From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #66 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 Monday, March 9 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 066 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Blue Motel Room and Refuge of the Roads [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:12:35 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Blue Motel Room and Refuge of the Roads Actually what is noteworthy is that she plays electric guitar throughout the album. To my knowledge she had not done that prior and would not again until the VG-8 appeared in her arsenal twenty years later. There is a little acoustic guitar added in there too (and Larry Carlton plays the acoustic on BMR) but what makes the texture of the whole Hejira album so different from her other work in that era was her playing electric guitar with deep phasing and lots of double tracking. Dave On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:00 PM, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:37:58 -0600 > From: Dan Olson > Subject: Re: Blue Motel Room and Refuge of the Roads > > It is also noteworthy that she was driving across the country ("the > burning > desert"), prolifically composing, but limited to guitar only - she > had no > access to a piano. It could be her only album (maybe besides STAS and > Clouds) that is all acoustic guitar. (Of course, she had additional > musicians in the studio, and Jaco's bass parts were overdubbed at a > later > time, but that's probably another thread). > > ~Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:33:55 -0600 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Blue Motel Room and Refuge of the Roads Dave: You are absolutely right; it is ELECTRIC guitar that Joni plays ON EVERY TRACK (of Hejira). I was thinking of her driving across the country ("traveling in some vehicle, sitting in some cafe"), writing songs that are all GUITAR songs (no piano). I was imagining her sitting in her hotel room with her acoustic guitar, with the songs just pouring out of her. I would also argue that the next time she would return to a guitar-based sound was "NRH", and that her electric guitar playing (and sound) on Hejira is much closer to an acoustic guitar than to the elecTRONIC sound of the VG-8. ~Dan On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Dave Blackburn wrote: > Actually what is noteworthy is that she plays electric guitar throughout > the album. To my knowledge she had not done that prior and would not again > until the VG-8 appeared in her arsenal twenty years later. There is a little > acoustic guitar added in there too (and Larry Carlton plays the acoustic on > BMR) but what makes the texture of the whole Hejira album so different from > her other work in that era was her playing electric guitar with deep phasing > and lots of double tracking. > > > Dave > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:00 PM, onlyJMDL Digest wrote: > > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:37:58 -0600 >> From: Dan Olson >> Subject: Re: Blue Motel Room and Refuge of the Roads >> >> It is also noteworthy that she was driving across the country ("the >> burning >> desert"), prolifically composing, but limited to guitar only - she had no >> access to a piano. It could be her only album (maybe besides STAS and >> Clouds) that is all acoustic guitar. (Of course, she had additional >> musicians in the studio, and Jaco's bass parts were overdubbed at a later >> time, but that's probably another thread). >> >> ~Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:04:45 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Chapter on Joni & O'Keeffe Book - Jeffrey Hogrefe Has anyone read the 1992 book: O'Keeffe The Life of an American Legend of Jeffrey Hogrefe ? Recently picked this up at a library book sale and noticed there is a whole chapter on Joni inside along with a few references to her in other chapters indicating her dating Juan Hamilton, Georgia's caretaker, for a brief period. It talks about her visit with O'keeffe at her home. Laura O. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:22:38 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: Message from website Can anyone help Bradley? - -----Original Message----- it is driving me nuts i am try to find out the name of a song it was on a pbs doc on joni it was at the end. it about was about the life she led and coming bach to see her siter an nices with a ting of regret please help me thank you Name: bradley wieland email: bhw47@hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #66 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe