From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #628 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, May 5 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 628 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #623 ["Nina Pileggi" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:04:39 -0700 From: "Nina Pileggi" Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #623 Ok here goes. I have been lurking for some time! I am in my early 50's and was aware of Joni (I remember hearing Help Me in Jr. High, BYT, etc.). But I really only got majorly into Joni in the last two years. I have been playing guitar seriously for about three years now. My dad was a big Judy Collins fan and her version of Both Sides Now was ingrained in my musical consciousness. When my music teacher asked me to pick a song to learn, I picked BSN, and sang it as Judy did. My teacher said, "let's just listen to Joni's version". So we did and I was hooked. I have my music teacher (Alan Jones a local Portland jazz musician) to thanks for sending me down this path. Her phrasing, her lyrics, her voice, her chords with the alternate tunings! I was in love with it all. I have also learned Circle Game and am working on Free Man in Paris and This Flight Tonight. I am attempting Song for Sharon, but that is pretty tough! I have written a few songs and am thankful for what I have learned from Joni's songs - composition and lyrics. I bought the box set with most of the CD's and have been working my way through them. My favorites right now are All I Want, Free Man in Paris, Carey and Coyote. Song for Sharon made me tear up the first time I heard it. Thanks for welcoming me Lori. Nina - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 9:29 AM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #623 JMDL Digest Monday, May 5 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 623 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Re: Just curious ... who's still here? [Lori Renee Fye Subject: Re: Just curious ... who's still here? > I am here! My name is Nina Pileggi and I live in Beaverton, Oregon. I > have been on the list for some time, but have never posted. Well hi there, Nina and all! It's kind of cool to see the "lurkers" come out to post and play! :-) I've been on the JMDL -- mostly on, anyway, although I occasionally take a break -- since 1997. (Does that make me an old timer?) I feel as if I've told most of my "Joni stories" already, but maybe enough time has passed and retelling them one of two of them won't hurt. First Joni album (cassette, actually): Hejira. purchased at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS in 1977. It took me a while to warm to Hejira, but once I did I was hooked. I am now sharing a house in Idaho with the woman who, back in 1977, knocked on my door to ask, "Is that on the radio?" She's been my best friend ever since. (Not a lover, just a friend. Uncomplicated friendships last longer for me.) Second (also cassette): A "low end" copy of MOA, purchased in Regina, SK in 1978. The difference between Hejira and MOA kind of blew me away, and also blew the lid off my "urge for going" to discover and buy "everything Joni" I could get my hands on. Friends were enlisted in this venture, and I soon ended up with DJRD, Court and Spark, FTR, and THOSL, and probably in that order. Then I left (a) North Dakota (junction) and headed to Phoenix. Three weeks later I headed to Ohio for my 21st birthday and a good friend gave me Mingus as a present. I returned to Phoenix and haunted the used record stores, picking up STAS, Clouds, LOTC, and eventually Blue. Also, just because I spotted the artwork across a store, Shadow Play by the L.A. Express. Later during my time living in Phoenix, a girlfriend gave me Shadows and Light for Christmas. After that, I bought Joni's releases pretty much as soon as they came out, starting with WTRF, which felt like a wonderful rain shower after a drought. DED, the "love or hate" album, was "love" for me and it was really important in keeping me sane when I was stationed in Germany and surrounded by mostly people who had (and probably still have) political opinions very opposite my own. CMIARS was an "eh" for me, although I enjoyed it (and still do from time to time). NRH was a gift from a girlfriend who managed a Camelot record store. I'd known her for years and she used to make fun of my love for Joni's music until she got a promo of NRH and was blown away. And on and on ... I've always liked changing people's minds about Joni and I can tell a few stories about doing that. :-) There's more to my "Joni story" but mainly I just wanted to add some JC to this thread. I'd love to read (even again) everyone else's first and most important experiences with Joni's music, art, personal encounters, etc. I wasn't really looking for anyone in particular, Bob. :-) It just crossed my mind last night to wonder, since I'd resubbed recently but wasn't seeing many posts, who's still around. Glad to see y'all here! Lori, who started out on this list writing from San Antonio in '97, who rambled around all over creation, and who is now posting from Caldwell, Idaho :-) - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #623 ***************************** - ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #628 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------