From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #906 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 906 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Progression [gerard mclaughlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:47:04 +0000 From: gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Joni Progression I was coming up the escalator out of the subway at Hillhead in Glasgow. It was a cold, miserably grey and wet afternoon. As I got to the top of the moving stairs there she was. A giant poster behind glass and all lit up of Joni with a bandage on her ear in a Russian hat. Awesome. Suddenly the weather didn't matter.Nothing did except Turbulent Indigo. That's how I discovered she had a new album coming out.I ran along to the record store but it wasn't there yet. Every time I got the whiff of a new one I was like a woman in labour. When the baby was born generally I thought it ugly and disappointing esp Hejira, DJRD and Mingus (which really put my ears to the test) resulting in periods of puerperal depression during which I had to train myself/my ear to discover what this unruly new brat was trying to say to me.Those were trying times and I kid you not.Thank gawd I listened because they changed my world really. Turbulent Indigo I loved on first hearing...she was singing again but I'd grown to love the ugly babies by now so her getting back to melodies that I could recognise as tunes with varying degrees of normal prettiness didn't have the imagined effect I'd been hoping for and although I especially like the song Turbulent Indigo and the artwork I listen to the other odd children much more. I have never understood though what the first verse of Turbulent Indigo means or at least the first couple of lines. Maybe I sing the wrong words entirely They wanna make Van goughs Dress 'em up like sheep make 'em outa/into eskimos or women if you please.... The rest I get but what does all that mean? Anybody know? On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Michael Sentance wrote: > The pathways discussed have been fun to read. > > I started with the other interpreters: Tom Rush and Judy Collins. At this > point, I can't recall which one I heard first but I do recall when I > learned that someone else had written these songs that I loved. I was at a > Tom Rush concert. > > Joan Something. > > So I picked up "Song to a Seagull" as soon as my meager earnings would > allow. And I bought every album after that until "Don Juan's Reckless > Daughter". As may be suggested by my history, I was more of a "folkie" > than a jazz fan so her evolution eluded me. > > A few years ago, in a dark period, I returned. I picked up "Turbulent > Indigo" and was brought back under her spell. I have sought to complete my > collection of everything and anything. > > And as I await Leonard Cohen's latest release, I still would love to find > something else in CD bin from that girl from Saskatoon. > > Joan Something. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #906 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------