From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #903 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, January 18 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 903 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #900 ["johnnybgoode@lineone.net" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2011 #900 Jim, I remember the Matthew's Southern Comfort version, wonderful pedal steel solo from B J Cole. I thought Carole was so wonderful, because her music so fitted a teenager's emotional landscape. I was too stupid to relate to real girls at the time. Although I didn't like James straight away, then I got into the whole Laurel Canyon thing, and the British Blues Revival, and Prog. John >----Original Message---- >From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org >Date: 18/01/2012 22:17 >To: >Subj: JMDL Digest V2011 #900 > >JMDL Digest Wednesday, January 18 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 900 > > > >========== > >TOPICS and authors in this Digest: >-------- > My Joni progression ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:16:49 -0500 >From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" >Subject: My Joni progression > >In the beginning, I heard "Woodstock" on the radio as covers by Matthews >Southern Comfort and CSN. I thought that "Both Sides Now" and "Blowing >In The Wind" were from Woody Guthrie's generation. They seemed perfect >and timeless, like hymns. > >I read an article in Rolling Stone that said that the next hot category >of pop music was a newly-minted phrase, "singer-songwriter". I already >had "Sweet Baby James", so I thought RS might be on to something. > >I had seen Joni's name on the credits for "Tapestry" and began to >connect the dots. My Dad was a bit of a jazz fan and I had heard >Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. It was around that time that I saw the >L.A. Express open for George Harrison in Toronto. I was buying lots of >LPs then but I think it was not until 1974, when I bought my first JM >album, Court and Spark. When I realized that the same woman who covered >Annie Ross also wrote "The Circle Game", I knew she was worth pursuing. >I went backwards and forwards from there but I kept buying other artists >too. I was following the careers of ELP, Yes, and Carole King back then. > >It wasn't until I joined the JMDL that I realized how close I was to >having her whole catalog. Eventually, I bought "STaS" and "CMiaRS". I >have all of Joni's compilations, and studio releases. I have both live >albums but I don't have the Greenpeace album. I think that's the only >thing missing. > >Jim L'Hommedieu > >------------------------------ > >End of JMDL Digest V2011 #900 >***************************** > >------- >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 #903 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------