From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #65 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 Friday, March 3 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 065 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 [Bob Muller ] Sweet 16, Volume 2 - Coversfest rolls on! >Yet another copy for download< [Brian Gross Another copy for downloading< [Brian Gross <] Re: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 [Catherine McKay ] Joni in a Creative Writing Class ["Patti Parlette" ] Re: Nash Photo Exhibit San Diego some JC ["Lindsay Moon" And yet another copy for downloading< [] Re: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 03:10:41 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 Happy Thursday everyone! Hey, who needs Mardi Gras when you've got a regular Cover-palooza on your hands! Anyway, here's Volume 1 of the Best-of "Sweet Sixteen" series - 16 SWEET Joni covers. Thanks again to Mark for providing some top-notch artwork! http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1T1Z4YOXWIWZ901O06OLDFR5BF Brian and/or Catherine, feel free to crank out another link. Bob NP: P.J. Harvey, "Big Exit" - --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:08:24 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Sweet 16, Volume 2 - Coversfest rolls on! >Yet another copy for download< > --- Bob Muller wrote: > > > Let the good times (and good covers) roll! Here's Volume 2: > > And another copy out there to handle the volume of downloads: http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09K4MM9WEDH7P2XCW5GU53NCN7 > > > Tracklist: > > > > 1. Judd Grossman - Carey > > 2. Pam Bricker - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat > > 3. Melissa Errico - Night Ride Home > > 4. Sara Hickman - Chelsea Morning > > 5. Blue Tapestry - In France They Kiss On Main Street > > 6. Terry Gonda - Both Sides Now > > 7. Diana Krall - A Case Of You > > 8. Erinn Brown - Urge For Going > > 9. Beth Nielsen Chapman - You Turn Me On Im A Radio > > 10. Avalon Motel - Blue > > 11. Jonathan Cohen - Woodstock (with Christine Sullivan) > > 12. Itxaso & Daniel Perez - Cherokee Louise > > 13. Lorna Grant - Big Yellow Taxi > > 14. Renata Friedrich - Moon At The Window > > 15. A Bird That Whistles - Hejira > > 16. Lydia van Dam - Love > > > > Enjoy! > > > > Bob > > Thank you Bob! > > Brian I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all --Joan, with the wisdom of the ages Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:16:48 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 >Another copy for downloading< - --- Bob Muller wrote: > Happy Thursday everyone! Hey, who needs Mardi Gras when you've got a regular > Cover-palooza on your hands! Anyway, here's Volume 1 of the Best-of "Sweet > Sixteen" series - 16 SWEET Joni covers. Thanks again to Mark for providing > some top-notch artwork! http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GVTVIQ15C6MK3KY9SC27XECVX > Bob Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:39:42 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 - --- Bob Muller wrote: > Happy Thursday everyone! Hey, who needs Mardi Gras > when you've got a regular Cover-palooza on your > hands! Anyway, here's Volume 1 of the Best-of "Sweet > Sixteen" series - 16 SWEET Joni covers. Thanks again > to Mark for providing some top-notch artwork! > > > http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1T1Z4YOXWIWZ901O06OLDFR5BF > > Brian and/or Catherine, feel free to crank out > another link. > I'm at work but, if I can still snag this from home, i'll be happy to help out. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:01:20 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: Joni in a Creative Writing Class Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:22:51 -0500 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: njc, Jen: come up to my campus! it's turned into full blown joni tourettes Patti sweet thing cannot help herself. - ---------------- Now it's Joni Tourettes!??? Come on! Please don't tease, Marianne. I told you when I met you I was crazy, and you said you'd take me as I am. Harrumph! And then Jen the newbie writes: "it'll be okay, patti. just breath.....we all want to help you...." as if there is something *wrong* with me. What the heck??? If I can't make it here, I can't make it ANYWHERE! But out of something bad can come something good. I was just telling Casey, one of our student workers, that SOME people on the JMDL are makin' fun of me, and she lit up as bright as a neon light and then she told me: "All romantics meet the same fate, someday." NO, NO! ONLY KIDDING! (ha ha -- fooled you!) What she *really* said was this: Casey, beaming: OH! YEAH!!!! I meant to tell you! Someone in my creative writing class wrote about Joni Mitchell. Me: Really??? Are you serious? What did she say? Casey: She wrote: 'I guess we know now that Joni got it right'..... and then she used some lyrics of hers. Me (starting to froth): What did she write? Casey: Something like "alive, alive..." Me: "I want to get up and jive?" Casey: Yeah! That's it! Me: Was it about wrecking stockings in some juke box dive? Casey: Yeah!!! Me (breaking into song): "Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive, I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive...Do you see, do you see how you hurt me, baby....." (People in the photocopy room start exchanging looks and sidling out the door....) Marina from Yale, with a smile: Are you talking about Joni MItchell AGAIN, Patti? Me (nodding, then turning my gaze back to Casey): What class was this again, Casey? Casey: Creative Writing. Me (grabbing one of those pink phone message pads so I can write this all down): What's the course number? Casey: English 146. Me: What was she writing? A poem? A short story? Casey: Some internal monologue, about a being stuck in a relationship....driving in a car with her boyfriend and feeling dead, wanting to get out of it. Me: Can you get me a copy of the paper? I'd love to read it. Casey: Sure, I saved it for you. I just forgot to bring it. I left it at home. - ---------------------- I can't wait to read it, and perhaps meet this student. Isn't it great to see the young 'uns getting Joni? Like our beautiful Jahida and Oddmund (SHOUT OUT TO VERMONT AND NORWAY!!!) and you know..... Love, Patti P., reporting live from the UConn campus (where, btw, we are celebrating yet another basketball victory and gearing up for March Madness. Uh oh! The clash of the titan mental disorders: JMOCD and Huskymania. When I get this crazy feeling I know I'm in trouble again! Alive, alive.....) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:28:28 +0000 From: "Jamie's Box of Paints" Subject: Re: More on Ian Shaw's Tribute - tracklist too!!! I am going to his Joni Mitchell tribute show in April at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, I have already booked my seat and so I can't wait to hear the music from this setlist... Any other UK jimdlers coming? Much Joni Jamie Z On 02/03/06, Bob Muller wrote: > It's only fitting that right in the middle of Covers Week, I get an email from the director of International Sales & Marketing for Linn Records (Ian Shaw's label) giving me the details on Ian's upcoming Joni tribute CD "Drawn To All Things". > > First I want to quote her opening comment: > > "Hi Bob, > I saw with interest your undercover page on www.jonimitchell.com. It is good to see an official artist site embrace covers the way you do." > > Boo-yah!!!! > > OK, now onto the tracklist...and you have to remember that Ian's interpretations are very inventive - these will be very original. Needless to say I'm drooling to hear them - here's what's on the disc: > > Jericho > Moon at the Window > Night in the City > Edith and the Kingpin > Harlem in Havana > A Case of You > Barangrill > Chelsea Morning > Love or Money > Talk to Me > River > Night Ride Home > Both Sides Now > Stay In Touch > > Omigod! Three "firsts"...(Stay In Touch, Talk To Me, Love Or Money) and except for Moon At The Window, Ian's pretty much sidestepping the 80's stuff (although if anyone could do Dancin' Clown justice, he could). > > And as if that wasn't enough, check out these liner notes by Ian. Absolutely brilliant, and might even bring a tear to your eye like they did to mine. > > Bob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > sarah vaughan, t-rex, supertramp, miles davis, sinatra and david bowie. my teenage record collection was a roll-call of every musical sensation needed to pave the way for my own precocious foray into making music. > > i was fascinated by the sounds and the story worlds of "bewitched", "willow weep for me" and "life on mars". miniatures, myths, frozen little moods pressed onto pungent glossy discs. mysterious yet familiar, orchestrations forged on distant shores, ever evolving yet never changing. iconic artwork, cherished gatefold sleeves, lyric sheets, stickers, 45 and 33rpm, a-sides, b-sides, ep's, lp's, best of's, free posters, calendars. each album had its own smell, its own texture. the design of each cover reflected the music inside. > > i found a record called "blue" by joni mitchell in my little town library on the way home from school on the last day of my sixth-form autumn term. i was sixteen. you could take out three records at a time. i dont remember the other two. > > walking home through the filthy melting snow, i checked the cover. david bowie's sister. sharp cheekbones bathed in grainy dark blue shadows. a still from a gig perhaps. the lyrics were printed over a gatefold centre: "the bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide", "i made my baby cry", "a foggy lullaby", "dark cafes", "needles, guns and grass". rock and roll words mixed into images so specific, so confessional, so domestic as to be straight from a diary kept in a drawer...somewhere in america. i couldn't imagine how joni mitchell would sound and, to this day, i still dont