From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #71 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, March 9 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 071 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Human Jukebox [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: River [Bobsart48@aol.com] Re: FW: Message re; River [djp ] Subject: Re: Great Radio Morning ["Ruth Davis" ] Re: Sweet Sixteen Joni Sampler ["J.DAVID SAPP" ] Re: Sweet Sixteen and Joni Sampler [Snapple1984@aol.com] Re: Subject: Re: Great Radio Morning [Bob Muller ] Here's the cover of the new Ian Shaw Joni Tribute CD [Bob Muller ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:00:29 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Human Jukebox Hi Nuriel. Joni said she never wanted to become a human jukebox on the DVD, Woman of Heart and Mind. She says that right after David Geffen is talking about how he wanted her to make a hit record if my memory serves me. She is referring to her dislike of radio hits and chart hits. As we fans well know, Joni detests the commercialism of the music industry. She was never really interested in getting her songs played on the radio or MTV but I think underneath, she also saw the logic that David Geffen was trying to put forward; in order to make money to continue her career in music, she needed to sell records. That's why she relented and wrote, You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio. Mark in Sydney NP In The Deep - Bird York ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:18:49 EST From: Bobsart48@aol.com Subject: Re: River Hi, I am planning to base my musical investigation on the song River and I am trying to find some kind of analysis of the song but I am out of luck, could you help me? Do you know of any good analysis of that song or her music in general? Emma, Hang in here - you'll get some help (gotta run soon). There are at least a few serious academic theses analyzing Joni's music - I don't know about the song River. Except for the inversions of Jingle Bells - which I love, since they are different at the end of the song than at the beginning - it is one of Joni's simpler songs, musically. That is not to detract from its merits. Lyrically, it is one of her classic "confessional" pieces, capturing some of our less noble emotions - selfishness, self pity, others ? - - along with the tension between the medicine of self effacement that signals progress toward maturity and the longing for an escape from such self-effacement, symbolized by the River itself. Vocally, Joni ventures into places that few if any had theretofore had the courage to explore. We have all been there before, no ? In exposing our human imperfections, the song also releases the beauties - and complexities - of the human spirit. Among those who have studied Joni extensively is one Lloyd Whitesell (a music professor - at McGill ?) - you may want to check him out on the Web. He may have an article or two posted here in the JoniMitchell.com (nee JMDL's) Library. The book "The Joni Mitchell Companion" has a couple of technical articles (one by Whitesell) on some of Joni's songs - his focuses on Amelia, Song To a Seagull, Sweet Bird and The Beat of Black Wings". I've heard that the "bridge" in Car On A Hill was part of a final exam at a major music school - was it Julliard ? Personally, from Blue, I would rather analyze the title song. But, with River arguably one third of the greatest trio of closing songs ever on an album, you could do worse. Bobsart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:22:38 -0600 From: djp Subject: Re: FW: Message re; River >-----Original Message----- >Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:19 AM >To: jonimitchell.com > >Hi, I am planning to base my musical investigation on the song River and I >am trying to find some kind of analysis of the song but I am out of luck, >could you help me? Do you know of any good analysis of that song or her >music in general? > >Name: Emma Eriksson >email: emma.eriksson@edu.boden.se See "Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song Tradition" by Larry David Smith. Praeger 2004. It has both an extensive analysis of her oeuvre (i *love* that word) and an intensive analysis of "River". djp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:15:05 GMT From: "Ruth Davis" Subject: Subject: Re: Great Radio Morning Hello, all. I am delurking to report that I had a great radio evening last night. On a jazz program, I heard a tune that sounded strangely familiar. I am almost certain that it was a jazz take on "You Dream Flat Tires". They played a riff throughout the piece that sounded like the part of the song when Joni sings "I know that you love me, but when are you going to let love be" and her voice goes low, and then, as jazz versions do, they "went off" on it, improvising deconstructions and reconstructions of the melody. Flat Tires and Moon at the Window are my favorite songs from WTRF. Ruth ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:04:23 -0600 From: "J.DAVID SAPP" Subject: Re: Sweet Sixteen Joni Sampler A Case of You by Prince is da 1. peace, david No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/276 - Release Date: 3/7/06 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:54:03 EST From: Snapple1984@aol.com Subject: Re: Sweet Sixteen and Joni Sampler I had no idea Kind of Like Spitting covered the Last Time I Saw Richard! That's really cool. One of my good friends absolutely loves King of Like Spitting, and I should know his stuff better since he's from Portland - I think. - - Kira NP: Joy Round My Brain, Richard and Mimi Farina ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:05:38 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Great Radio Morning Not too many covers of that one yet, Ruth - a couple though...one is coming up on Volume 75 next month and it's ssssssmokin' good. Am not aware of any instrumental versions but I'm always on the prowl. Matter of fact, I found our first "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" cover today. Very exciting for me, which pretty much sums up what my life is like these days. Thanks for coming out of the shadows, always great to hear from you. Bob NP: Neil Young, "Without Rings" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Here's the cover of the new Ian Shaw Joni Tribute CD http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05XPROZPILQ1A3EY8B7RD4H13J It goes on sale April 3 in the UK. It will be marketed in the US as well, don't know the details on that yet though. (Will probably NOT be sold in Wal-Mart). Bob NP: Erykah Badu, "Sometimes..." Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:29:09 -0500 From: Subject: Wal-Mart I saw on tv last week Wal-Mart is going to start having a clinic inside the stores so customers can go to Wal-Mart for minor sicknesses as well. They of course will undercut local doctors etc with the usual Wal-Mart game plan. Sell the prescriptions etc. Steve ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #71 ******************************** ------- 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)