From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1280 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 Sunday, September 8 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1280 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Dulcimer Players News, Vol.37 #3, Spring 2011 [simon@icu.com] Re: keys [Dave Blackburn ] Joni Tribute Right Now! [Laurie Antonioli ] Tumblr [Betsy Blue ] Re: Joni Covers, Volume 174 - Weekend Kickoffs [FMYFL@aol.com] Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum njc [Anita Subject: Joni & The Mountain Dulcimer + Joelen Lapidus + Chords > > Check out this article - from pages 18-24. > Page 23 is an article from Joelen Lapidus "How Joni Mitchell Came To > Play One of My Dulcimers" > > > > Laura For some reason, this article is not available for viewing via Firefox, my browser of choice. All I got was the message "Sorry, this publication is not available." So I tried Safari. Lo and Behold, there's the article. I took one look at the cover image, and realized that I HAVE the issue in question. Dulcimer Players News, Vol.37 #3, Spring 2011. This article is not yet in the Library at JM.com, so I scanned my copy and UpLoaded it via Hightail. Anyone interested can DownLoad a copy at the following URL: - - - - - The article states ... > Note: Joni Mitchell is notoriously private and rarely gives interviews, so the information > in this article was culled from an interview with Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers in Acoustic Guitar > Magazine in 1996 ... I also included my scan of the Acoustic Guitar Magazine article. The 'text' is also available at JM.com Enjoy! andmoreagain, - - - - - - - - - - simonM http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:55:58 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: keys Laurie offered a helpful transposition method, which when applied to notes and chords, certainly does change the key, with all the pitch relationships remaining constant. For a piano player or guitar player in standard tuning this is, as she says, commonplace in jazz and popular standards, and involves the revoicing of chords to avoid muddiness or thinness, depending on the direction and distance of the transposition. However, this becomes much more involved when you try and play Joni's music in her tunings. You might have a half-step to play with below her tuning but not more without the guitar becoming unplayable. Revoicing the chords while remaining in her tunings becomes an exercise in mental gymnastics (since all the shapes one has learned become of no use, and there are no books to turn to) and besides loses the whole sonority of what she created. A baritone guitar is sort of a solution, but it too is not a simple answer as many strings in Joni's tunings were not lowered. In other words, the baritone guitar solves the dropped pitch notes nicely but the strings will break on the others because they have to go too high. The digital guitar (like the VG8) is another problem solver, although you are sacrificing true acoustic tone. So, if one is trying to remain true to her harmonic language and include all its sonorities, transposition is very problematic, beyond a small interval. What I have done on most of her guitar-based material is learn how to play her voicings in standard tuning and then, if I need to lower a key, the fretboard is still what I know, and I can figure out new fingerings that maintain as much of the original nuance as possible. You'd be surprised at how many JM songs are playable note-for-note in standard tuning if you are willing to reach for some shapes. Marcie, For the Roses, Cold Blue Steel, Furry Sings the Blues, Electricity, Blue Motel Room, to name just a few can be played in standard tuning (or very close, like a drop D) without losing anything. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:18:30 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Joni Tribute Right Now! On KCSM: www.kcsm.org, the Bay Area jazz station - until 2pm PST. LA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:02:32 -0700 From: Betsy Blue Subject: Tumblr There are some great new pix at ilovejonimitchell.tumblr.com. Child/baby photos, Luminato shots, etc. A lot of stuff I had never seen before. Betsy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:20:18 -0400 (EDT) From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Covers, Volume 174 - Weekend Kickoffs It was a chock full of covers Mr. Muller. As always you, put the best one first. Judy Marshak's "River" is excellent. She's a wonderful actress and such a beautiful voice. Still, my favorite "River" cover has to be from Skye Edwards from the UK band Morcheeba. I loved the slow drum beat, the background vocals, and her voice. Certainly a different twist on this song. Also two great a capella female groups. Something Extra from Yale singing ACOY, and the Scottish group, The Wild Myrtles (love that name) singing BSN Not a bad cover in the bunch. Download this volume Joni friends! Thanks again Bob, and I'll be seeing your smiling face next month at Pazfest! Jimmy In a message dated 9/7/2013 3:12:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, scjoniguy@yahoo.com writes: > Hi All - Here's the next one in the nest...Volume 174, chock full of > lovelies, > starting out with Judy Marshak's excellent "River". My personal fave is > the > jazzy instrumental take on "Rainy Night House" by The McCarron Brothers. > > Just when you think there's nothing new you can do with the franchise, > Mishka > Adams spins an original BSN take for you. A 10 minute + take on Twisted > and a > whole bunch of other River's. We are getting close to the time when more > River's come our way. BYT and River keep jockeying for 2nd place, I > predict > that by January River will have a commanding lead. But what do I know? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:05:08 +0100 From: Anita Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum njc Good intentions and/or prayers for Peace certainly do no harm. Sounds a good thing to me, Victor! Anita On 4 Sep 2013, at 18:53, Victor : > Hoping that we helped to make the world a little better place. > > Victor > > > On Wednesday, September 4, 2013, Anita wrote: > >> I find it incredibly hard to witness the suffering of the Syrian people. >> The film shown by the BBC after the gas attacks were simply harrowing. I >> think it was an old British prime minister (Eden I think) who said we need >> "Jaw, jaw not war,war." If only people would talk. >> >> I simply know if I lived in Syria I would want help to stop the fighting >> and killing. The problem for us as we stand by helplessly watching is what >> intervention would really help. Personally, I don't think bombing will. >> Anita ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1280 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------