From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #344 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 Sunday, September 8 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 344 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Covers, Volume 174 - Weekend Kickoffs [FMYFL@aol.com] Joni Tribute Right Now! [Laurie Antonioli ] Re: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni [Bob.Muller@Fluo] JOINING MITCHELL [Vincenzo Mancini ] Re: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni [Betsy Blue ] JOINING MITCHELL [Vincenzo Mancini ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:20:18 -0400 (EDT) From: FMYFL@aol.com Subject: Re: Joni Covers, Volume 174 - Weekend Kickoffs It was a chock full of covers Mr. Muller. As always you, put the best one first. Judy Marshak's "River" is excellent. She's a wonderful actress and such a beautiful voice. Still, my favorite "River" cover has to be from Skye Edwards from the UK band Morcheeba. I loved the slow drum beat, the background vocals, and her voice. Certainly a different twist on this song. Also two great a capella female groups. Something Extra from Yale singing ACOY, and the Scottish group, The Wild Myrtles (love that name) singing BSN Not a bad cover in the bunch. Download this volume Joni friends! Thanks again Bob, and I'll be seeing your smiling face next month at Pazfest! Jimmy In a message dated 9/7/2013 3:12:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, scjoniguy@yahoo.com writes: > Hi All - Here's the next one in the nest...Volume 174, chock full of > lovelies, > starting out with Judy Marshak's excellent "River". My personal fave is > the > jazzy instrumental take on "Rainy Night House" by The McCarron Brothers. > > Just when you think there's nothing new you can do with the franchise, > Mishka > Adams spins an original BSN take for you. A 10 minute + take on Twisted > and a > whole bunch of other River's. We are getting close to the time when more > River's come our way. BYT and River keep jockeying for 2nd place, I > predict > that by January River will have a commanding lead. But what do I know? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:18:30 -0700 From: Laurie Antonioli Subject: Joni Tribute Right Now! On KCSM: www.kcsm.org, the Bay Area jazz station - until 2pm PST. LA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:49:14 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni Hi Ange, and thanks for the post. I could almost see the joint you described. As for following in Joni's footsteps vocally, you're spot on. Conversation is certainly one of those, as are California and I Had A King. I'll never forget the first time I heard her hit that low note on "brown" and couldn't believe it was Joni's voice. Almost as tricky as her range was back in the day, her ability to fit crazy-long phrases in a few short musical bursts is equally challenging. I remember singing "Talk To Me" at a Full Moon Jonifest with Marian playing guitar, bless her heart she was so patient, we had to keep doing the Willy the Shake part because I just couldn't make it work. I feel like I finally got it, or at least came close, but it certainly gives you respect for the vocal skills the lady had. Bob - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:31:21 +0100 (BST) From: Vincenzo Mancini Subject: JOINING MITCHELL There's an upcoming tribute in Lisbon on Nov 14, 2013 LISBOA, Centro Cultural de Belim (Grande Auditsrio) | 21H00 More details at: http://www.misty-fest.com/index.php/pt/artistasportugues/149-joining-mitchell - -tributo-joni-mitchell Promo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25SPBzsBjM Vincenzo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 05:35:50 -0700 From: Betsy Blue Subject: Re: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni Ange wrote: > 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. You are so right, Ange. Can you imagine what Joni could have done as a singer if she had been willing to submit to some training? Of course, she probably would have ended up less creative. But she traded that sweet voice for incredible deft of phrasing over the years and broke even. As a teenager, I loved singing along with Joni. It must have been a combination of innate vocal flexibility, good pitch, and endless repetition. Now, at 30, my range doesn't allow me the top notes of her youth. But I still can't hit the bottom notes she found in her fifties and beyond. The blessing in disguise is that I can transpose like a ninja on piano. As I saw in a recent Orange County Register blog about Angels baseball, "you don't know what you got 'til it's gone." Betsy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:01:39 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: The inspiration and frustration of the voice of Joni Don't stop trying Ange!! One of the things I find fascinating about Joni's career is that she sang lower in her earlier days on the Cafi circuit. Chelsea Morning and Conversation were sung in a much lower register. I understand that her range can be frustrating though. You can always try her later songs, too. I love singing songs from Night Ride Home and Turbulent Indigo (we have tabs for those!). Here's a youtube version of her earlier rendition of Conversation with the extra verse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QjQY8U3eN4 Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Ange T Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 6:42 PM To: joni@smoe.org 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:12:47 -0400 From: Jane Cox Subject: Joni singing with Bob in Japan This clip was simply amazing. Both Joni and Dylan looked at their absolute peak in life and art, smiling beautifully and looking truly happy. The Japanese orchestra, the wooden building housing the Buddha statue, the diversity of musicians. What a wow concert that must have been----three days of it!! Jane Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:26:19 -0600 (MDT) > From: est86mlm@ameritech.net > Subject: New Video added to Library: I Shall Be Released > Title: I Shall Be Released Nara, Japan > 1994-5-22 > Video from The Aionoshi Festival in Nara, Japan.

> Backed by UNESCO and the United Nations, this concert was held over three > nights and took place in front of the Buddhist temple Todaiji, the > world's largest wooden building, housing the largest Buddha statue in the > world. Joni joined Bob Dylan and the other performers during the encore of > each show. The final concert was broadcast live on TV in Japan by NHK and > elsewhere as The Great Music Experience.

> Joni is seen singing with Bob beginning at 15:00, and continuing thru the > rolling credits.

> http://jonimitchell.com/library/video.cfm?id=361 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:31:21 +0100 (BST) From: Vincenzo Mancini Subject: JOINING MITCHELL There's an upcoming tribute in Lisbon on Nov 14, 2013 LISBOA, Centro Cultural de Belim (Grande Auditsrio) | 21H00 More details at: http://www.misty-fest.com/index.php/pt/artistasportugues/149-joining-mitchell - -tributo-joni-mitchell Promo at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25SPBzsBjM Vincenzo ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #344 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe