From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #868 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, June 25 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 868 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: The Later/Better side of Joni ["Mark" ] Re: jmdl and joni ["Cassy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:21:36 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: The Later/Better side of Joni Maybe it's bad list etiquette but I have to say it. Brilliantly stated. Thank you, John. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: johncalimee@frontier.com Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 8:36 PM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Later/Better side of Joni A minority of at least two perhaps. I came in with Blue/Court and Spark. And most definitely I find her later work far more listenable and rewarding to my ears. As brilliant as Blue is, Ive listened to Chalk Mark 50 times more often than I've listened to Blue. Dancing Clown 100 times more often than River, as there are days I pull out Chalk Mark JUST to take in DC. There is no part of her journey I have not delighted in. And the later part of her journey is as rich and rewarding as the middle or beginning. At least to my ears. When the chapter is closed on my book, I will have listened to her voice, more than any other single human voice in the entirety of my life. Somewhere I lost track of 'albums' or records or CDs and it just became Joni, the voice in my life. Be it Joni in recording. Joni 'live.' Joni in conversation. -It's not like I pick up product and listen to it. And as an artist I most appreciate the journey of that voice and her music. Chalk Mark was described recently on the list as choral music. In some ways I like to think of it as some of her collage pieces. As she's said, she likes to take snippets of this take, snippets of that take and shape them together. It has the illusion of free form, but its not. It's an aural painting. Getting back to the praises of Dancing Clown..... On the one hand there's the serious, somber Joni. The one she lamented that came with the fame of Blue. She takes up the subject of love and lays some serious shit about what she sees in one person's obsession with another person. Which is legit. Like watching a scene from life and there's Jose Feliciano (sp?) having some serious dynamic going on with a woman. But it is just as likely one walks out into night life on the trendy side of town, taking in some random actors playing out an almost laughable game of cat and mouse -between some hottie who knows they are hot, being followed and swooned over by a string of 'damaged' hopefuls. In a certain light it is more comical than it is fodder for writing the next Hejira. -And that's what she did. Kept it light. If I want serious, I can listen to Blue. If I want happy, I can listen to Wild Things. If I'm thinking, "sometimes, Life, you just have to laugh at it, it can be so silly" -I pull out Dancing Clown. I can see Jesse, thinking with his little head, ( -and his large head not much brighter) going, "OooooohhhH Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhh." to some babe he wishes -or thinks- he has the charm to win over. It makes me laugh. And I delight in the word play of 'swoosh of jungle blades and the crackle of northern ice". It. is. fun. Because she did such a good job of painting a Starry Night does not mean I want her to paint it again for the next 30 years. Much as I am touched by Blue. If she'd never written Blue, I might long for something more from her cannon. But she did. Her cannon is so complete, so fascinating to me that all the eras have space to just be what they are. And if by luck or grace 'This Rain' becomes part of a new body of work, I will look at as a most familiar and beloved friend coming to my door for a visit. Living in the now. As much as delighting in the past. It's more fun that way. But then, I'm 'in the minority.' -And loving the hell out of it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:49:49 -0700 From: "Cassy" Subject: Re: jmdl and joni Joni calls us her "internet people" and she loves us! Cassy - -----Original Message----- From: Ingrid Lochrenberg Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:09 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: jmdl and joni I was wondering about jmdl trying to persuade Joni to come to a gathering organized by Bob ( a suggestion, since you seem the most dedicated jmdl'er) . Or do you think we would count as the fans that she is thoroughly bored with? Why can't we organize a get -together months ahead (since some of us would need to travel from afar, and everyone has to plan and get organized), with the assurance of Joni that she will attend. Then of course it might be impossible to get hold of her....no wonder it is the destiny of these stars get lonely if they end up having to take recourse to complete isolation from the public in order to have manageable lives. So, IF someone can get hold of her, why don't we consider this as a possibility? ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #868 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------