From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #944 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 Tuesday, July 22 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 944 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Post-polio syndrome [Laura Stanley ] Re: covers [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] covers [Vincenzo Mancini ] Long live listers [Ingrid Lochrenberg ] Re: Tribute albums [Ken Bausert ] Re: Joni lyrics in the most peculiar places [Catherine McKay Subject: Post-polio syndrome I'm teaching about post-polio syndrome. It is a painful thing to have, and I can't help but think of Joni. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:42:33 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: covers That's a good point Vincenzo...I like her cover of "How Do You Stop" much better than James Brown's original, and having said that it's not exactly a stellar song to begin with. I have gotten quite a few emails from people through JM.com informing me that Twisted is not a Joni song. Once can certainly argue the point. A Bird That Whistles included it on their tribute concert/CD release. I'd bet a lot of non-jazz aficianados are not familiar with the LHR version. Bob NP: Bruce Springsteen, "American Skin (41 Shots)" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. 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That does not prevent us from appreciating one cover or the other, frequently or not, and yet, it's not her! And as an indirect sign of her stellar "method acting", I think that her "Summertime" or "The Man I Love" could easily rank among almost any of ours TOP FIVE covers [can I launch another thread? ;-)], not to mention her "Twisted"... Vincenzo * (not really sure of the orthography...) she mentioned it, if I recall it correctly, during the DED promotional tour, telling a story about penguins, able to recognize one another because of their own peculiar "awk" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:31:15 +0200 From: Ingrid Lochrenberg Subject: Long live listers I have been so warmed by people encouraging me to keep writing. Mark, I am glad that you describe Joni as writing intellectual music along describing the immense emotional content of it.....To use Lori's wording, that we all are captivated by her warm chords. And then when we comment on her music we are mostly spinning around her lyrics. It is a gift that Joni has given us to pay such attention to those lyrics.....and revealing so much of herself, and thereby expressing what others have at the edge of their consciousness but do not communicate. It is wonderful that we can celebrate Joni by spinning around these lyrics...it gives us something (of her music) to connect us to the pool of human subliminal perceptions and longings, and specifically it helps us to communicate about things we wouldn't otherwise have a foothold to reach. Mark, I understand that you and others arrive at places in your thoughts that are not easily followed-perhaps because it is so uniquely personal and so deep, and so private,......I would like it if we engaged more on some of those personal places. But, I am happy enough that people are encouraging of others expressiveness, and I understand that just glimpsing and gliding over other's writing is most of what people can or may do, and that that is in itself a compliment.....that this list is a compliment not only to Joni, but to all of us. I for one will keep on writing, even if I am unsure of myself. I have more time at my disposal, and am going to try to give more of what I have received, here....meaning to encourage others in their writing. Ingrid ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:40:39 -0400 From: Ken Bausert Subject: Re: Tribute albums Regarding "covers"... I think cover versions, especially when collected in a tribute album, often have some amazing versions of songs we've all come to know & love so well; other times, I find them painful to listen to. I would certainly give the Laura Nyro tribute album a listen to but, because she was such a unique talent, I can understand some people not thinking anyone could do her songs as well as she. Kenny B ( in a rare, unlurking moment) From: Richard Flynn To: 'Garret' ; 'Dave Blackburn' Cc: fabiococchi@ymail.com; 'JMDL' Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 5:46:58 PM Subject: RE: Covering Joni's songs I just came across the announcement of this Laura Nyro Tribute: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/07/15/alison-krauss-joins-billy-childs-o n-laura-nyros-and-when-i-die-exclusive/ through the Laura Nyro Facebook group and a ton of people there were saying they couldn't listen to anyone by Laura Nyro herself. The sample of jazz composer and pianist Billy Childs featuring Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas is stunning. The CD is produced by Larry Klein. (slight Joni connection) I just don't understand a blanket refusal to listen to covers. I sure will buy this when it comes out in September. Sent from my iPad > On Jul 20, 2014, at 11:55 PM, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) wrote: > > From: Richard Flynn > To: 'Garret' ; 'Dave Blackburn' > Cc: fabiococchi@ymail.com; 'JMDL' > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 5:46:58 PM > Subject: RE: Covering Joni's songs > > > I just came across the announcement of this Laura Nyro Tribute: > http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/07/15/alison-krauss-joins-billy-childs-o > n-laura-nyros-and-when-i-die-exclusive/ > through the Laura Nyro Facebook group and a ton of people there were saying > they couldn't listen to anyone by Laura Nyro herself. > > The sample of jazz composer and pianist Billy Childs featuring Alison Krauss > and Jerry Douglas is stunning. The CD is produced by Larry Klein. (slight > Joni connection) > > I just don't understand a blanket refusal to listen to covers. I sure will > buy this when it comes out in September. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:52:48 -0700 From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni lyrics in the most peculiar places So I posted a snarky response in the comments section and am just waiting for trolls to ask, "Who cares!" ________________________________ From: Catherine McKay To: JMDL Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 3:46:54 PM Subject: Joni lyrics in the most peculiar places I clicked on a link on yahoo for a weird news story, and here's how it opened: 'bYou Donbt Know What Youbve Got (Till Itbs Gone)b might be the title of an almost-forgettable 1980s power ballad, but itbs also truebespecially when it comes to beauty products.' to which, my brain says, "WTF? 'almost-forgettable 1980s power ballad?'" What is that supposed to even mean, and how dare anyone diss what is probably her most-known hit from the 70s, not the 80s? Get the title right much? and WTF is a "power ballad?" I read no further than the first line but here's the article in case anyone give a crap! I was lured in by the idea that people would pay on EBay and so on far more than an item is worth for something that no doubt reached its best-before date decades ago, and which was likely recreated with a different name many times since. https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/most-in-demand-discontinued-beauty-products-151359 599.html ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #944 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------