From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #209 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 Wednesday, July 20 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 209 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: AIDS is not "cured", Torrential Ludditism and X-Filesque Morgellons (njc) ["gene" ] Re: JMDL Covers [Gerald Notaro ] Re: Joni sighting in Saskatoon. [Catherine McKay ] Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon [betsyblue82@gmail.com] RE: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon [Susan Tierney McNamara ] Re: PHJB ON David Letterman July 19 with Del McCoury [T Peckham ] Re: DED confession [Jimmy Stewart ] Re: DED confession [Bob Muller ] Re: DED confession ["rflynn@frontiernet.net"] Re: DED confession [betsyblue82@gmail.com] Re: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon [Bob Muller ] Les Triplets et Le Petit Prince (njc, except in passing) [Walt Breen ] Re: DED confession ["Mark" ] Thanks for the JMDL 2011 compilation ["Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: AIDS is not "cured", Torrential Ludditism and X-Filesque Morgellons (njc) Props to all you guys and gals for not rolling over. Keep fighting and Die Living. peace, gene - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" To: Cc: ; ; Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:23 PM Subject: Re: AIDS is not "cured", Torrential Ludditism and X-Filesque Morgellons (njc) > Hi Anne, > > I know you have had to fight your own battle. You are one my heroes too. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Sandstrom > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:15 AM > To: mark.travis@frontier.com > Cc: anima_rising@yahoo.ca ; littlebreen@live.com ; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Re: AIDS is not "cured", Torrential Ludditism and X-Filesque > Morgellons (njc) > > You can add me to the list of those who smile when I see your name in my > in box, Walt! > > For you and Mark and others living with HIV, it seems like a really tough > and lonely road. I admire your tenacity and spirit. It's good that there's > been enough progress to make it more of a chronic condition in some cases, > but there's so much more research to be done. (I guess I could start going > off on health care here - how drug companies only have an incentive to > peddle convenience drugs instead of investing in research...) > > As for Mark and the work trials, I can definitely relate. With the world > changing so fast under our feet, it's such a challenge to keep going. > Especially those of us who have lingering effects of major health issues. > (For me, even though I'm cancer free, I still deal with after effects of > the surgeries and treatment. Not to mention the occasional surprise, like > the bill for $9000 that I got last week for a PET//CT scan - my insurance > is refusing to cover any of it.) > > Anyway, I'm glad we still have our community here. Thanks to Les and > others for that. > > lots of love, > Anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:41:55 -0400 From: Sam Stone Subject: JMDL Covers Hi everyone, I was wondering how to access this year's covers set. Can someone help me? Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:05:31 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: JMDL Covers Sam, The link is sent by David Blackburn to those who donate to the JMDL site to keep it running. Jerry On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Sam Stone wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering how to access this year's covers set. Can someone help me? > > Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:48:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni sighting in Saskatoon. I think that other cultures are much kinder than ours are in some ways. Possibly the isolation into tiny nuclear family units that resulted from people spreading out across the world because of the invention of automobiles and so on has meant that we no longer have large families living close together who can care for each other and everything and everyone becomes warehoused. This is a subject that's too big (for me, at least) to tackle (or I simply lack the will to go there), and it's complex. On the other hand, I can hear Bob Murphy telling me that no, I'm really not just forgetting things; I really am senile, and it's because I'm so OOOOOOLLLLDDD! I also wondered, as others have, whether Bill Anderson might just be dreading the thought that he's being asked to blow out 100 candles in one go. (And I also wondered, why are they celebrating his birthday early? He really isn't 100 yet!0 - ----- Original Message ---- > From: Anita G > To: Catherine McKay > Cc: Rob Wh ; Les Irvin ; Joni List > > Sent: Mon, July 18, 2011 1:54:45 PM > Subject: Re: Joni sighting in Saskatoon. > > I have heard that there is a culture (ironically,can't remember who > :~))) who don't have a word for dementia. They seem to accept simply > that a person is in a certain stage of their life. Therefore, to take > us as examples, Anita or Catherine would be often forgetting things, > or sometimes confused, but not having something called 'dementia'. > > I think I would find that approach much easier to deal with. It seems > more human and respectful. It's like people would be saying 'It's > still Anita, but older and with some of the difficulties that ageing > brings', rather than 'She's got dementia.' > Anita ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:54:00 +0000 From: betsyblue82@gmail.com Subject: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon Does anyone know how old Bill Anderson's brother is? He must be younger, but still in his 80s or 90s. Joni has longevity on both sides of her family, lucky for all of us. "He looked so cute in his uniform." - -Tea Leaf Prophecy "Papa's faith was in people" - -Let the Wind Carry Me Were there any other songs in which Joni mentioned her dad? I wonder how he dealt with the conflict between his wife and daughter. He (or the Papa character) did to speak up on LTWCM, but this song doesn't seem to be set in a specific time. