From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #2 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, January 3 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 002 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Blue ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] RE: From a newbie -- don't flame; i've searched the archives... ["hell" <] Re: Joni Covers, Volume 60 - Happy New Hear! [FMYFL@aol.com] Joni on CBC tomorrow [Doug ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 03:52:09 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Re: Blue The performance of that one word is very evocative. It starts out beautiful sounding, then she turns it melodically only to revise it again into a whimpering, pained blue note. It doesn't resolve the way a listener would expect it to, which says a LOT right there. I think in the MOA versions she even exhales across the mic, disappointedly, and the story comes to a full stop, after one word. It's as if she has to gather energy to overcome disappointment before she can tell the story. (Now that I think about it, it's a bit like Croz introducing "Triad" on 4 Way St.) That one word by itself is far beyond ordinary songs on the radio. She so courageous and inventive that (to me) it's like she isn't even aware that people "just don't do that". It's like she came from another planet where there are fewer rules. Joni rocks. Duh, Lama PS, I really got a lot out of Jenny's post about these phrases: crown and anchor me or let me sail away SCJoniGuy said, >While the entire piece is a chunk of emotional power, what really knocks me out is the one time (both on Blue and on MOA) when she sings "Blue-hoo-hoo-hoo" in kind of a half-cry, half laugh (laughin' & cryin' you know it's the same release).> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:06:32 +1300 From: "hell" Subject: RE: From a newbie -- don't flame; i've searched the archives... Justin wrote: > I know that this is a tired, old subject which has > been rehashed a thousand times, but i'll throw in > my thoughts anyway... Throw away - we've been short on Joni content lately! And I'd never flame anyone for a theory on Joni, since none of us know the real "truth" anyway! > Does anyone else think that maybe the subject of > "A Case of You" was David Crosby? Now I'm not disputing your theory, but personally, I've always thought this song is about James Taylor, rather than Crosby (I can't remember what anyone else thinks). > My "evidence" is, of course, bad; it mainly hinges > on the fragment > > Just before our love got lost you said > "I am as constant as a Northern Star" > > because he's an avid navigator and he is star-struck; > he wrote "Southern Cross", so it makes sense that > he would say something like that. Actually, he didn't write that one. The CSN box-set liner notes quote Stephen Stills as saying: "The Curtis Brothers brought me a wonderful song called 'Seven League Boots', but it drifted around too much. I re-wrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It's about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again I was given somebody's gem and cut and polished it." I can see where you would get that idea, as Crosby IS an accomplished sailor. But I think it also fits Taylor, since his life was pretty chaotic around that time, and Joni would have seemed a lot more grounded, or "constant". > More circumstantial evidence: > > She knew your devils and your deeds > > Well, he's certainly had no shortage of those. But > there are plenty of people who fit that description. I've always thought that referred to Kate Taylor (James' sister) since she would "have a mouth like his" - and Crosby doesn't have a sister ;o). I always assumed "his devils and his deeds" were his drug use and womanising... still just my theory, of course. Hey, we're probably both wrong ;o), and unless Joni finally writes her long-awaited memoirs, and tells us exactly who it was about, we may never know! But welcome to the list, and don't feel you have to agree with me, or anyone else! Like Joni says, "the more voices the better, and the more out-of-tune voices the better!" Hell - in NZ, where summer made a brief tentative appearance today, but has now disappeared again, damn it.... _________________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too" - Walt Whitman Hell's Pages - a whole new experience! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:49:11 EST From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Covers, Volume 60 - Happy New Hear! Thanks for another great Covers Mr. Muller! I've been listening to it for the past 2 days and even though it does have some cheese, it's filled with some great singers. Wilson Phillips does a great job of "California". Emiko Shiratori is good with "Woodstock", and Zia Hassan & Danica Dora is super with "ACOY". My favorites are the 3 songs that "The Fourth Stream" perform. GREAT voice, and a super band. I can listen to those 3 songs over and over. Thanks for starting my New Year in a great way! Jimmy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:09:00 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Joni on CBC tomorrow on CBC Newsworld which is on cable or satellite only http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=Idols+and+Icons+Special&network=CBC%20Newsworld&startDate=2005/01/03&startTime=20:00 *Monday, January 3, 2005, 8:00 p.m.* *Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen* First, the Leonard Cohen special Halleluhah. Next, Joni Mitchell features a one on one chat and features highlights from a symposium on her music held by McGill University, where she also received an honourary degree. The show repeats at 11:00 pm (eastern) I will be taping. Doug ps my email is changing to dmeek@marketbridge.ca ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #2 ******************************* ------- 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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