From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1046 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, August 8 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1046 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Another glowing review... [Jack Merkel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:02:41 -0500 From: Jack Merkel Subject: Re: Another glowing review... I would argue that at least three "attempts to make Joni Mitchell's music anew have been hugely successful". Let's not forget the amazing "Safaris To The Heart" by the incomparable Robin Adler and her Mutts of The Planet (which in my opinion the strongest of the three by a long shot)! Jack Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 7, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Les Irvin wrote: > > "Ms. Mitchell has made it her business to write wickedly difficult chord changes to suit her wickedly difficult melodies. Her lyrics are written in the vers libre, without rhyme, but full of inner rhymes and rhythms. Her guitar is tuned differently. She plays in odd metres on a shifting rhythmic base. And that is only part of it. But two attempts to make Joni Mitchell's music anew have been hugely successful. The first is Herbie Hancock's partly instrumental one, River: The Joni Letters and now the amazing recording by the ineffable Laurie Antonioli - Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light. " > > Read the full review: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2812 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1046 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------