From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #85 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, June 22 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 085 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Love is Like a Big Brass Band / Mary Poppins [Laura Stanley ] Laura Allan RIP sjc [paulcastle@talktalk.net] Laura Allan RIP sjc [Patti Parlette ] Has Joni mentioned Obama? [anon anon ] Re: Has Joni mentioned Obama? [Coleen ] Re: Laura Allan RIP & more Joni connections ["Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Love is Like a Big Brass Band / Mary Poppins Yo, I wonder if Joni had seen this movie, and/or listened to the sound track, and then came up with the song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTSl4niMLA&feature=related Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: VLJC Hitting Vancouver... Well, I bring this up because I've been looking at Vancouver, Canada travel guides as of late. In August, my brother, sister and I are going to Vancouver for a week for our vacation. We are also checking out Victoria for a day and...the Sunshine Coast for a day! We will actually be checking out Sechelt in the Sunshine Coast as there are a few different areas. If I'm not mistaken, Sechelt is the area where Joni has a home in, no? Anyway, as Neil Young once sang, "good times are comin." -Monika ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:07:34 -0400 From: paulcastle@talktalk.net Subject: Laura Allan RIP sjc Randy wrote: > You can hear a lovely song "The Shape I'm In" here: > http://tinyurl.com/56xt9r What a beautiful song - got me welling up here. Back in 1975, whilst visiting a friend in San Francisco, I played several gigs at The United State Cafe on Haight Street . My friend, Marliese, booked the acts there at the time - and she recently sent me a link to a scrapbook site for the cafe - http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/UnitedStateCafe/ Although I personally never saw her there, Marliese regularly booked Laura Allan at The United State Cafe , as these posters show - http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/UnitedStateCafe/uscpage041.html There's also a beautiful live recording made at the cafe of Laura playing the dulcimer and singing 'Native American Ceremonial Song', which bears an extraordinary likeness to early Joni in tone and vocal phrasing/scatting - http://www.flyingsnail.com/Podcast/LauraAllan.mp3 PaulC > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:58:53 -0700 > From: "Randy Remote" > Subject: Laura Allan RIP sjc >I was saddened to learn that musician Laura Allan >has passed away from cancer. She was kind of the >Joni Mitchell of Marin County, and I have fond memories >of her playing dulcimer and singing in the open-air >amphitheatre on Mt. Tamalpais. She played zither on >David Crosby's "Traction In The Rain" on his 1st solo >album, and wrote songs for Kenny Rogers and Bill Champlin >("Hold On"). She also built dulcimers and zithers, traveling >to the Big Sur Folk Festival with her friend Joellen >Lapidus who there sold Joni her first dulcimer. >RR >SF Chronicle obit: >http://tinyurl.com/65fbv8 >You can hear a lovely song "The Shape I'm In" here: >http://tinyurl.com/56xt9r >4 more songs here: >http://tinyurl.com/5cmkwh _____________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:02:10 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: Laura Allan RIP sjc Thank you, RR, for sharing this. I'd never heard of her before, and just "met" her through the links you posted. It sounds like she was a Girl Like Us. Voila, from her myspace "general info": "the sweetest 70ies chick-music of them all. (a bit like Minnie Riperton (i think so!), the Carpenters, Carole King, Carly Simon.. (not at all like Joni Mitchell though - or ...???)" I didn't have time to read and listen to everything, but was moved by the opening lines of "Opening Up to You": "Oh, there's so much can we learn about each other, And the love grows, spending time together..." Kind of like the JMDL, or "thinking about how the world could be" if only... With heartfelt sympathy to her friends and family -- what a loss they must feel, Patti P. P.S. In googling around (her website is down, and there is another singer named Laura Allen so it's a little confusing), I found this blog from a student of her mother, with a note from her brother: http://jennselke.blogspot.com/2008/05/passing-of-laura-allan.html ******* I was saddened to learn that musician Laura Allan has passed away from cancer. She was kind of the Joni Mitchell of Marin County, and I have fond memories of her playing dulcimer and singing in the open-air amphitheatre on Mt. Tamalpais. She played zither on David Crosby's "Traction In The Rain" on his 1st solo album, and wrote songs for Kenny Rogers and Bill Champlin ("Hold On"). She also built dulcimers and zithers, traveling to the Big Sur Folk Festival with her friend Joellen Lapidus who there sold Joni her first dulcimer. RR SF Chronicle obit: http://tinyurl.com/65fbv8 You can hear a lovely song "The Shape I'm In" here: http://tinyurl.com/56xt9r 4 more songs here: http://tinyurl.com/5cmkwh _________________________________________________________________ Introducing Live Search cashback . It's search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=introsrchcashback ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:08:15 -0400 From: anon anon Subject: Has Joni mentioned Obama? I'm fairly sure that Joni would be supporting Obama for president. (I can't imagine in a million years that she would support Mccain), but has she publically commented at all about Obama? _________________________________________________________________ The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the im Talkathon. http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:02:29 -0400 From: Coleen Subject: Re: Has Joni mentioned Obama? I thought Joni was still a Canadian citizen. Or has she taken out dual citizenship? On 21-Jun-08, at 5:08 PM, anon anon wrote: > I'm fairly sure that Joni would be supporting Obama for president. > (I can't > imagine in a million years that she would support Mccain), but has she > publically commented at all about Obama? > > _________________________________________________________________ > The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the im > Talkathon. > http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:12:35 -0700 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Laura Allan RIP & more Joni connections Thanks for the links, Paul. The song you linked sounds very Joniesque indeed. It's actually called "Storm Song", and appeared on Laura's 1996 "Hold On To Your Dreams" CD (her only album not out of print). The studio version includes guitar by long-time Joni & CSN confidante Joel Bernstein. [Joni is listed in the "thanks" section, as is Crosby]. Laura formed a short-lived duo with Joel, and also (I'm just learning all this stuff) joined a band called Starcrossed; their CD is available from CDBaby. Joni and Laura were friends. In an article about Starcrossed, veteran rock journalist Blair Jackson writes: In 1969, Laura met dulcimer-maker Joellen Lapidus at the Big Sur Folk Festival, and the two became fast friends. "I wanted to learn everything I could about making dulcimers," Laura says. "Previously, I had taken an old zither and redid it and painted it. I liked working with instruments." It was in Big Sur, too, that she first encountered David Crosby and Graham Nash. "I barely knew who they were," she says, "but we got introduced to these guys and we jammed. I was learning to play the flute; they had their pre-war Martins and their Mercedes. I was a mere 17, so this was amazing. Then, about six months later, Joellen and I were living in Marin County in Forest Knolls in this cabin. My rent was $32 a month and now we were making musical instruments for the stars. Joni Mitchell would come and stay in my loft. It was a crazy time. When I talk about it, no one believes me," she laughs. She and Joellen sold instruments to Mitchell and Nash, and it was a custom zither she made for Crosby that got her into Wally Heider's for her first major session: When she brought the instrument to show Crosby, [recording engineer Steve] Barncard loved the sound of it, too, and urged her to go out into the main studio room to see how it sounded there. That led to her laying down an ethereal zither track for Crosby's song "Traction in the Rain" right on the spot. "I was mostly just playing along in the studio," she remembers. "I don't think I really understood that Barncard was recording. But it came out sounding really good." http://starcrossedentertainment.com/content/html/story.html I also noticed whilst checking out the US Cafe site that one of the Haight area bands called Jumpin' Jupiter featured a dark-haired 6 string bassist (and vocalist!) named Larry Klein. It's my impression from their drummer's current MySpace page that this is LK one and the same. Pictures of them performing in GG Park here: http://www.nobodyforpresident.org/UnitedStateCafe/uscpage036.html Another Joni/Laura connection is Paul Horn, who played on LOTC; Laura did a new age LP with him called "Reflections" which is very nice and very hard to find, and Joni played an alternative scat-singing version of "Blue" on Horn's "Visions" LP. Small world in the California music scene. RR From: > Randy wrote: >> You can hear a lovely song "The Shape I'm In" here: >> http://tinyurl.com/56xt9r > What a beautiful song - got me welling up here. > Back in 1975, whilst visiting a friend in San Francisco, I played > several gigs at The United State Cafe on Haight Street . My friend, > Marliese, booked the acts there at the time - and she recently sent > me a link to a scrapbook site for the cafe - > http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/UnitedStateCafe/ > Although I personally never saw her there, Marliese regularly booked > Laura Allan at The United State Cafe , as these posters show - > http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/UnitedStateCafe/uscpage041.html > There's also a beautiful live recording made at the cafe of Laura > playing the dulcimer and singing 'Native American Ceremonial Song', > which bears an extraordinary likeness to early Joni in tone and vocal > phrasing/scatting - http://www.flyingsnail.com/Podcast/LauraAllan.mp3 > PaulC >> From: "Randy Remote" >>I was saddened to learn that musician Laura Allan >>has passed away from cancer. She was kind of the >>Joni Mitchell of Marin County, and I have fond memories >>of her playing dulcimer and singing in the open-air >>amphitheatre on Mt. Tamalpais. She played zither on >>David Crosby's "Traction In The Rain" on his 1st solo >>album, and wrote songs for Kenny Rogers and Bill Champlin >>("Hold On"). She also built dulcimers and zithers, traveling >>to the Big Sur Folk Festival with her friend Joellen >>Lapidus who there sold Joni her first dulcimer. >>RR >>SF Chronicle obit: >>http://tinyurl.com/65fbv8 >>You can hear a lovely song "The Shape I'm In" here: >>http://tinyurl.com/56xt9r >>4 more songs here: >>http://tinyurl.com/5cmkwh ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #85 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe