From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #228 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, August 10 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 228 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: PWWAM [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: PWWAM [Em ] some ramblings about TBOS [Garret ] Re: Today's Library Links: August 9 [Catherine McKay ] Re: some ramblings about TBOS [Garret ] "Refuge Of the Roads" DVD has a photo gallery too [] Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... [Chris Marshall ] Re: Joni costume party [Michael Paz ] RE: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... ["Wally Kair] Re: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... [Michael Paz] Re: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... [Smurfycopy@] k.d. lang's album - with joni content ["patrick leader" ] Today's Library Links: August 10 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:32:27 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: PWWAM **So that instrument she was playing? was that a VG8? Nope - that was a Parker Fly Guitar...extremely light weight to make it easier on Joni's joints. The VG8 is more like a computer-brainbox that the guitar plugs into, and you can change the tunings by fiddling with the knobs on that rather than on the guitar. I'm sure that the masters like Paz & Marian can fill you in with better details, but that's the gist of it as far as I can tell. I'm glad you got to see PWWAM - I too think it's a fantastic set. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: Re: PWWAM Morning Bob, thanks for the info re: the guitar. That show stuck in my brain all night and JM was in my dreams, not any kind of wierd way, but she was there. Now I'm wondering what "it was just a false alarm" means, in Amelia... JM, Icarus and Amelia..what a team. So when does the alarm go off..flying too close to the sun? or? gotta go inspect the lyrics... But sometimes, I don't like to inspect the lyrics right away...just pondering it loosely for years is sometimes more nourishing. Anyway, glad to hear you liked it too. Happy Monday! :) Em - --- SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: > > **So that instrument she was playing? was that a VG8? > > > Nope - that was a Parker Fly Guitar...extremely light weight to make > it > easier on Joni's joints. The VG8 is more like a computer-brainbox > that the guitar > plugs into, and you can change the tunings by fiddling with the > knobs on > that rather than on the guitar. I'm sure that the masters like Paz & > Marian can > fill you in with better details, but that's the gist of it as far as > I can > tell. > > I'm glad you got to see PWWAM - I too think it's a fantastic set. > > Bob > > > > > ===== - ------- "Don't try to build an aeroplane when you just need a kite." Tee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:00:45 +0100 From: Garret Subject: some ramblings about TBOS All this talk lately about TBOS got me to thinking (not that i have time for any of that this month!!). Initially i thoguht the idea was just a way to sell a few records. I thought it was a shame that Joni was doing this (you know, after last years box set and misses etc etc). Although i completely adore some of the songs (slouching, passoin play, magdalene,even reoccuring dream), others i'm less than familiar with as i've never put in the time (tax free) and others i just don't like (dog eat dog). A pretty mixed bunch, eh? Then someone on-list said asked hte question "who would have thought to put these songs into this order?". Good point. After thinking (and not allowing myself to burn this from the albums just to see) i came to the conclusion that it must have an inconsistent sound. not necessarily a crime. i wondered about how it all hands together. one of the things about Joni's best records, for me at least, has been the coherence of the album structure- how the albums fit together (think TI, Blue, FTR, HOSL..... ye all know of what i speak i'm sure). the replacing of UFG and Hunter with richard and all i want (?? is that right??) on Blue was a stroke of genius. the album would not have had the same impact despite teh quality of all these songs. (can you imagine this?) anyway, what im saying is greatest hits and compilations and retrospectives are fine (hey, i buy quite a few of these things if im not interested in buying a large part of an artists back catalogue, or if i want to get a quick taste and see how it appeals and so on). but when you are a fan you see the loss inherent in this process. the songs from Blue on Hits still sound great but have lost the original context which wass part of the original appeal. is this so on TBOS? if so, i would think the album has little going for it (i mean given that some of the songs hardly rank among her most solid work), apart from the paintings but that doesn't interest me too much as it is (yea, she's a good painter but if i want to be really impressed, moved, i'll be looking elsewhere). Since i came to London (two days shy of a year ago!) i have tried to expereince a lot of culture and art. this city has so much to offer and i didn't want to to miss out on all the