From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #191 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, July 11 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 191 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- James and Carly ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] Re: Electric Eden [Moni Kellermann ] WINNERS of Products with Joni Song Titles. Do you know any? [est86mlm@a] Subject: RE: Recycling? ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] DJRD, Joni at her best -- me too! [Walt Breen ] Bookend/Similar Songs [Walt Breen ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:24:03 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: James and Carly Here's an old clip, that you've probably seen a hundred times before, but it's a classic. It's James and Carly doing "Mockingbird". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WM_R-6AKHE&NR=1 Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:58:08 +0200 From: Moni Kellermann Subject: Re: Electric Eden Am 06.07.2011 02:50, Wie Steve Dulson so vortrefflich formulierte: > Hello all! > > Thanks to a rave review in the LA Times, I recently bought > Rob Young's book "Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's > Visionary Music. Unfortunately, I can't find the review There is a review in the New York Times as well. You can find it online here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-electric-eden-by-rob-young.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all moni k. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:13:21 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: WINNERS of Products with Joni Song Titles. Do you know any? The winners have been picked and they are (drum-roll please): Mags & Catherine Congratulations! Sent you both emails. Thanks to everyone that participated. It was fun!! Laura **************NJC Below*********************** Win the Live Nation VIP Concert Experience, Concert Cash, or music downloads. Play once each day. https://cocacola.promo.eprize.com/ampmsummer/ Win AMC Theatre Movie Tickets. Play once each day. https://cocacola.promo.eprize.com/dietcokecvsamc/ Get a FREE Slurpee at a participating 7-Eleven on Monday, July 11, 2011. https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171477509581811 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:33:48 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Subject: RE: Recycling? Hmmm. "Recycle" is usually a pejorative term when aimed at a Songwriter, so I'll say, "no". She wrote lots and lots of songs, entire albums worth by herself and almost never repeated herself. She recycled very little and gave us tons of great work. There was even a lot of variety in arrangements and instrumentation in the first 12-15 albums. Jim L'Hommedieu Betsy asked, >Is it just me, or did Joni reuse/recycle her material a lot?"> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:13:59 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: DJRD, Joni at her best -- me too! Hey Laura and all, Gotta agree with Laura -- DJRD is my fave, too. She put all she'd learned plus the new sound of Hejira into one, big, fun kick-ass album. I remember seeing her during the HSL tour -- she did four new songs: Coyote, Furry, DJRD and Talk to Me, the first two showing up on Hej, of course, and the latter 2 on DJRD. Never been so astonished as my first hearings of Jungle Line and of Paprika Plains. They both still give me chills, as does FTR the song, and Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire. I understand why Blue, C&S and Hejira are frequently cited as her landmark albums, but somehow for me, it's the succeeding ones that flotilla my gorilla. Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:30:26 -0600 From: Walt Breen Subject: Bookend/Similar Songs I've always thought "Just Like Me" was her response to Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" (is that the correct name? Really not a Dylan fan) Oddly, I've always compared "The Priest" to "Talk to Me", in that she's describing a man/men who are trying to hide behind their silences/their mystery. Back in '02, I was working on a medley that started with "I Don't know where I stand", used part of "Harry's House" as a bridge, and ended with the paralysis of "Sunny Sunday". In my weird head they all address both indecision and frustration. Also, she wrote a song that I've seen the lyrics of, but I don't think anyone has a recording of, that bashes Chuck Mitchell very much along the lines of "I Had a King" -- can't pull out the name right now. Isn't one of her songs somewhat of a response to Coen's "Suzanne" -- Wizard of Id, maybe? Of course there are her four depressive/"morbid" Christmas songs that I was working on a medley of in '03 until my hands gave out -- I'd worked out a piano arranmgement for "Gift of the Magi" by listening to it a zillion times, and was going to link the parts together with a bridge stolen from someone's version of River (Bob Mueller, you will know the one) that repeats "Wish I Might, Wish I May..." Walt "Little" Breen Well, I'm learning it's peaceful With a good dog and some trees Out of touch with the breakdown Of this century We're not gonna fix that up Too easy (Joni Mitchell, "Electricity", 1972) Let the walls come tumbling down Let them fall right on the ground Let all the dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me (Joni Mitchell, Jericho, 1974) Visit my website: www.learninginsights.info ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #191 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe