From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #635 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 Monday, May 27 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 635 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Njc Stairway To Heaven (Now Including 'All's Well' Songs about Captain Scott and his doomed men in the Antarctic) [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:46:49 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Njc Stairway To Heaven (Now Including 'All's Well' Songs about Captain Scott and his doomed men in the Antarctic) Hi Marianne I have never been a big fan of 'Stairway to Heaven' (preferring to rock out to 'Communication Breakdown' and similar), however, I found I was very moved when Robert Plant (who seems to me disinterested at first) becomes very misty eyed and, I have to say, when the choir comes in, it's fairly blistering. For the first time, I got it! I am adding a link of something that will be unknown, but has fair blown me away this past two days. I met a singer/songwriter on Saturday, Jake Wilson, who has written a cycle of songs. The blurb from his web site says, "100 years ago, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his polar party all died on their return journey from the South Pole. To mark the centenary, Jake has composed bAllbs Wellb, a cycle of songs written from the point of view of these five extraordinary men: Edgar Evans, Lawrence Oates, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, and Captain Scott himself." On his web site, he plays the title song 'All's Well' in Scott's hut and you can see Jake play it on a graphite guitar, with his own hands almsot freezing. Honestly, I find it chilling (and that's not supposed to be a joke). The song 'All's Well' is about this man: "Dr. Edward Wilson was the chief scientist and artist of the expedition. He was also a devout Christian, who believed that everything that happened to him was part of Godbs plan. In his final letters to his wife Oriana (Ory), and his friend Reginald Smith, he repeatedly used the phrase bAll is wellb, to reassure them that even his death fitted into this divine plan. The bird mentioned in the first line of the song was spotted by Wilson during the journey to the Pole - ironically, he recorded in his journal being surprised that it could survive without food so far south." I immediately found myself thinking about Joni's 'Sweet Bird'. I don't know if it's just because I met this guy and he told me the story, but I found this quite something: http://www.jakewilsonmusic.com/ Anita On 26/05/2013, Marianne Rizzo wrote: > Check out this video on YouTube: > > http://youtu.be/mf2O3OAQjng > > > I love this. > Have always loved the song ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #635 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------