From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #592 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 Thursday, May 16 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 592 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: imdl history ["Cassy" ] Re: New Library item: Growing old - and maudlin - in the folk world [Ca] Re: Taming The Tiger [Anita G ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:02:44 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: imdl history I remember discovering the JMDL. The first couple of things I remember (not the first things I read but things I participated in) are a sunflower seeds fundraiser and sending something to Ashara for the "tape tree." The first time I actually met anyone from the JMDL was in 2000 for the BSN Joni orchestra tour... what a horrible show... what a fabulous gathering pre and post show! I met wonderful people there... "keep away from the shrimp" I'm not sure exactly when I joined the JMDL, it was in the late 90's and I have taken breaks from time to time as health required but have never regretted a moment of my membership here. Warmly, Cassy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 10:55:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: New Library item: Growing old - and maudlin - in the folk world It's possible those spelling and grammar mistakes were in transcription, not necessarily in the original article. Not that it makes that much difference. The author's snootiness still shows through. I'm not sure anyone knows that "folk music" really is. Everyone defines it differently. >________________________________ > From: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" >To: Susan E. McNamara >Cc: "joni@smoe.org" >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 12:59:55 PM >Subject: RE: New Library item: Growing old - and maudlin - in the folk world > > >Thanks Sue - I didn't want to be the first to say that this article was >pretty poor. (Like some of the folks that cover Joni songs are pretty >poor.) > >This part stuck out to me: > >"Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Gordon Lightfoot have some >things in common besides the fact that they have all put out new albums >within the last month. For one thing, they all used to be folk singers. >Not one of them could be called that now without doing severe damage to >the traditional concept of the folk singer as one person with one >instrument. It's time to change the definition." > >(Me) No, it's not 'time to change the definition', it's time to realize >that perhaps some if not all of these artists left that idiom and evolved >in their careers. > >Also, the use of the word "purest" instead of "purist", and this sentence: > >"The band will do it's own set tomorrow and then back up Miss Mitchell in >her Massey Hall concert." > >Yes, I'm a grammar nerd. It's supposed to be its, not it's. > >Bob > > > > >From: "Susan E. McNamara" >To: "TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com" , >"joni@smoe.org" >Date: 05/13/2013 12:53 PM >Subject: RE: New Library item: Growing old - and maudlin - in the >folk world >Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org > > > >Sorry, but my head blew up when I read this: "The worst example of this >is her last album, For the Roses which is poetically interesting but >musically dull." Stopped reading since I had no head. > >Susan Tierney McNamara >email:B sem8@cornell.edu > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of >TheStaff@JoniMitchell.com >Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 12:21 PM >To: joni@smoe.org >Subject: New Library item: Growing old - and maudlin - in the folk world > >Title: Growing old - and maudlin - in the folk world >Publication: Toronto Globe and Mail >Date: 1974.2.9 > >http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2577 > >------------------------------------------------------------ >The information transmitted is intended only for the person >or entity to which it is addressed and may contain >proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. >If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are >hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, >distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon >this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please >contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual >sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. >------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:00:12 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Taming The Tiger On 11/05/2013, FMYFL@aol.com wrote: r. It was my first Joni concert, and I was > already on the list. I did get to meet the first JMDL'r....Pearl Weisberg at > the > Atlanta concert where many had gathered . Jimmy, your mail got me thinking more about JMDL and how it started and that must be Pearl I got to meet for the first time at Ruby Lake. Back in those days I seemed to have access to such little information, otherwise I am sure I would have got a plane and come to that concert. It sounds a great one. I also tried to remember when I first joined the List and I can't remember. I know Wally was still alive, because I recall feeling incredibly glad (when I got my first computer and my friend Tracy showed me how to do a 'search' )when this new thing called a 'web site' appeared and there was all this information about Joni Mitchell! I was so stunned and SO pleased to leave behind feeling so alone in my love for Joni's music. So who started JMDL - was it Wally? And was Pearl the first person to sign up? Jimmy also wrote: "My first fest was at the first Pazfest in 2000, where I got to meet so many of you and had the best time. I got chills when everyone at the Howling Wolf lit candles in tribute to the late Wally Breese, as "Tiger Bones" played." That sends goose bumps out when I read it. What a fantastic event to have attended. My first Joni Fest was to the Full Moon in 2003 and the whole thing just blew me away and, of course, Ashara took delivery of Joni's guitar for me and brought it to the Fest. One of the best days of my life, ever. I can't believe it will be 10 years this August - hell, I wasn't even 50! I'd love to know who were the first members of JMDL. How about a history lesson and any memories from someone who knows? Anita x ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #592 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------