From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #50 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 Thursday, February 16 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 050 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: That slow Joni Cover... [Jerry Notaro ] BBC Radio Interviews - Judy Collins and Richie Havens ["JohnMc" ] Re: That slow Joni Cover... [PassScribe@aol.com] This JUST in!!! [Michael Paz ] George Michaels' Edith ["Lindsay Moon" ] Re: JMDL Digest V2006 #60 [Lady Isadora Subject: Re: That slow Joni Cover... > Hi, Bob, > My neighbor's son gave me a CD he burned and on it is written, "Iron & > Wine" and "Bloc Party". I figured it was Iron & Wine's album called Bloc > Party. > The number 8 track is this slow version of "Both Sides Now" and it seems to > fit with the previous 7 tracks which are all kind of "easy listening" stuff. I > tried calling the guy to ask about it and there's no answer so I went online > and Googled the names (as you probably did). I found no real connection but > learned that Iron & Wine and Bloc Party are two different groups. > Upon replaying the CD, I realize now that it's Joni's own version of > "Both Sides Now" from her 2000 "Love Story" release (you know, "At Last", > "Comes > Love", etc.) that I haven't listened to since, well... 2001? > I'm sooooo embarassed! > And I thought I finally found a cover you didn't know of. > While searching online, however, I did find a few odd things: > there's a version of "Both Sides Now" by someone called Blossom Dearie. Wally is a big fan of Blossom Dearie, as am I. I've often posted about Danny's in Manhattan, where David Lahm and his wife Judy Kreston perform. Blossom has played there quite often over the years and she is now in her 80's. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:40:59 -0000 From: "JohnMc" Subject: BBC Radio Interviews - Judy Collins and Richie Havens This may be of interest to some. There are a couple of short interviews available online on BBC Radio London, each 10 - 15 minutes length. The first is with Richie Havens who talks amongst other things about his Greenwich Village days and performs a live version of All Along the Watchtower. The second is with Judy Collins who briefly talks about Joni and how she came to record Both Sides Now. The Richie interview begins at about 35 minute into the programme and I think Judy is around the half hour mark. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/tv_and_radio/radio/ and on the right hand side, under radio shows listen again, select the Danny Baker show on Monday for Richie and Tuesday for Judy. You can skip the show 5 minutes at a time. Danny Baker is a one off - he intended getting Judy to do a version of Wild Thing but I think they ran out of time. I saw Richie Havens last night and he was in fantastic form - a great concert. Cheers John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:05:20 +0000 From: Garret Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #47 Hiya Jahida, glad to hear you're still out there:-) Looking forward to your report and pictures. GARRET Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:42:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jahida Jorganes Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #47 Hello everyone!! I promise I will write my review and post my pictures of the show as soon as I have a moment to breathe. I have been rehearsing and performing for the past 2 weeks nonstop!! I am so exhausted and can't wait until the end of this week because next week is a well-deserved break for me. Peace, Love,and Joni, Jahida P.S. Who would've thought that my hometown of Guttenberg, New Jersey would get more snow than where I now live in Vermont? It's truly comical. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:08:14 EST From: PassScribe@aol.com Subject: Re: That slow Joni Cover... In a message dated 2/15/06 8:22:45 AM, notaro@stpt.usf.edu writes: > Wally is a big fan of Blossom Dearie, as am I. I've often posted about > Danny's in Manhattan, where David Lahm and his wife Judy Kreston perform. > Blossom has played there quite often over the years and she is now in her > 80's. > > Jerry > Wow! You learn something new every day! Kenny B ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:34:50 -0600 From: Michael Paz Subject: This JUST in!!! Hi Folks Just back from Folk Alliance and I am brain dead and overwhelmed. I am here to tell you there are other people out there that can out do Victor or me or any other late nighter from Joni Fests gone by. Man those people can hang! Anyways I will write you a little report later but right now everybody check out the Jazz Fest line up at http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/index04.html And make your plans to come and see me In late April or early May. Love Paz http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/index04.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:49:52 -0800 From: "Lindsay Moon" Subject: George Michaels' Edith Thank you so much, Bob, for making George Michaels' version of Edith and the Kingpin available. It is truly beautiful. My one criticism (maybe too strong a word because it is so good) is that it is so close to the original. Hey, anything that gets her great songs and lyrics out into the world is fine with me. I think GM has a lot of heart in his voice. I'd love to hear Joni's reaction to it. I had another appreciation of her this morning when a song came on called "You're Beautiful." I don't remember who the artist is. He had a perfectly pleasing voice but the lyrics! So stupid! I could have written them in 5 minutes. So predictable and trite. Then later I heard the new duet with Sheryl Crow and Sting. Sheryl Crow has written some good stuff and I used to love Sting and think he's written some great songs, but his more recent "vocal stylizations," if you will, his purposeful slurring of words just to make it sound different, I guess, just annoys the heck out of me. And I was listening to the lyrics thinking what is this song about? First it's about a failed relationship, then it's about butterflies . kids! Kids! You're both former teachers and you couldn't pull a cohesive lyric together?? I'm not saying everything has to be exactly literal but I think Joni at least illustrates moods, colors, impressions of things that even though we don't know precisely what she's talking about, we get a good idea ("you're notches, liberation doll!") I can just hear Joni grumbling in interviews about the lack of talent out there today. And the lack of talent that gets airplay! It just made me appreciate Joni for the many wonderful songs she's written, "Edith ." a case in point. Again, thanks. I know there's music out there to restore my faith. Thanks for coming up with it. Also, Bob, I'd like to say how much I appreciate your smiling face on every single Kodak opening page of the Carnegie Hall pictures. Since your picture is first, it's Bob on a coffee mug, Bob on a calendar, Bob on a T-shirt. Let me tell you, I've ordered every one! ; ) Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:21:44 -0800 (PST) From: Lady Isadora Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2006 #60 JMDL Digest wrote: >Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) >From: Bob Muller >Subject: Re: Winter Lady >Nope Em...different song: >http://www.jonimitchell.com/lyrics/song.cfm?id=WinterLady >Really pretty, too - would have LOTS of covers by now had she >decided to put it on an album. >Bob >NP: Led Zeppelin, "Dazed & Confused" Greetings, fellow Joniacs! (Eeek! Did I really write that?? LOL.) Thought it was way past high time I touched base, since it's been WEEKS since I last posted, and I was just getting to know some of you, too... so thanks again to everyone who wrote me on- or off-list! It's been an extra busy time for me, and I'm horribly behind in reading my accumulation of JMDL digests, none of which I've deleted unread... will keep workin' on catchin' up, if I can... I really do love this list, and will try to post more often again! Meanwhile, I wanted to comment on the above song... I recall hearing a cover of it performed way back when, right here in Des Moines, Surprising Center of the Known Universe (albeit, I hasten to add, the performance was at a hippie coffeehouse, not at a dry cleaners--- though come to think of it, I suppose it's entirely reasonable a Decemberesque Damsel might well be drawn to patronize the former sort of establishment as well at some point, unless she were really very much into handwashing all her undoubtedly handknit funky sweaters, heh )... anyway, this was after "Clouds", as I recall, but before "Ladies of the Canyon"... the young woman performing it credited it to Joni, and I recall liking it and wondering where she'd gotten the song, since it wasn't on one of the albums... perhaps she'd heard it performed, but if so, and only once, she must have had not only a great memory, but total recall! Maybe I've missed something in the discussion, or I missed the recorded cover of someone famous or semi-famous, but how else might this song have become known sans Joni album appearance so that it ended up being performed in the late '60s way out here in Dee Moine, Ioway? Which, BTW, actually had quite a strong hippie scene, believe it or not! Still does, for that matter... :-) Peace & love & hearts & flowers, Dizzy Aura, aka Ms. Aquarius, who happens to be a true winter devotee to a probably very annoying degree so perhaps should consider covering "Winter Lady" as WELL as "Pirate of Penance"? (Was it you, Bob, who "tricked" me when I first joined into agreeing to the latter? ;-) ) NP: *The Electric Prunes Stockholm '67" (I kid ye not-- Fun Album of the Week Award-- DEFINITELY a wyrd conversation piece!) STBP: *Careless Love* by Madeleine Peyroux (who admittedly puts my own occasional fond Hollie Billiday impersonation to shame-- and BTW, anyone, why is Larry Klein on this album? Is the connection personal, or "merely" musical?) http://www.ladyisadora.com - --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:38:07 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Subject: Re: Joni in movie to be shown on Showtime Mar. 8 > At that time, to me, she was more than human; a prophetess, a savior, a seer of things that mere mortals usually did not find. Now, have come to the conclusion that Joni Mitchell is a human being and although she was and is blessed with unique gifts by the creator, she is no more special than me, or you, or them. < Right on... Its what she has been writing about all of her life... >Have no idea who she is, what she is, or what she wants from life. < Have you seen her strip tease pole dance act? >One thing is sure, Britney Spears has succeeded in being a superstar of the pop of today and for that I give her credit. Surely wasn't easy and whether or not I, or you, find her music salvageable, lasting, or worthy, the girl made it.< Well I disagree that she made it... Maybe made a lot of $$ for her company & her self but made it in the sense of respect? > As for the cat excuse for not attending the tribute concert I would find that a viable and acceptable excuse but my parents would find not doing anything for the sake of an animal mere folly. < The more I think of this reason, the more I respect joni... Maybe because as the years go by the animals in my life have so much more than ever to teach me... In the end, 'we come for convesation' so thanks for sharing yours mack! ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #50 ******************************** ------- 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)