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I recall hearing that Myrtle criticized Joni's dress for her Carnegie Hall debut and Bill told her to "leave the girl alone". I can certainly understand how she would incorporate a later incident into her teen experiences, as any time you are with your parents they can make you feel like a child. - -Betsy Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:11:48 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon Another Bill mention in a Joni song: "... and a man who owns a store ..." from Cactus Tree ... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of betsyblue82@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:54 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon Does anyone know how old Bill Anderson's brother is? He must be younger, but still in his 80s or 90s. Joni has longevity on both sides of her family, lucky for all of us. "He looked so cute in his uniform." - -Tea Leaf Prophecy "Papa's faith was in people" - -Let the Wind Carry Me Were there any other songs in which Joni mentioned her dad? I wonder how he dealt with the conflict between his wife and daughter. He (or the Papa character) did to speak up on LTWCM, but this song doesn't seem to be set in a specific time. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I recall hearing that Myrtle criticized Joni's dress for her Carnegie Hall debut and Bill told her to "leave the girl alone". I can certainly understand how she would incorporate a later incident into her teen experiences, as any time you are with your parents they can make you feel like a child. - -Betsy Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:30:00 -0400 From: Michael Paz Subject: PHJB ON David Letterman July 19 with Del McCoury Hi Everyone Watch for us on the Letterman show tonight. I will se sitting in the audience. I will have to you. Luv Paz Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:44:03 -0400 From: Victor Subject: Re: PHJB ON David Letterman July 19 with Del McCoury Synchronicity...just this very moment I was looking up Preservation Hall Jazz and then voila, your message appeared. On our way back from Sarasota...will try to tune in. There were no Joni sightings at the beach in Siesta Key. Victor Sent from my iPhone On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Michael Paz wrote: > Hi Everyone > Watch for us on the Letterman show tonight. I will se sitting in the audience. > I will have to you. > > Luv > > Paz > > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:47:11 +0000 From: betsyblue82@gmail.com Subject: DED confession Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was quite uneven. I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? - -Betsy NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:25:39 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: DED confession The only reason I don't like it is because Bob Muller does :-) Jerry On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, wrote: > Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog > (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still > good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked > so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was > quite uneven. > > I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? > > -Betsy > NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:24:01 -0500 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: PHJB ON David Letterman July 19 with Del McCoury Thanks for the heads-up! But why won't you be backstage? Say hey to Biff for me--he's my fave. :^) On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Michael Paz wrote: > Hi Everyone > Watch for us on the Letterman show tonight. I will se sitting in the > audience. > I will have to you. > > Luv > > Paz > > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:33:41 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: DED confession Betsy, I think there were several things that made DED grate on some fans: the complete absence of Joni's guitar or piano playing is one, the very processed "canned" production style which was the antithesis of the earthy and inviting sound of her earlier albums, the influence of a lot of new "cooks" (Klein, Dolby, Shipley) when there had been only Joni and Henry Lewy for almost every album prior to WTRF. But most of all the angry political stance of the lyrics, although completely justified of course by the state of the world in 1985, was not what most people wanted to hear from the songwriter who had been their "aesthetic nerve center" growing up. It definitely contained some good (not brilliant) songs and once we heard them played on acoustic piano that was readily apparent, but they were hard to get to behind the drum machines, delay lines and Fairlight programming. To be fair, pretty much all pop in 84/85 suffered from similar production choices, but we all hold Joni Mitchell to a higher standard of innovation and here she was pretty flagrantly trying to do what was in vogue at the time. When she returned to her modern acoustic production style on Night Ride Home and TI it was as if she had got the pop gloss thing out of her system and taken back control of her music. Dave On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:47 PM, betsyblue82@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was quite uneven. > > I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? > > -Betsy > NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:49:05 -0400 From: Jimmy Stewart Subject: Re: DED confession That, plus it's Rick Hobb's favorite :-) ....gesendet von meinem iPhone On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Gerald Notaro wrote: > The only reason I don't like it is because Bob Muller does :-) > > Jerry > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM, wrote: > >> Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog >> (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still >> good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked >> so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was >> quite uneven. >> >> I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? >> >> -Betsy >> NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:53:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: DED confession Man, you totally nailed it on the head as far as I'm concerned, Dave. I was HAPPY to hear DED and glad when it had come out - after all, Joni had spoiled us previously by releasing a new album every year for a while there, and then a 4-year drought. I thought CMIARS took that concept a step further with all of the guest collaborations (and of course Dancing Clown) and was the nadir of her career. As you said, NRH was when she dumped those forced 'enhancements' and returned to her own way and was much stronger for it. Bob NP: Tom Waits, "Ruby's Arms" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:58:18 -0400 From: "rflynn@frontiernet.net" Subject: Re: DED confession Production values, absolutely. Sick of Synthesizers (SOS). Politics, well it wasn't the anger, many of us were plenty angry. It was the lack of nuance when most of us had come to expect more lyrically from Joni. Simplistic slogans rather than real political analysis (even given the confines of the popular song). WTRF had great moments. Not so much DED. Richard Flynn Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless - -----Original message----- From: Dave Blackburn To: betsyblue82@gmail.