From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1680 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://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Saturday, November 10 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1680 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Review of Joni boxset [Shari Eaton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:56:34 -0800 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: Review of Joni boxset You're right in correcting me .. as I reread, I see the praise. I wouldn't make a good famous person. I'm obviously on the defense straight off. *holding off on burning down the Pitchfork offices. : ) On Nov 10, 2012, at 7:39 PM, "Robert Sartorius" wrote: > Shari wrote: > > "You can see right away the writer doesn't 'get' Joni with the comment: > > "(her) lyrics didn't have to make sense". > > Critics are the bane of culture, IMO." > > > I read the reviews, and found then to be pretty strong. Yes, the reviewer > may not have the full-blooded hero-worship of the average JMDL'er, but > clearly places Joni at or near the very top of the music world's artists. At > least, for this box-set's period. > > It does appear, from her closing remarks, that the reviewer does not "get" > the virtues of Mingu or some of Joni's post-70's work. I tend to agree that > Joni is poor company on DED and CMIARS, and I am not a big fan of Mingus, > TTT or Shine. But it was/is wrong IMO to be dismissive of WTRF, NRH and TI. > Perhaps the reviewer had lost patience at those points. > > However, the line Shari quotes is unfairly out of context. The reviewer was > saying that her music was so good that her lyrics didn't even have to make > sense - but they did, and struck a deep chord, especially, with women. > That's double praise, really. > > Some might argue that, say, Cat Stevens's songs were so catchy that the > lyrics didn't have to make sense - and, in fact, they didn't. But that was > not what this critic was saying about Joni. > > Bobsart ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1680 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------