From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #858 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 858 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #855 [Rozanne Gates ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:12:32 -0500 From: Rozanne Gates Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #855 Joni may have dropped out of the music scene all together but Suzanne Sheridan has taken up the good fight to keep her music alive. For those in the Northeast, Suzanne will be performing Joni's music at Bernard's in Ridgefield, CT on Sat. March 31. on 1/16/12 11:43 AM, JMDL Digest at owner-joni-digest@smoe.org wrote: > > JMDL Digest Monday, January 16 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 855 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > RE: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 ["Gary Hanick" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:34:11 -0800 > From: "Gary Hanick" > Subject: RE: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > > Yes, Joni was never about top 20 singles. I think she was as surprised > as anyone when "Help Me" and a couple of the other "C& S" singles made > it as high up the charts as they did. "Both Sides Now", "Big Yellow > Taxi" and "Woodstock" were never hits for Joni. She was always about > following her muse, even to today when she's dropped out of the music > scene completely. Which is a real loss for her fans. > > > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Blackburn [mailto:beatntrack@sbcglobal.net] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:37 AM > To: Lori Fye > Cc: Gary Hanick; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 > > That's certainly true Lori, but everyone has always looked beyond the > top 20 singles to find the good music. > > For me, the leap in sophistication from Blue to Hejira is almost too big > to comprehend, and that they were only five years apart. Joni's musical > contemporaries understood Blue musically even if they marveled at the > intimacy she was prepared to put into song- the piano pieces were fairly > simple, the dulcimer/guitar tunes were still coming from a roots > (avoiding "folk" here) place. Hejira was something else entirely, and > left her musical cohorts bewildered (Max Bennett confirmed this when he > said that when he asked Robben Ford what she was doing guitar-wise on > C&S, Robben replied "I have no idea!"). Jaco had freed her from the > "picket fence" style of bass work she had come to expect, the tunings > became more exotic, the double and triple tracked guitars created an > enveloping sonic depth and the lyrics have no equal to this day. > > I dread to think what the "average" person listens to today. Maybe they > don't even know. My students bring in songs they say they really like > but don't even have the curiosity to find out who they are by... just > tracks in the ether. > > Dave > > On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Lori Fye wrote: > >>> Perhaps, if "Hejira" had been released before >>> "Blue", it would have gotten the recognition it deserved. >> >> Not to be argumentative, but I have to disagree on this. The average >> person in 1971 (top single that year: Three Dog Night's "Joy to the >> World") could barely comprehend "Blue," let alone the sophistication > of >> "Hejira." >> >> Not that the average person's musical taste has changed, mind you ... > I >> doubt most people could comprehend "Hejira" now. >> >> Not meaning to be a music snob, just sayin'. >> >> Lori >> Tioga, ND > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2011 #855 > ***************************** > > ------- > 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 #858 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------