From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1117 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 1117 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Both Sides Now [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:10:04 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Both Sides Now Although Joni is on record as saying she wrote it when she was 21. On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:47 AM, simon@icu.com wrote: > 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 #1117 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------