From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #113 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, April 25 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 113 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- and if you want a good start [Oddmund Kaarevik ] Jackson's hair [Barry Swimar ] Bob Dylan is 'a plagiarist', claims Joni Mitchell [Joe Jones ] Full Joni "Dylan..." interview [Joe Jones ] Re: Joni disses Bob. What the...? [Paul Castle ] Re: Joni Cover Suggestions [Bob Muller ] Re: Joni Cover Suggestions [Dave Blackburn ] Re: and if you want a good start [Robin Adler ] Re: Joni Cover Suggestions [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Dylan and Mitchell [Russell Bowden ] Re: Dylan and Mitchell [T Peckham ] Re: anybody on Facebook? ["Zooby" ] Re: anybody on Facebook? [Leah Welborn ] Re: anybody on Facebook? [Kate Johnson ] Joni Jazz Covers and Mutts of the Planet, etc. ["Jill Haas" Subject: and if you want a good start listen to woodstock this is a lovely version by a very talented norwegian duo http://www.myspace.com/tubaduo love oddmund ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:30:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Barry Swimar Subject: Jackson's hair I must say, I'v always envied Jackson's hair; JT, not so much. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:58:59 +0100 From: Joe Jones Subject: Bob Dylan is 'a plagiarist', claims Joni Mitchell Hi JMDL people, Joni interview in the Guardian (UK newspaper) http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/23/bob-dylan-joni-mitchell?&CMP=EMCM USEML936 Joe np - Show Me Your Tears - Frank Black. Bob Dylan is 'a plagiarist', claims Joni Mitchell In an outspoken interview, Joni Mitchell claims Bob Dylan's 'name and voice are fake', but remembers Jimi Hendrix fondly [image: Joni Mitchell in 1970] 'Bob is not authentic at all' ... Joni Mitchell in 1970. Photograph: Henry Diltz/Corbis Bob Dylan is "a plagiarist", Joni Mitchell said in a rare interview this week, offering cranky comments on old Bob and warm memories of Jimi Hendrix . The legendary singer-songwriter, who has wrestled with health problems, said she may quit music to lobby for recognition of her rare medical condition. But let's begin with Dylan. Mitchell was speaking to the LA Timesas part of a joint interview with performance artist John Kelly, who has performed Mitchell's songs in drag. The Times interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. (Mitchell also abandoned her birth name, Roberta Joan Anderson.) Mitchell launched into an unprovoked assault. "We are like night and day, he and I," she scoffed. "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception." Cowed, the interviewer moved on to safer topics  such as Prince (apparently a Mitchell fan) and sex appeal. Yet Mitchell still had time to slag off Grace Slick and Janis Joplin (allegedly they were "[sleeping with] their whole bands and falling down drunk"), and Madonna. Railing against the "stupid, destructive" era we live in, Mitchell took aim at the Material Girl. "Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point." It wasn't all piss and vinegar. Mitchell fondly recalled Hendrix, "the sweetest guy", and late-night listening sessions together. But even this memory is shaded in frustration. "He made his reputation by setting his guitar on fire, but that eventually became repugnant to him," she recalled. "'I can't stand to do that anymore,' he said, 'but they've come to expect it. I'd like to just stand still like Miles.'" If Mitchell seems ornery, it may simply be because she is feeling better. Last year, the singer announced that she suffers from Morgellons syndrome, a rare skin condition. It's a controversial diagnosis  many doctors deny that Morgellons is real, calling it delusional. "[It's a] weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space," Mitchell told the Times. "But my health's the best it's been in a while. Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since 23 December." "Garbo and Dietrich hid away just because people became so upset watching them age, but this is worse," she said. "Fibres in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer  a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year." "In America ... [doctors] send you to a psychiatrist," Mitchell explained. "I'm actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that's owed to them." Then again, this campaign will need funding. Perhaps Bob Dylan could record a benefit album? - -- - -- Joe Jones +44 7831 914094 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:11:56 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Dylan responds (possibly!!) Bob disses back (possibly!!) - http://bit.ly/cwCJtv or how about Bob apologizes (possibly!!) - http://bit.ly/chya8k Who knows? There may be more! very best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:37:30 +0100 From: Joe Jones Subject: Full Joni "Dylan..." interview Here's the full interview from the LA Times. Joe np - Sermon on Exposition Boulevard - Rickie Lee Jones http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-jonimitchell-20100422,0 ,5684541.story "People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me  they're too personal," Joni Mitchell explained last week during a rare interview. Apparently, nobody told John Kelly not to try adapting her songs. The renowned Obie Award-winning actor and performance artist has been belting out Mitchell's songs for more than 20 years. This weekend, the New York-based Kelly concludes the L.A. run of his acclaimed solo tribute to the iconic, iconoclastic singer-songwriter, "Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell," at Renberg Theatre. Blessed with an elastic voice and androgynous features, Kelly is famed for his chameleonic ability to morph into historical figures of either gender, from famous painters to first ladies. His performance as Mitchell, however, is perhaps Kelly's most enduring metamorphosis. It's downright eerie how he channels her so completely. Even Mitchell is a fan of Kelly's show, which spans her entire career, from classic "Me Decade" albums such as 1971's "Blue" through her most recent release, 2007's "Shine." That much was made clear in a recent telephone conversation with her and Kelly. *L.A. Times:* When did you first become aware of John taking you on as a character? *Joni Mitchell: *I saw the show in 1997, at Fez in New York. *John Kelly:* I actually had done an early version at Highways in Santa Monica. Joni was going to come, but it leaked to the press. *JM:* A friend of mine went. He said, "I don't know if you're going to like it." When I saw it, I was very pleasantly surprised. It was a really fun, unique experience  more homage than a normal drag show. It was like being a ghost at your own funeral: The audience responded to John as if he were me. John actually requested I be seated to the side, so of course Fez stuck me right in front! Only after the last encore, though, did the audience turn around and held their lights to me. *JK:* That was so crazy. I lost my nerve backstage: "Oh, my God, what am I doing?" Then I said, "You cannot change a thing." I knew I couldn't. *JM:* I liked that when mimicking my between-song meanderings, John does his own personal version that's more kindred than cartoon. While switching between my nearly 40 tunings onstage, I would talk to the crowd. I would digress, of course, and if I ever got back to the point, people were very relieved. I had my boyfriend at the time with me, and Paul Starr, who did my makeup; there were a couple places where we all got very moved. At the end, my boyfriend yelled out, "We love you, Joni!" [laughs]. *JK:* This is a different show from that one, but there's still a chronology to it. The first half is early work, and then it gets darker and bluer. When we were talking recently, Joni, you referred to your second five albums as "more philosophical." *JM:* My first four albums covered the usual youth problems  looking for love in all the wrong places  while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. Things start losing their profundity; in middle-late age, you enter a tragedian period, realizing that the human animal isn't changing for the better. In a way, I think I entered straight into my tragedian period, as my work is set against the stupid, destructive way we live on this planet. Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point. *LAT:* John, how do you transform yourself into a real-life person like Joni? *JK:* I study and transcribe Joni's interviews and live recordings, but I'm not a stickler. It's more about getting the spirit of her stories down. But if the audience is laughing too much, I'll do something unpredictable to scare them, so they don't know how to react. *JM:* That's the Andy Kaufman in us!  The dresses John wears onstage are also really good  right on, period-wise. *JK:* I had really good frocks made for these performances. It begins with a white, lacy kind of medieval-meets-hippie, but still kind of couture. *LAT:* Joni's whole package  her personal style, guitar tunings, physical mannerisms, vocal phrasings  comes off as so individual, trying to duplicate it seems dangerously tricky. *JK:* Doing Joni's music always seemed kind of insane, in the best of ways. *JM:* Exactly! I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. But John gets the spirit: You have to go to the brink of sadness but never fall into melodrama, then send in the clowns for a moment. *LAT:* Of late, Joni, you've been a major influence on young, current artists with unique voices: Antony Hegarty, Joanna Newsom, Chan Marshall of Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright. *JM:* Those are theatrical voices, which is a whole other thing. That's a good game, because it's small. It never gets too lucrative, so those artists never have to see the puke of it all. I didn't really go for the big dog race, anyway. *LAT:* John, when did Joni become an influence? *JK:* Growing up, I wasn't exposed to classical music, literature or wanderlust; my sisters listened to Joni, however, and I found refuge in her music. The lyricism of "Rainy Night House" and "For Free," the piano songs from "Ladies of the Canyon"  those were miraculous for me, and got into my bones. *LAT:* John, when did you decide to begin performing as Joni? *JK:* When I started singing, I always knew I wanted to do Joni's music. So when the first Wigstock [New York's annual drag festival] happened in 1985, a light went on: "Now's your chance." It came from love, really  you can't sing something you don't love. *JM*: That's the thing about the show that's so special. I could tell John loves the music: He did all these little, Joni-esque vocal things that brought giggles from the audience. And it's an actual performance. Lots of drag is lip-synced, which makes for a lesser degree of theater. *JK*: Drag does have a power, though  that netherworld of a thing you can't quite know, which makes people nervous. *JM*: Drag wasn't always counterculture. In his memoirs, Nixon talked about the Harvard and Yale men in power who would put on these plays where they dress like women, and Milton Berle did a kind of "hairy drag." Becoming a gay thing made drag go underground. *JK*: My drag choices have been Mona Lisa, Pina Bausch, Jackie Kennedy, Joni Mitchell, and the cross-dressing trapeze artist Barbette. That's an obtuse family; I've done Egon Schiele and Caravaggio too! The whole problem I have with drag is how it focuses on the dress or wig, but when Cate Blanchett played Dylan [in the 2007 film "I'm Not There"], it was considered acting. I may stop doing performing "Paved Paradise" in drag, actually. *JM*: It was an interesting way to establish it, but at a certain point it's not necessary. Just before he died, Jimi Hendrix, his drummer [Mitch Mitchell] and I would sit up all night listening to tapes of our shows. Jimi was the sweetest guy. He made his reputation by setting his guitar on fire, but that eventually became repugnant to him. "I can't stand to do that anymore," he said, "but they've come to expect it. I'd like to just stand still like Miles." Transitions aren't easy. After I took a jazz band into the Grand Ole Opry, they never invited me back! *LAT*: As well, you've had experience becoming a character outside yourself [Mitchell caused controversy when she appeared as an African American male on the cover of her 1977 album, "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter"].The folk scene you came out of had fun creating personas. You were born Roberta Joan Anderson, and someone named Bobby Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. *JM*: Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. As for my name, my parents wanted a boy, so they called me Robert John; when I came out a girl, they just added two letter A's to that. Then I married Chuck Mitchell; I wanted to keep my maiden name  I had a bit of a following as Joni Anderson  but he wouldn't let me. *LAT*: When John performs Joni's early songs, it really takes the audience back to the dawn of women's liberation. There was a double standard back then: John Lennon singing about sex was one thing, but if Joni did the same, it proved controversial. *JM*: It was very shocking; even Prince said that to me. I first saw him in the audience of one of my Minneapolis shows. He was the only person of color in the front row  he concentrated on me for the whole show with his big eyes. When Prince later became a star, he told me, "You used to be shocking, but I can cut you now!" I never actually tried to be shocking  I was shocked that people were shocked. The madonna-whore thing was very prevalent, though, even in the "Summer of Love." Rolling Stone even called me "Old Lady of the Year," and made a graph of all these hearts I'd theoretically broken  if I did someone's radio show, they had me sleeping with them. Grace [Slick] and Janis Joplin were [sleeping with] their whole bands and falling down drunk, and nobody came after them! The ad for my first album said, "Joni Mitchell is 100% virgin"; the ad for the second one was "Joni Mitchell takes time," which was also nod-nod, wink-wink in a way my material didn't call for. *LAT*: You've come out in the media as a sufferer of a controversial condition known as Morgellons. How is your health currently? *JM*: I have this weird, incurable disease that seems like it's from outer space, but my health's the best it's been in a while, Two nights ago, I went out for the first time since Dec. 23: I don't look so bad under incandescent light, but I look scary under daylight. Garbo and Dietrich hid away just because people became so upset watching them age, but this is worse. Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral. Morgellons is a slow, unpredictable killer  a terrorist disease: it will blow up one of your organs, leaving you in bed for a year. But I have a tremendous will to live: I've been through another pandemic  I'm a polio survivor, so I know how conservative the medical body can be. In America, the Morgellons is always diagnosed as "delusion of parasites," and they send you to a psychiatrist. I'm actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that's owed to them. *LAT*: Your music resonates because it's so personal, yet you resent being called "confessional." Why? *JM*: It's an ugly term  it's "confessional" if you don't get it; if you do get it, you see yourself in the songs. I usually use "I" as the narrator in my songs, but not all the "I's" are me; they're characters. It's theater. Tennessee Williams' plays are drawn from personal experience  does that make him "confessional"? If I'm playing Joan of Arc, you wouldn't tell me, "That performance was very confessional." I'm usually the playwright and actress  but in this case, with John, we now have a new actress! Right? *JK*: Exactly. - -- - -- Joe Jones +44 7831 914094 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:29:58 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Re: Joni disses Bob. What the...? On 22 April 2010 16:49, wrote: > Read the wikipedia entry for the source of "Blowin' in the Wind" including the false allegation of plagiarism. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin'_in_the_Wind > > Dylan appropriates a lot. I think Jonathan Lethem's article in Harpers is good on the subject: > http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 Thanks for these links - really enjoyed reading Lethem's thought-provoking article. As it says in the Wikipedia link "it was Pete Seeger who first identified the melody of "Blowin' in the Wind" as Dylan's adaptation of the old Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block" - found Odetta's version here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYiVKhbOtcs I agree with folk dj Bob Blackman who talks about "the enormously creative way Dylan used traditional songs to weave his own masterpieces" in this research for a show he was putting together a few years ago (to which I contributed - although most of the links I found at the time are now broken) - see http://nwfolk.com/songlists/dylan.html I've since found some interesting additional songs covered on 'The Influence of the Blues on Dylan's Songs' @ http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99S/blues/Bob_Dylan/influence.html for example: "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," from one of Kokomo Arnold's many versions of "Milkcow Blues," though the couplet in question first appeared on Charlie Patton's "Poor Me" in 1934: "Don't the moon look pretty shinin' down through the tree." In addition to all the songs mentioned in the above, I also couldn't help but notice the influence of John Jacob Niles when this appeared in Scorsese's 'No Direction Home' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpaAeqBhwrM very best to all PaulC ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:52:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Joni Cover Suggestions Yep, it is a solid #4 with over 200 versions. And it would certaibly be a good pick. Dreamland and The Jungle Line are (for the moment) my favorites on the disc and alas neither is Top 30. But...Rainy Night House is also wonderful and it is #30 on the chart so it would also be a worthy pick...heck, do them both! David, if you don't have it here is the info for picking up your copy: http://www.robinadler.com/ You want it. Trust me. Bob NP: Shelby Lynne, "Like A Fool" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:04:30 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Joni Cover Suggestions Thanks for the recommendations to David Gizara. I'm sending him a station copy today. thanks, Dave On Apr 24, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Bob Muller wrote: > top 30 Joni Mitchell covers.> > > Yep, it is a solid #4 with over 200 versions. And it would certaibly > be a good pick. Dreamland and The Jungle Line are (for the moment) > my favorites on the disc and alas neither is Top 30. But...Rainy > Night House is also wonderful and it is #30 on the chart so it would > also be a worthy pick...heck, do them both! > > David, if you don't have it here is the info for picking up your copy: > > http://www.robinadler.com/ > > You want it. Trust me. > > Bob > > NP: Shelby Lynne, "Like A Fool" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:04:45 -0700 From: Robin Adler Subject: Re: and if you want a good start Hi Oddmund. This is a very cool version of Woodstock. I love it. Hope all is well. Robin On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Oddmund Kaarevik wrote: > listen to woodstock > this is a lovely version > by a very talented norwegian duo > > http://www.myspace.com/tubaduo > > love > oddmund ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:22:17 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: Joni Cover Suggestions Hi David. I'm in Sydney and I caught one of your shows thanks to Bob uploading it for us. Excellent stuff. I'd like to suggest Australia's own Christine Sullivan's wonderful jazz cover of Be Cool? It makes feel all chilled every time I play it. NP Sunny Sunday - Big Yellow Taxi ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:31:02 -0700 From: Russell Bowden Subject: Dylan and Mitchell let's boil this down....Dylan male Gemini....Mitchell female Scorpio....discuss. Love, Russ in Alameda, CA Sotto voce _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID283 26::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:25:33 -0500 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: Dylan and Mitchell Ha ha ha! Almost exactly what I was thinking! Much ado . . . On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Russell Bowden wrote: > let's boil this down....Dylan male Gemini....Mitchell female > Scorpio....discuss. > > > > Love, > > Russ in Alameda, CA > > > > Sotto voce > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with > Hotmail. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID283 > 26::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 > - -- Curiosity is my religion. David Ryan Adams ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:50:19 +0000 From: "Zooby" Subject: Re: anybody on Facebook? Leah, I'll find you as I've a privacy setting which doesn't allow oddbods to find me. So will join you there. But be prepared for some really off-the-wall status updates. I'm more of a twitter fiend nowadays but there aren't many Joni-ites there though I have a similar search column to the jm.com feed so it's nice to read who is talking about Joni at that time and why. Welcome Much Joni JamieZoob - ------Original Message------ From: Leah Welborn Sender: owner-joni@smoe.org To: joni List ReplyTo: Leah Welborn Subject: anybody on Facebook? (njc) Sent: 24 Apr 2010 21:50 I don't know if anybody here uses facebook, but if you do and would like to 'friend' me there, please do. I'd love to be able to put faces with names. - -Leah (Welborn) Sent using BlackBerry. from Orange ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:51:00 -0700 From: Leah Welborn Subject: Re: anybody on Facebook? Super. I'm looking forward to it. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Zooby wrote: > Leah, I'll find you as I've a privacy setting which doesn't allow oddbods > to find me. So will join you there. But be prepared for some really > off-the-wall status updates. I'm more of a twitter fiend nowadays but there > aren't many Joni-ites there though I have a similar search column to the > jm.com feed so it's nice to read who is talking about Joni at that time > and why. > > Welcome > > Much Joni > > JamieZoob > ------Original Message------ > From: Leah Welborn > Sender: owner-joni@smoe.org > To: joni List > ReplyTo: Leah Welborn > Subject: anybody on Facebook? (njc) > Sent: 24 Apr 2010 21:50 > > I don't know if anybody here uses facebook, but if you do and would like to > 'friend' me there, please do. I'd love to be able to put faces with names. > > -Leah (Welborn) > > > Sent using BlackBerry. from Orange ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:36:13 -0600 From: Kate Johnson Subject: Re: anybody on Facebook? On 24-Apr-10, at 4:50 PM, Zooby wrote: > I have a similar search column to the jm.com feed so it's nice to > read who is talking about Joni at that time and why Say What? That could get a bunch of us twitter-luddites off our