From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #150 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, June 4 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 150 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Great story behind "A Bird That Whistles" on JM.com [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] "Will You Take Me..." & Dave/Robin ["Lindsay Moon" ] Joni mention by Pete Seeger ["MusicIsSpecial" ] Re: Will You Take Me As I Am? [Michael Paz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:20:58 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Great story behind "A Bird That Whistles" on JM.com http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2071 Thanks Les for this one! I've had my copy for awhile but it has been nearly impossible to get. Now you can download all of the tracks and they are indeed worth having. Wonderful story and photos too! Bob, always happy when there are covers updates NP: Neil Young, "Harvest" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:42:58 -0700 From: "Lindsay Moon" Subject: "Will You Take Me..." & Dave/Robin Uh, Dave, while I really enjoy your very articulate and knowledgeable reviews of the book (and the excerpt you wrote about how her music is inadequately reviewed is the beginning of YOUR book right there, thank you very much) I would like to know how the Sunday night concert went! I want a full report! Did the 11-year-old boy come with his mom?? I joked with my kids that maybe I'd adopt that boy since my own kids cringe at the mere mention of Joni's name. ; ) Hope to get a report soon. And I hope you broadcast the jmdl info so we can get reports from audience members (who probably haven't recovered yet!) Unrelated, I just thought that I'm so glad to hear in your interview that people have said to you that they gave up on Joni around "Mingus" and that hearing your shows led them to go out and get her later music. That's great! Love a successful grassroots effort! I am in the process of reading "Will You Take Me As I Am" and find it a little draggy, but I'll keep going. The whole discussion of St. Augustine put me off (maybe I was feeling especially blonde that day!) and I can't believe Joni took all his history into account when writing her songs. Intellectual vs emotional. The whole picture of Joni that captured me (I started on Blue) was the huge strides she made with each album. I have no musical training whatsoever but once I heard Blue, I had to go back to the first album and start there and see how she got there. Of course Hissing was another huge step. It amazed me and still does. For some reason "Night in the City" sounds very sophisticated musically to me coming from a 20-something with little musical training. Sorry to be so scattered. Only one cup of coffee so far . Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:01:34 -0500 From: "MusicIsSpecial" Subject: Joni mention by Pete Seeger In case this wasn't pointed out before - on Seeger's appearance on the interview show Democracy Now in Sept 2006 (watchable via archives.org) he is speaking about Bob Dylan at Newport and then says Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Woody (Guthrie), Buffy Saint Marie, Malvina Reynolds are the greatest songwriters of the 20th century - even though Irving Berlin made the most money they help us understand where we are and what we have to do ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:15:41 -0400 From: Deb Messling Subject: Re: Will You Take Me As I Am? It's been awhile since I read the book, but you reminded me of my biggest gripe with it. Why skip Hissing, of all albums? I realize that the focus of the book is Joni's "confessional" albums, but I've always felt that Hissing isn't as third-person and sociological as critics would have it. I always thought that a lot of the album spoke to Joni's discomfort with her own affluence. At 10:41 AM 6/1/2009, you wrote: >Speaking of omission, the whole Hissing album gets surfed over in the >rush to get to Hejira. The transition Joni made between C&S and >Hissing is radical on many levels and deserves to be the central >study of any discussion of the "Blue period". - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- dlmessling@rcn.com http://www.sensibleshoes.vox.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:53:22 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: Will You Take Me As I Am? Get out the hammers and the boards and the nails! On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Deb Messling wrote: It's been awhile since I read the book, but you reminded me of my biggest gripe with it. Why skip Hissing, of all albums? I realize that the focus of the book is Joni's "confessional" albums, but I've always felt that Hissing isn't as third-person and sociological as critics would have it. I always thought that a lot of the album spoke to Joni's discomfort with her own affluence. At 10:41 AM 6/1/2009, you wrote: > Speaking of omission, the whole Hissing album gets surfed over in the > rush to get to Hejira. The transition Joni made between C&S and > Hissing is radical on many levels and deserves to be the central > study of any discussion of the "Blue period". - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- dlmessling@rcn.com http://www.sensibleshoes.vox.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Paz michael@thepazgroup.com Tour Manager Preservation Hall Jazz Band http://www.preservationhall.com ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #150 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe