From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #189 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Saturday, July 2 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 189 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Get your Kicks - with Joni Covers 66!! [Bob Muller ] joni pics ["mike pritchard" ] Walt ["Barbara L" ] JMDLEarth SJC [Moni Kellermann ] incorrect lyrics (was: hits?) ["Marianne Rizzo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:46:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Get your Kicks - with Joni Covers 66!! Hard to believe that HALF the year 2005 has come and gone, but so it has and so far we've come out with SIX outstanding Joni Covers compilations...so let's not break the string, let's let the good times roll! So here I present for your listening pleasure Volume 66 in the "perpetual Joni Covers Train", with a thanks to my good pal Monica for her contribution this month. Let's get this rig out of neutral and start travelling, travelling travelling along Route "66", shall we? 1. Roxana Amed - Amelia: This one was shared last weekend, I hoped most of you took advantage of the opportunity to listen to this fine Argentinian jazz singer's version of one of Joni's finest, with lyrics translated by Pedro Aznar. Joni's LA agency sent Roxana this note: "Joni has loved the recording (...) She wants you to know that she thought the song was beautifully done and wanted me to pass on her thank you to the artist for this wonderful rendition." 2. Hullabaloos - Big Yellow Taxi: Still more college acapella, this one from UVA in Charlottesville, VA done as a cover of the Counting Crows arrangement. Pretty cool - great voices. 3. Naked Voices - Chinese Cafe: More acapella, this time from Bristol, England. This is actually the second version of this song from this group, the previous one was on a live CD. 4. Cyril Paul & Ensemble - Both Sides Now: Well, this one just kind of ambles along, sounds like a campfire version or something - hey, let's make s'mores! 5. Gemma Hasson - Urge For Going: This track is from Gemma's LP released in 1975. A nice vocal with simple accompaniment. 6. Nina Katrina - Twisted: Like most Twisteds, this is very fun, playful and features some multi-tracked vocals ala Joni and a nice lead guitar solo. 7. Erin Malone - Chelsea Morning: Features some cool bongos throughout...crazy man, crazy! If I'm not mistaken this cover is based on Gloria Loring's arrangement. In any regard, there's a few different flourishes thrown in here to keep it interesting. 8. Lapislazuli - Um Uns Herum: A nice trio of femme voices singing in Dutch, I think. And more bongos, except this time they seem tossed in at random and not always in synch with the voices - still I like this one a lot. 9. Volker Niehusmann & Christiane Weber - All I Want 10. Volker Niehusmann & Christiane Weber - Little Green 11. Volker Niehusmann & Christiane Weber - Blue: And here's a "Blue Threefer" from this German duo, and like the tracks on the last 2 discs these are excellent. All I Want (1:14 of it anyway) is available to listen to on Volker's website, so if you have a notion to, check it out: http://www.sonicmarket.de/index.php?rubrik=shop&cdid=12 12. The Bloom'in Grass - Both Sides Now: I have to say when I got this off eBay I figured it would be a bluegrass take, but it ends up being a very slow, lazy, acoustic guitar instrumental. Not enough going on to keep my interest. 13. Julie WIlson - Big Yellow Taxi: Pop/Country vocalist from Australia, Julie offers up a solid and very spirited cover of BYT, though pretty much a mirror of Joni's, it does feature a nice organ riff. 14. Dan Aitken & Friends - Urge For Going: From a 2004 collection of Celtic music, a lovely rendition of one of my fave Joni tunes...and not just me, with 47 covers (and counting) it's one of the top tens. 15. Dennis Buck - I Don't Know Where I Stand: This is a real oddball, because it comes from an Instructional Dance CD - this is the background music for you to practice doing plies (plee-yays) and it's really lovely, unfortunately it's only 1:27 long, or short as the case may be. 16. George Schutz - Both Sides Now/Suzanne: A pretty & simple solo piano medley of the classic Joni & Leonard Cohen songs, sounds like a recital piece almost. 17. Jansen & Tilanus - River: An acapella quartet/kwartet from Holland; two male voices, two female. Pretty and a nice arrangement - I guess when River is sung as a group as opposed to a solo it loses some of its lyrical strength; still, this crew has some outstanding talent and a wonderful ear for harmony - hear a little bit of it at: http://www.music-and-art.demon.nl/jansen&tilanus/ 18. Penny Lim & The Silverstones - The Circle Game: Inspired by Hong Kong pop singer Agnes Chan, many many Asian femmes have recorded TCG, all to Jerry's delight. Poor Penny has a larger dialect/language barrier than most, plus the fact that she's flat every third or fourth note doesn't weigh in her favor either. Deliciously cheesy! 19. David Lahm - In France They Kiss On Main Street: Nothing cheesy about this one! Several months ago, David gave me the A-OK to sneak a recording or two of his into the mix, and I'm delighted to do so. The arrangements are always fresh and original, the players are state of the art, and the recordings are a delight. This one comes from the "More Jazz Takes On Joni Mitchell" release and is simply fabulous - takes Joni's jazz/pop arrangement and transforms it into pure jazz ecstasy. If you're uninitiated to David's work, you're really denying yourself some instant bliss. 20. Roxana Amed, Amelia (English): Which brings us back to the beginning, only this time Roxana gives us her English-language version of Amelia - for my money the Catelan language version is much more soulful and inspired, but this is nice as well. And there it is...20 tracks, 20 stops along the Roadway of Joni covers. Let me know if you're interested in getting a copy of it, and you too can become a prisoner of the fine white lines of the Covers 66 freeeeeeeeee....freeway. Bob NP: Roxana, "Amelia" - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:25:40 +0200 From: "mike pritchard" Subject: joni pics Instead of clicking on the links that jonilistas occasionally send, why not go to Google, switch to 'images' and insert "Joni Mitchell". What will you get? 5990 images, not all interesting, and not all 'our' joni, but a nice 5 minute browse mike in bcn with too much time on his hands np - counting crows mr jones ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:50:53 +0000 From: "Barbara L" Subject: Walt Walt, thank you for reminding me what life is REALLY about. Much heart to you, barbara ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:22:23 +0200 From: Moni Kellermann Subject: JMDLEarth SJC "you couldn't see a city On that marbled bowling ball Or a forest or a highway Or me here least of all" ? Pah! Try this: http://earth.google.com/ They say downloads are temporarily delayed, but hey, what do you care if you know the file path: http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/GoogleEarth.exe We could build a JMDLEarth if we exchange our placemarks! :))) It's really fun to "fly" from one place to the other. You can grab my home location file for testing from http://www.moni-kellermann.de/monishome_krautland.kmz (right-click and save) Double-click on the file and fly to my home if you have GoogleEarth installed. Feel free to send me your placemark file, I can also upload them to a web page if anyone is interested. Enjoy! moni P.S. If someone has any other Joni-related addresses, go ahead... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:26:37 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: incorrect lyrics (was: hits?) >"Everybody's saying that hell's the hippiest way to go" Hey, I'm liking that. after a visit to hell we can swim upstream to some love, peace and harmony speaking of love peace and harmony. . . From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: incorrect lyrics (was: hits?) - - ----- Original Message ----- From: from Joni?) > >Has anyone ever seen the lyric errors in the Blue songbook? > Don't know about the Blue songbook but the Joni Mitchell Complete 1970-1974 has the lyric to the song 'Blue' as: "Everybody's saying that hell's the hippiest way to go" and it even has a note in the score for the extra syllable. Mark E. in Seattle _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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