From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #108 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, March 19 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 108 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: the woodstock we attend [Anita G ] the woodstock we attend [Ingrid Lochrenberg ] Re: the woodstock we attend [Shari Eaton ] Re: the woodstock we attend [Shari Eaton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:38:31 +0000 From: Anita G Subject: Re: the woodstock we attend On 18/03/2013, Shari Eaton wrote: Her howls ring through us all. > I am always struck by Joni's later live renditions of 'Woodstock' on the guitar, which sound so bleak. After seeing her perform it as an encore at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 1994, I wrote my own final verse to an arrangement I did (which I know a lot of you know), but you may not know it, Shari, but it goes: "I saw Joni sing one August It was twenty five years on And this song cracked through the night air On the whip lash of her tongue. The chords rang hard and cynical Soft grey clouds hung in her eyes But I could still see butterflies Through Canadian twilight And we sang We're stardust etc." I thought Joni was howling that night Anita ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:18:32 +0200 (SAST) From: Ingrid Lochrenberg Subject: the woodstock we attend People may express incredulity at Joni not having been at Woodstock, but I can't help wondering if Woodstock would really have 'been' without Joni Mitchellb&b&I wonder if what she encapsulated from her inner spirit into the song woodstock wasn't the 'real' woodstock that people think of when thy think they're thinking of the festival. What would have made it not just be another rained out festival that blended with others around the country. I don't know much about what was unique to the actual event but I certainly don't think it would have lived on in our imagination if it wasn't for joni's Woodstock song. I don't think that Joni 'WASN'T AT' Woodstockb&.I don't think she has missed out. Instead I think it is Joni's Woodstock that the generations including her own have really attendedb&..her song: that that is where the real ongoing magic emanates from. She has evoked the attributes of the Festival, not with her memory, but with her creative spirit. Ingrid ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:12:29 -0700 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: the woodstock we attend Really enjoying the sentiment of this post. Joni really was the intended spirit guide for Woodstock. Scheduling difficulties aside. It's a bit like her inability to be the mother of her own child. Or the lover to her mate. She has been afflicted with deep longing and it was expressed so extraordinarily. Her howls ring through us all. On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Lori Renee Fye wrote: > I think you are so right on with this assessment, Ingrid. Lots of people > who don't know the story believe that Joni was at Woodstock. Lots of > people who don't know better think that the song was written by CSNY > because it was such a hit for them. > > But yeah ... Joni was a big part of the spirit of Woodstock, even though > she was (if my memory serves) stuck in a motel room prior to going on Dick > Cavett's show. She captured the spirit of those days beautifully and made > that spirit immortal with her song. > > I loved being at A Day in the Garden in 1998 and hearing Joni say, when she > took the stage, "It took me 29 years to get here ..." As far as I'm > concerned, though, she was there all along. > > Lori > still in Ohio where it's raining > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Ingrid Lochrenberg > wrote: > >> People may express incredulity at Joni not having been at Woodstock, but I >> can't help wondering if Woodstock would really have 'been' without Joni >> Mitchellb&b&I wonder if what she encapsulated from her inner spirit into >> the song woodstock wasn't the 'real' woodstock that people think of when >> thy think they're thinking of the festival. What would have made it not >> just be another rained out festival that blended with others around the >> country. I don't know much about what was unique to the actual event but I >> certainly don't think it would have lived on in our imagination if it >> wasn't for joni's Woodstock song. I don't think that Joni 'WASN'T AT' >> Woodstockb&.I don't think she has missed out. Instead I think it is Joni's >> Woodstock that the generations including her own have really >> attendedb&..her song: that that is where the real ongoing magic emanates >> from. She has evoked the attributes of the Festival, not with her memory, >> but with her creative spirit. >> >> Ingrid > > > > -- > If there are lots of typos, I'm emailing from my phone. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:10:09 -0700 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: the woodstock we attend Gave me goosebumps to read your added verse. What grand fortune to hear the song live in that rich moment. To sing in chorus, coated in her musical molasses. Thank you for sharing. On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Anita G wrote: > On 18/03/2013, Shari Eaton wrote: > Her howls ring through us all. > I am always struck by Joni's later live renditions of 'Woodstock' on > the guitar, which sound so bleak. After seeing her perform it as an > encore at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 1994, I wrote my own final > verse to an arrangement I did (which I know a lot of you know), but > you may not know it, Shari, but it goes: > > "I saw Joni sing one August > It was twenty five years on > And this song cracked through the night air > On the whip lash of her tongue. > The chords rang hard and cynical > Soft grey clouds hung in her eyes > But I could still see butterflies > Through Canadian twilight > > And we sang > We're stardust etc." > > I thought Joni was howling that night > Anita ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #108 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe