From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #218 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 Saturday, August 7 2010 Volume 2010 : Number 218 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Amazon $5 downloads [Gerald Notaro ] RE: Amazon $5 downloads ["Les Irvin" ] Australian Joni Tribute CD [Bob Muller ] Song For Sharon - stream of (my) (sub) consciousness? ["Mark" Subject: Amazon $5 downloads Amazing sale at Amazon, including Joni's Shine. Les, is there a way to link through JoniMitchell.com before purchasing in order for the site to get credit? Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:58:48 -0600 From: "Les Irvin" Subject: RE: Amazon $5 downloads Certainly! Click here: http://ow.ly/2m1Lg - -----Original Message----- Amazing sale at Amazon, including Joni's Shine. Les, is there a way to link through JoniMitchell.com before purchasing in order for the site to get credit? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:44:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Australian Joni Tribute CD 2010 has certainly been a banner year for Joni Tribute discs...besides the much-heralded Mutts Of The Planet CD (and if you don't have it, get it now), and the aforementioned Alessia Magalotti (aka Nereide) tribute from Italy: http://www.alessiamagalotti.it/cd%20nereide.html (Note to Jenny Goodspeed - now there are TWO!) There's a newly released CD from a variety of Australian artists as an offspring of a folk concert titled "Festival Folk sing Joni Mitchell". Thanks to Mark-Leon I got my copy today, and it's really great. One complaint - they don't do anything past 1975 (boo), and only one track from FTR (which is typical) but hey, what they did do is really sweet. AND...they have 18 tracks, a full 75 minutes of high-quality stuff. Here's the tracklist: 1. Kate Fagan - Woodstock 2. The Wise Girls - Chelsea Morning 3. Chanel Lucas - I Don't Know Where I Stand 4. Ros Barnes - Coyote 5. Fay White - Blue 6. Kristina Olsen - Willy 7. Kate Burke - A Case Of You 8. Julie Matthews - Carey 9. Kiki Wilmot & Kavisha Mazzella - Little Green 10. Spooky Men's Chorale - The Fiddle And The Drum 11. Amanda Connell - You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio 12. Chris While - This Flight Tonight 13. Liz Frencham - River 14. Ange Takats - The Last Time I Saw Richard 15. Alanna & Alicia Egan - All I Want 16. Akasa - Big Yellow Taxi 17. Kat Kraus - Both Sides Now 18. Penny Larkins - For Free You can listen to some of the full tracks here: http://www.myspace.com/festivalfolk And also for you Australians there are instructions for getting your copy. All monies go to the Troubadour Foundation. Enjoy! Bob, trying to keep up with all these Joni covers... NP: Kate Burke, "A Case Of You" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:38:04 -0700 From: "Mark" Subject: Song For Sharon - stream of (my) (sub) consciousness? I was reading an essay written by Virginia Woolf about the novels of Thomas Hardy on the bus home from work tonight. Woolf admired Hardy's ability to create the natural settings for his novels, which mostly took place in a section of Great Britain that Hardy fictitiously called 'Wessex'. The settings of the novels were based on real places, however, and Wessex was loosely defined as a section of the 'south and southwest of England' according to Wikipedia. Most of Hardy's novels are referred to as 'pastoral'. They were set in places that were largely dependent on agriculture. The countryside and nature are major elements in his books. So what does this have to do with 'Song for Sharon'? Well, I usually sing to myself as I walk the 5 or so blocks from the bus stop to our house. Although Woolf didn't actually use the word 'pastoral' (I haven't finished the essay yet so maybe she did), that was the word that stuck in my head and that made me think of the last line of 'Song for Sharon' - 'I'll walk green pastures by and by'. So I started in to sing 'Song for Sharon' as I waited to cross highway 99 and trudge my way home. As I went through all of the verses of this rather long lyric, I was struck by how the song seemed to somehow echo several things that happened or that went through my head towards the end of my work day. The guy that sits in the cubicle next to me is a fairly new employee. He is getting married tomorrow. Another employee who had interned in our department and now works in our LA branch was in the office at the end of the day...with her fiancie. Then there was the essay I had been reading about a writer who wrote about 'green pastures' written by a woman who 'drowned herself'. And all of this comes to me while 'walking home' (but not on the railroad tracks and no swinging on the playground swing). I tried to sing this song recently and left out some of the lyrics. That is unusual for me. The verses in 'Song for Sharon' have a very definite, logical progression and if I concentrate on the links between them, I can almost always remember all of them in their proper order. I'm pretty sure I got them all tonight and my brain was making other connections the whole time. So was it coincidence, one word making me think of a particular song, or did my brain sub-consciously pull this particular song out of more than one thread of the fabric of my day? I still seem to find something new to marvel at every time I listen to or sing a Joni Mitchell song. Mark in Seattle ps: 'Song for Sharon' takes about the same amount of time to sing as it takes to walk from the bus stop to our house. I think I was just walking into the driveway when I finished the last verse. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 23:12:03 -0500 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: Song For Sharon - stream of (my) (sub) consciousness? Very cool, Mark. I think that's one definition--or a good description--of "flow." :-) T On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Mark wrote: > I was reading an essay written by Virginia Woolf about the novels of Thomas > Hardy on the bus home from work tonight. Woolf admired Hardy's ability to > create the natural settings for his novels, which mostly took place in a > section of Great Britain that Hardy fictitiously called 'Wessex'. The > settings of the novels were based on real places, however, and Wessex was > loosely defined as a section of the 'south and southwest of England' > according to Wikipedia. Most of Hardy's novels are referred to as > 'pastoral'. They were set in places that were largely dependent on > agriculture. The countryside and nature are major elements in his books. > > So what does this have to do with 'Song for Sharon'? Well, I usually sing > to myself as I walk the 5 or so blocks from the bus stop to our house. > Although Woolf didn't actually use the word 'pastoral' (I haven't finished > the essay yet so maybe she did), that was the word that stuck in my head and > that made me think of the last line of 'Song for Sharon' - 'I'll walk green > pastures by and by'. So I started in to sing 'Song for Sharon' as I waited > to cross highway 99 and trudge my way home. > > As I went through all of the verses of this rather long lyric, I was struck > by how the song seemed to somehow echo several things that happened or that > went through my head towards the end of my work day. > > The guy that sits in the cubicle next to me is a fairly new employee. He > is getting married tomorrow. Another employee who had interned in our > department and now works in our LA branch was in the office at the end of > the day...with her fiancie. > > Then there was the essay I had been reading about a writer who wrote about > 'green pastures' written by a woman who 'drowned herself'. > > And all of this comes to me while 'walking home' (but not on the railroad > tracks and no swinging on the playground swing). > > I tried to sing this song recently and left out some of the lyrics. That > is unusual for me. The verses in 'Song for Sharon' have a very definite, > logical progression and if I concentrate on the links between them, I can > almost always remember all of them in their proper order. I'm pretty sure I > got them all tonight and my brain was making other connections the whole > time. > > So was it coincidence, one word making me think of a particular song, or > did my brain sub-consciously pull this particular song out of more than one > thread of the fabric of my day? > > I still seem to find something new to marvel at every time I listen to or > sing a Joni Mitchell song. > > Mark in Seattle > ps: 'Song for Sharon' takes about the same amount of time to sing as it > takes to walk from the bus stop to our house. I think I was just walking > into the driveway when I finished the last verse. - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2010 #218 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe