From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #185 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 Thursday, June 27 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 185 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: -------- poem for over 40's [colin ] oops sorry [colin ] Covers 31....sweet! ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Julia Fordham review - Joni mentions throughout [Penny ] Re: Covers 31....sweet! [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #184 [Pearlz2swine@aol.com] Gentle reminder (please forgive lack of tag) [Lori in MD ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:21:53 +0100 From: colin Subject: poem for over 40's A POEM FOR COMPUTER USERS OVER 40 A computer was something on TV From a Science Fiction show of note, A window was something you hated to clean And ram was the father of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend And gig was a job for the night. Now they all mean different things And that really mega bytes. An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor was someone using profanity A keyboard was part of a piano. A memory was something you lost with age A CD was a bank account, And if you had a 3-in. floppy You hoped nobody found out. Compress was something you did to the garbage Not something you did to a file And if you unzipped anything in public You'd be in jail for a while. Log on was adding wood to the fire Hard drive was a long trip on the road A mouse pad was where a mouse lived And a backup happened to your commode. Cut you did with a pocket knife Paste you did with glue A web was a spider's home And a virus was the flu. I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper And the memory in my head. I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash But when it happens they wish they were dead. - -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80,Creation 6 colin@tantra-apso.com http://www.tantra-apso.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:23:32 +0100 From: colin Subject: oops sorry sorry-forgot the NJC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:55:16 -0700 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Covers 31....sweet! Hello Bob and Everyone, (BOB, you out did yourself this time!! Good searching.....nice finds) I have been listening to covers 31 and how sweet it is! Highlights for me would be....Jeanne Newhall-HOSL,(it nice to hear this one because I don't believe I've heard it done by anyone else but Joni) Cheryl Fisher-MATW(I love this song.....Cheryl does a decent job. Nice jazzy backdrop)Courtney Lawsing-UFG ( But she's got the urge for going...So I guess she'll have to go. She sings this the way I think it can only be sung.....the words flow quite nicely.) Tanya Chua-IDKWIS,(nice Jaco-like bass) Tori Amos-River. Oh..and my favorite Woodstock, by the choral group Something Extra. It is so, so beautiful. Besides Joni version of Woodstock, this would have to be my favorite version I have ever heard. A famous choir director commented once that as long as a choir starts together and finishes together, it does not much matter about the middle.(the audience remembers only the start and finish) Well to this group... the middle does obviously matter. They just captured this song for me. At our annual picnic this weekend... this will be on the CD changer. :-) Thanks, Bob... and to all the contributors, too! Bree PS<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>I'm on the hunt for you.....<<<< _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:43:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Penny Subject: Julia Fordham review - Joni mentions throughout Found this Julia/Joni article this morning: June 21, 2002, 1:45PM A widening landscape Fordham stretches creatively on new 'Concrete' album By MICHAEL D. CLARK Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Concrete Love Julia Fordham Vanguard Short of taking up painting and becoming a Canadian citizen, Julia Fordham has done all she can to enhance her link to Joni Mitchell. Her new album, Concrete Love, draws her a bit closer. With help from Vanguard Records producer Larry Klein -- a longtime Mitchell collaborator and Mitchell's ex-husband -- Fordham is finding her own voice, too. From the up-tempo swing improvisations of It's Another You Day to the dusky Foolish Thing and Missing Man, Klein teaches Fordham that attracting Mitchell-level respect means expanding her range, not simply imitation. The standout track Roadside Angel, co-written by Klein and featuring Sweet Pea Atkinson as a backing vocalist, finds the singer exploring the soft soul that once was the territory of Minnie Riperton. Getting comfortable with music she's not known for is a much bolder Joni-esque statement than simply trying to remake Help Me or Big Yellow Taxi. On Concrete Love, Julia Fordham works her comparisons to Joni Mitchell, but is clearly carving out her own niche. Fordham reaches beyond expectations most successfully on the duet Alleluia. Using Hammond B-3 organ chords as a tuning fork by Houstonian Billy Preston, she trumps country-rocker Joe Henry, beating him to the soul of this hosanna. Fordham can't prevail over all comers, though. With Preston on the keys again, she joins seven-time Grammy nominee India.Arie on the low-lit urban landscape of the title track. Fordham wrote the track, but she is just a spectator on Arie's streets. Fans of simpler Fordham efforts will not feel abandoned by the widening landscape of Concrete Love. The folksy Italy has a simple premise that might have come to her over a cup of coffee. And the naughty poetry of Wake Up With You (The I Wanna Song) possesses the crowded couplets and bedroomspeak that make Alanis Morissette so alluring. The contrast of styles on Concrete Love is definitely leading Fordham closer to her own Court and Spark. 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Love and Peace....Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:40:03 -0400 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Covers 31....sweet! > (BOB, you out did yourself this time!! Good searching.....nice finds) Hey, thanks Bree! I'll be making my "formal" announcement in a couple of days, but I'm very glad you're digging it now. < believe I've heard it done by anyone else but Joni)>> VERY nice version - you're right, it's not a common Joni cover, and Jeanne does a super job. Thanks to my Pally Jody for that one! < love this song.....Cheryl does a decent job. Nice jazzy backdrop)>> This is the ONLY Moon at the Window cover I'm aware of, so I was very excited to find out about it & get it. "Decent" is pretty apt...Cheryl's vocals are not what I'd hoped for. <> My first thought as well, that it sounds like Jaco. < so, so beautiful. Besides Joni version of Woodstock, this would have to be > my favorite version I have ever heard.>> The first time I heard it I was weepin' like a toddler because I thought it was so gorgeous. I'm glad you feel the same! :~) Bob, VP of covers NP: The Rolling Stones, "2120 South Michigan Avenue" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:55:45 EDT From: Pearlz2swine@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2002 #184 In a message dated 6/26/02 12:02:00 AM, les@jmdl.com writes: << I saw Joni and Bruce Cockburn on the same bill at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto, summer 1968. Bruce filled in for Neil Young, who didn't show. So, I think there are way fewer than six degrees separating them. >> Now that's the kind of connection I was looking for! From now on I will be very careful when asking the JMDL innocent questions. I am still addicted to the acoustic version of Lovers in a Dangerous Time..and I knew there had to be a stronger Joni connection than Shawn Colvin..etc.etc. By the Shawn Colvin way..don't you think the finger plucking at the start of "The facts about Jimmy" (from "A few small repairs") sounds so very much like Amelia? Uh oh that's a question. Pearl NP--Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/Micheal Brooks "Star Rose" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:39:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Lori in MD Subject: Gentle reminder (please forgive lack of tag) Hi Everybody! Just a gentle reminder from the Anal Retentive One (that's me) ... When replying to a post from the digest, please be sure to copy and paste (or type) the thread name in the subject line. In other words, "Re: JMDL Digest V2001 #251" becomes "Re: Choosing a name" It makes it a lot easier for everyone to follow along! (Also helps with researching threads!) Thanks ... Hugs to all, Lori ~ Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:57:22 -0700 From: "kakki" Subject: Re: Julia Fordham review - Joni mentions throughout Thanks for sending the review, Penny. But I wonder how Julia and her fans/list may have reacted to it. I found the reviewer very condescending in portraying her as some kind of "Joni-wannabe." As far as I'm concerned she has always stood completely on her own and other than sharing an immense talent in voice and songwriting with Joni, she has never been "like" Joni at all to my ears. She is completely unique. Then he makes it sound like all the credit for her new album or new "direction" goes to Klein. Puleeze! She has created a number of incredible and outstanding prior albums without the assistance of Mr. Klein, thankyouverymuch. And she is not just now starting to explore her "Minnie Riperton" soul side, either. She has always had the range of Minnie and has always showed it off beautifully. "Carving her niche" blah, blah BAH!! Kakki, getting increasingly crankier in her old age ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:22:22 +0000 From: "S M" Subject: Tori's Joni reference SJC Hi everybody, I ran across this comment on Joni that Tori made recently and thought I'd post it. TOYAH WILCOX: "And Jonis' spirit is embodied even more by Tori Amos, currently one of the worlds top singer-sonwriters. TORI: "She took the clay and moulded it in a way we hadn't seen before. If you really sort of analyse songwriting at that time, male or female, what she was doing with her structures an' her use of melody an' her poetry and the voice too, you know that's just one of the gifts that we've had. 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