From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1394 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, October 16 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1394 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Illness as fodder [Ange T ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:22:51 +1000 From: Ange T Subject: Re: Illness as fodder That's quite a sad and sorry list! Thanks to those listers who have commented on this thread and offered up links and book suggestions. I think it's fair to say that Joni never 'literally' referenced her time in hospital in any of her songs.. .which is interesting to me, given she's such a diary-entry kind of songwriter and given she seemed to give her ongoing health issues a lot of 'air time' in that recent interview. By the way, Jim, you had me going with your Polio-River lyrics! For a split second I thought there was a bootleg of that song that I'd never heard before! Ha! Ange in Oz angetakats.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:20:47 -0400 > From: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com > Subject: Illness as fodder, njc I suppose > > Yes. I'm sure that someone has already mentioned the other Canadian polio > survivor, Neil Young. > > Nash had both legs broken. Crosby nearly killed himself with drugs, and > then nearly died from a failed liver(?). > > Levon Helm nearly died but came back and recorded a Grammy-winning album, > only to die soon after. > > James Taylor is a case unto himself. > > Bob Dylan famously had a bad motorcycle accident that marked a turning > point, in an odyssey full of turning points. > > Bryan Thomas is doing alright, even though he's too big for schenectady. > > Warren Zevon and Sir George Harrison made music even when disease slowly > consumed them. > > Shawn Colvin has been writing in spite of debilitating depression for > years. > > "And you know there may be more." > > There is a pretty cool book called "Illness As Metaphor" where Susan > Sontag explores the topic in depth. > > Jim > > > do you know of any other singer/songwriters who > > have battled illness while creating musical brilliance during their > > careers? > > > > Ange > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1383 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1394 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------