From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #234 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, August 17 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 234 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Hejira thougts [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Joni and Bill Clinton [Jerry Notaro ] Re: JMDL Digest V2005 #313 [Chuck Eisenhardt ] Re: Hejira thougts ["Sherelle Smith" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:01:54 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Hejira thougts Hi Oddmund. Nice post.. Hejira is a special album. I usually appreciate it more in Winter. It's such a Winter album to me. Consequently, I am playing it a lot right now of course because it's Winter here right now. We have just had the "August winds" blow through Australia's east coast. You should be listening to The Hissing of Summer Lawns up there in Norway. Or maybe it's just time to Come In From The Cold. Mark in Sydney NP Need You Tonight/Mediate - INXS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:51:39 -0500 From: Jerry Notaro Subject: Joni and Bill Clinton New cd released called Bill Clinton9s Favorite Songs to raise money for his library. On it, of course, is Chelsea Morning----------------Judy9s version. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:14:25 -0400 From: Chuck Eisenhardt Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2005 #313 Patti writes: On Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at 03:00 AM, JMDL Digest wrote: > Since you mention Rochester you might want to about the "Only Joni > Open Mic" > that judo guitar site guru Sue McNamara and I host in Ithaca, NY. It's > irregular and and occasional (well we've only done it twice in 3 > years) but > we'll do it again. Perhaps this fall at Cornell University for the > students, > and then next year in town. It's so much fun. I've got some pics > buried deep > in my website. E me off list if you want more info :) > > Patti > - -- > Spellchcker? I dunno, I thought 'judo guitar site' had a certain ring to it... ChuckE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:19:45 +0000 From: "Sherelle Smith" Subject: Re: Hejira thougts HI Oddmund, I first heard Heijira on a tape of Shadows and Light. A bass player friend of mine said that if I was serious about getting back into music, I needed to get this tape. (I didn't have a CD player at the time) So I had it special ordered for me. The first set of lyrics you quoted are my all time favorite. It's like my eyes were opened up to a new truth when I heard them. It's okay to feel sad sometimes. It's a part of life. Boy! That makes the journey so much easier! I must admit that I only purchased Heijira the CD several years ago but by that time, I had become so used to the live versions on the S&L version that it has been primarily all I've listened to. I get to rediscover the actual CD now. I love how you describe it! I also love the last line of lyrics you quoted because I love science and the stars and it connects me to Joni all the more to hear her sum it all up so eloquently..."we're only particles of change I know, I know...orbiting around the sun..." Sherelle Oddmund wrote: This summer - on a very hot day, or rather night, i turned on the Hejira album at my brothers house. It both warmed and chilled my head, my heart, my soul... "There's comfort in melancholy When there's no need to explain It's just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today" This song really says it all. "You know it never has been easy Whether you do or you do not resign" No life is not easy, nor is Joni easy, or her music easy. But how lucky and blessed we are because of that. there will always be new depths for us devoted listeners to discover and rediscover, again and again. Joni has soemething for every phase in life.For the old, for the young, for the middleclassed,the middleaged, for the lovers and for the haters. She captures both the shadows and at least some glimse of lights in extremely insightful and very wise lyrics. The Hejira album is special. I've owned it for three years, and three years it took for me to grasp it,understand it. The travel theme. The stories of returned and unreturned love, her metaphors, the jazzy mood, from blue motel rooms to travellin' vehicles, strange boys, strangers . . .It's innovative. It's challenging . But it really pays it all back, don't it? We're only particles of change I know I know Warm love from a refugree of the roads Oddmund, Norway ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #234 ********************************* ------- 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)