From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #375 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 Tuesday, January 2 2007 Volume 2006 : Number 375 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni Covers #84 - Happy New Covers! [Bob Muller ] Synesthesia & Laura Nyro [birdie ] Re: Best of 2006 [Michael Flaherty ] Re: Best of List 2007 [Norma Jean Garza ] RE: Perpetual Joni Covers Train: Volumes 71-83 of JM Covers [Doug Subject: Joni Covers #84 - Happy New Covers! Bye bye to 2006 - a great year for Joni covers, and Hello to 2007, hopefully the same. We kick it off with a really solid collection of Joni tributes, matter of fact Mrs. SCJoniguy herself told me that it didn't totally suck - high praise from the lady who had no idea when she took her wedding vows that she would be subjected to 500 covers of Both Sides Now. Thanks once more to my buddy Paul for his contributions...in this volume we get a return from an old favorite, some JMDL exclusives, some knowns, some unknowns, and some what-were-they-thinkings. You can be the judge - go download it for yourself here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=51058FD96CB00FD5 And if & when you do, here's what you'll find: 1. Upper Left Trio - All I Want: Yummy yummy, we start you off with a nice airy jazz appetizer, it melts in your ear and not in your hand. I love the way the intro teases you before plunging in with the hook. A lovely instrumental featuring piano, bass & drums - - some snaky charming bass workings along with the fine piano featured. All in all, a real knockout from an upper left. 2. Generations - Both Sides Now: This 2002 CD is interesting because it was a collaboration between a Mother-Daughter (hence the title)...the daughter turns out to be Holly Brook who went on to become a recording artist in her own right and put out a nice cover of All I Want in 2006. We'll get to that one later, for now you can enjoy this pretty spirited cover of the franchise. 3. Bloomsbury Pops - Big Yellow Taxi: A somewhat schmaltzy voice & keyboard rendition. The CD is called "Modern Lounge" so they knew what they were going for - very lounge-ish. 4. Brooke Fraser - Woodstock: This one (both singer and song) is really beautiful. It was a bonus track on a CD-single of Brooke's. Another contribution from Kiwi country. 5. Don Stewart - Both Sides Now: Mmm, this one is silky smooth with some nice smooth jazz touches. Hailing from Ontario and claiming influences like Nat King Cole & Stevie Wonder, and produced by none other than Bob Murphy! 6. The Anntones - Carey: The Anntones are Anne & Tony Harpen from Ohio, a brother-sister act. Their sound is pretty plain and under-produced, I guess she's a big Joni fan since they do two of her songs. Bonus points for her for singing "Mattala Moon". Minus points for her tackling songs she doesn't have the vocal range to handle. 7. The Anntones - Help Me: More of the same. 8. Jonny Boston - Both Sides Now: A pleasant arrangement and vocal from UK vocalist Jonny Boston. A little touch of Gilbert O'Sullivan if anyone remembers what he sounded like - clear and easy to listen to. Inspired (it sounds like) by Joni's orchestral recording, Jonny's orchestra is much more subtle and smaller though. Nice. 9. Pat Harris-Thomas - Twisted: Pat swings this cover of the classic, showing her R&B and jazz sides. She gets much help from an excellent band, who both complements and struts in their own right. It ends sooner than I would like, but unless an artist wants to put some solos out there it's a pretty short song. 10. C.S. Heath & Jonas James - - Big Yellow Taxi: Piano & guitar duo with some faint percussion tossed in for luck, this instrumental is a tad on the bland side. 11. Mike The Swan - Woodstock: Jim Morrison lives! Well, probably not but that's who Mike the Swan reminds me of. Probably wound a bit too loose to suit most folks but I like the raggedness of it. "Well I came upon a child of God, and he said Father, I want to kill you..." 12. Pat C - Both Sides Now: A little touch of Carly Simon to her voice - I don't know anything about Pat C, sounds like it's just her and her guitar, fairly nice. She changes the words around for some reason...no, I think Joni pretty much wrote the right ones. Maybe that's why we don't know much about Pat C. 13. Christine Collister - Amelia: Another entry from one of the finest voices to ever grace a Joni cover, this one is a bit different from her previous two in that it is done acapella style with a haunting backing chorus and the sound of a desert wind. It's not what I was expecting, but then again that's Ms. Collister's style - never doing the predictable thing. This one comes from her 2005 release. 14. Lydia Fortune and Company - Urge For Going: Lydia has been a folk/blues/jazz singer since the early 70's. Lots of nice harmonies here, it sounds like the song "White Bird" by It's A Beautiful Day". Lydia has been a mainstay in the Worcester, Mass music scene so maybe some of you JMDLer's have heard her before. 15. Generations - All I Want: The other track from this CD, Holly sings and plays dulcimer with her Mom on guitar. Nice job too on both counts. Just goes to prove that not all kids reject their Joni upbringing. 16. Catherine Hickland - - Both Sides Now: From a benefit CD featuring songs sung by Soap Opera stars. Catherine is a star on One Life To Live. This recording is pretty annoying. It's multi-tracked, but most of the tracks are singing melody, as if she didn't have enough confidence in her voice to just sing it outright but rather preferred to have several layers. That's probably a little harsh, she does do lots of harmonies...still...annoying. Maybe you'll think differently. 17. Chantry Parrish - California: hee hee hee...probably my fave track on the CD. Probably the only Joni cover ever to start out with "me love you long time". If Ben Folds did a Joni cover it would sound like this, wonderful playful piano pop, harmonies and many other elements. Not for the purists but definitely my cup of tea. 18. Lili Meyer - Chelsea Morning: Proving that Joni didn't actually write the song, this track comes from a 1932 Ziegfield's Follies show. Not really, I just made that up, but it sounds like it could have, doesn't it? Don't know much about Lili except that she went to North Toronto Collegiate Institute. 19. Keren Ann - Big Yellow Taxi: A nice recording from a 2003 live show, singer-songwriter Keren Ann plays and sings a crowd-pleasing BYT with some nice slide work thrown into the mix as well. 20. The Minstrels Of Troy - Both Sides Now: From 1970, The Minstrels were an offshoot of the Catalina High School Concert Choir. While this seems cheesy at first, the arrangement is very unique - they work some really interesting harmonic things in here, not always going where I was expecting them, and the samba style guitar is cool as well. And once again, we come (and always too soon) to the end of another edition of the longest running tribute series in show business. Twelve times more volumes that Harry Potter! Hope you dig it, and if you don't - stay tuned and in a month we'll bring out another debutante for their introduction into Joni society. And look for another in our retro series coming up in a couple of weeks. Yours truly in Joni Covers, Bob NP: Ben Folds, "Air" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:13:28 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Synesthesia & Laura Nyro Hi There, I heard a BBC Radio 2 tribute programme about Laura Nyro - produced by Vicki Wickham - and found it to be rather revealing that friends and producers ( It may be still in their archives) made rather disparaging remarks about Laura - as she used to hear colours and in the studio would say to producers things like "it needs to be more...." and she would say a colour. They all - judging from the interviews - thought she was nuts and/or really eccentric....and talked about it in this gossipy sort of way. What a poorly researched radio "tribute" - OBVIOUSLY - Laura was a synesthete. I contacted her son, Gil, about this cos it's very important information, can be hereditary, and Synesthetes really shouldn't do drugs - like LSD - cos it pushes it into overdrive. Laura was famous for not handling drugs well. Anyway.... Hopefully, if anyone else does a "tribute" to Laura - it really will be one - and - people who LOVED her can discuss the fact that she heard colours, and Synesthesia. Rather than, she heard colours and snickering over it. I so wish she was alive to share the information with her, as no doubt, she would have found it very valuable and interesting. Clearly, she went through life not knowing and/or at least her friends and co-workers sure didn't figure it out! Hello! Birdie >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:37:14 +0000 >From: "Sherelle Smith" >Subject: Re: Synesthesia article > >Thank you for this article Rick. I brought up a childhood experience of mine >here a few years ago and one of my dear Joni amigos was pretty sure it was >synesthesia. It turns out that it was. I am a color-music what they call >"syn" and I have been networking with other synesthetes ever since. What was >explained to me by experts in the field that are part of this syn network is >that synesthesia is a joining of the senses. When we are all babies, the >nerve endings in our brain are conjoined so in a sense, we are all born >synesthetes. As the baby grows and matures the connections die and form the >five senses we know of. So it's very possible that Joni could have >synesthesia. I have to say I've never seen this article but I will pass it >on. I'm sure the professors that are a part of the synesthesia network may >be already aware of it. Thanks again Rick. > >Sherelle > >Rick wrote: > >Here9s an interesting article about synesthesia: http://www.tiny.cc/KvJhG >Joni may have it, but according to the article, we all do to some extent, >but just can9t access the sensations. > >Rick ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:09:19 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: Best of 2006 Here's mine: 1. Tom Waits: Orphans 2. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac 3. Tom Verlaine: around 4. Damien Rice: 9 5. Adrian Belew: Side 3 6. John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen 7. Tool: 10,000 Days 8. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped and Melbourne Direct 9. T Bone Burnett: The True False Identity 10. Jeff Beck: Official Bootleg Only two of the above artists debuted before 1970, btw. ;) Michael Flaherty Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 14:31:01 -0800 (PST) From: Norma Jean Garza Subject: Re: Best of List 2007 Last night, I experienced the most splendid isolation, under the mantle of the illuminating moon, as if some surrealist painted the new year blue, blue sky. It was my heart, soul and mind entwined with that of Joni's and Ry's in a special place named Chavez Ravine. The songs on Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine are absolutely beautiful. Sounds from all over the place in paramount colors played for me as I welcomed in the new year. On new year's eve, I even found myself a red t-shirt at the Gap with Chavez Ravine written on it. I thought that was a sweet coincidence...Jung would have called it synchronicity. So, to be even more synchronized, I changed t-shirts over to my Joni t-shirt where she's carrying her nice kitty-kitty, which I purchased in Vancouver. Overall, it was truly the best New Year I ever had with Joni, Ry and me carrying up our heavy load on the road up to Calvary. For me, there's no other way. NJ PS Next New Year, I'll be playing Joni's latest release all night long. I CAN'T WAIT!!! Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:28:37 -0500 From: Doug Subject: RE: Perpetual Joni Covers Train: Volumes 71-83 of JM Covers Thanks to Rob Argento, I received this set of 15 discs. They're already on their way to Jill Haas jillah@msn.com in WA. Doug > > >> In order to enable latecomers to the list or new traders have a >> chance of listening to Bob Muller's incredible compilation of covers >> of Joni's songs here is the latest round of the Perpetual Joni Covers >> Train. Volumes 71 - 83 (taking you right up to this month's release). >> >> These are uncompressed WAV files for those who care about such things -- >> they are not the MP3 versions. >> >> For those not familiar with trading trains, here is how they work: >> When the disks come to you, you make copies of as much of the >> contents as you want, and then you post back to >> this list offering to pass the disks along to the next person. You do not >> keep the originals -- you keep the copies you made for yourself. On most >> trains, the convention is that you make the copies and send the masters >> along within two days. For these trains, you must agree to turn them >> around >> within two weeks. Sometimes the offer goes unclaimed. Bob and I expect >> that >> to happen from time to time. So, by participating, you agree to just hang >> on to the disks and then make another offer a month or so later (or to >> respond if somebody posts a grovel looking for them). In theory, if >> everybody takes good care of the disks, wrapping them well, not letting >> them >> get scratched, etc. and passes them along, these covers will run on the >> tracks for years. Nobody is going to monitor the progress of these trains >> so if you participate and then lose the disks or fail to reoffer them, you >> will have kept others from enjoying them. When you post an offer, please >> include these "rules". One final note, I know a few folks like to >> compress >> these >> into MP3s. If you want to, go ahead but please do not send MP3s to the >> next >> person - MP3s permanently delete some of the "data" and sound >> quality degrades so please pass the masters along. >> >> So, anybody who would like to receive volumes 71-83, please send me: >> 1. Your mailing address and >> 2. Your promise to reoffer, etc. >> >> Enjoy and happy holidays, Eric >> >> >> P.S. If you are sitting on any of the earlier rounds, please offer them >> up >> again as its been a while and new folks might be interested. Thanks ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #375 ********************************* ------- 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)