From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #578 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, May 1 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 578 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: 10 of the best, maturity [lawntreader@googlemail.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 14:22:20 +0100 From: lawntreader@googlemail.com Subject: Re: 10 of the best, maturity Like you, Mark, I continue to be stunned by what I experience as the ethereal quality inherent to STAS. Even the much derided 'Pirate of Penance ' is close to my heart and I have banged on and on for years here about how stunned I was as a 14 year old back in 1968 hear the unbelievably orchestral guitar parts. All I heard in those days were standard G,C and F chords, it seemed. Then STAS comes along, played by a WOMAN! I couldn't believe it. Anita (wondering how long it will be till I tell that story again :-)) thanking you in advance for your kind patience) > On 1 May 2014, at 05:19, "Mark" wrote: > > I can't remember the exact context but in the Luminato Time Talks interview with John Pareles, after talking about 'Song to a Seagull', John Pareles started to ask Joni something about her 'more mature albums'. She stopped him and said 'That was a mature album'. > > I think there was some applause from the audience. I certainly would have applauded. I love 'STAS', one of my all time favorite albums. That record has a haunting beauty to it that always pulls me in. I'm no musician but I've been on the JMDL long enough to learn a bit of how to appreciate what she was doing with the guitar and the unique quality of those melodies. All so magically matched with her words. The guitar lines on 'I Had a King' and that beautiful arpeggio at the beginning of 'The Dawntreader' are sublime. > > Mark in Seattle > > -----Original Message----- From: Susan E. McNamara > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:10 PM > To: Betsy Blue ; joni@smoe.org > 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 #578 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------