From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #340 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 Thursday, September 5 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 340 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #1263--Fiddle & the Drum [BarbaRent7@aol.com] The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni [Ange T Subject: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni I sat in my seaside apartment on the east coast of Australia last night with a pile of printed Joni guitar tabs and detuning sheets. I printed them over ten years ago, when I was living in Bangkok. Back then I was working as a journalist-by-day and had scored myself a second job as a folk singer by-night, in a little hole in the wall bar. It was my first paid gig ever and I was 22 years old. I got the gig by accident and I needed to figure out how to fill 2 hours of live music....so, when my newsroom colleagues weren't watching, I printed Joni...not just one song, or two, but a whole encyclopedia of Ms Mitchell's mind-blowing music. I've lived in many places around the world since then...and I've carried that pile of song sheets with me. Every now and then I will feel inspired to pick up my guitar and reminisce about my time as a folk singer in Thailand - and that little wooden bar, full of hippy-song-loving Thais, where I sang Joni tunes. That's what happened last night. I fell in love with Joni's tabs and tunings all over again...but also experienced that feeling of utter frustration as a vocalist trying to sing her songs. I mean - seriously - the woman's voice = NOT OF THIS WORLD. For example, Conversation, I tried to play it with the cappo all over the fret board last night....each time I'd find a part of the song that sat perfectly for my voice...but all that resulted was another part of the song that was impossible to sing. I've read many articles that talk about the sweet high notes of Joni's younger voice...but for me it's the low notes that she sings with such warmth and ease that truly hurt my brain/vocal box. How can she sing 'apples and cheeses' and then 'songs to play' in the same breath? What a freak! Okay, here ends the rant of a vocally frustrated Joni fan...think I'll go back to singing Bob Dylan covers...ha! Ange in Oz angetakats.com.au ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #340 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe