From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #1 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, January 2 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 001 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: New Joni book coming in April ["Randy Remote" ] re: new joni book coming in april ["joe farrell" ] RE: WTRF Unplugged [richard2sf@gmail.com] New Joni book coming in April [Marianne Rizzo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:31:09 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: New Joni book coming in April Sounds intriguing! From: "Les Irvin" > Just got more info on the new book on Joni entitled Will You Take Me As I > Am, to be released April 7, 2009. > This utterly original book - the first one about Joni Mitchell written > with > her participation - offers a unique portrait of a great musician and her > remarkable work, as well as new perspectives on the art of songwriting > itself. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:01:16 +0000 From: "joe farrell" Subject: re: new joni book coming in april thanks for the info on this forthcoming new book Les. very interested to note it was done with Joni's participation. really looking forward to reading it. regards, Joe. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:54:17 -0500 From: rosemjoy@aol.com Subject: Fwd: New Joni book coming in April ooops, meant to respond to list as well...I can't wait to read Michelle's new book, having met her. She is a very talented? and sweet young lady. Les, please ask Michelle where the owl sanctuary is in NJ? She promised to take me there. What is she doing living in CO now? Rosie in NJ - -----Original Message----- From: rosemjoy@aol.com To: lesirvin@gmail.com Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 6:06 pm Subject: Re: New Joni book coming in April Wasn't this the Michelle we met up at Joni Fest a few years ago? - -----Original Message----- From: Les Irvin To: joni@smoe.org Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:47 pm Subject: New Joni book coming in April Joniphiles - Just got more info on the new book on Joni entitled Will You Take Me As I Am, to be released April 7, 2009. Here's the copy from the book jacket: - ----- Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half-century, and her landmark 1971 album Blue is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Will You Take Me As I Am looks at Blue to explore the development of an extraordinary artist, the history of songwriting, and much more. Writer Michelle Mercer spent a significant amount of time hearing firsthand about Mitchell's internal and external journeys as she composed the largely autobiographical albums of what Mercer calls her "Blue Period," which lasted through the mid-1970s. Incorporating biography, memoir, reportage, criticism, and original interviews into an illuminating narrative, Mercer moves beyond the "making of an album" genre to arrive at a new form of music writing. In 1970, Mitchell was living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon and had made a name for herself as a so-called folk singer notable for her soaring voice and skillful compositions. Soon, though, feeling hemmed in, she fled to the hippie cave community of Matala, Greece. Here and on further travels, her compositions were freshly inspired by the lands and people she encountered as well as by her own radically changing interior landscape. After returning home to record Blue, Mitchell retreated to British Columbia, eventually re-emerging as the successful leader of a jazz-rock group and turning outward in her songwriting toward social commentary. Finally, a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and a pivotal meeting with the Tibetan lama Chogyam Trungpa prompted Mitchell's return to personal songwriting, which resulted in her 1976 masterpiece album, Hejira. Mercer interlaces this fascinat ing account of Mitchell's Blue Period with meditations on topics related to her work, including the impact of landscape on music, the value of autobiographical songwriting for artist and listener, and the literary history of confessionalism. Mercer also provides rich analysis of Mitchell's creative achievements: her innovative manner of marrying lyrics to melody; her inventive, highly expressive chords that achieve her signature blend of wonder and melancholy; how she pioneered personal songwriting and, along with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, brought a new literacy to the popular song. Fans will appreciate the previously unpublished photos and a coda of Mitchell's unedited commentary on the places, books, music, pastimes, and philosophies she holds dear. This utterly original book - the first one about Joni Mitchell written with her participation - offers a unique portrait of a great musician and her remarkable work, as well as new perspectives on the art of songwriting itself. Michelle Mercer, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, is the author of the critically-acclaimed biography Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorterhttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=jonimitchelldisc&l=as2&o=1&a=15854 24684. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Down Beat, and elsewhere. She lives in Colorado and Bahia, Brazil. - ----- If you decide to pre-order the book, consider clicking through at http://jonimitchell.com/news/index.cfm to help support the website at the same time. Thanks, Les [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of image001.gif] Get a free MP3 every day with the Spinner.com Toolbar. Get it Now. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:14:08 -0800 (PST) From: Eileen Subject: Songs I can't listen to anymore Margaret, It's absolutely uncanny, isn't it... Her songs can sometimes be so real. It's as if she was singing about ME. Maybe that why, even after all these years, they still have this hold on my heart. Anyone else having the same experience..? Eileen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:57:21 -0800 From: richard2sf@gmail.com Subject: RE: WTRF Unplugged Thanks Bob. What a pleasant little discovery on this new year's morning. This guys whole repertoire includes a lot of Joni, and he's quite good. http://www.youtube.com/user/Nycity72 ~Richard > > > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:24:14 -0800 (PST) > From: Bob Muller > Subject: WTRF Unplugged > > Just thought I would share this, an acoustic version of WTRF (not Joni > playing/singing). Maybe some of you who don't like the sound and > arrangements of the album will dig this song more in this setting: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk_J-PDXifo > > For me, WTRF was always been a jewel. Came out at just the right time, it > was just what I needed to hear at the time and I still enjoy it. > > Bob > > NP: B-52's, "Quiche Lorraine" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:47:18 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: New Joni book coming in April thanks Les, the book sounds very interesting yes, jeannie, things are looking up XOMarianne From: Jeannie Subject: Re: New Joni book coming in April This has got to be the best news I could have heard in 2008 and perfect for the new year, for me, anyhow! It feels to me as good as when we got rid of George Bush to make way for Barack Obama and all of us! Truly,Jeannie _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail anywhere. 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