From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #476 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, April 12 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 476 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Discovering Robin Adler / Rejoining the JMDL - Ange in Oz (SJC) [Dave] Re: Joni in her kitchen ["David J. Phillips" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:30:46 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Discovering Robin Adler / Rejoining the JMDL - Ange in Oz (SJC) Hello Ange and welcome back to the JMDL! And thanks for the kind words you wrote about Robin. She and I have been on this really cool journey together getting deep inside Joni's music and performing it in concert settings for the last seven years (it really doesn't work in typical live music environments like clubs and restaurants.) We have been blessed with a group of musicians that have dedicated countless hours to mastering the music and taking it to somewhere that is more our thing than hers. However, when we perform a complete album as we did last Saturday with For The Roses we do try and capture the sound and details of the record everyone knows and expects to hear. The record producer in me is always trying to remake the album in 3D with live musicians, if only for the challenge of trying to accomplish it. You have already discovered our Youtube channel which contains clips from a full length DVD of the whole of Blue and Court and Spark performed in one night's concert on Nov 6th 2011. Joni's bassist from the L.A Express Max Bennett asked if he could play with us so we put that show together with him on bass. That is available for purchase if you are interested (write us offline). And our 2010 CD Safaris to the Heart: The Songs of Joni Mitchell is available in actual form from http://www.robinadler.com/products.html or in downloadable form from iTunes or Amazon. You can hear samples of all the tunes at http://www.robinadler.com/music.html You should also look into Hennings Olsen's and Christina Friis' 3 CDs of Joni covers that are astounding; they pay particular attention to early unreleased Joni material. They went under the moniker Big Yellow Taxi. Lots of other great musicians on this list we have met through Jonifests too. cheers Dave On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Ange T wrote: > Hello Listers, > It has been many years since I have been part of this amazing network of > Joni-lovers and it feels good to be back. My name is Ange Takats and I live > in Australia and originally joined the list back in the late 90s - when I > learnt a hell of a lot about Joni and received some beautiful gifts / > insights from JMDLers in the USA. I even met a JMDLer who came down to Oz. > Her name was Ashara - not sure if she's still around? > > Since then I've done a lot of things... like moved to Thailand to work a > foreign correspondent ('I'm a wild seed again, Let the wind carry me') > ... moved > to Ontario to follow love ('He's my sunshine in the morning, He's my > fireworks at the end of the day') ... moved to Barcelona to nurse a broken > heart ('Things that you held high, And told yourself were true, Lost or > changing as the days come down to you') ... and, as you can sense, Joni's > songs have been with me every step of the way. > > I do recognise some of the names on the digest emails that I've been > receiving over the past two weeks which blows me away. To think that so > many of you have been part of this list for so long and no doubt grown > close to each other and shared moments of life - through this list.... > that's pretty amazing. > > Have there ever been articles published or documentaries made about the > longevity and strength of the JMDL? It seems like a great topic to explore! > > So far the highlight of rejoining the list for me has been discovering the > beautiful voice and soul of Robin Adler - WOW! I'm so fussy - as I imagine > most of you are - about Joni covers... but after reading about Robin's > recent gig in San Diego I started googling her name and found a whole bunch > of awesome videos on youtube ('A Case of You' was my favourite of the > lot... exceptional performance). What a find! Thank you Lindsay for posting > info about Robin's gig - and thank you Robin for being so inspiring! > > I also want to thank Bob for answering a random email I sent him a few > months ago - which has led me back to this very special community. > > Ange in Oz > www.angetakats.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:43:31 -0400 From: "David J. Phillips" Subject: Re: Joni in her kitchen Joni has made a lot of great art and good money being publicly vulnerable. We have no evidence one way or the other about whether she wishes this specific moment to have been made public, but I can imagine that she does not feel shamed, threatened, or injured by it. Or maybe she does. Why act on one assumption rather than the other? djp On 08/04/13 12:2342, Shari Eaton wrote: > I said it *looks* like she could be grieving. As you've all said she > looks incredibly vulnerable. I posed the question - would you > appreciate ppl sharing this kind of photo of you? No one has > responded to that question. > > I sure wouldn't. Until we know she's cool sharing such a moment with > anyone and everyone I would strongly suggest not linking it any > further. > > > > On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Corey Blake > wrote: > >> I think we're making some big assumptions about the context of the >> picture (how did we get to someone having died?), and also what >> kind of permission was granted. She looks sad or possibly tired to >> me but still a really good picture. And what's so bad about being >> vulnerable, anyway? >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Shari Eaton wrote: >> >>> And you should like to have a photo taken of you with this level >>> of vulnerability and placed on Instagram and shared across the >>> web? It's a touch disrespectful. >>> >>> >>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Raffaele >>> Malanga wrote: >>> >>>> Yes. Perhaps that's why I found it moving. Almost as if we >>>> should not be there, looking at her. She looks so vulnerable >>>> >>>> On 8 Apr 2013, at 16:51, "Shari Eaton" >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Seems a little too personal for public eyes. She could be >>>>> grieving the loss of someone close. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 8, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Raffaele >>>>> Malanga wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> http://instagram.com/p/X1T1_ek80m/ >>>>>> >>>>>> I find this photo extremely touching >>>>>> >>>>>> Raf. ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #476 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------