From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #406 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 Wednesday, March 14 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 406 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Re: My two-cents worth on Joni's song periods [gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Re: My two-cents worth on Joni's song periods Stage 1 : STAS, '68, Clouds, '69. LOTC, '70. We see her emerge as a unique artist and in a three year period start to rise way above what anyone could have anticipated. Didn't take her long to see through it all and shed the goddess role to fearlessly incarnate as a woman in control of her destiny at least musically in, Stage 2. Blue. 1971. She'd had some time out- a mini hejira- travelling Europe and started I think to really get a handle on her own style...'72 FTR. '74. C&S. MOA is for me the bridge between Stages 2 and 3. Sage 3. '75. HOSL. '76. Hejira. '77. DJRD and '79 Mingus. Before she was a-copying Joan Baez and the likes while she was a painter and a dancer and and a girl always looking at the horizon she was in love with Miles and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Post Blue she could do as she wished... She got back to what made her tick....Jazzz. SAL bridges the gap here. Stage 4.1982. WTRF.Here starts my What the f..k stage. She should have got out then. She was starting to fall...or maybe her wings had been melted by the sun. Whatever, she got married and each year I waited for something ......Nothing until....We see her with her ear ripped off... Stage 5.1994. TI. Back to the grown up version of what made her famous in the first place...divorce. Only kidding. Songs from the heart. A big girl tells her story. We can handle that. After that it's all box sets and junk really until the end of the rainbow and 2007 Shine....and the ballet and the art....and the tributes....and awards and not a lot really except Joni was a mother again and a granny. Full circle. Back to the painting...Sorted. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Anne Sandstrom wrote: > So here's how I think of her various musical periods: > > STAS - BLUE : acoustic sorrow period > FTR - DJRD : music industry traveler and cynic > MINGUS : jazz (I really think this stands on its own) > WTRF - CMIARS : layered production (I'll bet if these had been recorded > simply we'd all like them better) > NRH : return to acoustic sound w/more mature themes > TI-TTT+SHINE : melodic decline in favor of lyrics and rythmn > BSN+Travelogue: symphonic arrangements > > lots of love, > Anne ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #406 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------