From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #646 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, October 13 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 646 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #643 [Steve Danielson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 03:14:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Steve Danielson Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #643 I suppose everyone here has heard Joni's version of 'Magdalene Laundries' with The Chieftains. If not, a link to the song is below. The Irish instrumentation sounds great to me on that song since the laundries were in England and Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X473kTKMY5Y Steve From: JMDL Digest To: joni-digest@smoe.org Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:38 PM Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #643 JMDL DigestB B B B Tuesday, October 13 2015B B B B Volume 2015 : Number 643 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- B Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #623B B B B ["Mark Scott" ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:32:07 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #623 Mary said it so well and I agree that the lyrics to 'Turbulent Indigo' rank up among Joni's best.B Coupled with those amazing guitar sounds that Sue mentioned, creating that moody, shadowy, jangling shuffle, a song of dark beauty and power emerges that gives a vivid picture of the isolation and anguish that genius coupled with mental illness can create. 'Magdalene Laundries' is another classic Joni Mitchell song.B There is a gentle lilt to the haunting melody that is infused with sadness and a profound sense of a soul wounded by a horrific and unjust experience.B The first person point of view gives a powerful sense of injustice and the hypocrisy that created it. These bloodless brides of Jesus If they once glimpsed their groom Then they'd know Then they'd drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries They wilt the grass they walk upon They leach the light out of a room They'd like to drive us down the drain At the Magdalene Laundries and the heartbreaking hopelessness of that ending One day I'm going to die here too And they'll plant me in the dirt Like some lame bulb That never blooms come any spring Not any spring No, not any spring Not any spring 'Borderline' is another one that I think is a true gem.B Brilliant lyrics throughout. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #646 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------