From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #859 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 859 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #854 [pat hillis ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:41:58 -0800 (PST) From: pat hillis Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #854 let's not forget the leap from "Blue" to "For the Roses"....a masterpiece and probably (for me) the most sophisticated album... ________________________________ From: JMDL Digest To: joni-digest@smoe.org Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:39:59 AM Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #854 JMDL Digest Monday, January 16 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 854 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [Dave Blackburn 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 #854 ***************************** - ------- 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 #859 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------