From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #274 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Sunday, July 2 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 274 The 'Official' Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. --- The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. --- Ashara has set up a "Wally Breese Memorial Fund" with all donations going directly towards the upkeep of the website. Wally kept the website going with his own funds. it is now up to US to help Jim continue. If you would like to donate to this fund, please make all checks payable to: Jim Johanson and send them to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA. 01983 USA ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Fwd: Mendel Opening [Scott Price ] Saskatoon Update [AsharaJM@aol.com] FREE ["Ada Wittenberger" ] Catalogue ["Jamie Zubairi" ] Re: Catalogue [KCooper984@aol.com] More Canadian Favors [AsharaJM@aol.com] Re: Saskatoon Update [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Saskatoon Update [pat holden ] NIGHT RIDE HOME [dave fairall / beth miller ] special Joni songs ["James Phillips" ] joni/mendel article [Murphycopy@aol.com] joni from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.com [Murphycopy@aol.com] from yesterday's saskatoon star phoenix [Murphycopy@aol.com] more joni coverage [Murphycopy@aol.com] Transcriber ["Kate Bennett" ] joni en francais [Murphycopy@aol.com] Joni on 12 string question ["James Phillips" ] Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame [MGVal@aol.com] Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame [RandyRemote ] Re: for the roses, court and spark, wild things run fast [SCJoniGuy@aol.c] Re: more joni coverage ["Kakki" ] Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame [IVPAUL42@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:13:22 -0700 From: Scott Price Subject: Re: Fwd: Mendel Opening At 02:01 AM 7/1/00 EDT, AngelinoCoyote@aol.com wrote: >Cub reporter Coyote Rick from the field. Tonight was perfect. As I told >Joni tonight, I expected nothing less. Yep, I spoke with her twice today. >The exhibit and she were wonderful. Rick, You should be promoted!! No more "cub" status for you...what a great report. Thank you for taking time out from what must be an incredible night to share all the happenings with the rest of us. I'm so happy that everything was "perfect." I'll be going to sleep tonight with a smile. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 03:54:01 EDT From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: Saskatoon Update Hi Everyone! I am excited, exhilarated, and utterly exhausted. This day has been one of the most incredible days. I will try to pull my thoughts together, because I truly feel that I am living this day for all of you as well. Kenny wrote to me and said,"Ironic, you're in Dreamland, but not a long long way from Canada at all :-) " and that statement couldn't be more true. First of all, it is so amazing to me to be able to report all this to you as it is happening. It's hard to believe that it's even possible! Anyway....this morning, we had breakfast, and there was a really, really wonderful article in the Saskatoon paper about Joni, and the exhibit. Several color photographs, and other pictures. I will get this to Les when I get back, and maybe he can scan them, and transcribed the article. It was a good one. Then around 1PM, I had lunch with 20 of my now nearest and dearest friends. The only lister in this group that I had met previously was Penny, as she was in Topsfield last year for the New England Jonifest. Everyone, of course is so great, and it is so nice to be able to put faces with names. I somehow managed to finagle a press pass, so at 3 o'clock I headed down to the Mendell for the press conference. As I have already said, I have the entire press conference on video tape. It was about an hour of the press asking questions and Joni answering them. Afterwards, we had a half hour to look at the paintings, photograph them and video tape them. David Mingus and Jim took lots of stills while I continued to video tape. The paintings are GORGEOUS, and amazing to see in person! I'll leave it to the art critics in the group to expound on them. Back to the room, to change and get ready for the private reception that I also wrangled my way into. Outside of our hotel, The Bessborough, while Jim and I were waiting for David Mingus and his partner, David to show up, out of the hotel came Joni with Gilles, the curator, Donald Freed, her friends Val, Chris and Shel, and a few others. She stopped to talk for a few minutes, and mentioned that the next painting she is planning on doing is from a picture of Wally and Val that she had taken on the weekend that Wally and Jim visited her in her home. I was really touched by that. The private reception was very nice, and pretty crowded. Towards the end, I was able to get my catalog signed. As she had signed a bunch of them already, she started to sign her name twice to mine, and caught herself after she had started the J. So, instead she made a little picture from it. So, now I can say I have an original piece of artwork from Joni Mitchell! I also had a chance to speak to Shel, Chris and Val, who were extremely nice, and really liked my name. Then we all went outside for the opening remarks, which I also got on video. And again, I was asked by CBC radio, for yet another show for an interview, which I happily accepted. So, for those of you that will be listening, I think that one airs after the 8:40 show. Ended the night with watched myself on TV, which was very surrealistic, and talking to sweet Rob (Evian) and his lovely wife Tracy until almost 2 AM. Thank you a million times for anyone that taped the CBC. Please send me a copy, and we'll squeeze it onto this Mendell tape. All in all, a wonderful day, full of Joni and close encounters of the Joni kind. Your tired roving cloud 9,999 reporter, Ashara with hugs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:01:14 GMT From: "Ada Wittenberger" Subject: FREE AJFJSGODGHASIZSIOVWEIFRHOOWEGFOSHXCOFJXSODOVGFSOCFNHFHFJZGGJXGJGEPGJKKVJ;[PTJGJW[GVJDFOPGHPDOPGSSJVGASOCGKASHBFABQDBBDAIFCBZAIZUIAIAGCBVAIAUICZAUHXGAJUIAJZAHCBJUIzaZJZCBZJZNCBJZajHXCJajZHCZJZHCBZJZJCJZZXZSZXZXKIZXKCVHZSKJHZXKKCV AKJCHXKKIhcxlzchalnslZ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:30:02 +0100 From: "Jamie Zubairi" Subject: Catalogue Hello All you folks in Saskatoon!!!! I was just wondering if you could possibly purchase a catalogue for me. I can pay in US dollars only unfortunately so maybe a US lister there would be so kind.... Are all the signed ones gone? Jamie Zoob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:23:22 EDT From: KCooper984@aol.com Subject: Re: Catalogue Hi! I'm wondering if someone could buy me a catalogue too!!!!!!!! Sitting here happy for you all who got to meet and greet Joni..........but still feeling green nonetheless!!!!!!!!! Sue Cooper ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:37:10 EDT From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: More Canadian Favors So....this is my thought...if the Canadian contingency can watch for TV news shots of the Mendel opening and send them to me as soon as you can, I think those spots along with what I've got on tape already, will make a great 2 hour tape. If you send them right away, I can make the tape as soon as I get home in mid July and start getting it out to all of you immediately. I will be treeing this tape along with another Master I have waiting at home which includes Letterman, Rosie and the TNT special. So, if there is anyone out there that has 2 good quality VCR's and is willing to dub tapes for listers please let me know if you haven't been in touch with me already about this. If you are duplicating tapes for people, please send 2 blank tapes to me in a postage paid envelope so I will have everything set to go when I get home. Please include your name, e-mail address, and let me know how many copies it would be comfortable for you to make. Send it to: Ashara Stansfield P.O. Box 215 Topsfield, MA 01983 I can't wait to get this into all of your hands! Hugs, Ashara www.photon.net/lightnet ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:43:21 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Saskatoon Update << she is planning on doing is from a picture of Wally and Val that she had taken on the weekend that Wally and Jim visited her in her home. I was really touched by that. >> As was I...like the infamous Jackson Browne would sing, "Here Comes those tears again".... Wow - this is like a wonderful dream - I can't believe it! I'm SOO delighted for all of you, especially for my good buddy John Callimee, who was so nervous about meeting Joni he asked me to "prep" him for the experience! :~) You guys are the greatest! Thanks Coyote & Ashara for your superb reporting! Coyote Rick, you have definitely graduated from the ranks of "Cub" to a full-fledged "Grizzly". ;-) I praise the powers above that all this is happening for you and that I can experience it too, even if it's vicariously!! Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:03:14 -0500 From: pat holden Subject: Re: Saskatoon Update bob wrote: <> and weepy me says: Ive been crying with joy through all of these wonderful posts....my heart aches!!!! Oh joy oh bliss...I am speechless and loving every moment I read about the Mendel. What a gift the jmdl has become....you have no idea. Amazing grace. thank you all so much for sharing so generously...I feel like Im there with you. Mags ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:05:38 -0500 From: dave fairall / beth miller Subject: NIGHT RIDE HOME Me too Lou!! Although it doesn't have to be summer for me to hum that tune, it's a great one!! Other Joni songs that pop in unsolicited from time to time include Jericho, {in stressful situations}, Turbulent Indigo,{automatic response to spontaneous pontificating}, and Case of You, { guess because I'm a hopeless romantic}. Dave F. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:59:12 EST From: "James Phillips" Subject: special Joni songs Well, In Champaign, there has been a lot of what used to be farm-land on the outskirts of town becoming part of Champaign. Some call it progress, I call it paving paradice to put up a parking lot. Whenever I see all the construction, Big Yellow Taxi immediately comes to my mind. For when I'm feeling a little bitter, my favourite is Happiness is the Best Face Lift, which has a bittersweet sarcasm to it, I think anyways. Happy 4th of July to all my fellow Americans on the list, James O. Phillips ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:07:10 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: joni/mendel article Friday June 30 10:17 PM ET Joni Mitchell returns home to open art show By Irene Marushko SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Singer Joni Mitchell turned down the volume on her music and displayed her painting skills at the much-awaited opening of her art exhibit in her Canadian Prairie hometown on Friday. ``I wanted my parents to be able to attend a retrospective of my work,'' Mitchell told reporters at the opening of the exhibit, which is expected to attract some 5,000 people. ``They were always encouraging of my work,'' said Mitchell, who left her California home for Saskatoon, where her parents live, to hang the exhibit of 85 works at the city's largest gallery, the Mendel. Titled 'Voices: Joni Mitchell', it features self-portraits, abstract drawings and snowy Prairie scenes that draw on the farming province where Mitchell spent her childhood years before gaining musical fame in the 1960s. ``I'm not nervous,'' she said as she chainsmoked in the central hall of the multi-media retrospective of photos, prints, water colors and oil paintings that also featured her poetry and lyrics, with music playing in the background. Mitchell said this was the most complete exhibit of her art to date. Some of the works have appeared on the covers of her CDs and albums. A Homecoming Show The Mendel Gallery, a public institution perched on the banks of the South Saskatchewan river that intersects this city of 200,000, will show the paintings until Sept. 17. Tourism officials have prepared for an large numbers of visitors, many of whom have followed the singer during a career that has spanned 30 years and recently culminated in the release of the CD, Both Sides Now. A song of the same name, and other enduring hits like Big Yellow Taxi and The Circle Game, pushed Mitchell to fame that has withstood the passage of years. ``In every case we attempted to show something that was significant and representative of the period,'' said curator Gilles Hebert. Mitchell said other galleries had expressed interest in hosting the show after its close in Saskatoon. Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta, and moved to Saskatoon at age nine. Although she has lived in California since the late 1960s she is still considered a national treasure in Canada. Much of her art shows landscapes inspired by the vastness of the country in which she was born. ``It's a homecoming,'' she said, adding it was not unusual for an artist to return to her roots as a source of inspiration for her work. Reuters/Variety ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:22:05 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: joni from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.com Mendel braces for media frenzy Flurry of reporters, photographers from Canada, U.S. among 5,000 flocking to city exhibition By Betty Ann Adam Reporters and visitors from around North America will be gathering in a tent behind the Mendel Art Gallery today hoping to see Joni Mitchell's work and perhaps catch a glimpse of the artist herself. On Thursday a crew of gardeners pruned, weeded and raked the Japanese garden while a woman hosed down the walkways in preparation for today's opening of Mitchell's exhibition. Organizers are expecting 5,000 people, including reporters, photographers and television crews from Canada and the United States, said Ian Eichhorn, who is helping to co-ordinate the event. They include the Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, New York Times, CBC, CTV, Fashion Television from Toronto and Bravo Television, which will attend to create a segment that will probably also be aired on MuchMusic, Much More Music and CityTV. Newsweek magazine will also run a story on the exhibit in next week's edition, though it's not sending a reporter to the opening, Eichhorn said. "There's the celebrity status that's bringing some of the national and international media but there are also a good number of people who are really interested in covering the artwork, which is as it should be," he said. Eichhorn answered many phone calls and e-mails from people who are travelling to Saskatoon for the opening. Among them is a woman from New Jersey, who "scraped together" the money to come, Eichhorn said. He arranged to meet her at the gallery when she arrived Wednesday and show her around. He also expects visitors from New Orleans, Vermont, Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago and Iowa. Inquiries have come from Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Australia and London, England. He has also been in contact with a couple of ladies, 85 and 86 years old, who are driving to Saskatoon from New Brunswick for the event. Eichhorn said he doesn't know whether Mitchell has invited any celebrity friends. He smiled when asked if he had heard a rumour that Jack Nicholson might come. "I've heard that too. I think it's just a rumour. I couldn't say either way but I'd sure like to see him," he said. But it's Mitchell herself the fans who've contacted the gallery want to see, he said. Although it's not unusual for an artist to attend the opening of her show, it is less common when the artist is a celebrity, Eichhorn said. Business began picking up at the gallery gift shop two weeks ago, as curious visitors began stopping in to find out more about the exhibition, store supervisor Michael Gibson said Thursday. "Sales have already increased from people curious to see what's happening," Gibson said as a handful of customers waited to pay for postcards despite the gallery itself being closed in preparation for today's opening. The gallery store has posters advertising the show for sale for $10 each. It's also selling a 64-page, full colour, hard cover edition of the exhibition catalogue for $45. For those who prefer a more exclusive memento, the gallery is also selling poster reproductions of the paintings Mitchell made for the front and back of her latest CD, Both Sides Now. Signed posters come with a hefty $450 price tag while those without autographs are for sale for $300. The posters are exclusive, not just because of their prices, but because they are being sold only at the gallery, not by mail order or on the gallery's Web site, Eichhorn said. They are the same posters that Mitchell sold at her recently completed U.S. tour to promote the CD, said Eichhorn. "From what I've heard from people who saw her concerts this past year, she brings a few things and those who have made an effort to come and see the actual show, she has a few things that people, if they wish to, can pick up." About 500 people have been invited to a private reception and viewing with Mitchell before the free public opening at 8 p.m. Mitchell will attend the public opening as well. It will begin with comments in front of the gallery by dignitaries, such as Premier Roy Romanow and Mayor Henry Dayday. Visitors will then be allowed into the gallery and later outside to an outdoor reception behind the gallery. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:32:24 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: from yesterday's saskatoon star phoenix Saskatoon, SK, Canada July 01, 2000 Local time: 11:17:48 AM Mitchell-mania takes hold Fans from around the globe converge on city for historic Mendel show By Sheila Robertson It's just days before the Mendel Art Gallery launches the biggest exhibition in its 36-year history and the director, Gilles Hébert, is understandably busy. He's a big, friendly man, normally laid-back. But he's walking and talking quickly now, and when he pauses, it's to nervously worry a hangnail. As he leads the way to his office, he hands a package to his receptionist. "Can you courier this to Joni?" he asks. He means Joni Mitchell, and if you'd asked him a couple of years ago if he figured he'd ever be on a first-name basis with the cultural icon, he'd have laughed. For more than a year, Hébert has been working with Mitchell on a retrospective show incorporating her artwork, voice and lyrics. Planning began last May in Saskatoon and he has since met with her three times at her Los Angeles home. The result is voices, a multidisciplinary exhibition opening today. It promises to be an art event unlike any Saskatoon has seen. For that matter, the stir it's creating is rare at Canada's larger museums, several of which have expressed interest in getting the show that brings together drawings, photographs and paintings Mitchell has created over the past 35 years. Hébert is coy about whether the National Gallery of Canada is one of the bidders. "She is a Canadian cultural treasure," he allows. But he adds plans for the tour haven't yet been finalized. "I've suggested to Joni that we don't even think about it until after the opening." Motorists cruising past on Spadina Crescent Thursday might not have noticed, but the Mendel was the site of feverish preparations as staff put the finishing touches on the show and braced themselves to welcome more than 5,000 visitors to today's opening. A big issue "is dealing with the traffic and the pedestrians outside, in front of the building," says Anne DeWolfe, a communications and development consultant under contract to the gallery. DeWolfe, who recently moved to Saskatoon from Toronto, once saw an outdoor papal mass in Halifax overshadowed by horrendous transit problems. "It was a wonderful ecumenical event, but all anyone could talk about was how it took all night to get home," she says. After consulting with police and civic officials, the Mendel obtained permission to have Spadina blocked off in front of the gallery during the opening. There will be additional security inside and out. Gallery advertising circulated this week advises people to park near the YWCA or City Hospital and walk to the opening. Since the event is free and open to the public, lineups are expected, but the gallery will remain open until midnight. The grounds around the Mendel are being spruced up, and the paving tiles along the walkway have recently been replaced. There won't be a red carpet on that sidewalk, though. Said Gallery director Gilles Hébert:" This is a retrospective, not a tribute." But tell that to the fans converging here from around the world. Ian Eichhorn, hired as project assistant for the event, has been corresponding with Joni devotees from California to New Hampshire, England to Australia. "The Joni Mitchell Website, jonimitchell.com, got hold of information about the show and there's been a huge buzz among the fans," Eichhorn says. Six little words in the ads have propelled an already significant exhibition into a mega-event: "The artist will be in attendance." Born in Fort Macleod, Alta., in 1943, Joan Anderson spent her early years in small Prairie towns, including Maidstone and North Battleford. When she was nine, she settled in Saskatoon with her father, a manager with a chain of grocery stores, and her school teacher mom. In 1961, the young woman who'd spent so much time doodling in the margins of her notebooks graduated from Aden Bowman Collegiate and left Saskatoon for the Alberta College of Art in Calgary. She kept making art but, until now, it's not what she's been noted for. She has always described herself as an artist who got sidetracked. It was a big detour. After some lean times in Toronto and Detroit, her singing and songwriting career took off in California in 1968. The artist does return to Saskatoon frequently; her parents and her boyfriend, singer Don Freed, live here. However, these visits are unheralded. When he met with Mitchell at a local cafe last spring, Hébert recalls, they were swarmed with patrons. "People were running home to get their albums and CDs for her to sign. She was so great. She'd ask them their names and then she'd say, 'Henderson. Now let's see. Are you related to the Hendersons that used to live on 14th Street?' "She has vivid memories of living in Saskatoon, and hanging out at the pool on Avenue H, because it had the best jukebox." Many of her contemporaries, now in their 50s, remember some of her earliest performances, at a Broadway Avenue coffee house called the Louis Riel (now the site of Calories.) Undoubtedly, the Saskatoon fans, who've followed her career with special interest, will turn out for the voices opening. So will many from farther afield. Everybody wants to know, `Is Joni going to be performing?' " Eichhorn notes. He tells them all the same thing. "She's not scheduled to do anything." He's been asked about accommodation, everything from four-star hotels to hostels. People want to know about the city and what else is happening at the same time. He's been telling them about the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival and Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, both under way during the voices opening. Since Mitchell's recent release, Both Sides Now, has a strong jazz influence, "I expect there'll be a lot of cross-over" amongst art and jazz fans, Eichhorn says. The opening is drawing unprecedented media coverage as well. There will be several TV crews and correspondents from Reuters, the Georgia Strait and the Ottawa Citizen, among others. Mitchell will give a media tour of the exhibition Friday afternoon with Hébert. She'll also be at a private reception before the 8 p.m. opening. The opening will be outdoors, "and then 600 or 700 people will be allowed into the gallery at the same time to see the exhibition," Hébert says. Visitors will proceed through the gallery and out the back door to the reception, to be held in a 55- by 12-metre tent. The tent is necessary to accommodate the crowd. It also resolves the little dilemma presented by a smoke-free museum and a guest artist who is a chain smoker. Sponsoring the exhibition, which Hébert says is costing between $120,000 and $125,000, are The Investors Group, The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Inc., SaskTel and Camille Mitchell and family. This Mitchell is no relation to the artist; she's the granddaughter of meat packing mogul Fred Mendel, founder and benefactor of the civic gallery and conservatory. Hébert says the opportunity to introduce voices, Mitchell's first Canadian exhibition, is worth hassles with lineups, parking and porta-potties. "We're able to do it thanks to the gallery's remarkable staff," he says. "It's great for the city and for us." Adds DeWolfe, "It's good for the Mendel to be able to draw in people who don't usually come to the gallery. Joni Mitchell is local. She's extremely successful. She's an artist in many mediums...but she hasn't forgotten her roots. "I think she really honours Saskatoon by choosing this venue as the first for her retrospective." Working with Mitchell has been "exhilarating, fun and challenging," Hébert says. "She is generous, accommodating and she has very high standards. She knows what she wants. It's refreshing to work with someone that focused." Mitchell "has a specific palette in all things, beyond her painting and her work," the gallery director notes. "She likes blues, but not clear blues. She likes off-colours." As if for emphasis, Hébert is summoned at this point to approve the poster for the exhibition. It's a reproduction of Mitchell's 1995 painting, Turbulent Indigo, the cover art for her release of the same name. In it, she depicts herself, after Van Gogh's famous self-image, with a bandaged head. "It's beautiful. It looks great," Hébert says of the poster, bordered in purple. "But can we find out if Joni has approved the purple, as opposed to periwinkle blue?" He's concerned, too, that the blues in the poster aren't true to the painting. Wearing protective white gloves, program facilitator Alex Stratulat brings Turbulent Indigo out of the vault and into the office for comparison. The painting, in its $2,000 frame, is stunning and Mitchell's presence is suddenly there, seeming to stare rather sadly and disapprovingly on the scene. A flurry of phone calls to managers and public relations types fails to produce confirmation about the poster's background colour. To be on the safe side, a decision is made to go with the blue border. "I think that's what Joni wanted," Hébert says. Turbulent Indigo is a key work in this retrospective exhibition, he notes. Van Gogh cut off his ear in 1888 after a violent fight with the artist Gaugin, but Mitchell's self-mutilation is symbolic. Turbulent Indigo was painted after her keynote address at the Canadian Conference of the Arts meeting in Saskatoon in 1994, Hébert explains. The title of the speech, "We're going to make Van Goghs," is the theme of the title cut on her 1995 Turbulent Indigo recording. It addresses the whole notion of creativity. She took some criticism for that speech and went home and painted herself as Van Gogh, missing an ear. "It was a time when she was probably feeling undervalued," Hébert says. Yet Turbulent Indigo won two Grammy awards that year, for best pop album and best album cover. Mitchell has exhibited widely. She had a major show in Los Angeles last year, and has had others in Europe and Japan. "But she has all the insecurities of any artist," Hébert says. "There's no presumption here. She doesn't assume people are going to be drawn into her work because of who she is." He notes that, if asked to name a favourite artist, she'll list visual artists, musicians and writers. She doesn't distinguish amongst art forms, being so comfortable with all three herself. Fittingly, this retrospective includes not only her art but excerpts from her writing and records. There will be lyrics on the gallery walls, and five of her CDs, including jazz, pop and folk music, on random repeat. Of the 81 works showing until mid-September, 30 are photo works and 13 are prints, reproduced from early drawings in felt marker. The rest are watercolours and oil paintings. Early in her career, Mitchell took felt markers with her on the road. In the 1980s, she was using acrylics and working with photography. She was also exploring abstraction. Her recent works are mostly oil paintings, combining landscape and figurative work. One of the themes of the exhibition is Mitchell's connection to the Prairies, Hébert says. There's a painting featuring the Edmonton skyline, and another of a snowy country lane. There are also photographic works with layered images reflecting a sentimental journey she took in the late 1980s, a road trip with then-husband Larry Klein between her birthplace in Fort Macleod, through Maidstone and North Battleford to Saskatoon. So many things I would've done/ But clouds got in my way, Mitchell sang in the 1960s, and echoes, more knowingly, in her recent version of the song, Both Sides Now. Her retrospective offers viewers - and listeners - a chance to marvel at just how much she has done.     All materials © The StarPhoenix 204 5th Avenue North Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7K 2P1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:54:03 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: more joni coverage Joni Mitchell opens first Canadian exhibition of her art in SaskatoonCRAIG WONGTurbulent Indigo (1995, oil on linen, 26.5 x 22.5 x 2.5 in.) by Joni Mitchell is part of an exhibition by the famous musician unveiled at the Mendel Gallery, June 30. (CP/Sheila Spence) SASKATOON (CP) - Canadian music icon Joni Mitchell opened her first exhibition in Canada on Friday of her painting, photographs and other art works. Mitchell's illustrations and paintings have graced album covers since her album debut in 1968 and her latest release, Both Sides Now, which features a self portrait of her smoking a cigarette. That image came to life Friday as she waved around a lit cigarette while explaining why it was important for her to open the exhibit in her old home town. "I wanted my parents to be able to attend a retrospectives of my work," she said. Mitchell, 56, was born in Fort Macleod in southern Alberta and moved around the Prairies when she was a young girl before her parents settled in Saskatoon. Despite living in Los Angeles, the Grammy-award-winning singer's ties to the Saskatchewan city are strong and she returns to visit her parents often. It is during these trips that Mitchell takes many of the photographs she bases her paintings on when she returns to her home in California. "After I finish the music, I paint, always," she said. "I steal time to paint whenever I can." The singer's Prairie roots are clearly evident in many of the works displayed, including a series of 30 photographs of farm buildings and a painting of a winter road titled 40 Below Zero. But the show isn't all desolate winter landscapes. It has an eclectic feel demonstrating a variety of influences including a Van-Gogh-style self portrait. The 81-piece exhibit covers 35 years of her work. The exhibition at The Mendel Gallery is expected to run until Sept. 17. © The Canadian Press, 2000 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:17:11 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Transcriber If know one yet has volunteered, I would be happy to transcribe the press conference. Let me know when you get back from Cloud 9.... PS--This is so much fun, reading all of the the Sask reports from everyone !!!!! Kate Bennett Singer/Songwriter www.katebennett.com Ashara asked: Can anyone transcribe the whole press conference for the Jonimitchell.com website, if I send you a video copy of it? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:33:28 EDT From: Murphycopy@aol.com Subject: joni en francais Joni Mitchell expose ses peintures SASKATOON - On se prépare activement, à la galerie Mendel de Saskatoon, pour l'ouverture de l'exposition des oeuvres de la chanteuse Joni Mitchell le 30 juin. Des photographies, peintures et autres travaux artistiques effectués par madame Mitchell et de nombreux admirateurs de l'artiste sont attendus, aussi bien de la Saskatchewan que des autres provinces canadiennes. Le premier ministre Roy Romanow et la ministre fédérale du Patrimoine, Sheila Copps, doivent aussi aller y faire un tour. Joni Mitchell a grandi à Saskatoon et vit maintenant à Los Angeles. Elle a tout de même assuré les organisateurs de sa présence le 30 juin. L'exposition sera présentée jusqu'au 17 septembre. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:11:07 EST From: "James Phillips" Subject: Joni on 12 string question I have a question since I was asking things about 12 strings. Did Joni ever play 12 string at all? I seem to recall reading somewhere that Big Yellow Taxi was originally recorded on 12string, but am not for certain. Thoughts? James ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:12:57 EST From: "James Phillips" Subject: for the roses, court and spark, wild things run fast My local library had those 3 cds in yesterday, so I've checked them out, and will do my listening homework on them over the weekend and give my opinions to them. James Phillips ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:40:04 -0700 From: "gene mock" Subject: Re: for the roses, court and spark, wild things run fast great thread, thanks for sharing. later gene - ----- Original Message ----- From: James Phillips To: Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 5:12 PM Subject: for the roses, court and spark, wild things run fast > My local library had those 3 cds in yesterday, so I've checked them out, and > will do my listening homework on them over the weekend and give my opinions > to them. > > James Phillips > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:42:48 -0700 From: DARICEM@sfpl.lib.ca.us Subject: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame As one of the resident Jackson Browne fans on the Jonilist, I am happy to respond to this (perennial ) question, And believe me, it comes up on the Jackson list just as often. Most of the story of Jackson And Darrly Hannah's breakup comes from the pages of the tabloids and especially People Magazine. The article about the "abuse" and Darryl running to JFK. Jr. for help was based on Darryl's publicist and unnamed friends who said that Darryl had been "battered" by Jackson. At no point,has Darryl Hannah ever said that Jackson hit or injured her. The Santa Monica Police were called by Jackson and have issued a statement that two officers responded, and there was no reason for an arrest or followup (this is in California where all that has to be happen is for a woman to say that a man has battered her and the police HAVE to followup oon the accusation). Jackson has publicly denied that he hit Darryl, in various interviews, etc. JFK Jr. has publicly stated that from his understanding of Darryl and the incident that JAckson did not hit or injure Darryl. About the song "Not to BLame"---- I have heard that soon after the album was released Joni said in an European radiointerview that the song was"about someone I was acquainted with" People mag (again) had an article about the song and it's parallels to Jackson's personal life; the suicide of his first wife, when Ethan , his son was three, the charity work and benefits that he does, the tabloid stories about his "abuse" of Darryl. Joni refused to comment on thses parallels; the OJ story had not happened when the song was recorded. Is this an intense song about a prevalent social issue? YES. Was it necessary to use thses particular details, NO. Jackson wrote "Fountain of Sorrow" about seeing Joni again at a party after having not seen her in a while. He stills performs "Fountain of Sorrow" and has introduced it as 'being about an old friend but I was perhaps being too generous when I wrote this" The Dallas Morning News asked Jackson for a direct response to the allegation that "Not to Blame" was written about him and he responded with a strongly worded and perhaps too vehement statement. He especially resented that his son Ethan was alluded to in the song. For those who are still reading and are interested, I have much of the written info on these two related topics. email me if you want them. Darice ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:55:56 -0700 From: "gene mock" Subject: Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame hi darice, i'm a big jackson browne too. it's too bad, those two would be a hellva one/two act for a concert. let alone the friendship that was lost. take care gene - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 5:42 PM Subject: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame > As one of the resident Jackson Browne fans on the Jonilist, I am happy to respond to > this (perennial ) question, And believe me, it comes up on the Jackson list just as > often. > Most of the story of Jackson And Darrly Hannah's breakup comes from the pages of the > tabloids and especially People Magazine. > The article about the "abuse" and Darryl running to JFK. Jr. for help was based on > > Darryl's publicist and unnamed friends who said that Darryl had been "battered" by > Jackson. > At no point,has Darryl Hannah ever said that Jackson hit or injured her. > The Santa Monica Police were called by Jackson and have issued a statement that two > officers responded, and there was no reason for an arrest or followup (this is in > California where all that has to be happen is for a woman to say that a man has > battered her and the police HAVE to followup oon the accusation). > Jackson has publicly denied that he hit Darryl, in various interviews, etc. > JFK Jr. has publicly stated that from his understanding of Darryl and the incident > that JAckson did not hit or injure Darryl. > > About the song "Not to BLame"---- > I have heard that soon after the album was released Joni said in an European radiointerview that the song was"about someone I was acquainted with" > People mag (again) had an article about the song and it's parallels to Jackson's > personal life; the suicide of his first wife, when Ethan , his son was three, the > charity work and benefits that he does, the tabloid stories about his "abuse" of > Darryl. > Joni refused to comment on thses parallels; the OJ story had not happened when the > song was recorded. > > Is this an intense song about a prevalent social issue? YES. > Was it necessary to use thses particular details, NO. > > Jackson wrote "Fountain of Sorrow" about seeing Joni again at a party after having not > seen her in a while. He stills performs "Fountain of Sorrow" and has introduced it > as 'being about an old friend but I was perhaps being too generous when I wrote this" > > The Dallas Morning News asked Jackson for a direct response to the allegation that "Not > to Blame" was written about him and he responded with a strongly worded and perhaps > too vehement statement. He especially resented that his son Ethan was alluded to in the > song. > > For those who are still reading and are interested, I have much of the written info > on these two related topics. email me if you want them. > > Darice > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:10:26 EDT From: MGVal@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame In a message dated 7/1/00 5:58:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gmock@psyber.com writes: << hi darice, i'm a big jackson browne too. it's too bad, those two would be a hellva one/two act for a concert. let alone the friendship that was lost. take care gene >> Ditto from this corner. Great post Darice! MG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:15:12 -0700 From: RandyRemote Subject: Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame DARICEM@sfpl.lib.ca.us wrote: > At no point,has Darryl Hannah ever said that Jackson hit or injured her. She could sure clear up the matter by stating that he DIDN'T hit her. Aside: Jackson is headliner at the big No. Cal "Hog Farm Pignic" about 5 miles from where I live (Labor Day). This discussion has been making the rounds locally, too. RR ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:31:48 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: for the roses, court and spark, wild things run fast << My local library had those 3 cds in yesterday, so I've checked them out, and will do my listening homework on them over the weekend and give my opinions to them. >> I'll look forward to your comments, James! Give them a GOOD listen... Bob, who will be out of town til Monday PM...Happy 4th Y'all, and a belated Happy Canada Day to my Great White Northern neighbors! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:47:01 -0700 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: more joni coverage Thanks, Mr. Murphy for sending all the great news stories! I found another one today online at work but can't find it again now. I think it was from an Ottawa paper, and the author said she was "snarky" a bit last night. The author was also a little snarky himself in the article, calling her palette of colors in the 80s works "Nouveau Riche" (oh puleeze! ;-) While searching around I also noticed that Raffalle and Jamie have put together a beautiful website on her 80s paintings that can be accessed through the JM Home Page! Several of the paintings most of us have never seen before and some are fantastic, IMO! For those who want some consolation for not being there in person, check it out. I'm loving all the reports and wait impatiently for more! Did Ashara invite Joni to Topsfield?! What else is up? Inquiring minds want to know! Kakki NP: Van Man Live at Edinburgh Castle - Your Mind is on Vacation ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 02:27:22 EDT From: IVPAUL42@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni, Jackson and Not To Blame In a message dated 7/1/00 10:19:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, guitarzan@saber.net writes: << DARICEM@sfpl.lib.ca.us wrote: > At no point,has Darryl Hannah ever said that Jackson hit or injured her. She could sure clear up the matter by stating that he DIDN'T hit her. >> Oh, c'mon. That's ridiculous, especially after all these years. You must know how the media would treat such a denial. The meida would say, "Why does she feel she has to deny anything if there is nothing to deny?" Paul I ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2000 #274 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list at ------- Siquomb, isn't she?