From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1428 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 Friday, October 25 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1428 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: DJRD [Shari Eaton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:51:29 -0700 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: DJRD I've been listening to DJRD this week and as silly as it sounds I finally heard her say Myrtle's lawn. I backed it up and listened to it in a completely different way .. Recognizing that she was on vacation somewhere and then traveled back home with the guy she was with at the time. It's really difficult for me to remain focused on her story through Dreamland. All the rich imagery at the start send my mind adrift every time. Same with Otis & Marlena. I've been studying those two this week. It's a cheap pink rosC) keeps playing in my head. It's kind of hard to say! Lots of Joni, - - Shari > On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:31 PM, jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com wrote: > > See, I love this record. I love my country too but there are a LOT of reasons to be disillusioned with the USA. Joni explored this duality for a long time, (which is reflected in her houses too: which this week? BC or LA?) > > To me, this is similar to the themes that people loved more on Hejira and THOSL. Why is DJRD an outcast? > > Jim > Now playing in my head: Sting going, "one world is enough > For all of us" > > >> According to Joni, most reviews of the album missed its point: "Basically it >> has to do with turning your back on America and heading into the Third >> World...at the time Muslims were messing around in Washington, there were >> radical tensions. I was disillusioned. The songs on the album have a lot of >> ethnic references and there's a certain sentimentality for the North American >> Indian." ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1428 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------