From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #261 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, September 12 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 261 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Chinese Cafe Cover ["willytheshake100" ] Re: Chinese Cafe Cover [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: New Joni cover [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Joni's 'survival' [Bobsart48@aol.com] Today's Library Links: September 12 [ljirvin@jmdl.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:03:52 +0100 From: "willytheshake100" Subject: Chinese Cafe Cover Gordon wrote: > We need a jonifest at next years Edinburgh International Festival. Who wants to come to Scotland? Tapped in Joni and the festival and found this: http://www.nakedvoices.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pressrelease.htm Thought this might be of particular interest to that SCJoniguy chap for the eternal covers project (if you don't already know about it). http://www.naked-voices.co.uk/ WtS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:40:43 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Chinese Cafe Cover **Thought this might be of particular interest to that SCJoniguy chap for the eternal covers project (if you don't already know about it). Hiya Willie - I will echo the comments of others and say that how happy I am to see your by-line in our midst once more! Your post was very coincidental - just this week I announced Volume 56 in the ever-expanding, seemingly never-ending, historically significant Joni Covers Project, and the live version of "Chinese Cafe" (from their 2002 'Chambers Street' CD) is on it. I commented in my liner notes that the band member that I wrote to had said that they would have a studio version someday...and someday is here! I revisited the website thanks to the link you provided, and see that the group HAS in fact recorded a new CD in June of this year called "All Together" with Chinese Cafe, an XTC song (River Of Orchids), a Fleetwood Mac song for Ms. Nikki (The Chain), a U2 song (Running To Stand Still) and of course many others. You can hear a 1:23 length sample if you click on "Recording" on the left-hand side and then scroll down and click on "Listen To The CD's". Bob NP: Pat Metheny Group, "Midwestern Nights Dream" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:49:15 EDT From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: New Joni cover **Interesting song choices. I thought so too...obviously the project is politically charged, hence the inclusion of all of the socio-political material. Wish they had included a cover of the Dead Kennedy's "Stars & Stripes of Corruption" which cuts to the core - one of my favorite songs of this genre. Wouldn't it have been cool for Joni to close TBOS with a newly-recorded acapella take of Fiddle & The Drum? OMG, that would have rocked my world. To show the span of time from 1969 to 2004, basically the length of her recording career, with no change in the idiocy of our going to war, and her innocent-sounding crystalline voice of then contrasting with her weary-yet-wiser voice of today? That would have been awesome. ** And did you check out the comments on the rest of the page? No, but I can imagine - I've wandered into some political chatrooms lately just as an observer and the level of hatred that Americans have for one another now is really scary. And Mr. Bush sells himself as a UNITER!! Feh. Bob NP: Pat Metheny Group, "Wrong Is Right" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:07:20 EDT From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni's 'survival' Justin wrote, in part: I'm quite shocked to learn that she feels this way. She may not be as widely popular in the mainstream as she was in the early to mid 70's, but that doesn't mean that her music isn't still largely appreciated by people that still care about quality songwriting. I'm 26 and I only started listening to her music about 3 years ago and she's opened up a lot of doors for me....... There are still a lot of young people that are just discovering her music now, and I don't see that changing. Music of her quality is something that will be appreciated for a long time to come, even if it's slightly under the radar of popular culture or even if it takes years for her work to be understood. Very nice post, Justin. However, I am not shocked by Joni's concerns - she is, I assume, worried about her music surviving through the generations. And while we all are in agreement that it deserves to, that will take at least some ongoing critical mass of public awareness, understanding and acknowledgement. So, I'm glad to see another youthful member of the cognoscenti out there. This leads to the matter of keeping the word alive. I worked on my daughter Leah for years until she saw the light- now she concedes (tongue only partly in cheek) that she is an evangelist among her friends and acquaintances. One of her converts - a guy from Paris (now studying at Stanford), whom she met while she was on a grant there for a year - visited us last weekend here in NJ (Leah was also in town - ostensibly to visit us, but in reality to show him NYC - having flown in on the way to do some research at NIH). Anyway, he had forgotten to bring his Joni CD's when he left Paris for California, so I copied a few for him to tide him over for a few months. Hopefully, he'll play them for his buddies at Stanford. Have you had any luck introducing Joni to your friends ? (It's part of your job, I'm sorry to say) ;-) That said, supporting your view, one of Leah's suitemates at Oxford is a performer, with a high percentage of Joni songs in her repertoire (can it be that we Joni lovers always find each other somehow ?). ;-) Bob Sartorius ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:08:38 -0400 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: September 12 On September 12 the following article was published: 1994: "Morning Becomes Eclectic" - KCRW-FM (Interview - Audio Transcription) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=673 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #261 ********************************* ------- 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? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)