From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #207 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 Wednesday, July 20 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 207 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #206 [ROBMSTEEN@aol.com] Re: Horns/Woodwinds Dominated Songs [Patti Witten ] Re: Horns/Woodwinds Dominated Songs ["Michael Flaherty" ] Re: New Library addition: 'Mitchell's not a prophet but 'a witness to my time... [Catherine McKay ] Re: A male Joni Mitchell [Catherine McKay ] Ebay seller on DJRD ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Ellis Paul, sjc ["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Thanks again, and a suspicious (or rare?) 3-CD set [littlebreen@comcast.n] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:37:47 EDT From: ROBMSTEEN@aol.com Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #206 Re: Horns/Woodwind-dominated songs Can't believe nobody has mentioned the "Shades of Benny Goodman" clarinet on Hejira. My son has just taken up the instrument so I can finally pass it on to someone who's actually musical! Cornish Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:06:08 -0400 From: Patti Witten Subject: Re: Horns/Woodwinds Dominated Songs Like Mark and Bob, the first ones that came to my mind were Down To You (For The Roses) The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (Mingus) Patti - -- Patti Witten on I-Town Records www.itownrecords.com MySpace http://myspace.com/pattiwitten http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:42:59 -0500 From: "Michael Flaherty" Subject: Re: Horns/Woodwinds Dominated Songs On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:06:08 -0400 Patti Witten wrote: > Like Mark and Bob, the first ones that came to my mind >were > > Down To You (For The Roses) Umm ... Court + Spark, actually. That and virtually all of Michael's playing on S+L would probably be my picks. Michael Flaherty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:14:43 -0400 From: "rflynn@frontiernet.net" Subject: Joni appearance in a poem for children At the children's literature symposium and institute I'm teaching, we are reading a book by African-American children's poet Jaime Adoff (son of Arnold Adoff and Virginia Hamilton), and I thought I'd share the poem in which Joni makes and appearance alongside other tasty musicians. Heads-up, Smurf! Todays specials I start the day with my music buffet: Morning fuel burnscool jazz jams on buttered toast. Hot salsa floats over everything I eat and drink in the song. So much to choose from, cant pick just one. Fresh Squeezed Tina Turnertastes so smooth. Add a stack of Marvin Gayeout the door to school. Grab my James Brown bag lunch, Ready for my funk. Trade my bologna for your Joni Mitchell mashed. Wash it down with a tall glass of Beatle juicestir with Ice Cube Ahhhhh.. On the bus home, the snack formerly known as Twinkie is singing its sweet cream melody into my mouth. As the song: booms and bumps and grooves and funks and rocks and rolls and tastes so good. from The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music, by Jaime Adoff New York: Dutton Childrens Books, 2002 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:39:33 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Horns/Woodwinds Dominated Songs For me? The bop-fueled version of "Dry Cleaner From Des Moines" on "Shadows and Light". I also like the live version of "Real Good, For Free" in the "Refuge of the Roads" DVD. There are some surprises on that track. On vacation and loving it, Jim L'Hommedieu Covington, KY, USA >What are your favorite songs from Joni that have horns/woodwinds? From the 3 albums I have of her (C&S, FTR, Blue), I think she makes a great use of brass.> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:50:10 EDT From: Dflahm@aol.com Subject: Re: New Library addition: 'Mitchell's not a prophet but 'a witness to my time... In a message dated 7/18/2005 11:54:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, LesIrvin@jmdl.com writes: http://jmdl.com/library Well, I read the article (from '88) and I saw the claim that "CHALK MARK is her most ambitious album to date." Why? Because it had some "big names" on it? She's more creative, productive and significant than all those people (and the Kawasakis they rode in on) combined. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. DAVID LAHM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:22:17 +0100 (BST) From: Jamie Zubairi Subject: Aimee Mann SJC I went to see Aimee Mann on Sunday at the Shpherd's Bush Empire and boy is she amazing. Just a great believer in her songs. Great set from 'The Forgotten Arm' and from the Magnolia soundtrack and Bachelor No 2 and some earlier songs. I took loads of pictures of the gig with my digicam and she really looks like C&S period Joni, just with shorter hair. I'll set some pictures up to my yahoo shortly just to see what everyone thinks... Much Joni Jamie Zoob ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:41:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: New Library addition: 'Mitchell's not a prophet but 'a witness to my time... - --- Dflahm@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 7/18/2005 11:54:57 P.M. Eastern > Standard Time, > LesIrvin@jmdl.com writes: > > http://jmdl.com/library > > > Well, I read the article (from '88) and I saw the > claim that "CHALK MARK is > her most ambitious album to date." Why? Because it > had some "big names" on > it? She's more creative, productive and significant > than all those people (and > the Kawasakis they rode in on) combined. > > I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. > I suspect someone was quoting directly from the press release. That stood out for me too (like a sore thumb.) Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:51:11 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Joni in new film documentary - ALL WE ARE SAYING Joni is appearing in Roseanna Arquette's new film documentary, ALL WE ARE SAYING See clips here that include Joni who is one of the featured artists: http://www.allwearesaying.net/ "All We Are Saying is a compelling, personal look at what makes musicians tick. Rosanna Arquette follows up her critically acclaimed documentary directorial debut, Searching for Debra Winger, with a look into the psyches of some of the top musical artists of the day. Through a series of intimate conversations, over fifty musical legends, hot new artists and music industry insiders reveal what inspires them, their personal struggles of balancing relationships and family while working on the road and the state of the music business in the 21 st Century. Presented as an ongoing, casual conversation, the film offers a unique insight into the artists most candid and personal thoughts. All We Are Saying is a new powerhouse documentary by acclaimed actor and director Rosanna Arquette. The film is a compilation of thousands of hours of footage from in-depth personal interviews with some of the greatest icons in music history. In trusting Rosanna, these artists reveal their personal journeys in business and in life. You will hear Chrissie Hynde talk about wearing a nursing bra on stage to Flea discussing why downloading isn't a problem for him. The film takes the usual behind-the-curtain exposi to an entirely new level, revealing the deep truths about the people we often don't hear from." The August music issue of INTERVIEW magazine (also has a 4 page interview with Joni along with 3 black/white full-page pictures) has an interview with Rosanna Arquette with Joni content. This is the magazine's website: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/ ************************************** Rosanna Arquette has always had a passion for rock music - and musicians have loved her right back, so much so that '80s pop superstars Peter Gabriel and Toto even immortalized her in song not once, but twice. ("In Your Eyes" and "Rosanna," respectively). now, in Arquette's forthcoming documentary, ALL WE ARE SAYING, she commits her love of rock to the screen. In the film Steven Tyler, Thom Yorke, Chrissie Hynde, and Stevie Nicks, to name a few speak their minds with startling candor about the current state of the music business and balancing their art and their personal lives. Here, she speaks to another of the film's subjects, her friend, singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne. SL: Hi, Rosanna! RA: Hi! Thanks so much for your record - it's really beautiful, as usual. SL: Thank you. And I love your movie! I loved that part when you were talking to Joni Mitchell, saying how upset you were about her not making records anymore. RA: It's a drag, isn't it? And the reason she doesn't has nothing to do with the music - it's just the business. That's the thing that seems to stand in everybody's way. SL: It's the same with putting out a cool documentary - you've got to find somebody on the business side who can see your vision. .........SL: Sometimes musicians get a rap for being bitter or not very nice. RA: I think people try to say that about Joni, but if you really hear what she's talking about, it all makes sense. And she's not saying anything that anyone in the arts doesn't feel - because it sucks these days. SL: How do you think artists should handle taking a stand on politics or things they feel are just flat out wrong? RA: You have the perfect place to put that passion - in your music, which I think is really great. you just sing what you believe in, and you put it out there in your songs. That's what Dylan did. That's what all the great artists have done - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash. These are the people that worked for their beliefs and put it in their music. Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine. *************************************************** Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:06:39 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Joni Interviewed by Camille Paglia in INTERVIEW magazine - August Issue FYI: The new August INTERVIEW magazine, The Music Issue, has a 4 page interview with Joni along with three black/white full-page pictures. (Pgs 112-117 and continued on 140) http://www.interviewmagazine.com/ Pete Doherty is on the cover of the August 2005 issue. The Contents page reads as follows: THE TRAILBLAZER INTERVIEW Joni Mitchell By Camille Paglia In a time when pop music told the story of the age, she fought for poetry against practicality, showing a generation of artists how a few well-chosen chords and some fortuitously arranged words could change not just the landscape of music but also the world. ****************************************************** I'll attempt to type out the interview later. Laura ****************************************************** There's also an interview in this same issue with Rosanna Arquette (a BIG Joni fan) by Shelby Lynne (pg 64 & 65) 'with her new documentary exploring musicians' lives, actress and filmmaker Rosanna Arquette has fashioned a love song to one of her great passions - Rock 'N' Roll." ~~see some info here: http://www.allwearesaying.net/ or http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=3101&FullNote=1 or http://babellist.xnet2.com/0503/msg00013.html Rosanna Arquette has always had a passion for rock music - and musicians have loved her right back, so much so that '80s pop superstars Peter Gabriel and Toto even immortalized her in song not once, but twice. ("In Your Eyes" and "Rosanna," respectively). now, in Arquette's forthcoming documentary, ALL WE ARE SAYING, she commits her love of rock to the screen. In the film Steven Tyler, Thom Yorke, Chrissie Hynde, and Stevie Nicks, to name a few speak their minds with startling candor about the current state of the music business and balancing their art and their personal lives. Here, she speaks to another of the film's subjects, her friend, singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne. SL: Hi, Rosanna! RA: Hi! Thanks so much for your record - it's really beautiful, as usual. SL: Thank you. And I love your movie! I loved that part when you were talking to Joni Mitchell, saying how upset you were about her not making records anymore. RA: It's a drag, isn't it? And the reason she doesn't has nothing to do with the music - it's just the business. That's the thing that seems to stand in everybody's way. SL: It's the same with putting out a cool documentary - you've got to find somebody on the business side who can see your vision.............. SL: Sometimes musicians get a rap for being bitter or not very nice. RA: I think people try to say that about Joni, but if you really hear what she's talking about, it all makes sense. And she's not saying anything that anyone in the arts doesn't feel - because it sucks these days. SL: How do you think artists should handle taking a stand on politics or things they feel are just flat out wrong? RA: You have the perfect place to put that passion - in your music, which I think is really great. you just sing what you believe in, and you put it out there in your songs. That's what Dylan did. That's what all the great artists have done - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash. These are the people that worked for their beliefs and put it in their music. Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine........................................ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:01:51 -0700 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Joni in new film documentary - ALL WE ARE SAYING est86mlm@ameritech.net wrote: > Joni is appearing in Roseanna Arquette's new film documentary, ALL WE > ARE SAYING > > See clips here that include Joni who is one of the featured artists: > http://www.allwearesaying.net/ > This looks great-I can't wait to see it-but there is no info on how to do so... Besides the trailer there is another interview with Tina Brown that shows some different footage (but no new Joni-the main window has 2 brief glimpses of her-one in her garden(?) w/Rosanna and another defiantly smoking for the camera). Also a longer PBS interview (no add. footage) and a copy of Variety's review of the film (excrpt): "Bitterness and disillusionment about where the music business has gone are the order of the day, especially among the older artists. Mitchell, in virtual retirement, likens herself to an old horse that refuses to go over the jumps again, unwilling to run an increasingly hostile, aggressively dumb media gantlet. David Crosby compares his heyday -- and its 40 or 50 smaller record companies -- with the present handful of big conglomerates "who wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died." Also, apparently this footage is the source of Crosby's quote that Britney Spears is "about as deep as a birdbath"-which appeared in Rolling Stone famously-must have been a year ago. Review dvds can be sent to: RR (address on request) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:39:55 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: A male Joni Mitchell The new issue of "Mojo Classic" is devoted entirely to Neil Young. A great read, with Joni content in more than one place as well. Therein, Joni finally gets her due for all those "female Bob Dylan" comments: "So, momentarily, in 1971, at his lifetime commercial peak, [Neil] seemed something of a male Joni Mitchell - despite his insistence that "She writes about her relationships so much more vividly I do." My my. Hey hey. Les ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:02:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: A male Joni Mitchell - --- Les Irvin wrote: > Joni finally gets her due for all those > "female Bob Dylan" > comments: > > "So, momentarily, in 1971, at his lifetime > commercial peak, [Neil] seemed > something of a male Joni Mitchell - despite his > insistence that "She writes > about her relationships so much more vividly I do." > > My my. Hey hey. > LOL! Let's hear it for our side! I bet he throws like a girl, too! Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:02:52 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Ebay seller on DJRD It sounds like one of us might have written the copy for this ebay auction. All the best, Jim L'Hommedieu jazzhouse96 said, >Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is an extremely successful merger of her diverse influences. Some might argue that The Hissing Of Summer Lawns and Hejira are better, but the difference of quality is rather slim in any event. This album is certainly recommended to fans of progressive and jazz-fusion stylings, many of whom may not even be aware that this aspect of Joni Mitchell's career exists. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns and Hejira might be even better choices, but it would be hard to envision someone "going wrong" with this one. An added bonus is the astonishing bass playing of the late lamented Jaco Pastorious.> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:27:42 -0400 From: "Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Ellis Paul, sjc Has anyone heard of this roots inspired singer-songwriter? I think he's from Beantown and is already signed to Rounder Records. Last night he did a short, free show for our well-loved singersongwriter radio station. He brought at least two 6 string guitars. He said, one of them "is what they call 'high strung'. It sounds a little like a mandolin, which is good, cause I sing pretty high." It looked like a miniature, a baby, like the Lowden O25c that Karin Berquist found. In one of his songs, his final wish is to have a jukebox at his grave. I guess an old Wurlitzer resembles a curved piece of marble from a distance, right? He'd like to have the masters at his uhmm... fingertips, eternally. He mentions a few by name, like Johnny Cash and some heavily hyphenated genius from SK. I'll pay to see him next time, sure. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 05:12:05 +0000 From: littlebreen@comcast.net Subject: Thanks again, and a suspicious (or rare?) 3-CD set Hi, All, Thanks again to all for all the strong positive vibes you've been sending me all week. To celebrate a little, I went snooping around on Froogle for Jonialia -- and found reference to a 3-CD set "new and unopened" that consisited of WTRF, DED, and CMIARS. Hmmm... sure sounds like Geffen-box-minus-one to me. Could there have been an obscure European or Down-Under release that didn't include NRH for some reason? Anyone heard of this set before? The site, btw, was called MusicStack.com, more of a clearing house than a store. I also stumbled on a nifty UK site called eil.com which also has some nifty, if pricey rarities. Good night, all. Boy, am I going to sleep tonight! xox, walt-- Let the walls go tumbling down Falling on the ground And all the dogs go running free The wild and gentle dogs Kenneled in meeil.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #207 ********************************* ------- 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)