From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #88 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 Tuesday, March 30 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 088 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Interesting Canadian Joni Site [Randy Remote ] Re: Interesting Canadian Joni Site [Doug ] Correction: Not Indigo Girls ["Timothy Spong" ] Re: Joni's French ancestry (if any) ["Timothy Spong" Subject: Re: Interesting Canadian Joni Site Gary Zack wrote: > Found an interesting Canadian page on Joni: > > http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesM/mitchell_joni.html > > I found it especially interesting that there was apparently a live album > that was recorded between "Clouds" and "Ladies of the Canyon" that was > scrapped. That's cool-did anyone else here know about that? Somewhere, they are hoarding Joni material !!! What do we have to do, storm the gates of WB/Reprise? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:08:18 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: Interesting Canadian Joni Site I believe I read somewhere that the live album was to be the Carnegie Hall 1969 show. Here's a suggestion: Walk into Warner Brothers wearing a white suit and carrying a clipboard, tell the receptionist you need to take the Joni Mitchell tapes back to the shop for repairs. Send me a copy when you get them. Doug Randy Remote wrote: >Gary Zack wrote: > > > >>Found an interesting Canadian page on Joni: >> >>http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesM/mitchell_joni.html >> >>I found it especially interesting that there was apparently a live album >>that was recorded between "Clouds" and "Ladies of the Canyon" that was >>scrapped. >> >> > >That's cool-did anyone else here know about that? Somewhere, they >are hoarding Joni material !!! What do we have to do, storm the >gates of WB/Reprise? > >. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:53:30 +0000 From: "Timothy Spong" Subject: Correction: Not Indigo Girls Fellow Jonilistas, I apologize for misattributing who had recently cited Joni as an influence and covered one of her songs on a new recording. Here is an excerpt of the review, from "Dirty Linen: Folk and World Music," No. 111, April/May 2004, pp. 49-50, by regular contributor Lahri Bond of Amherst, Mass.: Cris Williamson & Holly Near, "Cris & Holly," H&C 6201 (2003) With formidable back catalogues between them, Cris Williamson and Holly Near's album, simply titled "Cris & Holly," and their subsequent "Peace & Love" tour draw on past glories and a wonderful selection of new songs. ... Williamson takes the first lead with a letter-perfect rendition of "Tea Leaf Prophecy," a song by Joni Mitchell, who has always been a big influence on her. ... See, I kept forgetting to take the magazine along to where I was using a computer, and after about a week, was ready to post from memory, but went back to the magazine to find the review. Having by then misremembered who the artists were, I couldn't find it. Yesterday, I searched more exhaustively. A thousand pardons. Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page  FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:09:36 +0000 From: "Timothy Spong" Subject: Re: Joni's French ancestry (if any) On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, "michael o'malley" wrote: I think it's a shame that Joni has never written or recorded in French, Canada's other official language. Beyond ``Avez vous une allumette`` I have never heard anything else from Joni in French. I appreciate that she may have had little exposure to French in Saskatchewan of the 50's, but I would suspect that Joni has some ability to express herself in French (Edith Piaf, travel to France, etc). It would be a great delight for francophones the world over to hear Joni en francais - but I won't hold my breath! Michael in Quebec ..... and Deb Messling wrote: I remember reading that Joni sang in French during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour. I don't know if any of those performances were preserved. At 10:59 AM 3/28/2004 -0500, you wrote: >I think it's a shame that Joni has never written or recorded in French, - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- messling@enter.net - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .......... and SCJoniGuy@aol.com [Bob Mueller ... or is it Muller?] wrote: **I remember reading that Joni sang in French during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour. I don't know if any of those performances were preserved.** I've got about 4 or 5 of them, no hints of anything French. She sang some of the HOSL stuff, Coyote, Woman of Heart & Mind, and took a verse of "This Land Is Your Land". Bob ...... further comment: But Joni has written and sung about things and places French, n'est-ce pas? "Free Man in Paris," "In France They Kiss on Main Street" and "Yvette in English" would be ripe for re-recording in French, non? Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:13:33 EST From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni's French ancestry (if any) Tim writes: << But Joni has written and sung about things and places French, n'est-ce pas? "Free Man in Paris," "In France They Kiss on Main Street" and "Yvette in English" would be ripe for re-recording in French, non? >> Mais oui, Tim! Which begs another question for the King of Covers, who, I hear, is going to be the subject of the next Mel Gibson movie! (I have been begging for the role of one of his tormentors!) So, Mueller . . . have any Joni songs ever been translated into French and then covered? Par example, "nuit en ville," "bleu," "petite verte," "m'aider," "comme ce train exactement," ou "l'enfant terrible?" Au revior, - --Smurf, si fatigue from trying to remember college French from the last millennium ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:05:14 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Joni's French ancestry (if any) --- Smurfycopy@aol.com wrote: > Tim writes: > > << But Joni has written and sung about things and > places French, n'est-ce > pas? "Free Man in Paris," "In France They Kiss on > Main Street" and "Yvette > in English" would be ripe for re-recording in > French, non? >> > > Mais oui, Tim! Which begs another question for the > King of Covers, who, I > hear, is going to be the subject of the next Mel > Gibson movie! (I have been > begging for the role of one of his tormentors!) > > So, Mueller . . . have any Joni songs ever been > translated into French and > then covered? Par example, "nuit en ville," "bleu," > "petite verte," "m'aider," > "comme ce train exactement," ou "l'enfant terrible?" > > > Au revior, > > --Smurf, si fatigue from trying to remember college > French from the last > millennium This is the only place I would admit to my geekiness, but sometimes I translate Joni songs into French just for laughs. I don't go as far as writing it down, but I start trying to put the words into French to see/hear what it sounds like. I don't bother to try to make it sound correct because that would take the fun out of it. (I tried taking translation one year and it drove me nuts.) N.P. My son writing down and practicing disses to use on a kid who's been bugging him at school. Some of them are really funny & Matthew is killing himself laughing as he does this. I know I shouldn't encourage that sort of thing, but what the hey! Like mother, like son. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all live so close to that line, and so far from satisfaction ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:59:18 EST From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: JONI MITCHELL HANDWRITTEN SONG LIST FOR TRAVELOGUE (2002) I never go to eBay anymore, but I got an eBay popup tonight and decided to check out what the most expensive Joni item is. Hurry! Just 13 hours to meet the starting bid of $2,225.00. Hey, Bob Sart! Buy it and you can cut up the list and rearrange the songs any way you like! From http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3805684888&category=210 The charm of this beautifully presented item is that all its stunning components came from Joni's personal Grammy-winning art director, Robbie Cavolina. The centerpiece is a track list entirely written out in Joni Mitchell's hand, a list of songs which she carefully designed to present the arc of her life for her autobiographical CD collection, Travelogue. At the last minute, however, you'll see she changed the order of the first four songs. Also in the attractive frame is the UNIQUE press proof for Cavolina's CD packaging design. And finally, indeed perhaps most poignantly, Cavolina included two candid photographs of Joni which he took himself, one of which shows her painting a self-portrait much like the one on Travelogue's cover. Joni Mitchell is one of North America's finest songwriters. This list of favorite songs in her own hand, ending in The Circle Game, has an eerie beauty. And framed with several personal items from a man who worked, played, and argued with her for yearsb&well, it's not just your nice commercial memorabilia display. Love Street Gallery is pleased to present Another Piece of the True Rock. Comes with an emotional and highly detailed letter of authenticity from Cavolina talking about Joni's process of choosing the order of her songs on an album. Provenance:: ex-Robbie Cavolina, longtime Joni Mitchell art director (song list dimensions: 4 x 7-inches; framed dimensions: 20 x 29-1/2-inches) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:08:57 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: March 30 On March 30 the following articles were published: 1986: "Art Aid auction boosts famine fund" - Toronto Star (News Item) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1106 1988: "Mitchell keeps door open to posibility of tour" - Saskatoon StarPhoenix (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=745 1988: "The Pop Life" - New York Times (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1100 2000: "Her Back Pages" - Hotpress (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=503 2000: "Mitchell's jazz plaintively mimes arc of modern love" - Toronto Globe and Mail (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=482 2003: "'Heart and Mind' PBS 'Masters' program honors Joni Mitchell" - Associated Press (Review - Documentary) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1073 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #88 ******************************** ------- 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? 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