From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1428 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 Thursday, November 20 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1428 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Seattle Times review and interesting comment [jlhommedieu@insight.rr.] Joni mention on AOL home page [FMYFL@aol.com] Some lovely JMDL reviews of Hejira Live appearing on CD Baby [Dave Blackb] Re: Joni Groupie [Bruce Eggleston ] Re: Seattle Times review and interesting comment [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Music biz insider Bob Lefsetz on Carey/Cary [Steve Dulson The previous box sets are not compilations but original albums and the previous compilations are not multi-disc. :)) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:29:43 -0500 From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Joni mention on AOL home page I'm probably the only one on earth that still uses AOL, but on their gossip home page, they have a short blurb on 10 celebritites separated from their children. Joni and Kilauren are mentioned, and a nice photo of the two. Here's the link: http://mom.me/pregnancy/10609-10-famous-people-who-gave-their-children/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl16%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D566294 Jimmy in cold Florida ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:45:05 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Some lovely JMDL reviews of Hejira Live appearing on CD Baby Many thanks to Bob, Mark and Laurie for the glowing reviews of our Hejira Live release. It is now available as a download, as well as a CD via http://www.robinadler.com/products.html If anyone else would care to add a review to the CDBaby page it would be much appreciated. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/robinadlerandmuttsofthep Many thanks all. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:41:22 -0700 From: Bruce Eggleston Subject: Re: Joni Groupie I have wanted to be with Joni since 1967. All the guys I know feel the same way. I've had a case of Joni for 47 years, and I still have hopes. This is a feeling of pure devotion and love for all that she is. Bonneville Bruce, Pining away in Caldwell, Idaho ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:25:56 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Seattle Times review and interesting comment The previous box sets are not compilations but original albums and the previous compilations are not multi-disc. > Oh Moni, you are being an agitating rascal. :-) A compilation by definition is simply something that's compiled. When her first 10 albums were compiled in a 10-CD set, that became a compilation. Likewise, when her Geffen albums were compiled in a 4-CD set (with a couple bonus tracks - yippee for that!) it became a compilation. There may be a connotation that a compilation is a scramble but I don't see it as a requirement. Catherine, you're a wordsmith, help me out. 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That's what we did with all our albums, drilled down deep and after knowing one side by heart we flipped the record over to learn what was on the other. And oftentimes the side we picked was actually number two. It was for me on "Blue," because it began with "California." "I'm going to see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a Sunset pig California I'm coming home" That's right, pig. This was back before every male deserved that moniker, tarred with the sexual advances of their brethren. At this time "pig" meant "cop." Oh, how far we've come. In the pre-9/11 days those in blue were not to be trusted. The African-Americans still know this, Ferguson is evidence of this, but the whites have switched sides, suddenly cops and servicemen are heroes. I'm not saying they never were, just that it's strange to see Bruce Springsteen extolling the virtues of veterans at the Concert For Valor. It's a head-scratcher for those who grew up in the sixties. We didn't want to go to war. We abhorred government policies. And we didn't trust the police long before Ice-T told us not to. And I'll leave aside the excellent points that today's military is doing the job we were unwilling to, and that they're not taken care of after their days in combat are done, never mind that contractors do so much of the work, and that not every cop is a bad apple, but the point is it was very different times, where it was all about personal development as opposed to wallet development, and every young person hopped aboard Icelandic Air and got a Eurail Pass and saw the continent. Not only the upper class. Then again, we were all middle class, I didn't know any truly rich people. But I'd been to California. I yearned to live there. The Beach Boys infected me, Joni Mitchell sealed the deal. And I knew every line of that number, especially: "I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell" He was neither a redneck nor did he keep the camera. Huh? I always thought Joni was singing about a local, someone she got involved with who grew up there. But Cary Raditz grew up in North Carolina. HUH? "The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey But it's really not my home" But that's CAREY and he's named CARY! And to tell you the truth, being CAREY with an "e" I always pondered whether Joni was singing about a girl, but no, she admits she misspelled it, it's all laid out in this wonderful article in the "Wall Street Journal." That's right, once I became inured to side one of "Blue" I flipped it over. And in position four, after "Little Green" and before "Blue," was "Carey." "Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe and I will Buy you a bottle of wine And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Let's have another round for the bright red devil Who keeps me in this tourist town" That's Cary. He had red hair. And a cane... "Come on Carey get out your cane" Whew! She's singing the truth, albeit with a few notable changes. Turns out Taylor Swift is not the only one singing about her exes. But in the heyday of feminism it's Joni who loves 'em and leaves 'em, she gets a story to tell, not as revenge, but as a way to stoke the starmaker machinery behind the popular song. And eventually Cary came to California, to visit Joni. He was transfixed. But she was out of his league. He gave her back her camera and that was it. And I can't believe it's 2014 and I finally know all this. Actually, if you do a bit of web research the picture starts to come clear. But back in 1971 there was no web, all we had was the album cover and rumors. Everybody talked like they knew Joni, but not only did they not know her, they knew very little. And sure she was beautiful, but it was her talent that enraptured. The way she could sing her story and make it universal. She expressed what we were feeling, from the heart. Not her desire to get rich or revenge, but to eat up this life, to have endless experiences, get drunk and tell tales, flirt and fuck and be free. We always wanted to be free. Actually, we were. And whenever we drop the needle on "Blue" we baby boomers feel this way again. P.S. Joni may have had her fame, but Cary had his charisma, never underestimate charisma. P.P.S. I always shoo away the locals trying to make a buck, but having paid the insistent photographer to snap we end up with this pic that is hard to stop staring at. A relic from the ages, depicting a king and queen who were not cheer captain and football star, but leads in their own movie. P.P.P.S. Does anybody play a dulcimer anymore? Does anybody play this instrument that evidences honesty and humanity as soon as you strum? "When Joni Mitchell Met Cary Raditz, Her 'Mean Old Daddy' - The subject of Joni Mitchell's 'Carey' recalls his time with the singer in early 1970 in a fishing village on Crete": http://on.wsj.com/1xTE8ra "Joni Mitchell on the Muse Behind 'Carey' - The singer wrote her hit 'Carey' while camping out in a seaside cave on Crete in early 1970": http://on.wsj.com/1xzjxHL - -- Visit the archive: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ - -- http://www.twitter.com/lefsetz - -- If you would like to subscribe to the LefsetzLetter, http://www.lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1 If you do not want to receive any more LefsetzLetters, http://lefsetz.com/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=2dacc41a738dc343e4c092e25e2b4231 To change your email address http://lefsetz.com/lists/?p=preferences&uid=2dacc41a738dc343e4c092e25e2b4231 - -- powered by phpList, www.phplist.com -- *************************************************** Steve Dulson Costa Mesa CA FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region - West) tinkersown@ca.rr.com www.far-west.org ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1428 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. 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