From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #436 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, August 17 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 436 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list [Dave ] Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list ["Susan E.] Hidden Treasures..... ["Peter Holmstedt" ] Re: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list [Bob.M] Re: Idaho, biking, SC Jonifest [lcs4bike@yahoo.com] Re: POTUS [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:14:55 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list Really? Really? Dylan? Does he convey his talent on a special wavelength that my receiver doesnbt have or something? And Chuck Berry, ahead of Joni Mitchell? What planet is this, again? > On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > > http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters > > Guess who is #1! > > Sue Tierney McNamara > Email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:55:41 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters Guess who is #1! Sue Tierney McNamara Email: sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:54:47 +0200 From: "Peter Holmstedt" Subject: Hidden Treasures..... AMERICANA ALBUM DEFINES ITSELF AS "TRUE GEM" In 1965, Elektra Records issued what would become for many years a rare collector's album that was most notable for perhaps popularizing the term "singer-songwriter". Featuring tracks from four obscure troubadours from the budding Greenwich Village folk scene, the "Singer Songwriter Project" was released without fanfare. Yet it captured the sense of both the spirit of the genre and the direction it was heading. The album project featured Patrick Sky, Bruce Murdoch, David Cohen (aka Blue), who went on to write the Eagles' hit "Outlaw Man" and joined Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review in 1975, and Dick (Richard) Farina, who penned "Birmingham Sunday", a song later recorded by his future sister-in-law, Joan Baez. While the "Singer Songwriter Project" was never considered a seminal recording, it did capture the imagination of Swedish music industry veteran Peter Holmstedt, whose independent A&R, promotion and marketing company Hemifran has worked with artists ranging from Jack Bruce and Jackson Browne, to Judy Collins and Sid Griffin (the Long Ryders and the Coal Porters), and to Elliott Murphy (who also penned the liner notes for the new release) to Gary Wright. 50 years from the original project, Holmstedt has just commemorated the work with the release of "Hidden Treasures - Singer Songwriters From Home", a collection of songs from 4 distinct artists whose 18 tracks flow seamlessly through a collection of well-told stories put to song. The players hail from different parts of the USA - Keith Miles from Nashville, Barry Ollman from Denver, Greg Copeland from Los Angeles and Bob Cheevers from Austin. They don't appear on each other's songs. They've never played together before. But a listen through this album, which will be available on September 4th, 2015, creates a feeling of four old friends sitting in at a writers-in-the-round show in a small club "somewhere in America". The first 4 songs set that stage well. Copeland opens with "Wait for Me," a plaintive ballad of powerful prose backed by a sweetly strummed acoustic guitar, uilleann pipes (by Patrick Sky, from the original "Singer Songwriter Project"!) and an Irish fiddle. Miles powerfully and beautifully sings "Playing Your Guitar", an ode to the memories that can be found in an old six-string, a song he co-wrote with good friend and Nashville guitar store owner Kim Peery Sherman. On "These Are My Words", Cheevers, singing in a distinctive Willie Nelson-esque vibrato, weaves a songwriter's confessional that his fictional tales of love are indeed real. Ollman follows with "Longtime Friend", a melodic story about true friendship that includes a well-turned shout out to Righteous Brothers: 'The search is on for that loving feeling, in the end it's true we are on our own, I think it is better walking there together, step by step into the great unknown'. As should be expected when this many songwriters independently work on a project, the cuts run a gamut of styles, both in terms of the stories they tell and the music behind them, which makes them Americana at its best. Miles' "Homeland", which he co-wrote with longtime collaborator Jack Sundrud and was later recorded by Kenny Rogers, and Ollman's "Murmuration" are both soaring and deep-felt homages to prairie life and starlings in flight, respectively. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Cheevers throws in a delightful homespun musical interpretation of Washington Irving's famous tale. Miles is at his best on "Kerouac Days", which captures the carefree spirit of the great beat writer, and on the smile-inducing toe-tapper "Ask Me Tomorrow", which cautions his muse: 'I ain't got time for you to wait to take a chance, when I move you know I like to hit the gas. I like my tea with gin and lots of sassafras, staying one step in front of sorrow'. Cheevers is wistful on "Progress", capturing what many of us think, that 'fool's gold' is sometimes disguised as change. Copeland brings along a couple of friends David Lindley and Jackson Browne on "Are You Here" and a recorded-live "Pretty Girl Rules the World", which Browne says is like a Beach Boys song if the Beach Boys had been political. It just works. The beauty of "Hidden Treasures - Singer Songwriters From Home" album is in its sequencing, a production feat that allows each song to stand fully on its own while gelling together to form a unified work of music. That sequencing, and the quality of each individual piece, is what allows the album to continue getting better with each run-through as it takes the listener through these stories from home. 'Singer-songwriter' is a hard term to clearly define. It's not actually a genre, neither is it just someone singing the songs they wrote. Perhaps in the end it is a state of mind, both of those doing the writing and singing, and those of us doing the listening. Most would agree, however, that the key ingredient is storytelling - through words and music, with each driving the other. On this measure, "Hidden Treasures - Singer Songwriters From Home" defines itself as a true gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHaUUfnMKNY &feature=youtu.be ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:24:57 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list I'm OK with that list. It is goofy that they mention "Both Sides Now" and "Clouds" as if they are two different songs. D'oh! But all in all, great praise and they rightfully call her 1970-1974 run as one of the strongest ever which is true. Bob NP: Wolf Alice, "Giant Peach" From: "Susan E. McNamara" To: "'joni@smoe.org'" , Date: 08/17/2015 05:04 PM Subject: Joni #9 in Rolling Stones Top 100 Songwriters of All Time list Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-songwriters Guess who is #1! Sue Tierney McNamara Email: sem8@cornell.edu - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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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But I don't want to steal any of Chuck's thunder! ;)))) Interesting about North Idaho. I will Google to find out more and possible go there someday. The name mystery is cool too. What type of biking do you do? I'm an avid road cycler and have been since my teens but just got back into it in the past few years. I've been working up to a 100 mile ride so I try to bike consistently. I biked 50 miles yesterday in the cooler Arkansas morning averaging 15 mph with one good climb and several smaller ones, and it felt great! I was very excited to hear from Bob that the place where we'll be for the Jonifest has one of the top 10 road bike trails right by it. If you Steve or anybody else are going to the SC Jonifest and road bikes, please bring your bike to the fest and lets ride!! Lovely day, Laura PS. Keeping this Joni content to reach out to all avid road cyclers. Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:40:22 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: POTUS A bit disappointed to see that it was her biggest hit ("Help Me")...was hoping for something a bit deeper. Still, very glad it wasn't BYT and if it had been Dancin' Clown I would have been horrified. After all I did vote for the dude twice. Bob NP: Tom Waits, "New Year's Eve" From: Michael Sentance To: "joni@smoe.org" , Date: 08/14/2015 01:03 PM Subject: POTUS Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org Joni is on the President's summer playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/thewhitehouse/playlist/3fAriv8eMWELCwbWrhMKy2?ref=wp - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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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