From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #294 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 Sunday, October 16 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 294 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- A Case of You Explained [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: A Case of You Explained [Catherine McKay ] Re: A Case of You Explained [vince ] Chris Botti (KKSF) talks about Joni [est86mlm@ameritech.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:18:43 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: A Case of You Explained I'm not sure if this has been discussed before but, I've often wondered what A Case of You was about. It seems like a sad song, about breaking up with someone you find hard to let go of. I've never read any explanation of it until now. Finally, on Joni's Live At Red Rocks concert, Joni gives a short introduction to the song. She compares the sentiment to Pat Benatar's, Hit Me With Your Best Shot and she emphasises the chorus, "I could drink a case of you and STILL be ON-MY-FEET". This leads me to think it is about losing the feeling for someone. Yet, on the other hand, there are the lyrics, "I am a lonely painter". Is that regret? Mark in Sydney NP Wild Things Run Fast (Live At Red Rocks) - JM PS Excellent concert BTW. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:06:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: A Case of You Explained - --- Mark-Leon Thorne wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been discussed before but, > I've often wondered > what A Case of You was about. It seems like a sad > song, about breaking > up with someone you find hard to let go of. I've > never read any > explanation of it until now. Finally, on Joni's Live > At Red Rocks > concert, Joni gives a short introduction to the > song. She compares the > sentiment to Pat Benatar's, Hit Me With Your Best > Shot and she > emphasises the chorus, "I could drink a case of you > and STILL be > ON-MY-FEET". This leads me to think it is about > losing the feeling for > someone. Yet, on the other hand, there are the > lyrics, "I am a lonely > painter". Is that regret? > > Mark in Sydney > > NP Wild Things Run Fast (Live At Red Rocks) - JM > In her concert at the Hague in 1983 (which I put in the mail to you yesterday, along with those for a few others who had asked for it - better late than never), she explains it as a "drinker's boast" - how you can drink a case of the other person's feelings and still be standing (something like that.) "I am a lonely painter." Yeah, I think it's a bit of regret. I don't think that a person who is truly an artist, be it in music, paint or words, can maintain a lasting relationship with a human lover. It seems that the muse demands too much. I'm not sure if that is altogether what Joan is saying, but, it's strange, I was just reading something about Lucinda Williams (whom I also love for her earthy, pithy, sometimes-gritty, sometimes-poetic stories of love, life and loss). The story said that Lucinda had had many relationships but remains single, because (and here I'm paraphrasing quite a bit) it's hard to remain true to one's art and devote that kind of time and energy to a relationship. I think many of us spend a good deal of our time and energy looking and longing for something that, at first, seems unattainable, but, once we've attained it, we regret the freedom we had before we attained the apparently unattainable. (We love our loving, but not like we love our freedom.) Or, in more prosaic terms, the grass ia always greener on the other side of the fence. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:43:42 -0400 From: vince Subject: Re: A Case of You Explained >--- Mark-Leon Thorne wrote: > > > >>she >>emphasises the chorus, "I could drink a case of you >>and STILL be >>ON-MY-FEET". >> Pardon me for being low class (and I am) but I have always thought that that line works so exquisitely well because besides all the other poetic and metaphysical aspects of that line, it also has a charming sexual aspect to it. Genius makes the overtly sexual sublime and not pornographic. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:17:09 -0500 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Chris Botti (KKSF) talks about Joni Found this while looking for some information on Chris Botti. It's an older interview, I believe (can't find the date). http://www.kksf.com/theartists4.html Didn't find this in the JMDL library so don't know how many have read this before. Chris answers the question: Who was the most difficult and the most demanding of all those people? I mean in a professional way. Who's the stickler?" CB: You know, one of my favorites, and that would be probably Joni Mitchell. But she is very, very detailed and very, very specific about what she wants, and at the same time it's very open ended. There's so much freedom, but yet there's no freedom. She's an artist and I think that she really sees things like a painter, and she sees music as if it were being painted. And she's right all the time, you know. And I would consider her, probably, to be the most demanding person that I have worked with and one my most gratifying tours. ******************************* Thought someone might find this interesting (and the whole interview) like I did. Enjoy! Laura O. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #294 ********************************* ------- 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)