From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #849 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 Monday, January 16 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 849 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #847 [gerard mclaughlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:42:22 +0000 From: gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #847 Here here ! I'll raise my glass to that ...and my hat and three cheers as well. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gary Hanick wrote: > I definitely agree with all the posts about "Hejira" -- the album and > the song. I think of all of Joni's works, including "Blue", "Hejira" is > the most universally relatable. It's timeless. The images she paints > each of us has experienced in some deep way that she has managed to > capture and express. Perhaps, if "Hejira" had been released before > "Blue", it would have gotten the recognition it deserved. I guess the > critics and the buying public would not accept the fact that one artist > could create two masterpieces of equal value and content. To the general > public, Joni's most "famous" songs happened before "Blue". To her real > fans, the albums from "Blue" to "Hejira" were the artistic cornerstones > of a career that we'll continue to follow with anticipation and delight > till the end. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:00 AM > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #847 > > > JMDL Digest Monday, January 16 2012 Volume 2011 : Number > 847 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [gerard mclaughlin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:17:35 +0000 > From: gerard mclaughlin > Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > > Thanks for that, T Peckham !... it warms the cockles of my heart ! > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:42 AM, T Peckham > wrote: > > > This is the kind of post that keeps me comin' back and checking in. > Thanks, > > Gerard! > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, gerard mclaughlin > > wrote: > > > > > I have never found Hejira depressing but then as a child Ingmar > Bergman > > > cheered me up so who am I to say. Just reading your post there , > Susan > > > lifted me out of some gloom that's been lurking. That song is > medicine to > > > me. Always has been.I remembber standing outside a bank at a bus > stop > > late > > > one night here in Glasgow. It was snowing. I was bereft.Suddenly I > saw > > the > > > moon reflected in the banks mirrorred windows. Accross the road an > old > > > hotel. There was a light on in a room up on the roof under the big > > moon.I,m > > > seeing all this in the actual mirrors of a modern bank ! In that > instant > > I > > > was lifted out of my loneliness. I imagined Joni standing at that > window > > > behind the curtain looking down at me. I could see white flags of > winter > > > chimneys waving truce against the moon > > > > > > .Joni has sometimes referred to herself as a witness and on that > > occasion I > > > felt her witnessing me, one of her fans thousands of miles away. The > > memory > > > has never left me. Lots of us say she has been the soundtrack to our > > lives. > > > That night it was all a bit more than a soundtrack for me. She is > part of > > > the journey as far as I'm concerned and I fall in and out with her > like a > > > lover or a friend but she's there.Ah there is medicine in her work. > I;m > > > glad your friend got it. Many of mine just don;t get her and don,t > even > > > want to try. Sometimes it,s lonely loving Joni but it is worth it ! > Sorry > > > to go on but your post brought it all back to life. Oh I love > Hejira. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of > expressing." > > ---Louise Bourgeois > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2011 #847 > ***************************** > > ------- > 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 #849 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------