From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2010 #368 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://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Saturday, December 11 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 368 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam [Paul Castle ] 1978 Review ["Epley, Keith" ] Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC [Mags ] RE: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam [Susan Tierney McNamar] Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC This Is What I Want [Mags ] Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC [Mags ] Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge [Em Subject: Re: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam Mags wrote: > I'm working at home today and have been listening to your radio station > over at blip.fm. Now Playing: Requiem for a Small Town by John Wort Hannam... > wonderful Canadian singer/song writer. I was really pleased to hear he'd won the 'Contemporary Album of the Year' award (for Queen's Hotel) in the recent Canadian Folk Music Awards - http://bit.ly/cbsCz5 He was on tour in the UK in November with another Canadian, Gordie Tentrees - they played here in London at a club I've played at quite a lot myself called 'Come Down and Meet The Folks' - missed it unfortunately. Really like his song "Two-Bit Suit" - http://blip.fm/~y4bcd First heard him on my friend Gail Comfort's alt.country show 'The Comfort Zone' on CMR Nashville - see http://www.myspace.com/gailcomfort Gail was born in Winnipeg but until recently had been living in London - well-known and much-loved on the country/acoustic music scene here. She recently moved back to Winnipeg and now also has a show called 'Comfort Cafe' on the University of Manitoba's station UMFM on Sunday evenings 7-8pm playing mainly Canadian singer songwriters - see http://www.umfm.com/programming/programgrid/241/ Been meaning to try and hook you up with Gail, Mags, as I have a feeling you two would get on famously. Not sure whether she has played any of Marcel's CDs (managed to find three of them on Spotify, btw) but reckon he'd be right up her street - her CD submission address is on her MySpace site. Marcel's voice reminds me of Bill Callahan (aka Smog) - I particularly liked 'Slip On Down' from his album 'I'll Be There' - with (I imagine) Allison de Groot on banjo and vocals (am I right?) - http://blip.fm/~zicsz So glad you're enjoying http://blip.fm/paulcastle best to all PaulC NP 'I Had A King' by Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau on Sue McNamara's fab Blip FM station - http://blip.fm/~zfz7m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:00:46 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC I was listening to a Christmas compilation cd and this haunting voice came on singing What Are You Doing New Year's Eve. I looked at the listing to see who it was. Never heard of her. Looked her up and couldn't believe her background and that I had never heard her before. So of course I had to download American Beauty and was blown away. Other than I read she is difficult to work with, I can't fathom why she hasn't recorded more over the years. What a talent. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:46:15 -0600 From: "Epley, Keith" Subject: 1978 Review Hmmmm-Critics and Philistines(I prefer a long-i- in the last syllable on this one!). You know what, maybe "I" was feeling just like Joni at that moment of DJRD or maybe I was 19 or 20 and thought this woman was putting every other singer/songwriter out of work with her brilliance. Hadn't the reviewer heard "Marcie," the saddest, most dejected song of unrequited love? Maybe my favorite song by Joni Mitchell, the Joni Mitchell who doesn't feel the "Urge" to "paint a starry night again, man"? That does it. I ain't gonna read "King Lear," as "Willy the Shake" must have had a bad day and didn't write "Much Ado About Nothing" again. Shake and Joni are always "Much Ado About Something, " no matter what they write. My best friend and I sat in my backyard, rural Kentucky, drinking "B&J and Coke," singing: "Who left her long black hair in our bathtub draaaaaain," twang, twang, twang. I know a young woman who is graduating college, herself a "woman of heart and mind," and she's getting a gift of "Hejira," (she has all the pen sets she'll ever need) the best album by the best singer. And my "opinion" puts us back on the gold standard. LOL Smooches and Happy Holidays to "all y'all" from here in Hooterville; and remember, "Happiness is the best facelift." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:49:19 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC Jerry, as you no doubt know from your research, Mary Margaret is the younger sister of Catherine O'Hara (of Saturday Night Live fame) . I've found a YouTube video that I thought you would enjoy. Mary Margaret sang at John Candy's funeral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWz9sI1IiaE&feature=related I am enjoying these days of sharing music across borders, across time. love, Mags. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:52:04 -0500 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam Thanks for mentioning this Paul. My discovery of blip.fm through you has improved my workday 1,000 percent!!! Great music, and I get to indulge my quirky prog tendencies!! Sue best to all PaulC NP 'I Had A King' by Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau on Sue McNamara's fab Blip FM station - http://blip.fm/~zfz7m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:54:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC This Is What I Want Here's another youtube...This Is What I Want...so beautiful! Nice soprano sax there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJ1gmo6c6g&feature=related Mags. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:56:53 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC That was great, Mags. Thanks. Now I remember seeing her in the fabulous DVD Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen with Rufus Wainwright. Her quirkiness reminds me so much of Antony Hegarty. How funny in the You Tube list of her is Joni Mitchell singing My Old Man live. Why? They are both Canadian :) Jerry On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Mags wrote: > Jerry, > > as you no doubt know from your research, Mary Margaret is the younger > sister of Catherine O'Hara (of Saturday Night Live fame) . I've found a > YouTube video that I thought you would enjoy. Mary Margaret sang at John > Candy's funeral. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWz9sI1IiaE&feature=related > > I am enjoying these days of sharing music across borders, across time. > > love, Mags. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: Re: Mary Margaret O'Hara - NJC hi Jerry, I noticed the Joni Mitchell song there too...good one! Okay, who can help me remember the singer at the Homage to Joni Mitchell....I know , I could look it up but would rather continue bouncing musical notes on here. Again, working from home today... M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge I get he review. Once one can accept that the other Joni is gone forever, one can learn to suck on the colder tit (and appreciate it that there's any tit at all) and maybe even prefer the coolness. It belongs to her - she can do what she wants with it. Her art did take the turn to the "acidic and strident" - I totally agree. A matter of taste. From Hissing on, maybe it's just me, but I can really sense the cocaine presence. The froze-nose unhappiness lurking about and constricting the heart. Doesn't mean the music was bad....just froze-nose affected - like so many things in the late 70's. (kind of like in that movie "Boogie Nights" or in the movie "Blow") I don't think she was purposely being cold - in fact I think she tried hard to heat DJRD up. The album is peppery. So its warmth comes from pepper rather than from normal human warmth. And that's any artist's right! It's just that many people so loved the old WARM tit, that the COLD tit seemed rude and uninviting. Some liked the cold peppery tit right off the bat (to be fair, let's say "cool peppery tit") - and some grew to like it. (like me...I'm in the 2nd category) So I don't disagree with this review. I also would be curious how he came to feel about the album later on. Em - --- On Thu, 12/9/10, Merk54@aol.com wrote: From: Merk54@aol.com Subject: Re: New Library item: Daughter: Bitterness With a Steely Edge To: joni@smoe.org Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 1:18 PM Wow! I can't believe this review of DJRD. It is the complete opposite of how I feel about this work. Very timely since I just listened to it 3 times in the last couple of days. If you want to read a pretty hateful review of DJRD, this is it. Jack In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:38:47 A.M. Central Standard Time, TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com writes: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2321 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:12:23 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: Re: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam okay, just one more thing and then I'll stop littering the walls here lol! I found a wonderful little retrospective of my aforementioned wonderful most Winnipeg brother in spirit, Marcel Desilets. His latest albums are not on this however, you can find them if you have the time to look. Marcel would be thrilled to bits to know that I'm posting all about him here in Joni Land...anyway...it's really cool to look at the slideshow and see the changes made over the years, mostly in the length of his hair.. Not only can he carve out a good tune, give him a piece of old wood, a pumpkin, whatever, and he creates the most amazing faces . I've got a few of those around the house...and yes he does sell them on occasion...but sometimes, they just show up in the garden! ha! anyhoozles..enjoy and if you are so inclined, write to marcel and tell him i sent you ;P . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOeQluNI0ik - --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Paul Castle wrote: > From: Paul Castle > Subject: Re: two degrees of separation NJC John Wort Hannam > To: "Mags" , joni@smoe.org > Received: Friday, December 10, 2010, 7:32 AM > Mags wrote: > > > I'm working at home today and have been listening to > your radio station > > over at blip.fm. Now Playing: Requiem for a Small Town > by John Wort Hannam... > > wonderful Canadian singer/song writer. > > I was really pleased to hear he'd won the > 'Contemporary Album of the Year' award > (for Queen's Hotel) in the recent Canadian > Folk Music Awards - http://bit.ly/cbsCz5 > > He was on tour in the UK in November with another > Canadian, Gordie Tentrees - they played here in > London at a club I've played at quite a lot myself > called 'Come Down and Meet The Folks' - missed it > unfortunately. Really like his song "Two-Bit Suit" - > http://blip.fm/~y4bcd > > First heard him on my friend Gail Comfort's alt.country > show 'The Comfort Zone' on CMR Nashville - see > http://www.myspace.com/gailcomfort > > Gail was born in Winnipeg but until recently had been > living in London - well-known and much-loved on the > country/acoustic music scene here. She recently moved > back to Winnipeg and now also has a show called > 'Comfort Cafe' on the University of Manitoba's station > UMFM on Sunday evenings 7-8pm playing mainly > Canadian singer songwriters - see > http://www.umfm.com/programming/programgrid/241/ > > Been meaning to try and hook you up with Gail, Mags, > as I have a feeling you two would get on famously. > > Not sure whether she has played any of Marcel's CDs > (managed to find three of them on Spotify, btw) but > reckon he'd be right up her street - her CD submission > address is on her MySpace site. > > Marcel's voice reminds me of Bill Callahan (aka Smog) - > I particularly liked 'Slip On Down' from his album > 'I'll Be There' - with (I imagine) Allison de Groot on > banjo and vocals (am I right?) - http://blip.fm/~zicsz > > So glad you're enjoying http://blip.fm/paulcastle > > best to all > PaulC > > NP 'I Had A King' by Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau > on Sue McNamara's fab Blip FM station - http://blip.fm/~zfz7m ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:41:53 -0700 (MST) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: A Poet Named Joni Mitchell Title: A Poet Named Joni Mitchell Publication: Open City Date: 1968.6.14 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2326 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:31:14 -0800 (PST) From: Mags Subject: follow up on the stamps of many countries story NJC I have to share this story as I am tipping over from the wonderful generosity of this list. Okay, you might think I've gone a bit over the rails, but geeze, this year has been such a challenge and this little thing is turning into full blown magic of the heart..... wow. Full stop wow. Earlier in the week, I received a wee envelope with some precious stamps a la MC (thank you so much). MC, the origin of your stamps have special meaning to me,I'll tell you about that off list :P... and today, arrived a mid sized padded envelope containing so many stamps of many countries from our very own Steve Dulson...can we say OMG!!!!! Im all teary for real, because it's a cornucopia of beautiful stamps from MANY countries, and you have no idea the synchronicity of so many of them. What I wanted to say, too, is thanks again to Terra for helping me put into words what I meant to say.. I put out an APB for "cancelled" stamps. ANyway, as I mentioned, as a life long artist, I'm always playing around with a variety of bending the rules on different mediums and such. And MC as well as Steve will have a hands-on see what I mean because I'm giving them a little piece of my (he)art. ;--) Filled to the brim with the love and joy of the season, ever and always grateful for surprises this week in the mail. One of which was a gift of Jacob Moon's album Maybe Sunshine. This young man has been in my heart since the late 90,s when I first heard and felt his kindred spiritness back home. anyway...I'd better go and get working on my little gifts here for MC and Steve (and Michele of course ;-) love love Mags ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:39:11 -0700 (MST) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: Single of the Week Title: Single of the Week Publication: Radio & Record News Date: 1978.2.28 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:56:42 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I'm afraid my assessment to DJRD was similar at the time. It took me years to appreciate its genius. Jerry On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, wrote: > Title: Single of the Week > Publication: Radio & Record News > Date: 1978.2.28 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:16:49 -0500 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I loved Hejira from the get-go, but I was lukewarm about DJRD. I appreciate it now, but I still don't love it. Better than Mingus,that's for sure. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless - -----Original message----- From: Gerald Notaro To: TheStaff@jonimitchell.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Sent: Sat, Dec 11, 2010 02:01:00 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: New Library item: Single of the Week I'm afraid my assessment to DJRD was similar at the time. It took me years to appreciate its genius. Jerry On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:39 PM, wrote: > Title: Single of the Week > Publication: Radio & Record News > Date: 1978.2.28 > > http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2327 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2010 #368 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------