From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #558 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 Tuesday, November 22 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 558 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #552 [Mary Morris ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:28:52 -0800 From: Mary Morris Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2011 #552 Betsy, I don't know if "green pastures, by & by" refers to Kelly Dale or just to the hopefulness that longing & melancholia can sometimes bring if you work your way through it. HEJIRA always felt like such longing & sensuality to me - that constant journey of the road - of a person on a journey, figuratively & literally. I love Joni as an artist. I don't care if she's a bitch to some. "Who cares?" She puts it all down on the strings or the page. What Bob Dylan was to male folk/rock singers ( changing the landscape ) I think Joni was that for female singers. That being said - I want to go genderless & put them both in the same class. It's just that Joni has THAT VOICE ! as well as THAT TALENT ! It is currently raining steadily up here in the NW - will rain for 3 days & nights - a bottle of rhine wine & Joni Mitchell have me considering again what a gifted artist she is & how thankful I am to have her in the back of my head like a philosophical soundtrack all these many years. The winter is so tough up here, for a California girl, that I am considering taking dulcimer lessons in that big bad city of Seattle. I bought that instrument many years ago because I loved Joni's music. I never could learn the guitar & only a little of piano. I need to learn to produce some personal music this winter so I can share it later with people I don't even know yet. There, that is my Joni post until Thanksgiving Day. NP: The Joni Mitchell Youtube mix ( 100 videos version ) GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:48:27 -0500 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #552 > > > JMDL Digest Tuesday, November 22 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 552 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Song for Sharon ["Betsy Blue" ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:48:20 +0000 > From: "Betsy Blue" > Subject: Song for Sharon > > Does anyone else think Joni was referring to her daughter at the end of Song for Sharon? > > Sharon you've got a husbandb, > b*And a family and a farmb, > b*I've got the apple of temptationb, > b*And a diamond snake around my armb, > b*But you still have your musicb, > b*And I've still got my eyes on the land and the skyb, > b*You sing for your friends and your familyb, > b*I'll walk green pastures by and by > > Doesn't Kelly Dale basically mean "green pasture"? I don't necessarily think this is a conscious reference like in Chinese Cafe, but it seems like the rhyme scheme would allow any number of terms in that spot. > > Betsy > NP Unproductive Conference Call by The Bickering Coworkers > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2011 #552 > ***************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #558 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------