From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #91 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, March 28 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 091 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni's place on the CBC list ["Michael O'Malley" ] Re: Lynn Miles ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] Word Magazine - New Joni Content ["Rob Ettridge" ] Birthday gift to Joni: a cat ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:16:33 +0000 From: "Michael O'Malley" Subject: Joni's place on the CBC list Well the saga of the list is finally over. Over the past few months, CBC radio has been hosting a show that put together a list of the top 50 essential Canadian pop music tunes (not artists). Remember we fought for a spot for Joni's BSN ? Well, the tribe has spoken and the list came down this weekend. Listeners decided on the order, placing not one, but *two* Joni songs in the top 10! Whew! I am so relieved. There is still hope! For a look at this list (and a crash course on Canadian Pop/folk/rock music) click here: http://www.cbc.ca/50tracks/thelist.html Michael on sunny Easter Sunday, in Montreal _________________________________________________________________ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:23:00 EST From: StDoherty@aol.com Subject: Lynn Miles Has anyone ever discussed Lynn Miles' - Slightly Haunted on the list before? Besides the one obvious reference to Joni (I wish I had a river) - this recording seems to be loaded with Joni - from the choice of lyrics to her phrasing. And on another level stands as just a good album from an underrated performer. Does anyone know this album and what I'm talking about? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:32:54 -0500 From: "David Henderson" Subject: The Pope BREE SAID: "The role of the pope is different than any other role or station in life...you just don't step down. He's the pope..I believe.. until he draws his last earthly breath. Laura...is this right? Bree" Actually, a friend of mine, an Episcopalian priest (and former Catholic priest) said this is not true. There is a procedure for popes (usually because of ill health) to retire, and numerous popes have done so. (Interestingly, some popes have been accused of "retiring" to insure the succession of their handpicked successors). Apparently, this is a subject of much discussion in the church right now as many in the church hierarchy (mainly the most conservative) feel the Pope's insistence in retaining his position is putting the church behind in a time when religion is on the upswing. Anyway, that's what I'm told. David NP The Who, Ultimate Collection ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:35:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: Lynn Miles I have written about her several times, especially about Slightly Haun ted, a great cd. Lynn has sung Joni's praises many times. I had the great opportunity to see her in concert twice and she is great live. Jerry np: Mary J. Blige - Overjoyed StDoherty@aol.com said: > Has anyone ever discussed Lynn Miles' - Slightly Haunted on the list > before? > Besides the one obvious reference to Joni (I wish I had a river) - this > recording seems to be loaded with Joni - from the choice of lyrics to her > phrasing. And on another level stands as just a good album from an > underrated > performer. Does anyone know this album and what I'm talking about? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:59:07 +0100 From: "Rob Ettridge" Subject: Word Magazine - New Joni Content Hi As a subscriber to Word magazine from issue 1 I was pleased to see Joni on the cover last month, but was beaten to the punch in letting the list know about it. But unless I've missed it, no-one has yet reported on the follow up letters that appeared in the April edition. The second letter has content that was news to me at least. They're not long so I'll type them up here: "Congratulations to Jim Irvin for an article that does justice to a great artist, just about the only songwriter of her generation who could stand toe to toe with Bob Dylan. Though how you can justify having two tracks from Mingus in your best twenty Joni tunes, I fail to understand. Jo Bland." "It seems somewhat churlish to fault Jim Irwin on his excellent piece on Joni Mitchell but one minor inaccuracy needs to be point out. In 1983, the year after Wild Things Run Fast came out (the album that includes the song Chinese Cafe, whose lyric "My child's a stranger, I bore her but I could not raise her" Jim quoted), Joni came to the UK as part of an extensive tour. I was in charge of the CBS press office and, as part of the promotion for the album and tour, decided to send Michael Watts to LA to interview Joni for the Sunday Times. He had done his research - and naturally picked up on the relevance of the above lyric. No one from the record company was present at the interview but Michael told me that he raised the issue of her child. At that point she allegedly requested that the cassette be turned off and that the next part of the interview was naturally off-the-record. This continued for 30 minutes when she said that he could turn on his cassette player again. However she continued to discuss her child - which Michael took, as the understood code between interviewer and interviewee, that he was free to quote her; which he duly did. Michael Watts was - and is - a journalist of integrity and I didn't doubt his word; Joni Mitchell an experienced interviewee. Clearly, though, Joni felt betrayed. I will not repeat the phone conversations I had with her manager Elliot Roberts when the piece came out - but suffice to say she did no more promotion for the record company on the trip. Thus it was that the issue came out into the open in 1983 - not as Jim asserts, in 1990, after her miscarriage. Excellent magazine as always. Jonathan Morrish, London" Sorry if this old news to everyone - I don't really follow stories about the adoption etc. that closely - but I thought it might be of interest. R ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:07:55 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Word Magazine - New Joni Content - --- Rob Ettridge wrote: > Hi > > As a subscriber to Word magazine from issue 1 I was > pleased to see Joni on the > cover last month, but was beaten to the punch in > letting the list know about > it. > > But unless I've missed it, no-one has yet reported > on the follow up letters > that appeared in the April edition. The second > letter has content that was > news to me at least. > > They're not long so I'll type them up here: > > "Congratulations to Jim Irvin for an article that > does justice to a great > artist, just about the only songwriter of her > generation who could stand toe > to toe with Bob Dylan. Speaking of Word magazine, and Jim Irvin, does anyone else find it strange that he has the same first name as the webmaster of jonimitchell.com and the same last name as the webmaster of jmdl.com? Coincidence, or....? In search of that article on the jmdl site and then doing a google search (and coming up with nada), I *did* find something else from a Word mag, the Feb 05 edition (same one, Rob, or was it March?), which was a Tori Amos article... with Joni content. Word UK music magazine February 2005 The Sense Impressionist - Tori Amos [...] How Do You Go About Writing Lyrics? What's the best lyric you've ever heard?" There's so many but I've always adored "I could drink a case of you, darling / And I'd still be on my feet" by Joni Mitchell (A Case Of You on the album Blue). Why? It's obvious! We all drink our men! I've gotten drunk off my men loads of times and if you can make that happen in a song, fantastic! It's both mediums working at once - visual and sonic. And you can taste it too. This is a transcendental lyric. It transforms itself. The whole article here: http://www.yessaid.com/interviews/05-02word.html Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:53:34 -0700 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: JMDL Staff Posistions and Word Magazine > Speaking of Word magazine, and Jim Irvin, does anyone else > find it strange that he has the same first name as the > webmaster of jonimitchell.com and the same last name as the > webmaster of jmdl.com? Coincidence, or....? [theme from "Twilight Zone" playing in the background] Busted! He and I collaborrated on that entire article. Not really. But Jim did email me to tell me he did most of his research at the JMDL Library. Speaking of which... I have some openings for staff positions at the JMDL website, mainly for "librarians" willing to locate and put articles on-line. As current staff members will attest, it's fun and exciting being a staff member. You get your profile on the staff page and the ability to make your updates from any web browser. Best of all, you are completely unburdened by any pesky income gained from the position. If interested, contact me for details. Thanks, Les ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:41:56 -0500 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Birthday gift to Joni: a cat I know her birthday doesn't come up for awhile but what do you think? Setting aside for a second the challenge of getting permission, (which I think can be done), would it make sense to give her a cat? Lama np: my cat, Joan, munching salmon ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #91 ******************************** ------- 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)