but he played 'blonde in the bleachers' and it grabbed me. I was a bit of an outcast in high school and had not found my identity and when I heard the line about the blonde in the bleachers 'she flips her hair for you' it made me think of all the girls I had known like that which had, mistakenly so lol, flipped their hair for the odd boy back in high school. mack - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mags" To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: how did you find her > how did you find her...Joni..when was the first time and what did you > think, what did you feel? Sure, we've gone on about this ad nauseum, but > tis the season of her birthday and I love hearing stories..so tell me.... > Mags, listening at last ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:07:13 -0600 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: New Joni book in the works? Thanks to Les and Moni for this news. In browsing around trying to find more info on Katherine Monk, I ran across her review of the film The Kids Are Alright, which has been discussed by several on the list. (I haven't seen it yet.) Thought I'd pass it on. T http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Movie+review+Kids+Right+smart+witty+flick+with+twist/32 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Moni Kellermann wrote: > Am 11.11.2010 20:17, Wie Les Irvin so vortrefflich formulierte: > > Greystone Books publisher Rob Sanders has acquired world rights to >> journalist Katherine Monk's Joni Mitchell, a new portrait of the >> reclusive musical icon. The deal was arranged without an agent. The book >> is schedule for publication in fall 2011. >> > > from > http://www.dmpibooks.com/get/pdf/catalogue/D&M_Publishers_Inc._Fall_2010_Rights_List.pdf > > > Joni Mitchell > The Misunderstood Woman from the Prairie Wheat Fields > ------------------------------------------------------- > KATHERINE MONK > > A revealing new portrait of a musical legend. > > From the moment Joni Mitchellb s career began with coffee-house bookings, > serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract > that gave her full creative control over her music, the woman from the > Canadian wheat fields has eluded industry clichC)s. When her peers were > focused on feminism and finding a voice, Mitchell was plumbing the depths of > her own human condition. When arena rock was king, she turned to jazz. > Unafraid to b write in her own blood,b Mitchell has been vilified as a diva > and embraced as a tuneful genius, but sheb s rarely been valued as an artist > and a thinker. > > This new portrait of the reclusive icon taps into Mitchellb s evolving > philosophy to examine how significant life events like failed relationships, > the surrender of her infant daughter, and debilitating sickness have > influenced her creative expression. Author Katherine Monk moves beyond > standard biography to capture the rich legacy of her multifaceted subject, > weaving in personal reflections and cultural observations as she explores > everything from Mitchellb s lifelong obsession with Nietzsche to her current > struggle with Morgellons syndrome to reveal the Mitchell who remains > misunderstood. > > KATHERINE MONK is a national movie journalist for CanWest News Service. > Prior to becoming a national reporter, she worked at the Vancouver Sun as a > movie critic, pop music critic, and news reporter. Her book on Canadian > film, Weird Sex and Snowshoes, hit the national bestseller list and was > adapted to the screen by Omni Film in 2004. Monk is a regular radio and TV > commentator on the subject of movies. Joni Mitchell has been part of her > lifeb s soundtrack for as long as she can recall. > > > > moni k. > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:29:12 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: how did you find her Mags, I've told this more than once, but surely I can tell it a little differently this time. I was a little folkie (something I'm actually writing about right now for a collection of essays, my essay is titled "My Folk Revival"). The first time I heard a Joni song was on Ian & Sylvia's "So Much for Dreaming" album in February of 1967 (a month after my 12th birthday): "The Circle Game" and I taught myself to sing and play it. I played it first for my mother. (It made her cry and she would ask me to play it just a little too often after that.) July of 1967, Buffy Sainte Marie's "Fire, Fleet, and Candlelight" featured both "The Circle Game" and "Song to a Seagull." Of course one of my folk heroes was Judy Collins. (She still is.) In October of 1967, her album "Wildflowers" was released with "Both Sides Now" and "Michael from Mountains" (and Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy" and my personal favorite, "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye")--not to mention Judy's lovely "Since You Asked." So, I first knew Joni as a writer of these incredible songs and I had never heard her sing any of them. A reader of "Sing Out" magazine, I saw a little ad for Joni Mitchell lead sheets from (I believe) Gandalf Music. ( I don't think it was Siquomb music then.) I had my mom write a check and sent away to order some lead sheets. They never arrived. (I had been learning guitar since 1963 when I was 8, had several years of classical guitar, so the lead sheets would have proved useful to me.) Anyway, I finally got my dream guitar in 1968 (combination Christmas and 13th birthday gift in January): a Martin D-28 (stolen in 1972, alas). STAS came out in March. I sat in my room listening to the album over and over and figured out that you had to tune to an open chord in order to play "Cactus Tree." I was to learn many Joni songs in open tunings (usually not the right tunings, but passable). In fact, I became a kind of prodigy, a darling of older teenagers--one couple in particular. We bonded over anti-war politics, but they would take me to play coffeehouses where I'd do my own songs and those of others. People were impressed with my ability to play Joni's songs and have them sound somewhat like her versions(b/c I'd figured out they were in open tunings)--but sung by a 13- or 14-year-old boy! So my first encounter with Joni was with her as a songwriter. Then STAS really blew my mind--I still love that album. I persuaded my parents to take me to see Joni at the Cellar Door during Thanksgiving week of 1968. (We had already seen Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins and others there.) So there I was, 13 (almost 14) years old, sitting at a front table with my mom and dad, seeing Joni play live not more than 15 feet away from me. Most of us are here because in some sense she provides the soundtrack of our lives. For me this has been literally true. My very first girlfriend ever found me on Facebook about a year ago, we've caught up and even hung out with our respective spouses this past summer. When I reminded her about how important "Blue" was to us and how we had both listened to "For the Roses" together for the first time when we were breaking up and weeping copiously, she remarked, very wittily, "Yes, it was such a relief when 'Court and Spark' came out." Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Mags > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:16 PM > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: how did you find her > > how did you find her...Joni..when was the first time and what did you > think, what did you feel? Sure, we've gone on about this ad nauseum, > but tis the season of her birthday and I love hearing stories..so tell > me.... > Mags, listening at last ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #339 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------