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Sent: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 23:33:41 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: DED confession Betsy, I think there were several things that made DED grate on some fans: the complete absence of Joni's guitar or piano playing is one, the very processed "canned" production style which was the antithesis of the earthy and inviting sound of her earlier albums, the influence of a lot of new "cooks" (Klein, Dolby, Shipley) when there had been only Joni and Henry Lewy for almost every album prior to WTRF. But most of all the angry political stance of the lyrics, although completely justified of course by the state of the world in 1985, was not what most people wanted to hear from the songwriter who had been their "aesthetic nerve center" growing up. It definitely contained some good (not brilliant) songs and once we heard them played on acoustic piano that was readily apparent, but they were hard to get to behind the drum machines, delay lines and Fairlight programming. To be fair, pretty much all pop in 84/85 suffered from similar production choices, but we all hold Joni Mitchell to a higher standard of innovation and here she was pretty flagrantly trying to do what was in vogue at the time. When she returned to her modern acoustic production style on Night Ride Home and TI it was as if she had got the pop gloss thing out of her system and taken back control of her music. Dave On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:47 PM, betsyblue82@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was quite uneven. > > I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? > > -Betsy > NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:04:16 +0000 From: betsyblue82@gmail.com Subject: Re: DED confession Dave said: "I think there were several things that made DED grate on some fans: the complete absence of Joni's guitar or piano playing is one, the very processed "canned" production style which was the antithesis of the earthy and inviting sound of her earlier albums" That is so helpful! Those 80s production values will always be near and dear to my heart, though. Bob said "CMIARS took that concept a step further with all of the guest collaborations (and of course Dancing Clown) and was the nadir of her career." Dancin' Clown? I adore it. Snakes and Ladders is another story. I can't understand a freakin' word, even after reading the lyrics. Unrelated question: Where can I get piano sheet music for Paprika Plains? - -Betsy - ------Original Message------ From: Bob Muller To: Dave Blackburn To: betsyblue82@gmail.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: DED confession Sent: Jul 19, 2011 4:53 PM Man, you totally nailed it on the head as far as I'm concerned, Dave. I was HAPPY to hear DED and glad when it had come out - after all, Joni had spoiled us previously by releasing a new album every year for a while there, and then a 4-year drought. I thought CMIARS took that concept a step further with all of the guest collaborations (and of course Dancing Clown) and was the nadir of her career. As you said, NRH was when she dumped those forced 'enhancements' and returned to her own way and was much stronger for it. Bob NP: Tom Waits, "Ruby's Arms" Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:25:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Joni's Pop and Uncle Gordon "You're a mean old Daddy but I like you" (kidding) Bob NP: Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis, "Busted" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:02:16 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: Les Triplets et Le Petit Prince (njc, except in passing) Hu, guys, Those of us who (whether we read music or not) like to listen over and over again to (say) The Last Time I Saw Richard to get the piano intro right (sometimes annoying neighbors; I was working once on Edith until a neighbor, really a sweet guy, shouted "Enough aslready!!) may understand one of my other hobbies. If one is a comparative linguist (and who isn't these days, ahem), it's useful to have identical texts in related languages and dialects. It gets expensive to buy bibles, although it has the distinction of having been translated (by far) into the most languages. Fortunately, there are certain tracts of the bible (notably The Prodigal Son) thast are frequebtly present in linguistics texts. But after the bible, the book translated into the most languages is (not surprisingly, if you know and love the book) is St. Exupery's "Le Petit Prince/The Little Prince", at 95 pages, a much more convenient and manageable size. I remember a few years that there were a handful of us who were big fans of Les Triplets of Belleville. So are there any other fans of the Prince? I have it in about twenty languages, ranging from languages in which I'm more or less fluent, all the way down to Albanian and Hungarian. Weirdly, I can read these two, and Polish, out loud, although I know little or none about them except their phonologies and spelling rules. Kind of a strange and boring part trick. And yet as I'm pouring out these tonguetwisting sounds, I'm soothed, and since I know the plot so very well, I actually feel like I'm reading the languages; hell, I am picking up vocabulary, I suppose. Just in case there were some of you fretting I'm not already eccentric enough. Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Jonifest UK 2011! There is still room at the inn! Is there anyone out there who would like to attend Jonifest 2011 in the UK? There are still spaces available and you would be very welcome! The fest happens August 26-28 at Holycombe House of Healing, Whichford, England. For info go to http://www.holycombe.com/ then click on "events etc" on the left-hand side, from there, go down about 1/4 of the way down to August 26. Please contact Lucy Hone (lucy_hone@hotmail.com) if you would like to attend. Bring your guitar, your kazoo, your oboe, yourself! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:33:07 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: DED confession I can't say that 'Dog Eat Dog' is my favorite Joni Mitchell recording although I think there are one or two people out there who would say it is their favorite. While I agree that the production and lyrical content of 'Dog Eat Dog' are what put off most of Joni's fans, I don't agree that the production was an attempt to fit in with the pop music of the day. For me, anyway, the electronic 'canned' sounds fit the content of the record. The sound of this record is the sound of a mechanical, electrified nation full of tension, greed and self obsession. If you're writing about the 'Shiny Toys' of a commercialized, consumer driven society, why shouldn't the music be shiny and slick? If you want to convey the image 'while madmen sit up building bombs and making laws and bars' and 'deep in the night appetites find us release us and bind us' why not use mechanical sounds that evoke machinery and dragging chains? Personally, I don't think the songs would have had the same impact if she had been playing acoustic guitar and piano. She was writing her view of a harsh, materialistic, mechanized, 'dog eat dog' world and I think the music fits her mood. I also think it was natural for her, as an artist, to experiment with the contemporary tools of her medium. To me, 'Dog Eat Dog' doesn't sound like anything else that came out of the 80s but then I don't know all of the music that came out of the 80s. From listening to the superior transfer from the original master tapes in the 'Geffen Box Set', I hear all kinds of nuances and subtleties that I hadn't noticed in the original cd pressing. I think this was the first of Joni's albums that was released after the advent of the cd. I remember refusing to buy it until the cd version was released. I think most of us know that there have been some pretty shoddy jobs of putting music on cd, especially when the technology was new. As far as the lyrics failing to convey political analysis, Joni is no more a political analyst than Bob Dylan or the members of Jefferson Airplane or any other recording artists who made so-called 'protest' music back in the 60s. I wouldn't expect in depth political analysis from her. I do think there are some nice turns of phrase on 'Dog Eat Dog' and I don't see them as slogans, simplistic or otherwise. Like all of the rest of her records, 'Dog Eat Dog' expresses Joni's thoughts and feelings. This record just happens to be about different thoughts and feelings than what people were accustomed to hearing from her. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: rflynn@frontiernet.net Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:58 PM To: Dave Blackburn ; betsyblue82@gmail.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: DED confession Production values, absolutely. Sick of Synthesizers (SOS). Politics, well it wasn't the anger, many of us were plenty angry. It was the lack of nuance when most of us had come to expect more lyrically from Joni. Simplistic slogans rather than real political analysis (even given the confines of the popular song). WTRF had great moments. Not so much DED. Richard Flynn Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless - -----Original message----- From: Dave Blackburn To: betsyblue82@gmail.com Cc: joni@smoe.org Sent: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 23:33:41 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: DED confession Betsy, I think there were several things that made DED grate on some fans: the complete absence of Joni's guitar or piano playing is one, the very processed "canned" production style which was the antithesis of the earthy and inviting sound of her earlier albums, the influence of a lot of new "cooks" (Klein, Dolby, Shipley) when there had been only Joni and Henry Lewy for almost every album prior to WTRF. But most of all the angry political stance of the lyrics, although completely justified of course by the state of the world in 1985, was not what most people wanted to hear from the songwriter who had been their "aesthetic nerve center" growing up. It definitely contained some good (not brilliant) songs and once we heard them played on acoustic piano that was readily apparent, but they were hard to get to behind the drum machines, delay lines and Fairlight programming. To be fair, pretty much all pop in 84/85 suffered from similar production choices, but we all hold Joni Mitchell to a higher standard of innovation and here she was pretty flagrantly trying to do what was in vogue at the time. When she returned to her modern acoustic production style on Night Ride Home and TI it was as if she had got the pop gloss thing out of her system and taken back control of her music. Dave On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:47 PM, betsyblue82@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe I have bad taste, or maybe my. age is showing, but I love Dog Eat Dog (the album and the song). Good Friends isn't my favorite, but it's still good. The rest of the songs are great. How come everyone thought it sucked so much? Of the 80s albums, it was even better than WTRF, while CMIARS was quite uneven. > > I'm feeling feisty. Who wants to debate??? > > -Betsy > NP: Fire and Wood, Luciana Souza > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:40:36 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Thanks for the JMDL 2011 compilation I'm enjoying the 2011 JMDL compilation collection. Thanks to everyone who contributed music, mastered tracks, built the website, and donated to the cause. It's cool to hear familiar voices and a few new ones. I would donate anyway but to have some fresh music to listen to is a great bonus. Thank you. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #209 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------