From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1433 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 1433 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: multi-disc compilation [Lori Renee Fye ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:28:38 -0700 From: Lori Renee Fye Subject: Re: multi-disc compilation > Furthermore, I think any clamoring for Joni to "open her vault" > should stop. There are reasons why Joni did not want to > release that material, probably because she thought it was > less than her best effort, so we should not be so eager for this > material that it encourages her to diminish the quality of her > catalog. Remastering Dog Eat Dog was akin to putting lipstick > on a pig. I agree, Paul -- although I like DED! I wouldn't bother with buying a remastered edition, though. I don't have a stereo system that would do it justice, for one thing. However, in addition to Joni having a reason for not releasing "vault" material in the first place, Joni's voice is no longer up to doing what her fans would want to hear done with those songs. I think we all need to get used to the fact that Joni has done her best work, and I think we should leave her alone and stop pestering her. Read books like Malka Marom's and learn and enjoy Joni's stories. I suppose reading Joni's new liner notes (or the little book that comes with the new release) is similar to doing learning Joni's stories, but I'm just not going to spend $60 on something like that. (I don't care if that means I'm not a part of the "Cool Club" or whatever. I've never been a part of that club anyway.) Joni Mitchell had a GREAT run and influenced countless artists, as well as wrote songs that many others have recorded (and Bonnie Raitt's version of "That Song about the Midway" is still, to me, better than Joni's version). If anything, let another artist do the "vault" stuff, similar to what Jonatha Brooke did with Woody Guthrie's "vault" writings. Lori in Caldwell, Idaho for now ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1433 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------