fully understand the unfathomable beauty of her recordings. i felt i was, at sixteen, an honorary member of a secret club. i quickly found her other records. > > the immaculate marriage of words and music in joni's work has always fascinated and puzzled me. the constant, aching search for happiness combined with the concerns we all have for the demise of everything we treasure. on "miles of aisles", her first live set, joni describes a song as "a portrait of disappointment". thousands of great american songs before her have touched on personal disappointments, usually related to love. joni would later record an entire album charting the course of a love affair. > > the songs i've chosen for this session are, without doubt, beautifully composed popular song forms. the imagery is personal yet universal, and i hope that by re-arranging and scoring them for what is essentially an enduring jazz format - piano, bass and drums - i havent taken away from their original compositional greatness. i sensed that joni's more diary-based works like "hejira", and her heartfelt, magical collusion with the legendary charlie mingus on "mingus" wouldn't suit re-invention of any kind. > > occasionally joni mitchell writes what seems to be the perfect song for every singer. "stay in touch" (from "taming the tiger") is one. "river" ("blue") is another. i've recorded both. they shake my bones when i sing them. > > "the emotions themselves - audibly in the music like creatures trapped in amber" (jim irwin) > > ian shaw - january 2006 > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail > Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. > - -- I am a lonely Painter I live in a Box of Paints I'm frightened by the devil But I'm drawn to those ones that 'aint afraid... Jamie Zubairi can be found at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 and ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:59:10 -0800 From: "Lindsay Moon" Subject: Welcome to the JMDL! SJC Hi, Dave, I was just catching up on the Joni digest and caught your post. I'm sure you'll get lots of nice responses from members. A very friendly bunch here. (Who sometimes get sidetracked thinking up silly "squirrel" names . but I digress). You musn't fret about a forgotten lyric here and a wrong tuning there! Your show was spectacular and Joni herself has missed lyrics and fingerings (she likens it to typing on a typewriter where the keys keep changing!) I agree that everyone in the audience was so pleased to hear the great music and see the tremendous care you took to bring it to us, no one really cared. I hope someone can help you with a gig in other parts of the country (at least!) and I'll surely try to get a group going to your performances here. Glad you checked in. Lindsay Moon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:43:34 -0800 From: "Lindsay Moon" Subject: Re: Nash Photo Exhibit San Diego some JC Russ, I wrote in to the list a while ago (maybe at the beginning of last month?) saying I'd been to the exhibit. I really enjoyed it. Yes, the photos of Joni were just beautiful and I wish there had been more. I enjoyed all of them really. Did you also stop over to the other exhibit, I think called "You're not from Around here" Beautiful, moody pictures of rural areas of the south. Glad you enjoyed it. Wish I'd had a JMDLer to go with. My family members whined too much so I finally went by myself. : | Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:32:26 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gross Subject: Fwd: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 >And yet another copy for downloading< > --- Bob Muller wrote: > > > Happy Thursday everyone! Hey, who needs Mardi Gras when you've got a > regular > > Cover-palooza on your hands! Anyway, here's Volume 1 of the Best-of "Sweet > > Sixteen" series - 16 SWEET Joni covers. Thanks again to Mark for providing > > some top-notch artwork! http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39OBYAZ72F1810ODGHSJDN40UO > > Bob I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all --Joan, with the wisdom of the ages Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:56:33 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: Sweet Sixteen - Volume 1 - --- Bob Muller wrote: > Happy Thursday everyone! Hey, who needs Mardi Gras > when you've got a regular Cover-palooza on your > hands! Anyway, here's Volume 1 of the Best-of "Sweet > Sixteen" series - 16 SWEET Joni covers. Thanks again > to Mark for providing some top-notch artwork! > > > http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1T1Z4YOXWIWZ901O06OLDFR5BF > > Brian and/or Catherine, feel free to crank out > another link. > I downloaded it, or so I thought, but once the download was completed and I opened the file - it was empty. Did anyone else have this problem? Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #65 ******************************** ------- 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)