From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1112 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, August 20 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1112 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Both Sides Now [simon@icu.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:47:30 -0400 From: simon@icu.com Subject: Re: Both Sides Now Bob.Muller@Fluor.com wrote: > And she wrote it when she was 21 or 22 or something? WTF? Bob, Twenty-three, to be exact. Both Sides Now was written in March 1967. FOOTNOTES @ Joni in conversation with Gene Shay "Folklore Program" March 12, 1967 GENE: Want to do some of the requested songs? JONI: Let's see. What have we got here? "Night in the City," "Circle Game" -- oh, "From Both Sides, Now. I'm really glad somebody requested that, because that's a very new song, and I've been driving everybody crazy by playing it twice and three times a night. It's called "From Both Sides, Now." GENE: I haven't heard that one. JONI: I'll play that one first. It -- I should tell people a little bit about it. I was reading a book, and I haven't finished it yet, called "Henderson the Rain King." And there's a line in it that I especially got hung up on that was about when he was flying to Africa and searching for something, he said that in an age when people could look up and down at clouds, they shouldn't be afraid to die. And so I got this idea 'from both sides now. There are a lot of sides to everything, and so the song is called "From Both Sides, Now." (Joni performs "Both Sides, Now.") GENE: It's nice. That's a new one. JONI: Very new. GENE: How new is it? JONI: About three days. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This short conversation is part of 'A WMMR Radio Retrospective The full transcript is available @ AndSoItGoes, - - - - - - - - - simonM http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/complete.cfm http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/chronology_v4.0.pdf http://jonimitchell.com/music/InspiredByJoni_theAlbums.pdf ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1112 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------