From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #207 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, August 4 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 207 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Kilauren and Karma, The Circle [Laura Stanley ] Herbie plays Join on Italian TV [Michael Flaherty ] RE: John Kelly 08/06/09 at Castle Clinton [Cindy Vickery ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #204 [Melissa Gibbs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 04:15:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Stanley Subject: Kilauren and Karma, The Circle Hello, I've been noticing of late (and early in the morning) the concept of the circle found in things Joni. I woke up thinking about Morning Morgantown and Kilauren performing it on Youtube. I was thinking, I want to post the link for that on my facebook. Gonna do it... Of course I love the way Joni does the song, but when Kilauren performs it, the song wakes up full circle. The song she chose to let us hear is about morning, the beginning of another circle of day, which Kilauren is and which happens to the song through her performing it... she wakes it up. Here it is btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KKYGvwkH8&feature=PlayList&p=18C8463B1552BA8 3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35 I love how she gets back into a garden and then starts singing. She admires the flowers and fruit of a tree very naturally, like a child who came out to wonder. Something about her choice to perform there is very cool karma. The last verse of the song happened to me the other day: I'd like to buy you everythingA wooden bird with painted wingsA window full of colored ringsIn Morning Morgantown The other day my family ate at a nice restaurant and the waitress came up after the meal and said our bill was taken care of by a lady who wanted to do something nice for somebody. She bought us everything... Love,Laura ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 05:25:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Herbie plays Join on Italian TV The following has just been upped at dimeadozen: "A much longer FM version of this concert was seeded on Dime last year. This is all what was aired on Italian RAI Tre tv channel on July 31, 2009. I did not create a menu but made chapter points. Enjoy! Herbie Hancock "The River Of Possibilities"- Chris Potter (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Lionel Loueke (g), Dave Holland (b, el-b), Vinnie Colaiuta (dr), Amy Keys (voc), Sonya Kitchell (voc). "Arena Santa Giuliana", Perugia (Italy), July 16, 2008. 1 River 2 All I Want 3 When Loves Come To Town 4 A Song For You 5 Cantaloupe Island total time: 45min 13sec video: PAL format/ resolution: 720x576/ apect ratio: 4:3/ average bitrate: 4800 kBit/s audio: mp2 (48 khz/ 192 kbps) " I haven't seen this myself, so I can't tell you what the quality is like, but there is also a link to an audio only version. Michael F. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:09:28 -0500 From: Cindy Vickery Subject: RE: John Kelly 08/06/09 at Castle Clinton We'll be there! Anyone else? > From: michael@thepazgroup.com > To: joni@smoe.org > Subject: Fwd: John Kelly invited you to the event "John Kelly performs Joni Mitchell's Court & Spark... plus"... > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:55:50 -0400 > > FYI ya'll > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Facebook > Date: August 2, 2009 3:35:43 PM EDT > To: Michael Paz > Subject: John Kelly invited you to the event "John Kelly performs Joni > Mitchell's Court & Spark... plus"... > Reply-To: noreply > > John invited you to "John Kelly performs Joni Mitchell's Court & > Spark... plus" on Thursday, August 6 at 7:00pm. > > Event: John Kelly performs Joni Mitchell's Court & Spark... plus > "Free Outdoor Concert - Thursday, August 6 " > What: Concert > Host: River To River Festival > Start Time: Thursday, August 6 at 7:00pm > End Time: Thursday, August 6 at 8:30pm > Where: Castle Clinton > > To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below: > http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=147323191216&mid=dfe7bdG53a8bf5aGa4c d24G7 > > Thanks, > The Facebook Team > > ___ > This message was intended for michael@thepazgroup.com Want to control > which emails you receive from Facebook? Go to: > http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications&md=ZXZlbnRfaW52aXRlO2Zy b209NjY0OTI3NzQ3O2VpZD0xNDczMjMxOTEyMTY7dG89MTQwMzU2Nzk2Mg==&mid=dfe7bdG53a8b f5aGa4cd24G7 > Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, > CA 94304 > > > > Michael Paz > michael@thepazgroup.com > > Tour Manager > Preservation Hall Jazz Band > http://www.preservationhall.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your vacation photos on your phone! http://windowsliveformobile.com/en-us/photos/default.aspx?&OCID=0809TL-HM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:10:40 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Judy Collins: Newport Folk Festival 2009 August 2, 2009 - As one of the original performers Newport Folk Festivals of yore, Judy Collins came back with a voice that was still stunning. Another Newport alum, Joan Baez, joined her onstage for "Diamonds and Rust." Set List "Both Sides Now" "Someday Soon" "Anathea" "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" / "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" "The Weight of the World" "The Blizzard (Colorado Song)" "Amazing Grace" "Diamonds and Rust" with Joan Baez And you can listen at: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=111484894&m=111484445 Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:23:28 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Judy Collins: Newport Folk Festival 2009 What? Nothing from "Shine"? :o) Bob NP: The Pretenders, "Talk Of The Town" Gerald Notaro Sent by: owner-joni@smoe.org 08/03/2009 11:10 AM Please respond to Gerald Notaro To Joni List cc Subject Judy Collins: Newport Folk Festival 2009 August 2, 2009 - As one of the original performers Newport Folk Festivals of yore, Judy Collins came back with a voice that was still stunning. Another Newport alum, Joan Baez, joined her onstage for "Diamonds and Rust." Set List "Both Sides Now" "Someday Soon" "Anathea" "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" / "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" "The Weight of the World" "The Blizzard (Colorado Song)" "Amazing Grace" "Diamonds and Rust" with Joan Baez And you can listen at: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=111484894&m=111484445 Jerry - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:09:33 -0400 From: "Richard Flynn" Subject: RE: Judy Collins: Newport Folk Festival 2009 You can download it as an mp3, too http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111484894&ft=1&f=1039 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Gerald Notaro > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:11 AM > To: Joni List > Subject: Judy Collins: Newport Folk Festival 2009 > > August 2, 2009 - As one of the original performers Newport Folk > Festivals of > yore, Judy Collins came back with a voice that was still stunning. > Another > Newport alum, Joan Baez, joined her onstage for "Diamonds and Rust." > > Set List > > "Both Sides Now" > > "Someday Soon" > > "Anathea" > > "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" / "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" > > "The Weight of the World" > > "The Blizzard (Colorado Song)" > > "Amazing Grace" > > "Diamonds and Rust" with Joan Baez > > > And you can listen at: > > http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islis > t=false&id=111484894&m=111484445 > > Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:15:13 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Woodstock Revisited Lots of Joni content, from my hometown newspaper. I wish he would have mentioned Tim Russert was there. He and I graduated together from high school and I ran into him early on. He was a beer drinker. I was not :) - -- Jerry Woodstock revisited: Back to the garden Believing that music can change the world By Jeff Miers News Pop Music Critic Updated: August 02, 2009, 9:21 AM / 0 comments It seems almost quaint now, in this age of all but countless festivals, from Bonaroo to Bethel and back again. But 40 years ago, when a few rather idealistic beatniks conceived of a three-day celebration with a soundtrack of the era's finest musicians and songwriters, they were exploring uncharted territory. Woodstock paved the way for what we now understand to be a de rigueur part of the summer concert season. But it did so much more. Woodstock presented us with a mythology that has framed rock music ever since. Making the world safe for long, often muddy, even more often financially exploitative, and invariably pungent (in one way or another) rock festivals might be a dubious achievement. One could argue that a four-hour show in a more intimate environ with a band or two you really care about -- not to mention easier access to cold beer and running water -- beats rolling around in the mud on some air force base allotment or cow pasture, hands down. Woodstock did create the paradigm for everything from the California Jam fests of the '70s, to Live Aid in the '80s, to traveling road shows like Lollapalooza and Ozzfest, which became don't-miss events in the '90s. It also signaled an end to the idealistic, community-based essence of '60s rock music. After Woodstock, rock was big business, not an underground convergence of the like-minded. The festival managed to simultaneously encapsulate all that was good about the subculture of the '60s, and sound its death-knell as an underground movement. What blossomed almost immediately following the event, however, has endured. At its core, this mythology is the belief that the music itself can be transformative; that actively engaging in creating it and listening to it can teach us to live more fully in the moment. By extension, those who have been altered somehow by immersion in the music can then go out and effect change in the world. It's the willful embracing of that mythology  one that proved to be naive, deeply flawed, hopelessly Utopian  that has been the impetus for most of the great music that has been made since. So how does believing in something that seems wholly impossible and counter to logic become a brave and artistically empowering act? Woodstock, as cliche-ridden and posture-bound as has been the scholarship surrounding the event over the past 40 years, still provides the answer. It was a crazy idea that almost made sense, a pipe dream that stumbled into reality like a newborn, basked in the brief glow, and then passed out in the mud. But it was enough. The window was now open. The popular spin on Woodstock suggests that it was all flowers, hand-holding, LSD and skinny-dipping. Maybe it was, for a large portion of the crowd. The best reporting on Woodstock, however, isn't really reportorial at all. It takes the form of a poem, penned by a songwriter who wasn't at the concert itself. Joni Mitchell wrote the song "Woodstock" as the festival was taking place, after being ditched at the airport by her traveling companions, Crosby Stills & Nash. She watched the whole thing unfold on television, but somehow managed to capture the romantic mythology that had midwived the festival's birth. Remarkably, Mitchell's song  which became a big hit in a radically restructured form for CS&N  came across as both world-weary and jubilant, as if she knew that the very concepts she was conjuring would not survive the grim realities of morning. "We are stardust/ Billion year old carbon/ We are golden/ Caught in the devil's bargain/And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden," runs the refrain of the prayerlike tune, and though these words have been deemed the nadir of hippie-dippy idealism in the years since, they are the opposite. Mitchell saw the festival in biblical terms, as indicative of fallen man's yearning to return to the Garden of Eden. It wasn't about a bunch of rock bands playing for a mostly wasted tribe of hippies in a mud pit. It was about a generation attempting to reclaim its birthright, to, in Mitchell's words, "lose the smog" and the feeling of being "a cog in something turning." It was about grabbing the concept of freedom by the scruff of the neck and throwing it around, to see what it was made of. Far from the naive optimism so often associated with Woodstock reminiscence, Mitchell's song is presented as a dream, but it's a dream that knows it's not likely to make the leap from sleep into reality once the dreamer wakes up. This is what gives the song its power and resonance. It's also the true legacy of Woodstock, this willful belief that the marriage of music and thought and compassion might turn "bombers riding shotgun in the sky" into "butterflies above our nation." Well, no, it can't. And yes, it can. It really doesn't matter if you were at Woodstock, or elsewhere, or perhaps not even born yet. The wave crested, and then it rolled back, leaving a generation's hopes washed up on the beach. There they sit, waiting to be picked through, used as raw materials in the construction of new dreams. Maybe the concept of "hippie" is anathema to you. Maybe you simply see rock festivals as gross capitalism run amok, or a simple excuse for people to gather, party, and forget themselves for a while. Perhaps you feel that glorifying and honoring the past to the degree that Woodstock  and the acts associated with it  has been over the past 40 years means that we overlook the best that the present has to offer in the process. Regardless, Mitchell's poem applies to you when it hits its emotional peak with these words: "I don't know who I am/But life is for learning." Those words, and the approach to life that informs them, still glitter and gleam in the sun, 40 years on. jmiers@buffnews.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:18:33 +1000 From: Melissa Gibbs Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #204 But Bob, what do you REALLY think of it? From: onlyJMDL Digest Reply-To: Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:00:11 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #204 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:23:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Reoccuring Dream Hate it. It's one of those songs she co-wrote with Klein, and their incompatible styles are in full conflict; Klein's short phrases compared to Joni's pattern of longer lyrical lines. A melody (more just a series of sound effects) that's pretty much non-existent, and the over-glossed production that ruins most of CMIARS. Not to mention the fact that I don't need a couple of very wealthy people to tell me that conspicuous consumption is bad. Nothing about this song works for me, and it's not even the worst thing on CMIARS. She put it on Misses, and she was right as it missed by a mile. Bob NP: Joe Henry, "Angels" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2009 #207 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe