From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #574 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, April 30 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 574 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: 10 of the best, maturity ["Susan E. McNamara" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 01:10:17 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: 10 of the best, maturity I have read and listened to many interviews and concerts where she completely dismisses her pre-70s songs and finds them childish. I would just like to say that I've talked to many fine musicians who think that Song To A Seagull is a masterpiece. There have been many jazz versions of I Had A King and almost all of the songs have a sublime quality to them for such a young artist. In the end, does it really matter what Joni says about this work, or is the music itself the judge? I personally think Marcie is a perfect song. Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Blue Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 12:28 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: 10 of the best, maturity "Mitchell is relentless in making her younger self seem callow and stupid. Where the 26-year-old Joni had seemed so confident that she was trilling precious wisdom, smug in her bubble of precocity, the 56-year-old Joni turns the words back on her without sympathy." This is specifically about BSN 2000, but I wonder if current Joni is starting to cut young Joni some slack. I recall hearing something in an interview about reflexively dismissing her earlier work. http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/30/joni-mitchell-10-of-the-best?CMP=twt_gu ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #574 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------