From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #368 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 Monday, December 27 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 368 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- re: saskatoons - now jc [mags h ] Re: Norah Jones - Little Joni content [Bobsart48@aol.com] Joni as Escapesim [Nuriel Tobias ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:26:50 -0800 (PST) From: mags h Subject: re: saskatoons - now jc Nice catch Mia, makes sense to me, especially since berries in general, saskatoon berries are very common in this part of my world. There's a farmcountry feel to this landscape, which conjurs up many littlegirlmemories spent on the farm in Ontario. Mags mia ortlieb wrote: regarding the yummy saskatoon berries, Mags wrote: "I've eaten them in pies, jams, muffins, you name it..."" Hmm, do you think this is what Joni was singing about in Sisowtowbell Lane (or did someone mention this previously)? "Eating muffin buns and berries by the steamy kitchen window...." Mia imagine you're a girl, with ten mile stilts wailin' jennys 40 days Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:55:21 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Norah Jones - Little Joni content Randy posted, , then Bob M replied as follows: "NORAH JONES "Feels Like Home"-The real "anti-Britney", becoming a better songwriter "What Am I To You" 'Thanks for the list, Randy...I left off the Norah but it's an excellent disc of course. She beats the sophomore jinx and proves herself a force to be reckoned with, in terms of her singing and writing. Can't wait for the next one but I imagine it will be a fairly long wait. She makes it look deceptively easy.' Now moi. I saw Norah in concert at Jones beach in August (she feigned flattery that they would name both the beach and the theatre for her). I was very pleasantly surprised at what a fine concert it was. Her performance was quite good live (better than the snippets I had theretofore seen on TV), and her manner - though understated almost to the point of humility - was quite engaging. Of particular interest to me was her band. Basically country/western in roots, I thought, but extremely versatile when they moved outside their genre. I do not recall the members, but I pegged them as top notch. I filed this concert in my mind as another example of how an artist can enhance his or her body of work - and her image, IMO - via collaborating with other talented artists. The other point of note - related to her having had success with her 'sophomore' CD - is that IMO the music listeners of the world are starved for good songs, singers and songwriters. Give 'em a taste of that mix, and worship will follow. I really had a good time that night (enhanced by the picture perfect August night, and the company of family and my daughter's friend from France). All that said, I revisited playing Hejira this weekend on my electric. Pretty much satisfied with all of the arrangements at this point (thanks again and compliments to the JMDL guitar tab database), except for Blue Motel Room and ROTR, which I still have to learn. We are so blessed to have discovered Joni, and to have had the capacity to appreciate her work. Many are not so 'lucky'. But there is a second edge to that sword. For all of my enjoyment of her concert, I seldom put Norah's CD's on to listen to. As I said previously, Joni's pretty much ruined popular music for me, except for the rare occasion like this concert. So, I feel sort of cursed, too, 'a la mode' of the spoiled addict. The lady giveth, and the lady taketh away. Bobsart Gonna go put on a Norah Jones CD now, and pretend I still have a bit of breadth and a touch of open-mindedness. Can't fool you guys, I know, but maybe I can fool myself. :-) Happy holidays to all. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Nuriel Tobias Subject: Joni as Escapesim Joni as Escapeism - --------------------------- It was a working day, a small bar, the radio wasn't playing. Just before the opening of the door Later, maybe, when i couldn't see her anymore, Sue Liberman said: "Guess it's time to fall out off love again". I don't think it was an act of lust - i think it was the gentle rain That fell the day they redeclared Fascism. This is Joni as Escapeism. Sue had a dark night, so scary, her book refused to close. You know that preacher, that teacher, that creature, He'd hit her if his wife knew she's the girl behind that rose. But when they meet behind the noses of his Lady's spies, Just before he's showering off the suck Later, maybe, when the cops are wondering if she's drunk, He reminds her "When you're married, Don't you tell your husand why! All you have to do is play that Joni album that i gave you 'till i die!" His wife, by the way, made a copy of it, everything's on tape. So is it escapeism or something you escape? I also had my share of "Dental Nightmare" in my life. I think it was when Larry was her wife. Everyday when coming back from school, I visited a graveyard made for buses. My friends were shouting at me "She will cook you too, you fool!" A crazy woman lived inside it by the third black line of dead handwheels and mouses. At that time lots of children were reported as missing. On the other hand, back then, i saw 2 boys kissing For the first time. Now, you don't need me to tell you who got charged... You bet it was the guard! And sleeping was his crime! I never thought of Joni as Escapeism before. In case you tell me not to I'll speak of it no more. In fact, i'll go and ask Sue Liberman to play me "Cactus Tree"! There's zero Escapeism in they way she's singing "free"! Oh no, she played the wrong song Number 10, And Joni's singing "Holidays are all too sad" again... That's not the album she was given by that aging married man... It scares me when i think of why that girl became a fan... This Escapeism mess will never-ever end, i fear... Sue's husaband, he is laughing from the bathroom, i can hear: "You see? It's "Holidays are all to sad" we hear again! Thank God, my bitch keeps playing me the wrong song Number 10!" - - Nuriel Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. 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