From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #428 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 Monday, March 17 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 428 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Interview with Henry Lewy, article on jm.com ["Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Interview with Henry Lewy, article on jm.com One of Joni's biographers kept calling it "the archives". I think it was Karen O'Brien. Anyway, she meant the "Library" section of jonimitchell.com. Today, I googled "Henry Lewy" and found a big interview, already on Les' site... The late Henry Lewy, said in part, >"She comes up with the arrangements she does from listening carefully to her own piano or guitar parts. She has a very interesting style - she's essentially self-taught and actually invents her own chords frequently - and she can hear in her own parts the components of the fuller arrangement. When Joni gets musicians in the studio, the first three or four takes are usually just for listening. She doesn't want to think too much about them - she just wants to play, and frequently you get some real magic happening in those takes." Lewy says he likes to use just guitar-bass-drums or even guitar-drums when the song is new because "if there are too many players, she has a tendency to lose the intricacies of her guitar playing and she'll play *with* them instead of *them* playing with her. And since her guitar is the heart of the arrangements you lose something when that happens."> http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=590 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #428 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------