From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #339 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 Monday, October 8 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 339 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- deepen your love ["Deanna Knight" ] Joni mentions in books [Moni Kellermann ] Re: Interestingly... ["Eaton, Shari" ] Moon In The Mirror ["Pat Boland" ] RE: Last Great Joni song(s) - Cherokee Louise (et al) ["Robert Sartorius"] Re: Photos by Joel Bernstein [Michael Flaherty ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 00:45:26 -0700 From: "Deanna Knight" Subject: deepen your love Hey Everyone I had no idea I would get such a response from my little story. I am thrilled that this group shares so much and cares so deeply. Happy to be part of it. I am so busy booking and managing my career (both solo and my swing band) being a mom and trying to have a wee income as well. I'm sure I won't have much time to write often but I wanted to thank you for the warm welcome, for some of you finding me on FaceBook and LIKEing my fan page.... etc. I sense that this is a group of music lover who really appreciate the singer songwriter. I'm not a very prolific songwriter and feel more like the vehicle of my songs than anything. The solo CD I created (with some of Canada's finest acoustic musicians)...was one of the most magical journeys I have ever embarked on. Now that I am writing and performing my original songs live again... perhaps another CD will surface someday. Joni continues to inspire me and meeting her really shifted something inside. I feel a new sense of confidence, a spiritual lift. Like there is something much bigger going on than any of us can explain. I did write a little lyrical bit in my card to her. "If we accept suffering, as the seeds of awakening. We grow ~ we ripen. We feast on the harvest of Love's desire. Love deepens" dk May this season of harvest and gratitude deepen your love, so that you may focus on all that is good in your life. Cheers Deanna www.deannaknight.ca - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni-digest@smoe.org] Sent: October-08-12 12:00 AM To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1537 JMDL Digest Monday, October 8 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1537 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1517 - my Ruby Lake story [Catherine McKay Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2012 #1517 - my Ruby Lake story Welcome, Deanna. I'm happy for you that you were able to go to Ruby Lake, and that you've joined this discussion list. You live in a beautiful part of the world. I live in Toronto but was in BC on a visit a few years ago and I think I could be very happy living there. As others have said, a lot of us have been on this discussion list for quite a while, so we do get into talking about just about anything (including Joni!) and not always in flattering tones, although you will notice that the discussion goes back and forth with different opinions or different takes and sometimes there's a balance. And we do sometimes get into discussions about her voice, aging and so on. Unfortunately, we all age. I find that I don't always notice my own aging until I see a photo of myself and cringe but that it's so much easier to notice the changes in people we haven't seen for a while and maybe it's just a reminder of our own mortality (but that it shouldn't come as any great surprise) when we notice that Joni too is aging. >________________________________ > From: Deanna Knight >To: joni@smoe.org >Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:59:00 PM >Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2012 #1517 - my Ruby Lake story > >Hello Folks >I am new to this list but not new to Joni and her magical musical journey. >As a artist myself, she is by far my biggest inspiration and cherished >songwriter. - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1537 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:04:13 +0200 From: Moni Kellermann Subject: Joni mentions in books https://www.smalldemons.com/persons/musicians/Joni_Mitchell - that website lists 158 books that mention Joni in some way. Have fun reading the excerpts! "Divorce has returned to me the rawness of spirit I had as a girlbthe girl who was disconsolate when her canary died, who snuck out the window to see her boyfriend, who slammed the fridge door, opened it, and slammed it one more time when she didn't get what she wanted. She was the girl who stayed awake to watch the shooting stars on a velvety August night, sprained her ankle jumping for joy in the school library, and memorized all the lyrics of Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark. The girl who begged friends to bowl just one more game." b Theo Pauline Nestor, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed moni k. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:50:55 -0700 From: "Eaton, Shari" Subject: Re: Interestingly... That is interesting! Should we keep this low profile so it doesn't get mobbed? I'm going to start a Joni savings account now :))) On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Cassy wrote: > Georgio wrote in reply to my thank you note for sharing such a special > evening. bSee you next year.b I am wondering whether this might mean > theybll be doing a similar evening again next year? > > Warmly, > Cassy > NP: Two Grey Rooms b Joni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:06:50 +1000 From: "Pat Boland" Subject: Moon In The Mirror Here's a mystery for you. You're probably familiar with 'Moon at The Window' but you may have never heard of 'Moon In The Mirror', As far as I know, its gone. Maybe her most requested at the time, 1966, and yet we have no chords, no melody... all we have left are these beautiful lyrics... a poem by Joni... ghost of a song... Are you ready? Moon In The Mirrorby Joni MitchellMoon in the mirrorWon't you stay awhile tonight?All things of beautyAre too soon out of sightI know it's a selfish pleaYou must light the hearts of more than meThere's a girl at her windowNow she's trying to catch your eyeBut oh, pretty strangerYou must keep on passing byMoon in the mirrorI don't know youJust a reflectionOf kisses and whispers and indigo skiesMoon in the mirrorLook below youMoon's looking backAnd they're loving and longing and telling no liesMoon in the mirrorI will ask you one more timeNot for a reasonAnd not for a rhymeBut please tell me if you canHave you seen a moonlit man?He's so very like youYou could see him from afarPerhaps he's misplaced moonbeamOr a banished starMoon in the mirrorHe's so like youLight up the roomFor an hour; a smile or the beat of my heartOh how my heart tried to fight himFight against mirrorsOf moonlight or lovelightYou're lost from the start,From the start. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:08:52 -0400 From: "Robert Sartorius" Subject: RE: Last Great Joni song(s) - Cherokee Louise (et al) First, I would like to second Gene's compliments to Mark for his review of Cherokee Louise. Mark humbles himself when he apologizes that he merely states the obvious, but doing so in words that elicit appreciation from others who have shared those feelings but have not quite been able to express them is, well, rather Joniesque. The last times I felt a sense of "Joni greatness" in her songs were from Night Ride Home and Turbulent Indigo. I just have not felt that anything great happened in TTT and Shine (although I am partial to "One Day Last Summer" as a mood piece - somewhat "Canonesque", and it might work as background music for, say, the PGA championship, but I digress). For me, a great song must be great musically and great lyrically. IMO, the great songs of NRH were Cherokee Louise and Slouching Toward Bethlehem. In saying that, I would hypothesize that Joni agrees with me - they were both included in Travelogue, for example. That said, I could make a secondary case for Passion Play which, with its plaintive lyric and complemenatary melody, might strike a particularly poignant chord with certain listeners. By way of anecdote, one year I sent NRH as a thank you present to my family's ex-next-door-neighbor (before he got rich), Charles Dolan (of Cablevision, Knicks, Rangers, MadisonSquare Garden, Radio City Music Hall, etc.), whose 4th of July parties - featuring spectacular fireworks from a barge in Oyster Bay Cove off his backyard - are famous on Long Island. The pretense for my gift was the title song, but I secretly hoped that he would give Passion Play a second listen. It is a haunter, much like The Arrangement, which my Dad cited as the song from LOTC that grabbed his attention when I played that album for him in 1970 (and which Joni included in "Misses"). The other songs on NRH are likable, but not great IMO. In particular, NRH and Come In From the Cold are, essentially, 1-4-5 songs - accessible on their face, and "popular" in tone, but really not that special musically. They're good listening (though the latter is way too long), but they're not great. And, they could have been written by another songwriter. I have listened to the case made for Two Grey Rooms, which is also a good one and on which Joni bestowed the "last song" place of honor, but it does not quite get to "great" for me, either musically or lyrically. I think TI is a denser, deeper album than NRH. More of its songs have that Joni "it" factor - nobody else could have written many of them, including the title song, Last Chance Lost, Sex Kills, Yvette in English and Sire of Sorrow. Also, there is another haunter - Magdelene Laundries - with its ripe 1-4-5 chord structure and melody to soften its painful lyric. And the lyric of Borderline is one of Joni's very best, capturing themes both universal and timeless, like Circle Game. And Sunny Sunday is a lovely opener. I am not a huge fan of Not To Blame, but it is a tribute to this award winning album that such a strong song would take "last place" among its songs. There are excellent Joni songs in abundance here, but which ones are "great"? I would agree with Joni that Sire of Sorrow and Sex Kills, which she also featured in Travelogue, are the ones worthy of that title. Among the "close but not quite" candidates, because of their adventurous, rhythmical music, I prefer LCL, TI and YIE to ML and Borderline. Bottom line - Joni has already told you which ones she thinks were the last of her great songs. She produced Travelogue. I'm inclined to agree with her. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:47:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Flaherty Subject: Re: Photos by Joel Bernstein I have a poster of #07 above my stereo. Much as I love it I would love #01 even more. Michael F. On Oct 7, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote: > Here are several shots of Joni, made by Joel Bernstein. Click . > > http://www.joelbernstein.com/JM-01.html > > There are 10 all together. > > Jim L'Hommedieu, who is doing some research ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #339 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe