From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #362 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, December 21 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 362 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni ["Anne Sandstrom" ] Re: JT's River and other Christmas songs [Em ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:02:47 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni OK, Catherine, I'll play... Thinking out loud here. Well, a drink in honor of Joni would have to be kind of smoky I think, definitely not fruity. Fine Scotch comes to mind. Oh, but there is a wine - Stag's Leap cabernet sauvignon that would be a good basis for a Joni concoction as well. And the color of the drink would be kind of cloudy, not just for the obvious reason, but because Joni is definitely not transparent. So, I'm thinking that duality is an important ingredient here. Like fire and ice. So maybe Stag's Leap on the rocks, flambee? Well, I'm no bartender (as you can see), but maybe someone else can come up with something that you could actually drink LOL!!! lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:30:38 -0500 From: "Anne Sandstrom" Subject: JT's River and other Christmas songs I bought JT's Christmas CD a few weeks ago, and finally got around to downloading River. I really like it (River, that is). I think he's done some inventive things with it, staying true to the original, but making it his own too. And, while I'm talking about River, does anyone remember a version from about 5-6 years ago that was played on "new age/smooth jazz" type stations? (And, while we're at it, if Joni were to actually record a Christmas album (record execs would probably have to put a gun to her head or some such thing), what songs do you think she'd record? As for James' Christmas album - I'm kind of underwhelmed. My favorites are "Some Children See Him" (which I probably know best from George Winston's December) and Auld Lang Syne. Maybe I need to listen a few more times, but I'm just not that thrilled with it. (Even though I've contended lately that James could sing the ABCs and I'd swoon...) Oddly enough, I had a similar reaction to Shawn Colvin's Holiday Songs and Lullabies CD. Actually, I find her voice kind of grating on some of it. Not to get too personal, but I've often wondered if her being pregnant made it harder for her to breathe from the diaphram. It just sounds like she's singing closer to her throat, which makes her sound a bit shrill sometimes. So, back to Joni's imaginary Christmas CD: River (of course...) Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel (minor key enough for our Joan) I Wonder As I Wander Christmas Bells (which John Gorka does on the Windham Hill "A Winter's Solstice III") Another Auld Lang Syne (the Dan Fogelberg song w/ lyrics adapted by Joni) Old City Bar (from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD "Christmas Eve and Other Stories") Do They Know It's Christmas/Ethipa (done as a sort of medley) I Believe in Father Christmas (the ELO song) Awaiting the Snow (the Lui Collins song) Chinese Cafe / Christmastime is Here (instead of Unchained Melody, use the song from the Charlie Brown special) So, there you go. Do you suppose Joni ever sings along to the radio - or maybe she avoids Christmas music altogether (hard to do, but you never know...) lots of love Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:48:32 -0500 From: Subject: Re: Joni mention in NYT now a toast to Joni I heard a few years ago that Joni often drinks a Cosmoplitan. That makes sense to me so I'd rename it a "Joni". Then I'd raise a toast, "Merry Christmas, Joni. You taste so bitter / but you taste so sweet." Lama >From: Catherine McKay >if you were going to make a drink named for Joni Mitchell, how would you make it, what would you put in it?> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:53:19 -0800 (PST) From: Em Subject: Re: JT's River and other Christmas songs - --- Anne Sandstrom wrote: > So, there you go. Do you suppose Joni ever sings along to the radio - > or maybe she avoids Christmas music altogether (hard to do, but you > never know...) Hi Anne, I have this strange desire to hear and SEE Joni do "Cinammon Girl"..a rockin version. And she needs to play it too. I know, not Christmas music...but.... :) Rm ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #362 ********************************* ------- 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)