From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1649 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, November 13 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1649 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Subject: 20 things you didn't know ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] New Library item: JONI MITCHELL/THE PERSUASIONS [TheStaff@JoniMitchell.co] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:36:08 -0500 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Subject: 20 things you didn't know I have a reputation as an angry old man. I guess it's true because in my 20s I was an angry young man, and because little things like this bug me. But I have an alibi; I'm a nitpicker by trade because I'm a programmer. A CBC website purported to reveal 20 things about Joni at http://music.cbc.ca/#/genres/Singer-Songwriter/blogs/2013/11/Joni-Mitchell-at-70-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-one-of-Canadas-greatest-musicians Frame #12 said, >Mitchell got her name when she married Chuck Mitchell, a singer and cabaret performer from Detroit who was another regular on the Toronto folk circuit. They married in June, 1965, reportedly just 36 hours after they met. The pair moved to Detroit, where they often performed together.> I think I know the derivation of this incorrect passage. In Sheila Weller's book, "Girls Like Us", on p.210-11 of the paperback edition, she said >Chuck and Joni met in March 1965 at the Penny Farthing...> >Very soon after their meeting Joni took the train across the Canada-U.S. border; Chuck met her at the station and drove her to his home. He proposed within thirty-six hours. They fixed a June wedding, setting out for club engagements and to meet each other's parents in the interim.> According to Sheila, whom I've grown to respect as a researcher, not even the proposal came 36 hours after they met and the marriage was after that. It may have been a quick courtship, but it wasn't a Vega-crazy-drunken courtship. Sheila rocks; the CBC research does not. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Ivice Subject: J. Robbie's book From: Richard Flynn Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 2:00 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Robbie Robertson's Legends, Icons, and Rebels Just heard Robbie Robertson on NPR talking about his new book for young people. There is a chapter on Joni. It's a tabletop book for children and mostly photos on 127 pages about 27 musicians, so I would not expect much from the chapter on Joni, or anyone. I saw Robertson in the Tavis Smiley interview. He said he wrote the book based on an idea from his son, as a way for parents from his generation (mine, too) to explain to their children who were the people that had the greatest impact on rock and roll and the music of his/our generation. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 14:44:23 -0700 (MST) From: TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com Subject: New Library item: JONI MITCHELL/THE PERSUASIONS Title: JONI MITCHELL/THE PERSUASIONS Publication: down beat (Magazine) Date: 1979.8.11 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2711 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1649 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------