From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #217 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Tuesday, July 10 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 217 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Great Joni Interviews [Susan Tierney McNamara ] Second Fret [Jussi Pukkila ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 19:58:13 +0000 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Great Joni Interviews My favorite interview of Joni is the August 1996 cover feature in Acoustic Guitar magazine. The photos are classic, the article is wonderful (writer Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers), and there is an awesome gear section and a spot on transcription of Just Like This Train. I also love that this article came out after Turbulent Indigo which really reveals the full circle of the guitar odyssey as Mr. Rodgers describes it. I keep the original magazine in an environmentally regulated glass case. (JK) Excerpt: "There's a certain kind of restlessness that not many artists are cursed or blessed with, depending on how you look at it," Mitchell said. "Craving change, craving growth, seeing always room for improvement in your work." In that statement lies the key to her music: seeing it as an ongoing process of invention, rather than a series of discrete and final statements. So how does Mitchell discover the tunings and fingerings that create these expansive harmonies? Here's how she described the process: "You're twiddling and you find the tuning. Now the left hand has to learn where the chords are, because it's a whole new ballpark, right? So you're groping around, looking for where the chords are, using very simple shapes. Put it in a tuning and you've got four chords immediately- open, barre five, barre seven, and your higher octave, like half fingering on the 12th. Then you've got to find where your minors are and where the interesting colors are - that's the exciting part. "Sometimes I'll tune to some piece of music and find [an open tuning] that way, sometimes I just find one going from one to another, and sometimes I'll tune to the environment. Like 'The Magdalene Laundries' [from Turbulent Indigo; the tuning is B F# B E A E]: I tuned to the day in a certain place, taking the pitch of birdsongs and the general frequency sitting on a rock in that landscape." You can find the article here: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=38&from=search or I would suggest buying the back issue: http://tinyurl.com/cjgfzd4 Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Shari Eaton Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 3:18 PM To: JONIMITCHELL DISCUSSION LIST Subject: Great Joni Interviews Please don't let Bob's link to John Manville's insulation and roofing website be the end of the Great Joni Interviews discussion. ;) I love reading Joni or listening to her talk just as much as I enjoy hearing her music. Her opinions and insights give my mind and soul sustenance for days. Even if they're the most popular, please send your favorites through. Some of us may have missed one or two or would simply benefit from a reminder that they occurred and are recorded somewhere online. Lots of Joni, Shari On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Bob.Muller@Fluor.com wrote: > Mary, > > Go to the "Library" section of JM.com and search for Interview > Magazine as the periodical. > > Les has made the website easy to find stuff. There are actually (3) > articles from that magazine there. > > Bob > > NP: John Mellencamp, "Serious Business" > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 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. 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A few questions come to mind: - - The Posall and the Mosalm set has really good sound quality - was the CD Tree (or whatever it was called) made from cassette copies or some better source? - - Has the complete "Just Like Me" been found? - --jussi ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #217 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe