From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #67 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 Friday, March 8 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 067 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. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Today in History: March 7 [les@jmdl.com] Setup and configuration of Backup. [Evan and Vanessa Thomson ] Re: Joni Documentary, etc. [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] America's Best ... (tangential JC) ["Timothy Spong" ] re: Joni does Dylan ["Jerome ." ] Re: Joni Documentary, etc. [RoseMJoy@aol.com] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #66 [KLCass21@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 03:24:47 -0500 From: les@jmdl.com Subject: Today in History: March 7 On March 7 in Joni Mitchell History: 1983: Joni performs for the second day at Budokan in Tokyo. These shows were recorded for FM broadcast in Japan. - ------------------------ Search the "Today" database at http://www.jmdl.com/today ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:51:17 +1100 (EST) From: Evan and Vanessa Thomson Subject: Setup and configuration of Backup. New software developments undertaken not necessarily as part of day to day workload include: Design, implementation and maintenance of EDP Jobs Control system. Saving information on all jobs; Data setup and forms. Ability to search database for job descriptions and previous job setup steps. Design, implementation and maintenance of DDM Software Audit Database. [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of backup.com] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 04:53:48 -0800 From: Julius Raymond Subject: Joni Documentary, etc. This is strange. I've recently been receiving an unsolicited subscription to Playboy magazine. Through some twist of cyber fate, I figure. But that's not the strange part. So, not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I'm perusing the periodical this early morning while watching the movie "War Games" on TV out of one eye. I got myself frustrated...no, not by the magazine, you perv, but by the fact that I couldn't remember the name of actress playing opposite Matthew Broderick in the old flick. I hate when that happens. But I brushed it off mentally, as I didn't want to let something like that worry me tonight, what with the war and the AIDS pandemic in Africa and all... But I digress. Anyways, it turns out that former teen pop music queen of the 80s, Tiffany, is on the cover and presumably photographed nude in the magazine. Yawn. I thumb through to the "Music" page. In the "Fast Track" section of the music page I run across a tidbit of JC among the blurbs about Alanis Morrisette's new disc and praise for Norah Jones's latest. To wit..."Joni Mitchell is the subject of a documentary directed by Allison Anders. In it, Mitchell records a new CD and talks about her paintings and her reunion with her daughter." Yeah, we all know that, but I'm suddenly consumed by an urge for knowing just when this film is gonna be released. I toss the magazine aside and hunker down at the computer, resigned to surf the web until I find the skinny. So I type "Allison Anders Joni Mitchell" and punch the "search" button in my favorite engine. I take a gander at the first hit. This is where it starts getting a little creepy. Seems that Allison Anders wrote and directed a movie called "Sugar Town," released last year, starring one Ally Sheedy, who of course is my mystery actress in "War Games." The movie "Sugar Town" has nothing to do with Joni, except that it stars "Larry Klein a Grammy-winning producer and the former Mr. Joni Mitchell." Bizarre, I'm thinking, that Sheedy's name should pop up, and interesting about Klein starring in an Anders film before Joan...but I still hunger for the documentary release date, dammit. The search continues... I hit the next link and among other things about other people named "Allison" or "Anders" get the following from a jazz site called fusemag.com: Guitar virtuoso Carl Verheyen takes on the solo acoustic mountain on his latest. With tunes ranging from "I Loves You Porgy" and "God Bless the Child" to Jerry Reed's "Mr. Lucky", Joni Mitchell's "Cactus Tree" and his own pieces, Carl plays pristinely and inventively throughout. Beautiful arrangements and fine intervallic solos complement each other throughout. Recommended. http://www.carlverheyen.com/ Hmmm, I muse, never heard of this guy, but I wonder if his "Cactus Tree" is any good and whether it has made it onto SCJoniguy's covers project. It's another sidetrack, but I decide to check out Verheyen's site. Turns out I dig the work of this finger-picker style guitarist, whose technique reminds me of Tuck Andress or Wes Montgomery (I listened to an mp3 on his site of "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" which is covered on the same disc, coincidently). I'm intrigued, so I decide to read Verheyen's bio...which is where I read this: "Carl played 2nd guitar in Robben Fords group, and in his early years as a studio guitarist he recorded with Stanley Clarke, Dave Grusin and Little Richard. Soon he was getting called to work on many pop records including Tiffany's multi-platinum selling debut." Ain't that peculiar? I'm expecting the theme from "The Twilight Zone" to be piped into my apartment at that point and I start looking over my shoulder to see if Rod Serling is standing behind me in a dark suit, cigarette in hand, saying "picture if you will..." I never did find the Joni documentary release date. But I'm reminded of one of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: "Once the search is started, something will be found." - -Julius ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:26:03 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Documentary, etc. <> Cool story, Julius...all things lead to Joni as we all know! Carl's style is comparable to Wes Montgomery, although I must say I prefer Wes. Cactus Tree and GPPH are both excellent (they've received the coveted Jerry Notaro stamp of approval) and are upcoming on Volume 30. And I have to admit, I haven't seen a Playboy in years, but I always turn to the music page first as well. A sure sign of age if there was one! :~) Bob NP: Dylan/Tom Petty, "Like A Rolling Stone" Sydney 1987 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:32:15 From: "Timothy Spong" Subject: America's Best ... (tangential JC) The "Time Almanac 2002 with Information Please(R)" has a section called "America's Best." In various categories of arts and entertainments, an individual is proclaimed the best in the category by someone who can reasonably be deemed an expert in the category. Apparently, by "America" is understood "the United States of America," and, as far as I know, all the winners are U.S. citizens. If my interpretation is correct, Joni isn't eligible. I would say I am agnostic about the nominees. What do other jmdlers think about ... America's Best Songwriter: Lucinda Williams, squib by Emmylou Harris. America's Best Singer: Cassandra Wilson, squib by Stanley Crouch. America's Best Rock Band: Sleater-Kinney, squib by Greil Marcus. America's Best Artist: Martin Puryear, squib by Robert Hughes. America's Best Fashion Designer: Tom Ford, squib by Belinda Luscombe. There are 21 categories in all. Best to all. Tim spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:58:55 -0600 From: "William Waddell" Subject: TCCOL I've been playing TTT for the first time in a while and am very much into two songs again that I adored the first time round; Harlem in Havana and Crazy Cries. For acoustic guitar, Harlem is a non starter, however I'd like to give TCCOL a shot. For any busking guitar players out there (i.e. 3-chord wonders). If you were to play "The Crazy Cries of Love" in standard tuning (or as I like to call it when playing Joni, stranded tuning) beginning with a D major shape (open top E; bottom tuned to D), can you figure out which chords should be played in the first verse; night = A everyone = G7 at the wingding = ? they weren't the wi... = ??????? "They weren't the wingding type" melody = A,Db,D,A,D,D,Db; but I cannot find a chord for that line. Thereon in I'm a tad unsure, but there seems to be a lot of A/A7 and G and possibly an Em. As for "In the back booth"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not interested in playing carbon copy chords a la original - too tough, but if anyone has a notion how to play this one I'd be indebted and will dedicate it to you at the Fest. Willy the Shake _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 14:37:48 -0800 From: "Jerome ." Subject: re: Joni does Dylan I wonder if this is the track Joni spoke of in that Billboard interview or is there a studio version? SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: >>Speaking of Joni doing Dylan, Willie, she also does the version >>of "It's >>All Over Now, Baby Blue" (on piano) on the 1991 radio >>show 'Swingin On A >>Star'. Very interesting as she begins with the >>chord progression to "Not >>To Blame", then morphs into the Dylan song. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:19:29 EST From: RoseMJoy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Documentary, etc. In a message dated 3/7/02 7:55:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, jrmills@pacbell.net writes: > Yeah, we all know that, but I'm suddenly consumed by an urge for knowing > just when this film is gonna be released. > > Julius, > I had forwarded this article about Allison Anders' documentary from > Entertainment Weekly magazine dated March 5th to the list. There's no exact > date on the release though Here's the link again http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,214129~4~0~,00.html As far as that illustration goes -- ewww! (in Jim Johanson's exact words! )LOL! I cut and pasted the article below.... > ~rose Allison Anders to direct a Joni Mitchell docu -- The ''Grace of My Heart'' director finds the singer's maturity has enhanced her musical wisdom by Chris Willman BOTH SIDES NOW A new take on classic Joni, via Anders After setting her last three feature films in a musical milieu, Allison Anders (''Grace of My Heart'') is making a documentary about -- surprise -- a musician: Joni Mitchell. Anders is shooting the recording sessions for Mitchell's next album, which finds the singer revisiting vintage originals like ''Circle Game'' with the London Symphony Orchestra -- and pairing with ''day players'' like Ry Cooder, Wayne Shorter, Billy Preston, Herbie Hancock, and (tentatively) Neil Young. ''Some of it is material she did as a young girl, with a soprano voice and an acoustic guitar, now with an orchestra and an alto,'' says Anders. ''It's so interesting to hear these same songs with wisdom. Not that she wasn't wise before, but it's like 'I thought I was on to something then, and now I know I am.''' (Posted:03/04/02) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:50:35 EST From: KLCass21@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #66 In a message dated 3/7/2002 3:01:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, les@jmdl.com writes: > Cool Water, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm. > I like this song. > Yeah, Me too. Well-crafted, but not overproduced. Lush and shimmering despite the barren theme. I'm in the minority here, but I love every tune on this disc - except Reoccurring Dream. Beat of Black Wings - Joni chants in the background after each chorus - try and try, or try and drive, or try and dry. Anyone have a clue? ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #67 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?