From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #53 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, February 19 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 053 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni and Britney [Bobsart48@aol.com] VOTE for Paste's 100 BEST Living SONGWRITERS Poll [est86mlm@ameritech.net] RE: VOTE for Paste's 100 BEST Living SONGWRITERS Poll ["Richard Flynn" ] Re: Thoughts On A Snowy Sunday [djp ] Saturday [Peep Richman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:32:15 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni and Britney Mack wrote: " I have never pondered whether or not I respect Britney Spears. As I do now I have to ask myself, what difference does it make? I don't care enough to even mull it over. Many don't like Joni Mitchell at all. I have friends that won't even allow me to play her music. They surely don't respect her if they won't even listen to her. Some can't take her voice, others think she is full of beans. That is, those that have even heard of her, which is few. Up until even a year ago I would have still been believing that 'they just don't get it.' But as I wrote yesterday, maybe I don't get it. All relative I suppose." Let me help you out on this one, Mack. You get it. Your friends noted above don't. An amazing percentage of the artists who make music and the critics who listen to all of it think Joni is among the greatest, if not the greatest. (Stevie Nicks comes to mind recently - thanks, Les). None of them think that about Britney (which is not to say that her "performance skills" are unacknowledged). That is not to say that Britney is not successful, by at least some measures and perhaps in her own mind's eye. Nor does it mean that you or I "get" most things, much less everything. But we get this true thing. Life's got plenty of shades of gray to mull over and get wrong. But some things are close to black and white, and others are transparent. :-) Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:37:39 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: VOTE for Paste's 100 BEST Living SONGWRITERS Poll Joni is on the list. You can also add others you don't see at the bottom of the page Go to: http://www.pastemagazine.com/ Look on the right side of the page and click on: VOTE! 100 Best Living Songwriters "Your Picks will be published in our June/July issue! " If someone already posted this to the list and I didn't see it.........sorry! 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Featuring guest contributions from Claire Martin, Guy Barker, Nigel Hitchcock, Lea De Laria and the legendary Jim Mullen, this collection of Joni songs produced by Richard Cottle, not only showcases Ian's voice to its full, but also his long-term devotion to Mitchell's remarkable compositions. 2. On 15th April in concert at the Bloomsbury Theatre Ian performs his new Linn release, "Drawn to All Things, The Songs of Joni Mitchell" with very special guests. More information and get tickets here: http://www.thebloomsbury.com/events/show.php?run=000912 All you Euros can get together, report, and generally get even with all of us who went to Carnegie Hall. And maybe Joni will be there? Nope, not going there... Bob NP: Prince, "Dirty Mind" (and a new release from him right around the corner...) - --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:03:03 -0800 From: Randy Remote Subject: Re: Joni and Britney - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nuriel Tobias" Secretly and from a very inner place i'd tell you that Joni likes all singers and musicians, no matter what she says to the press > Love, > Nuri Maybe yes, maybe no, but Britney is neither. She's an entertainer of the manufactured variety, who lip-synchs in concert and dances badly. I don't have any problem at all with people liking her, but she is not in the same room as Joni. RR npimh: M Knopfler "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:16:17 -0600 From: djp Subject: Re: Thoughts On A Snowy Sunday At 07:09 AM 2/12/2006, Peep Richman wrote: > Does anyone know the song that Joni performed with Joan Baez? "Dee Dah" on Diamonds and Rust (I think). But I'm just catching up on a weeks worth of mail, so somebody's already probably answered. djp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: Peep Richman Subject: Saturday Hello all Joniphiles, This is in response to a request made a few weeks ago (I think it was a few weeks ago) about music for psychiatric day treatment programs.... Having worked in several in-patient and out-patient psychiatric treatment(?) programs.... I always used music...movies and books to help tired, worn-out, burned-out souls reconnect. "Song To A Seagull" "Clouds" "Ladies Of The Canyon" "Court And Spark" Joni's early works were especially helpful to many....some cuts from "Blue" and also from "Miles Of Aisles". Joni's more recent CD's were less soothing, I found, to some yearning souls who related more to melody...some to melody then lyrics..."Raised On Robbery" always evoked amazing responses., as did "Come In From The Cold". "For the Roses" is also very good for the broken-souls needing/wanting healing. I've been able to make significant "break-throughs" with Joni's earlier work than more recent..."Sex Kills" would be completely off-limits and "The Circle Game" and "Both Sides Now" were always so, so helpful and loved. Sometimes the melodies would sound "safe" enough to evoke wonder...then I shared lyrics...one thing I can assure you...Joni speaks to us all...regardless of how an individual interprets a line or two...a tune or two...it's a liberating process. There are also a lot of the "New Age" CD's that have been very helpful but without the capacity for increased self-awareness that Joni evokes... "Quiet Music"...Steve Roach "Atmospheric Conditions"...John Themis "Narada...Equinox"...Sampler One Los Incas..."From The Other Side Of The Volcano" and "The Door of the Wind" "Wildflowers"...Judy Collins....this entire album is so soothing....I've used it with individuals in "quiet rooms" (you can imagine what those rooms contained).... One extremely fascinating thing...the album covers of Joni's earlier work allowed amazing insight for many, many people I've worked with....sometimes I'd begin with one small section of an album cover...expand to the entire cover and then we'd explore some of the individual, wondrous pieces. More later IF this is helpful....let me know. Hoping this is a good weekend for all.... Bo - --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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