fantastic opportunities that london presents. it has been made abundantly clear to me here that the idea and concept underlying an artistic work can be more important/impressive than the execution. although Joni has removed the songs on TBOS from their original contexts, she has put them into a new one. this is not just Misses mark two. maybe the songs find new meaning and new life on this album. the underlying concept is a worthy one, particularly at this time. does the execution live up to this? i can't say yet. i don't have TBOS yet, but i have come around to the idea of it and will be getting me hands on a copy as soon as i can. GARRET np- Astrud Gilberto, Crickets Sing for Anamaria - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:53:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Today's Library Links: August 9 --- ljirvin@jmdl.com wrote: > On August 9 the following articles were published: [...] > 1979: "Three Distinct Approaches by Three Seasoned > Singers" - Palo Alto Times > (Review - Album) > http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=836 Wow! A couple of posts from Mingus, and then a couple of posts *about* "Mingus." This is an extract from the one noted above, which is both in praise of "Mingus" and worthy of note in light of varied opinions about "Survival",and for fans that wonder where the dulcimer went. - ---------------------------------------------- The most ambitious of the three new albums is Joni Mitchell's "Mingus." The Asylum record is the product of a year-long collaboration with jazz composer and musician Charlie Mingus. This is not the first time Mitchell has taken off in a direction likely to upset her public. "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" and "Hejira," both landmark albums in popular music, enraged the legions who wish Joni Mitchell would stick to writing love songs about clouds and periwinkles. "Mingus" is a considerable leap from Mitchell's musical past. The four songs written with Mingus shortly before his death in January extend Mitchell's limits as a lyricist and singer. Mingus' discordant anti-melodies take Mitchell away from the rock music tradition. With the assistance of such well-known jazz performers as Gerry Mulligan, Herbie Hancock and Stanley Clark, Mitchell takes off fearlessly in the direction of Ella Fitzgerald and the jazz singers. "Mingus" will take pop music fans into unfamiliar territory as well. It is a daring departure, and well worth the trip. ===== 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, 9 Aug 2004 15:33:33 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jamie=20Zubairi?= Subject: Re: some ramblings about TBOS Hmmmm Garret I think you've hit a few nails on the proverbial here. I'm sure re-looking that these songs in this sequence certainly changes their context. It is like a play, like Joni has said in a recent interview (and I think she mentions it on the inner foldout sleeve of the digipack). I have bought a copy fairly cheaply in terms of UK cds which can be SO pricey so I can. (whats more important? Cigarettes or the new Joni CD? I've stopped smoking so I can feed my Joni habit!) Anyway I'm so glad I did! For more reasons than I thought.... The album is terrific, it is just like a play from the opening Greek Chorus like 'ReOccurring Dream' to the hopeful 'Impossible Dreamer' you get the feeling that the 'rehanging' of these scenes into a specific context really brings them out onto a journey. I mean on DED, she started out with a song about friendship and ends with a song about love but inbetween come some of these songs but because they started off with some 'familiar' Joni territory, you expect more of the same but the songs didn't have the power of a wholeness that this album has. Hmmm I know what you mean about the art. I wish they were a lot bigger so they can be appreciated a lot more. The inner paintings are much better than the one on the front cover. She must've had better self portrait photos hanging around to use. It must've been for a reason that she used the GAP advert (the anti-commercialism irony perhaps, or that she didn't have a full-length photo that she could actually use but I prefer the former, the latter makes me chuckle). But the paintings are of the landscape around her BC home. It looks like it was taken on an organised trek around the valley or something with the occassional person in the foreground or distance (is that the guy she was dating from her hometown in one of them?) You haven't bought this album? I'm not surprised as it isn't even out in London yet... August 16th the Europeans are having to wait (I couldn't so I bought online). I wonder if it's going to be in the same digipack or a jew case like other cds. But buy it. Wait until you can get to a decent player. You'll surprise yourself. Much Joni Jamie Zoob ps where abouts in London do you live? Garret wrote: All this talk lately about TBOS got me to thinking (not that i have time for any of that this month!!). Initially i thoguht the idea was just a way to sell a few records. I thought it was a shame that Joni was doing this (you know, after last years box set and misses etc etc). Although i completely adore some of the songs (slouching, passoin play, magdalene,even reoccuring dream), others i'm less than familiar with as i've never put in the time (tax free) and others i just don't like (dog eat dog). A pretty mixed bunch, eh? one of the things about Joni's best records, for me at least, has been the coherence of the album structure- how the albums fit together (think TI, Blue, FTR, HOSL..... ye all know of what i speak i'm sure). the replacing of UFG and Hunter with richard and all i want (?? is that right??) on Blue was a stroke of genius. the album would not have had the same impact despite teh quality of all these songs. (yea, she's a good painter but if i want to be really impressed, moved, i'll be looking elsewhere). the idea and concept underlying an artistic work can be more important/impressive than the execution. although Joni has removed the songs on TBOS from their original contexts, she has put them into a new one. this is not just Misses mark two. maybe the songs find new meaning and new life on this album. the underlying concept is a worthy one, particularly at this time. does the execution live up to this? i can't say yet. i don't have TBOS yet, but i have come around to the idea of it and will be getting me hands on a copy as soon as i can. GARRET - --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:37:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "walterphil" Subject: [none] haven't writen to you guys in a while... catchin up a little. ain't it great joni is gettin the lifetime achievement, eh? now that anthology she's releasing makes more sense. maybe a few will realize "what's this joni dame all about?" and pick it up. saw it this weekend in a store window. now i realize another reason she did it-- to have a chance to post more paintings of course! hey do any of you know of a 90's jazzy hip hop group called pm dawn? they do a song called "ways of the wind" whih not only samples "i had a king" but swipes a bit of the structure as well. and its downright gorgeous. i think they are extremely talented and am sad they seem to have disbanded. i wonder what joni thought of it anyhoo the main reason i'm writig is because not only did i stay up too late last night making 4! 80 minute joni compilations but i'm late for work now working on the covers haha! i'm gonna get fired! vol 1 cactus tree electricity coyote night ride home conversation dont interrupt the sorrow night in the city turbulent indigo i dont know where i stand hejira ladies of the canyon slouching towards bethlehem this flight tonight the dry cleaner from des moines the jungle line for the roses chelsea morning peoples parties same situation woman of heart and mind my best to you vol 2 morning morgantown song for sharon free man in paris passion play (when all the slaves are free) all i want sunny sunday don juans reckless daughter the refuge of the roads cold blue steel and sweet fire the dawntreader that song about the midway barrangrill the sire of sorrow (jobs sad song) little green overture cotton avenue the boho dance vol. 3 the gallery court and spark black crow two grey rooms in france they kiss on main street song to a seagull just like this train taming the tiger i think i understand michael from mountains banquet car on a hill down to you chinese cafe i had a king face lift harrys house/centerpiece trouble child nathan la franeer vol. 4 see you sometime carey amelia moon at the window sisotowbell lane love puts on a new face songs to aging children come marcie shades of scarlett conquering you turn me on im a radio tiger bones raised on robbery blonde in the bleachers judgement of the moon & stars hissing of summer lawns california wild things run fast help me dreamland big yellow taxi jericho The most personalized portal on the Web! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:45:23 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: some ramblings about TBOS I like the idea of looking at it like a play Jamie. It certainly seems to be fitting. There is something of a narrative structure running through the progression of songs;not that i've actually heard them in this order - I refuse to let myself create my own TBOS so can't listen to these songs until it comes out in the shops. I think it was priced at #10.99 on amazon.co.uk so that seems way cheaper than cds generally. maybe i imagined that though! >(whats more important? Cigarettes or the new Joni CD? I've stopped > smoking so I can feed my Joni habit!) YOu know, replacing one bad habit with another just doesn't solve problems:-) I'm living near Wood Greeen, nth london. It's a nice, quiet area - cleaner and safer than Kilburn was ( i do miss the homeless, alcoholic Irish people though! made me feel at home:-) j/k. actually, on taht topic i heard recently, not sure how reliable this is, that the Irish government will soon begin providing support for these unfortunate people. about time.) GARRET np- Edie Brickell, What i am Quoting Jamie Zubairi : > Hmmmm Garret > > I think you've hit a few nails on the proverbial here. I'm sure re-looking > that these songs in this sequence certainly changes their context. It is like > a play, like Joni has said in a recent interview (and I think she mentions it > on the inner foldout sleeve of the digipack). > > I have bought a copy fairly cheaply in terms of UK cds which can be SO pricey > so I can. (whats more important? Cigarettes or the new Joni CD? I've stopped > smoking so I can feed my Joni habit!) Anyway I'm so glad I did! For more > reasons than I thought.... > > The album is terrific, it is just like a play from the opening Greek Chorus > like 'ReOccurring Dream' to the hopeful 'Impossible Dreamer' you get the > feeling that the 'rehanging' of these scenes into a specific context really > brings them out onto a journey. I mean on DED, she started out with a song > about friendship and ends with a song about love but inbetween come some of > these songs but because they started off with some 'familiar' Joni territory, > you expect more of the same but the songs didn't have the power of a > wholeness that this album has. > > Hmmm I know what you mean about the art. I wish they were a lot bigger so > they can be appreciated a lot more. The inner paintings are much better than > the one on the front cover. She must've had better self portrait photos > hanging around to use. It must've been for a reason that she used the GAP > advert (the anti-commercialism irony perhaps, or that she didn't have a > full-length photo that she could actually use but I prefer the former, the > latter makes me chuckle). > > But the paintings are of the landscape around her BC home. It looks like it > was taken on an organised trek around the valley or something with the > occassional person in the foreground or distance (is that the guy she was > dating from her hometown in one of them?) > > You haven't bought this album? I'm not surprised as it isn't even out in > London yet... August 16th the Europeans are having to wait (I couldn't so I > bought online). I wonder if it's going to be in the same digipack or a jew > case like other cds. But buy it. Wait until you can get to a decent player. > You'll surprise yourself. > > Much Joni > > Jamie Zoob > > ps where abouts in London do you live? - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:57:43 -0400 From: Subject: "Refuge Of the Roads" DVD has a photo gallery too Where does he get this stuff? :) It's not on the Amazon site. I guess when you collaborate on Susan Lacy's film, you get the inside scoop. Thanks, Simon. As usual. All the best, Lama Simon Montgomery wrote: >Yes, a Gallery of previously UnPublished photographs by Joel Bernstein. upwards of 50+ pictures, personally selected by Joni, from the several hundred submitted FWIW: this program was filmed on a soundstage in Culver City, CA., on Aug. 12, 1983, two weeks after the end of Joni's REFUGE World Tour.> RR wrote ... >> I wonder if there will be any bonus stuff on the DVD>> >> that wasn't on the VHS (now out of print).>> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:20:19 +0100 From: Chris Marshall Subject: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... Excuse the lack of NJC here. I've just received two virus e-mails purporting to be from people I know (both JMDL subscribers and good friends of mine), but the message in fact originates from a Verizon internet account - NYC area by the look of things. So it's likely that someone on the JMDL has a virus that spreads using addresses in the address book as a faked "From:" address, sent to other people in the address book. Needless to say, usual advice applies: if you get a message containing a zip file of about 30Kb in size, purporting to be from someone you know, treat with caution. It's most likely to be a virus. Normal service resumed now, apologies for the intrusion. - --Chris Marshall chrisAThatstand.org (AIM: Chr15Marshall) "If you're ever lost, I'll beat the world to finding you" Stryngs, "Bobblehats and Beer" Band website, with downloads, at http://www.stryngs.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:41:14 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Joni costume party Omg!!!! THAT brings new meaning to the term "needle dick the bug fucker" Oh gawd I just spilled half my martini. Paz (putting on a clean halter top) P.S> Sorry go down the ladder so much further > I'll be a pin cushion prick! > > It's > down > down > down > the dark ladder. > > Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:57:54 -0300 From: "Wally Kairuz" Subject: RE: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... i got two of those today and wrote to the "senders" to let them know. excuse the njc but i think this is important. wally > -----Mensaje original----- > De: owner-joni@jmdl.com [mailto:owner-joni@jmdl.com]En nombre de Chris > Marshall > Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Agosto de 2004 08:20 p.m. > Para: Joni List > Asunto: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... > > > Excuse the lack of NJC here. I've just received two virus e-mails > purporting to be from people I know (both JMDL subscribers and > good friends of mine), but the message in fact originates from > a Verizon internet account - NYC area by the look of things. > > So it's likely that someone on the JMDL has a virus that spreads > using addresses in the address book as a faked "From:" address, > sent to other people in the address book. > > Needless to say, usual advice applies: if you get a message > containing a zip file of about 30Kb in size, purporting to be > from someone you know, treat with caution. It's most likely to > be a virus. > > Normal service resumed now, apologies for the intrusion. > > --Chris Marshall > > chrisAThatstand.org (AIM: Chr15Marshall) > > "If you're ever lost, I'll beat the world to finding you" > Stryngs, "Bobblehats and Beer" > Band website, with downloads, at http://www.stryngs.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:58:34 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... I got two as well and one of them is a Texan. The other one was from an email address I did not recognize Paz > Excuse the lack of NJC here. I've just received two virus e-mails > purporting to be from people I know (both JMDL subscribers and > good friends of mine), but the message in fact originates from > a Verizon internet account - NYC area by the look of things. > > So it's likely that someone on the JMDL has a virus that spreads > using addresses in the address book as a faked "From:" address, > sent to other people in the address book. > > Needless to say, usual advice applies: if you get a message > containing a zip file of about 30Kb in size, purporting to be > from someone you know, treat with caution. It's most likely to > be a virus. > > Normal service resumed now, apologies for the intrusion. > > --Chris Marshall > > chrisAThatstand.org (AIM: Chr15Marshall) > > "If you're ever lost, I'll beat the world to finding you" > Stryngs, "Bobblehats and Beer" > Band website, with downloads, at http://www.stryngs.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:26:38 EDT From: Smurfycopy@aol.com Subject: Re: Are you a Verizon internet user? You may have a virus... I got an email message on my other AOL account from Muller's place of business this morning saying that an email I sent him today was not accepted or something like that because a virus was detected. Weird thing is, if I ever emailed Bob at his work addy it was at least 6 months ago, and I never sent him email of any kind this morning. Sniffle sniffle, a-CHOO! - --Smurf, who can't have the virus because he's on AOL, right? "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - --George W. Bush ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:17:21 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: k.d. lang's album - with joni content i've been meaning to write about '49th parallel' which i am absolutely adoring. i think i like it as much as any k.d. album since -- maybe ingenue. i adore the neil young covers, and the siberry covers, and especially cohen's 'bird on a wire'. it's put me in a kd mood, and caused me to pull out jennifer warnes' 'famous blue raincoat', her cohen covers. kd's version of 'bird on a wire' is better... anyway, one of my lefty political blogs had this non-political review today. really sounds like he could be a lurker on this list... patrick np - kd lang, helpless - -------- http://tbogg.blogspot.com Just a music plug. I'm not a huge fan of k.d. lang, but like most people I'm a great admirer of her voice. A great deal of my lang agnosticism is her choice of material which I find a bit...mannered. But I have to admit that her latest Hymns of the 49th Parallel is brilliant. Choosing from among Canada's best songwriters she creates beautiful, if sometimes a bit reverent, covers of songs from Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith, and Bruce Cockburn. The highlights include Cohen's Hallelujah (which is quite moving) and Siberry's Love Is Everything in which she actually sounds like she really means it. Some of the selections are fairly obvious (Helpless, Bird On A Wire) and as much as I liked her version of A Case of You, which I think is one of the ten greatest songs ever written, I still prefer Diana Krall's version (that should stir up some emails). I would have prefered she had covered either Mitchell's Amelia or The Last Time I Saw Richard but, as usual, nobody asked me. I'm a sucker for cover CD's (as opposed to "tribute" CD's which generally blow) and this new one from lang is probably the best to come along since Nancy Griffith's Other Voices, Other Rooms which is the standard against which all cover CD's must be judged. And the best news of all is that the CD contains nothing from Alanis Morissette or Bryan Adams. That says a lot about it right there. Note: When the hell are they going to put out a Joni Mitchell boxset? I mean, crap, you can get a Stevie Nicks boxset fer crying out loud. Then again, she is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness.... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:44:52 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: k.d. lang's album - with joni content patrick leader wrote: > i've been meaning to write about '49th parallel' which i am absolutely > adoring. i think i like it as much as any k.d. album > anyway, one of my lefty political blogs had this non-political review today. > really sounds like he could be a lurker on this list... > Note: When the hell are they going to put out a Joni Mitchell boxset? I > mean, crap, you can get a Stevie Nicks boxset fer crying out loud. Then > again, she is like a cat in the dark > and then she is the darkness.... It wasn't me, honest! I haven't even heard kd's new album! RR ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:40:10 -0700 From: frasere@intergate.ca Subject: Re: k.d. lang's album - with joni content Hi Patrick, I too, am ADORING kd's latest. Not only has she chosen some quintessential Canadian songs, but I think her voice is definately in it's prime. Great seclection of covers- I too especially love the Neil Young covers- but her take on Jericho just blows me away! It certainly is a tear-shedding recording! Best, Stephen in Vancouver NP: Travelogue Quoting patrick leader : > i've been meaning to write about '49th parallel' which i am absolutely > adoring. i think i like it as much as any k.d. album since -- maybe > ingenue. i adore the neil young covers, and the siberry covers, and > especially cohen's 'bird on a wire'. it's put me in a kd mood, and caused > me to pull out jennifer warnes' 'famous blue raincoat', her cohen covers. > kd's version of 'bird on a wire' is better... > > anyway, one of my lefty political blogs had this non-political review today. > really sounds like he could be a lurker on this list... > > patrick > > np - kd lang, helpless ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:15:06 EDT From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: k.d. lang's album - with joni content Patrick writes: > i've been meaning to write about '49th parallel' which i am absolutely > adoring. i think i like it as much as any k.d. album since -- maybe > ingenue. i adore the neil young covers, and the siberry covers, and > especially cohen's 'bird on a wire'. I'm sure this has been discussed recently, but since I just got back on the list, I'll put my 2 pesos in. I agree with you Patrick. I just got k.d.'s CD a few days ago, and it's fantastic. Her Joni and Neil Young covers are Superb, as all of the rest of them. I know so many people on this list love Jane Siberry, but as I've said before......I do not like her voice at all. I saw her live in Toronto, and she's just not my cup of tea, but to hear k.d. sing her songs, I have a new appreciation. ACOY is great, but Jericho is even better. Jimmy, reading in my journal of the fun at Jonifest 1 year ago today. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:48:19 -0700 From: "Mark or Travis" Subject: Hymns of the 49th Parallel Just wanted to add my two cents to the praise for k. d. lang's latest. This is the review I posted to Amazon: Canadian Club of the Highest Order, August 7, 2004 This is k. d. lang's tribute to her fellow Canadian songwriters and she has chosen her material from the creme de la creme. The cd is comprised of two songs each from Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Jane Siberry and Leonard Cohen, one each from Ron Sexsmith and Bruce Cockburn and one that k. d. wrote herself with David Piltch. The result is reminiscent of some of the best of Judy Collins' albums from the 60s: impeccably chosen material, tastefully produced and exquisitely sung by one of the great voices of this generation. Lang gives beautiful readings of each song, skillfully harnessing the power of her glorious voice to fit the mostly contemplative tone of the material. Her interpretations are distinctively her own while showing enough respect for the songs to let them speak for themselves. She breaks your heart with Cohen's 'Hallelujah', captures the pain of an addictive love gone wrong in Mitchell's 'A Case of You' and evokes the nostalgic melancholy of Young's 'Helpless'. Hopefully this cd will provide some well-deserved exposure for singer/songwriter Jane Siberry with k. d.'s readings of two gorgeous songs written by Jane, 'The Valley' and 'Love Is Everything'. K. d.'s own contribution co-written with David Piltch, the lovely 'Simple', is also a most worthy effort and holds its own in this distinguished company. This cd is an instant classic and is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys song writing of the highest quality sung with consummate skill and depth by a great interpreter. Mark E. in Seattle [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of stars-5-0.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:26:43 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: August 10 On August 10 the following articles were published: 1974: "Joni: Surprisingly Sensual" - Detroit Free Press (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=991 1974: "Joni: Surprisingly Sensual" - Detroit Free Press (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=962 1979: "How Much In Love" - Detroit Free Press (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=988 1979: "Joni Mitchell at River Festival" - St Louis Post Dispatch (Review - Concert) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=838 1991: "Joni's Playing Real Good For Free On Promo Video" - Billboard (News Item) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1117 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #228 ********************************* ------- 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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