From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1279 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 Saturday, October 4 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1279 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Laura Nyro Reimagined at Grammy Museum tonight (njc) [Catherine McKay] Laura Nyro Reimagined at Grammy Museum tonight (njc) [Shadows and light <] RE: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie ["Susan E. ] RE: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie ["Susan E. ] Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie [kbhla@fastmail] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 07:45:00 -0700 From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Laura Nyro Reimagined at Grammy Museum tonight (njc) Glad you could be there representin' and thanks for the account of the evening. ________________________________ From: "kbhla@fastmail.fm" To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 1:35 AM Subject: Laura Nyro Reimagined at Grammy Museum tonight (njc) I really enjoyed the event at the Grammy Museum tonight. Glad Lesli was able to be there, too. Upon picking up tickets, they gave everyone a free copy of the album, too! Larry Klein, Billy Childs, Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin and Becca Stevens mingled a bit before the presentation. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:55:04 -0700 From: Shadows and light Subject: Laura Nyro Reimagined at Grammy Museum tonight (njc) i'd like to thank kakki for shepherding me through the maze downtown once again. and billy childs was smoking, what a great artist he is . the grammy museum performance space has such good acoustics. i highly recommend this venue. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 19:26:19 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie https://play.spotify.com/search/Feet%20in%20the%20Sunshine Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu From: Bob.Muller@fluor.com [mailto:Bob.Muller@fluor.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 11:55 AM To: Susan E. McNamara Cc: joni@smoe.org; kbhla@fastmail.fm Subject: RE: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie She also contributed backing vocals to Webb's "Feet In The Sunshine" on his 1974 LP 'Land's End'. If you can find it you can hear her voice featured prominently. Bob - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:47:53 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie I had did not know she was friends with Jimmy Webb! Her voice is so beautiful on this cut. Thanks Kakki!! Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kbhla@fastmail.fm Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:45 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie I prefer Paul Williams' acoustic version - softer and prettier to my ears. This thread had me thinking of another favorite Joni vocal collaboration with Jimmy Webb around the same time on his 1972 Letters album. Joni sang backup vocals on Similie. It is hard to find a recording out there but this might work http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Webb/_/Simile Jimmy write of Joni's influence on him and their friendship in his book Tunesmith. Also there is this from LINER NOTES FOR JIMMY WEBB'S LETTERS by Richie Unterberger: "Letters was a more sedate, piano-oriented album than its predecessors, and soaked in the influence of Webb's peer and eventual close friend Joni Mitchell. "I was tremendously influenced by Joni Mitchell," he admitted to Peter Doggett of Record Collector in 1994. "She was a good friend, and I was fortunate enough to be around her when she was working on For the Roses and Court and Spark. We were just part of each other's lives for a while. I definitely envied that part of her work -- the idea that this is just a conversation you're listening in on. It can still be poetry, but not self-conscious or forced poetry. I got extremely under her spell as a writer -- I still am. I used to go to the studio and listen to her record, sit quietly in the back of the control room. After the Beatles, Joni was the next big blip on my radar screen, in terms of, 'Hey, pay attention: this girl is doing something a little bit different.'" Mitchell's longtime engineer Henry Lewy also did some engineering work for Letters as well. Joni's influence is most apparent on one of the record's stronger cuts, "Simile," inspired by an incident at the Los Angeles Troubadour club. Webb had sent her roses and a letter after seeing her perform there early in her career, but the letter wasn't found by Mitchell until a few years later, as alluded to in the song's opening verse." Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:44:52 -0700 From: kbhla@fastmail.fm Subject: Out in the Country; Joni vocals with Jimmy Webb on Simiie I prefer Paul Williams' acoustic version - softer and prettier to my ears. This thread had me thinking of another favorite Joni vocal collaboration with Jimmy Webb around the same time on his 1972 Letters album. Joni sang backup vocals on Similie. It is hard to find a recording out there but this might work http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Webb/_/Simile Jimmy write of Joni's influence on him and their friendship in his book Tunesmith. Also there is this from LINER NOTES FOR JIMMY WEBB'S LETTERS by Richie Unterberger: "Letters was a more sedate, piano-oriented album than its predecessors, and soaked in the influence of Webb's peer and eventual close friend Joni Mitchell. "I was tremendously influenced by Joni Mitchell," he admitted to Peter Doggett of Record Collector in 1994. "She was a good friend, and I was fortunate enough to be around her when she was working on For the Roses and Court and Spark. We were just part of each other's lives for a while. I definitely envied that part of her work -- the idea that this is just a conversation you're listening in on. It can still be poetry, but not self-conscious or forced poetry. I got extremely under her spell as a writer -- I still am. I used to go to the studio and listen to her record, sit quietly in the back of the control room. After the Beatles, Joni was the next big blip on my radar screen, in terms of, 'Hey, pay attention: this girl is doing something a little bit different.'" Mitchell's longtime engineer Henry Lewy also did some engineering work for Letters as well. Joni's influence is most apparent on one of the record's stronger cuts, "Simile," inspired by an incident at the Los Angeles Troubadour club. Webb had sent her roses and a letter after seeing her perform there early in her career, but the letter wasn't found by Mitchell until a few years later, as alluded to in the song's opening verse." 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