asses! - -Kate ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:18:13 -0700 From: "Jill Haas" Subject: Joni Jazz Covers and Mutts of the Planet, etc. Hi Jonilistas, Here's my contribution to the Jazz covers of Joni--Mark Murphy's Goodbye Porkpie Hat. http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000006PVI/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img - I'm sure Bob is all over this one. I came late to the party. Quit reading hear unless you are willing to hear some shameless praise... I feel the need to lay some kudos on my best friend and graphic artist, Jeff Holtzman and his sister, calligrapher Lisa Holtzman, who helped to create the CD package for "Safaris to the Heart." Jeff put together all of the great stuff that others contributed and worked with the printer/CD maker, etc. Lisa worked her calligraphy magic on the title. I want to thank them both personally and publicly for their part helping to get this wonderful CD out there without knowing any of the JMDL people or why the heck they were doing this. Jeff spent many hours on this project - and he worked "real good for free." As my closest friend, Jeff did this as a favor to me and brought his sister into the project. What a guy. Poor Jeff has been the victim of many hours of lectures about the virtues of Joni's music, and I love him for bearing with me as I forced him to listen to Joni's music all of these 30+ years. He has developed an admiration (although begrudgingly- Scorpios are stubborn, as we know), of Joni's work. He hates that this is happening to him. He loves Pat Metheney and for chrisakes, Pat went on TOUR with JONI, and other people that he admires greatly have been working with her forever or covered her work How does one reconcile one's self with this fact, I ask you? Jeff is in deep conflict. Please keep him in your thoughts. Jilll - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mags" To: "David Gizara" ; ; "Catherine McKay" Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 3:13 PM Subject: Re: Joni Cover Suggestions > omg Catherine, verbatim to what I was going to say....hi, David Gizara, > yes do > take Catherine's suggestion as gospel...have a listen or two or > twenty....Robin and Dave and the Mutts...I just cannot articulate how > wonderful and ON and ooozing jazz and love and many safaris to this heart > of > mine. > > And Les Ross, your artwork/photograph on the cover is gorgeous, subtle and > strong all at once. > > > geeze (cherokee) louise, get out there and pick u p their cd, all of you! > ya > hear??? ;-) > > i LOVE it. I wish I could put down on paper, all the gushing of summer > lawns > that's going on inside when I listen to it. > > hoping they make an appearance closer to home ;--)))) > > Mags > > > > > > --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Catherine McKay wrote: > > > From: Catherine McKay > Subject: Re: Joni Cover Suggestions > To: "David Gizara" , joni@smoe.org > Received: Friday, April 23, 2010, 4:24 PM > > > You absolutely MUST check out Robin Adler and Mutts of the Planet's brand > new > CD "Safaris to the Heart," which is all Joni jazz covers. For the sake of > transparency, Robin and Dave are both members of this discussion list, but > they are NOT paying me to say this and I wouldn't even mention it if I > didn't > think it was worthwhile, but it most definitely is. > > You can hear samples at > their website, but the CD is well worth purchasing and I would definitely > encourage you to check them out. In fact, they are *almost* (by a bit of > a > stretch) neighbours of yours: at least, they are on the same side of the > continent as you! > > Here's their website, and you can listen to samples at the > bottom of the front page: > http://robinadler.com/ > ________________________________ > From: David Gizara > To: > joni@smoe.org > Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 3:10:11 PM > Subject: Re: Joni Cover > Suggestions > > Hi, > My name is David Gizara. Each year I do a Summer Solstice > Joni Mitchel Radio Special on KLCC 89.7 FM in Eugene, Oregon. We are the > NPR > affiliate in Southern and Central Oregon and we stream all over the world > at > www.klcc.org. Bob has always helped me greatly and this year's theme will > be > the top thirty most done Joni Covers (roughly 30). I pick jazzish covers > of > Joni Mitchell songs i.e. Brad Mehldau doing "Roses Blue". I would love to > hear any suggestions from all of you. I'm working off the list of most > covered > Joni songs at JoniMitchell.com. This years show will be June 24th. > Thanks, > David Gizara ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #113 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe