From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #51 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 Friday, February 18 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 051 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? [colin ] re: Jonifest in France ["mike pritchard" ] Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? [Smurf ] Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? [Smurf ] Re: "Joni Mitchell: Artist's Choice", short [Catherine McKay ] Starbuck's CD [John Sprackland ] Re: Starbuck's CD [Rusty10113@aol.com] Re: fresh air, little green ["McMillan Brad" ] Re: joni party [Lori Fye ] Re: Joni references Shakespeare/Joni Party ["Donna Binkley" ] FW: Comment from JMDL site ["Les Irvin" ] Re: Starbuck's CD [Deb Messling ] Re: Starbuck's CD [Rusty10113@aol.com] Joni in Macleans [mags h ] more on macleans [mags h ] Southern rock and The South ["David Henderson" ] Re: Fresh Air interview [Catherine McKay ] Re: FW: Comment from JMDL site [Catherine McKay ] Re: Fresh Air interview ["Kate Bennett" ] Artist's Choice:Joni Mitchell AND songs chosen by her friends & fellow musicians ["c Karma" Subject: Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? JRMCo1@aol.com wrote: >>I love >>that flag but hate the slavery. >> >>mack >> >> >> >That's like a German saying: "I love that swastika, but I hate the genocide." > >-Julius > > > such a shame the swastika has come to be recognized as a symbol for peace when it was and still is a Hindu symbol meaning the opposite. - -- bw colin http://www.btinternet.com/~tantraapso/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:37:49 +0100 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: re: Jonifest in France I will be there - as Van Morrison said. mike in barcelona, looking forward to meeting Ashara, and the others np - holly cole - temptation ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:58:06 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? Responding to Lama's explanation: > (For JMDLers outside the US, I'll say this: The confederate army, which was fighting basically to preserve slavery, > Mack wrote: > Definitely a Yankee viewpoint. Really? Here's another Yankee viewpoint: When I was a boy I used to like the shamrock symbol that's identified with people of Irish ancestry. By the 1970s, the symbol had been adopted by anti-busing forces here in Boston -- many of whom were racists of the ugliest sort. Now when I see shamrocks I can't help but think of the racist meaning that's become attached to that symbol for me because of past events. I can't imagine that the feelings would be that much different for anyone who is associated with a tarnished symbol, whether that person is a Southern man or a German or an Irish-American. - --Smurf in Boston, where the word 'Yankee' means either the descendants of the hated people who put up the "No Irish Need Apply" signs in my grandfather's time, or the even more hated, yet finally defeated, baseball team __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:02:29 -0800 (PST) From: Smurf Subject: Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? Hey! I just noticed this Grammy thread doesn't have a no-Joni tag on it. Sorry to the Joni onlies for catching the error after I hit SEND. - --Smurf __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: "Joni Mitchell: Artist's Choice", short --- Randy Remote wrote: > The Artists Choice CDs are also available on the > Starbucks website > (mostly, that is, a couple of them seem to be > unavailable)-- > Joni's has not been added to their webpage yet, > though. The > page to check: > http://www.starbucks.com/hearmusic/index.asp?category%5Fname=Artists+Choice > They only ship orders to the United States and > Canada, excluding > Quebec, Puerto Rico and Guam. Hey! Whatta they got > against Quebec? > It's more likely what Quebec has against them. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:34:14 +0000 From: colin Subject: Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? Smurf wrote: >Responding to Lama's explanation: > > > (For JMDLers outside the US, I'll say this: The >confederate army, which was fighting basically to >preserve slavery, > > >Mack wrote: > > > >>Definitely a Yankee viewpoint. >> >> > > >Really? Here's another Yankee viewpoint: > >When I was a boy I used to like the shamrock symbol >that's identified with people of Irish ancestry. By >the 1970s, the symbol had been adopted by anti-busing >forces here in Boston -- many of whom were racists of >the ugliest sort. Now when I see shamrocks I can't >help but think of the racist meaning that's become >attached to that symbol for me because of past events. > > Th same thi g has happened to the enlish flag, cross of st george. It wa shijacked years ago by racists and is seen a racist symbol now. - -- bw colin http://www.btinternet.com/~tantraapso/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:15:01 +0000 From: John Sprackland Subject: Starbuck's CD Will you guys stop teasing us! What is on the goddamn CDs?! People keep dropping little messages, 'got the Starbuck's CDs.... cool...', kinda thing.... ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT SHE HAS CHOSEN AND WHAT OTHERS CHOSE OF JONI! ...it's not much to ask. Is this CD available in the UK Starbuck's yet, anyone know? John Southport, UK NP; Rilo Kiley from 'The Word' sampler CD with the Joni issue... what a great song and great voice! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:27:23 EST From: Rusty10113@aol.com Subject: Re: Starbuck's CD lol, well Im at Starbucks right now, and of course, have already created my own CD on my iPod, as I already own all these songs...the list is as follows (the order might be screwed up slightly) .. I think this is a more listenable array for the general public than Dreamland.. anyone agree? For Free A Case of You Free Man in Paris Coyote Blue Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire For The Roses Raised on Robbery A Strange Boy God Must Be A Boogie Man Two Grey Rooms (great choice!) Both Sides Now (orch version) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:45:24 -0500 From: "McMillan Brad" Subject: Re: fresh air, little green very good observation. ----- Original Message ----- From: eaddy sutton To: joni@smoe.org Cc: bradmcmillan@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:54 PM Subject: fresh air, little green Brad wrote; Personally, I find Joni's 'feet of clay' very humanizing. As to the issue at hand, "Little Green" does have some rather self-serving lyrics, but she speaks too of lying to her parents and yet says she's not ashamed. There was obviously some conflict there. ******** So you sign all the papers, in the family name you're sad and you're sorry, but you're not ashamed Little green, have a happy ending I've always felt that this is all I need to know about the situation -- unthruths, nonsense or no. But then the WOHAM dvd makes this the central angst in her creative life; the betrayal, the grief, but the freedom. . . . Since that dvd, the weeping and bawling along with the song is almost too much to bear. Eaddy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:23:55 -0500 From: Lori Fye Subject: Re: joni party Bob wrote: < I can't imagine such a thing, except in those cases where you're in an area that's > got enough of US around to make it work. When I take things to various shops > for duplication (cd artwork, videos, etc) about the best I can hope for is "Joni > Mitchell - I've HEARD of her". Here in Bethesda MD where I work, one of my colleagues went this morning to the nearest Starbucks and came back to tell me that they have two different JM cds on the counter -- AND one of the cds is "flying off the shelf!" She said everyone who picked it up was buying it. So there's hope ... Lori, who has no idea what's on those cds ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:47:52 -0600 From: "Donna Binkley" Subject: Re: Joni references Shakespeare/Joni Party Eaddy, your idea of a Joni Party sounds great to me! Let us know when and where. There has been a major Jonifest annually for about 8-9 years, with smaller "mini-fests" in between. I have attended as many as possible. This year there it's happening in France see JMDL.com for details. Joni also references Shakespeare in "Talk to Me" from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, a great album IMO. And there may be other references I can't think of or don't know. Come on Joniphiles help us out here! Donna from TX I work at a private school in Vermont and I almost always get some response when I toss out a reference to Joni. A workshop weekend with colleagues took on a "hexagram of the heavens" theme -- we were seeing them everywhere and wondering just what in the heck that false alarm was, for two whole days. (I still don't know what it is. . . good topic for the party, or the list, perhaps.) I was in the office the other day, preparing for class, when I came across the lines in Shakespeare's Caesar "I am as constant as the northern star . . . ." I was so psyched that I called out to the group of parents, staff and teachers "Joni? You know Joni? Listen to this!" They did the babble and swoon, and we all got into A Case of You and the literary reference. (I would love to get into that convo here on the list, but alas, no one seemed interested when I tossed it out. Did Joni read the classics? Are there other lines or images from Shakespeare, et. al.?) Perhaps the teaching profession is full of those sensitive, brooding types who love the depths of poetry, and therefore Joni . . . . It is definitely time for a party -- and perhaps someday a full-blown fest, hosted by the masters. Eaddy This message has been scanned by the E250. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:35:24 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? Julius wrote: I can't endure it any longer...I hate that feckin' song ("Sweet Home Alabama") and every time I hear it I have to resist the urge to hurl. I've always seen it as a segregationist anthem and a diss of the good intentions of Neil Young. Does no one listen to lyrics at all anymore? Hi Julius, I listen to lyrics... and sing them and lived in Mobile, Alabama for a while, Jimmy Buffet's home town. I love the song Sweet Home Alabama and do turn it up and sing with Alabama when it comes on the radio. In my opinion, it isn't a segregationist anthem at all but rather an excellent song about the love of one's home. I see the song saying Neil Young really wasn't needed to focus on slavery which happened years before great southerners like Ernest Green, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Prejudice didn't need to be stirred up against southerners. That's what I understood Alabama to mean by singing: Well I heard mister young sing about her Well, I heard ole neil put her down Well, I hope neil young will remember A southern man donbt need him around anyhow Neil Young's song Souther Man was definitely a put down rather than focusing on the goodness of the southern man. I'm a Neil Young fan, but I think he was rightly chastised in the song Sweet Home Alabama. The group members of Alabama are also fans of Neil Young, and in concerts, the lead singer wore a Neil Young tee-shirt. We southerners don't need people to think of us as slave drivers with whips, etc. That really sucks. The whips were long gone in 1970 when Southern Man came out. Yes, there are fundamentalist groups of white supremacists in the south, but I guarantee you'll find them in the north too, and they aren't just against blacks. There is prejudice against the South and change will come at last in this regard. I say BRAVO to Alabama for not letting Neil's song by without standing up for the reputation of the South by keeping the focus on the good in the modern day times. Below are two other songs I really love that came to my mind because they sing of the beauty of the South. Love that bama accent... so sweet and warm jis' like our own here in Arkansas! I love the white sand in Gulf Shores, Alabama!!! Love the ride on the bridge over Mobile Bay on into Mobile too! You ain't gonna find no nicer people than we got down here in Dixie. Th' ain't no nicer smiles than on our black bro's and sis', fine southern men and women. Fine... real fine. Love, Laura Southern Accents Johnny Cash Unchained (written by Tom Petty) There's a southern accent, where I come from The young'uns call it country The Yankees call it dumb I got my own way of talkin' But everything is done, with a southern accent Where I come from Now that drunk tank in Atlanta's Just a motel room to me Think I might go work Orlando If them orange groves don't freeze I got my own way of workin' But everything is run, with a southern accent Where I come from I got my own way of working When everything is wrong With a southern accent Where I come from For just a minute there I was dreaming For just a minute it was all so real For just a minute she was standing there, with me There's a dream I keep having Where my mama comes to me And she kneels down over by the window And says a prayer for me I got my own way of prayin' But everyone's begun With a southern accent Where I come from We have our own way of livin' But everything is done With a southern accent Where I come from Stars Fell on Alabama Sung by Jimmy Buffett written by Mitchell parish, frank perkins 1934 For all the crooners and swooners wherever they may be Moonlight and magnolias, starlight in your hair All the world a dream come true Did it really happen, was I really there Was I really there with you We lived our little drama, we kissed in a field of white And stars fell on alabama that night I canbt forget the glamour, your eyes held a tender light And stars fell on alabama last night Chorus: I never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly A fairy land that no one else could enter And in the center, just you and me, dear My heart beat like a hammer, my arms wound around you tight And stars fell on alabama last night - --spoken: Alright, letbs take it on down from muscle shoals through decatur Mmmm, birmingham, ooh montgomery Right up over spanish fort into mobile, my hometown Mister t... (harmonica solo) Chorus: I never planned in my imagination, a situation so heavenly A fairy land that no one else could enter And in the center, just you and me, dear My heart beat like a hammer, my arms wound around you tight Ah, stars fell on alabama last night - --spoken: One more time boys... Yes, we lived our little drama We kissed on the dunes so white And stars fell on alabama Last night ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:12:05 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Re: Fresh Air interview > Jerry, I'm afraid I must disagree with that statement. > Toronto was called "Toronto the Good" for a long time, But still much more liberal than anyplace in NY, outside of Manhattan. I used to go to Yorkville in the 60's because it was so openly gay. And you could buy dope on the streets openly anywhere. And the live sex shows were on every corner bar. I don't know which Protestants were running those in Toronto, but let me know what sect that was. Maybe the suburbs, like Mississauga were conservative, but I didn't find the city to be. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:16:52 -0700 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: FW: Comment from JMDL site Since the redesign of the JMDL, a lot of comments are coming through the site. Thought I'd continue to pass some of them along. Be sure to copy Paul's email on any responses. Les - -----Original Message----- From: Paul byrd9999@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:10 AM i'm looking for interpretation/discussion on Harry's House/Centrepiece, but you only seem to have feedback on a few songs. Can you help? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:51:17 -0500 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: Starbuck's CD Pretty good selection of songs, I'd say. More than just Big Yellow Circle Game, but the oddball choices, like Strange Boy and Boogie Man, are still accessible to the unwashed masses. I assume the liner notes indicate which celebrity chose which song? At 01:27 PM 2/17/2005, you wrote: >A Case of You >Free Man in Paris >Coyote >Blue >Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire >For The Roses >Raised on Robbery >A Strange Boy >God Must Be A Boogie Man >Two Grey Rooms (great choice!) >Both Sides Now (orch version) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- messling@enter.net - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:58:04 EST From: Rusty10113@aol.com Subject: Re: Starbuck's CD oh yes, the usual suspects like Crosby, Dylan, etc., but my favorite was including Two Grey Rooms, truly Joni's most unusual, brilliant, haunting song...Im blanking now as to whose favorite it is, long day! lol ... Prince or Chaka Kahn? hmmm... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: mags h Subject: Joni in Macleans http://www.macleans.ca/ go to macleans main page and click on Books and CDs . There, you will find the Macleans Leaders and Dreamers special edition magazine which I wrote about last week. There is an article with some Joni content, as well as a great b&w photo. I see that Macleans is selling it for about 9 dollars Canadian. Check it out if you are interested. Mags np: Who Is He (and what is he to you) ... sweet baby Bill Withers ;-) The all-new My Yahoo!  What will yours do? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: mags h Subject: more on macleans http://www.macleans.ca/ if you type in joni mitchell in their search window, there's quite a few articles and bits on Joni. enjoy. Mags np: Memories Are That Way... BW. Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:30:50 -0500 From: "David Henderson" Subject: Southern rock and The South I agree completely about Led Zeppelin and Mavis Staples, but I don't agree about the Southern rock tribute. I thought it was a great f*cking trip down memory lane. If you were in high school in the late 70's in the South, Southern rock was everywhere. The only classic Southern rock LP I ever owned was the one by Elvin Bishop with 'Fooled Around,' and I was definitely weary of the politics of some of these "good ol' boys," especially Skynard and Charlie Daniels. My high school senior prom ended with the long, 12" version of Freebird, and one of my first big concert festivals was a Southern rock thing my cousin took me too, and it was fantastic - Lacy J. Dalton, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Doug Kershaw, Elvin Bishop, Allman Brothers, Maria Muldaur, The Charlie Daniels Band (the headliners back then, believe it or not), Hank Williams, Jr, the hottest rising star at the time, and lots of Cajun bands (not to mention alligator po boys, boudain and Dixie beer!). It was in a civic center in Lake Charles, LA. That music is part of my past, for better or worse. I am a Southerner, for better or worse, and while I've traveled all over the world and lived all over America, I do love the sleepy crawl of the American South like no other place on earth. That music (and country music) reminds me of some terrible things like the flaunting of the confederate flag and the riots during integration, but it also reminds of a lot of beautiful things like my grandparents, shrimping in the gulf and weekend party trips to Lake Charles and New Orleans or beach trips to Biloxi. And maybe it's not wise to try to forget the bad memories too soon. I don't think you should be ashamed of where you are from, nor should you hate the unchosen birthplace of another man. Part of the trip down memory lane is making note of who we were then and how far we have come in 35 years. There was a lot to hate about growing up in a small Southern town but lots to love too. I've always felt a kinship with the spirit of Mary Chapin-Carpenter's "I Am A Town" - a bittersweet sense of love, resignation and hope. David NP Mary Chapin-Carpenter, I Feel Lucky (too serious, got to cheer up now) >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu [mailto:jlamadoo@fuse.net] >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:17 PM >>>To: joni@smoe.org >>>Cc: jdhenderson@nyc.rr.com >>>Subject: Anybody watch the Grammy Awards? >>> >>> >>>What's up with giving Mavis Staples only 20 seconds on the >>>occasion of her >>>family's Lifetime Achievement? All they had to do was give the Staple >>>Singers a 60 second presentation about Pops Staples' contribution to the >>>Civil Rights Movement. Ya know: "Pops helped to open the door with a >>>non-violent message." That would have sent a quick message of diversity, >>>dignity and non-violence to the US in general (and the >>>gansta-rap segment of >>>CD buyers in particular). The recording industry would have looked a bit >>>more sophisticated and smart too, for a change! >>> >>>They found time to educate us about copyrights (which I >>>absolutely support >>>of course) but a platinum-coated, once-in-a-decade, opportunity was lost. >>> >>>I'd rather not hear them mention Tim McGraw every 15 minutes for >>>3 hours, ya >>>know? Is he the only country artist now? How exactly do you buy those >>>product placements? >>> >>>And wasn't it weird when they read (from the podium) that Led >>>Zeppelin were >>>recognized for their Lifetime Achievement? The surviving players were in >>>the audience, in LA. They put them on TV for 0.6667 seconds. Then, they >>>were gone. No acceptance speech? No song from Led-fricken-Zepplin?! >>> >>>I'm just saying... >>>Lama >>> >>> >>>>I thought two were phenomenal - Alicia Keyes and Jamie Fox (They >>>should do an album together)- and that Southern Rock salute with Skynard, >>>Allman Brothers, Keith Urban, Elvin Bishop, etc. . . . That was f*****g >>>incredible, especially for a Louisiana boy who grew up in the 70's!! >>>AMAZING, the whole group!!> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:51:59 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Fresh Air interview --- Jerry Notaro wrote: > > Jerry, I'm afraid I must disagree with that > statement. > > Toronto was called "Toronto the Good" for a long > time, > > But still much more liberal than anyplace in NY, > outside of Manhattan. I > used to go to Yorkville in the 60's because it was > so openly gay. And you > could buy dope on the streets openly anywhere. And > the live sex shows were > on every corner bar. I don't know which Protestants > were running those in > Toronto, but let me know what sect that was. Maybe > the suburbs, like > Mississauga were conservative, but I didn't find the > city to be. > > Jerry Maybe it wasn't quite as uptight as all that by the mid-60s. I do know that my family would probably have arrived in Toronto a bit sooner than we did, but for the fact that my Dad was Catholic, and his company told him that, as a Catholic, he wouldn't be very well accepted in business in Toronto. Our family moved away from Montreal to a town called Pembroke in 1955 or 1956 when my Dad got a new job there; in 1965, I guess it was OK for him to be promoted and moved to Toronto. There were already tons of Catholics in Toronto, between the Irish and the Italians and a whole bunch more, but it was still considered OK to allow only WASPs into certain clubs. I never made it to Yorkville until after the fun was all over. (Dad *forbade* us to go and, like Joni, I didn't want to do anything to offend the parents. If I had gone, I sure as hell wouldn't have told them where I'd been!) ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:55:33 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: FW: Comment from JMDL site --- Les Irvin wrote: > Since the redesign of the JMDL, a lot of comments > are coming through the > site. Thought I'd continue to pass some of them > along. Be sure to copy > Paul's email on any responses. > Les > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul byrd9999@yahoo.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:10 AM > > i'm looking for interpretation/discussion on Harry's > House/Centrepiece, but > you only seem to have feedback on a few songs. Can > you help? I would like to invite Paul to join us on the discussion list because if we all start talking about this and he's not here, he's going to miss out on the good stuff. I do recall there being several good discussions about this that would be in the smoe archives somewhere. ===== Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:41:15 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: Fresh Air interview >My closest cousin went to Puerto Rico in 1967 for 5 months with her mother. They came back with an "adopted" baby. My aunt raised her as her own. My cousin went on to medical school and became one of New York's outstanding OB/GYNs, eventually marrying her daughter's father, who became a successful attorney after law school, and had another daughter. There were choices to be made, even back then.< That is an incredible story jerry... I agree that every move we make is a choice... we are never victims in reality but often in our own minds we are... and when we are young we don't always know that we have choices... it is so easy for someone to judge another's decisions but unless as the saying goes, you have walked a mile in someone's shoes, it would be unwise to do so... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:54:06 +0000 From: "c Karma" Subject: Artist's Choice:Joni Mitchell AND songs chosen by her friends & fellow musicians This is a fun set of releases. As is often the case for Joni's , I found myself in an awkward location on the release date. This time: Willows, CA. Don't ask, but isn't it WONDERFUL that there's a Starbuck's Coffee almost EVERYWHERE? I think they had actually sold a set BEFORE I got there! That bodes well. An accompanying co-worker bought Artist's choice, too. It's always great to be introduced to music through Joni, whether through her covers or through her interview references. And such a great story about Myrtle and Joni's copy of "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is included here! Myrtle Anderson presaged Martha Stewart by 40 years! Myrtle is the mother of invention. I had to crack a smile when I saw that Joni had included a version of Clair de Lune performed by Philippe Entremont. With all the recordings of this piece, it's a surprise that she chose one by a relatively obscure pianist, at least in today's digital marketplace. My mother-in-law had asked me to make a CD copy of his recording of mid- 1950s era performance of "Pictures at an Exhibition." Her LP copy was so badly worn that I couldn't fulfill the request until I found what was probably the last vinyl copy available for sale in New York City. I even exhausted eBay and amazon. The clerks at Tower Classical sniffed at his catalogue, even. Very little is available in digital formats from his 1950s recordings, but Joni seemed to find a lovely master here. I'd always wondered who her favorite classical pianist was. I'd long thought it was Arthur Rubenstein, but perhaps now I have my answer. I think my mother-in-law will get a kick out of this. But I had to laugh out loud when I read that she discovered Etta James' "At Last" from its use in broadcast advertising. Proof again that the 30 second network TV commercial is probably the closest thing we have to AM music radio in the 21st century. Sometimes we even get it right. I can understand why Neil Young and Tom Waits never go there, but sometimes wish they did. Speaking of AM music radio: isn't that what the New Radicals track makes us pine for? Interesting that "Harlem In Havana" follows Duke Ellington's track "Jeep's Blues." Would "Night Train" have been too obvious? The rest of her choices are fine (and some more obscure) choices from the work of famous artists, Deep Forest and New Radicals not withstanding. Her Friends choices of Her work, is a whole other concoction. There are many loving choices, like Nash's, Crosby's and Seal's. I think Elvis Costello couldn't get his first choice approved (by who, you ask?) so he mentioned it in his comments. Regarding the track attributed to him: (FTR) I think the Rhino/Hear Music people who added some background notes don't have a clue what this song is about, or chose to ignore it in printing some gobbledegook that means nothing. Why they felt they had to contextualize ANY of these songs is beyond me. That they presumed they had the knowledge to do so is incredibly arrogant. There may be some back scratching here, paralleling the two releases, with Fagan and Becker of Steely Dan EACH getting a track choice ("thanks for the Gaucho master, guys"). I'll say this for Robbie Robertson, allowed TWO choices here: if I interpret his comments here, he's no gentleman. Don't interrupt the sorrow, Robbie. Oh yeah, Bob. Nice that you woke up from your snoring sleep to listen to that record. Good Rip Van Winkle impersonation. Thanks for taming the tiger 31 years too late. Better late than never. CC ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #51 ******************************** ------- 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)