From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #473 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 Wednesday, December 4 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 473 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: paprika plains ["Susan E. McNamara" ] Re: paprika plains ["Mark" ] Nothing can be done [Rob Procyk ] Songs etc [Marianne Rizzo ] Re: paprika plains [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:14:49 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: paprika plains I will never forget Coyote Rick and Brad's living room, Chris playing piano and Sherelle singing Paprika Plains. Another great reason to Jonifest!! :-) Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:45 AM To: Marianne Rizzo Cc: joni list Subject: Re: paprika plains Paprika Plains - always a good topic. I refer to it as "Joni symphony #3", with Judgement & Down To You being #'s 1 & 2 respectively. The first time I heard it was when my local AOR station in Raleigh played it as a feature album so I was listening in my bed with headphones. A nice way to listen to DJRD I'd add. Of course I was totally sucked in with the Overture/Cotton Avenue and when PP came on it was blowing my mind! It went on for 16+ minutes, an entire album side. Had no idea what the song was about but really enjoyed the sonics - the combination of Joni's piano and Jaco's bass - ecstasy. It was WAAAAAY later when I noticed the "unsung" lyrics inside the record jacket. Wonder if they were ever intended to be sung or if they were in fact sung, recorded and then discarded. The dream sequence, if you will. Most of the song plays like a dream, in fact. And the payoff is the musical jam at the very end. I'm not always in the mood for it - it requires some intense participation on the listener's part - but when I am it's a mesmerizing thing. Bob NP: Bob Dylan, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:52:58 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Re: paprika plains Omg, I don't remember hearing about this! Oh I wish I would have been there to witness that! Ever since hearing Sherelle's a cappella rendition of 'Edith and the Kingpin' on 'A Tape of You', I have been in love with that woman's voice. I have never met her but in all of my email and Facebook communication with her it has always been obvious that she is just as beautiful a human being as that voice. What a revelation to her Sherelle snapping her fingers in time and giving forth with that soulful, pitch perfect performance on the JMDL's first recording of self-made covers, meant as a gift of honor and love to Joni. 'Paprika Plains' played on UNI's university radio station sometime before the release of DJRD. My friend Melanie and I listened to it in her apartment and were enthralled by it. Joni seemed to have blended her own vision into a classical, orchestral setting in a way no one else in the pop arena had succeeded in doing. Knowing something now of how it was all pieced together makes it even more fascinating. And I agree with Bob. That jam at the end drives the whole thing home in a very satisfying way with Jaco's expansive notes blooming at the end creating a vast and beautiful musical horizon. Mark in Seattle - -----Original Message----- From: Susan E. McNamara Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 8:14 AM To: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com ; Marianne Rizzo Cc: joni list Subject: RE: paprika plains I will never forget Coyote Rick and Brad's living room, Chris playing piano and Sherelle singing Paprika Plains. Another great reason to Jonifest!! :-) Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:45 AM To: Marianne Rizzo Cc: joni list Subject: Re: paprika plains Paprika Plains - always a good topic. I refer to it as "Joni symphony #3", with Judgement & Down To You being #'s 1 & 2 respectively. The first time I heard it was when my local AOR station in Raleigh played it as a feature album so I was listening in my bed with headphones. A nice way to listen to DJRD I'd add. Of course I was totally sucked in with the Overture/Cotton Avenue and when PP came on it was blowing my mind! It went on for 16+ minutes, an entire album side. Had no idea what the song was about but really enjoyed the sonics - the combination of Joni's piano and Jaco's bass - ecstasy. It was WAAAAAY later when I noticed the "unsung" lyrics inside the record jacket. Wonder if they were ever intended to be sung or if they were in fact sung, recorded and then discarded. The dream sequence, if you will. Most of the song plays like a dream, in fact. And the payoff is the musical jam at the very end. I'm not always in the mood for it - it requires some intense participation on the listener's part - but when I am it's a mesmerizing thing. Bob NP: Bob Dylan, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 22:55:01 -0600 From: Rob Procyk Subject: Nothing can be done I'm just going to throw it out there again as I have before - "Nothing Can Be Done" is in my top 5 Joni songs. Brilliant, and more and more relevant as I realize how quickly the clock is ticking. I read some interview where Joni said she imagined some fight when writing the song, but I think it's just as autobiographical as anything from the early years, and thus even more commendable as we tend to be more guarded as we age. Anyway, the song speaks to me and I have to say I am one of the few who really liked Klein's influence on her work. And suddenly I too am not old, I'm told, but I am not young. Thanks, Sue, for mentioning your love of the song too! Rob Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:14:17 -0500 From: Marianne Rizzo Subject: Songs etc But. . . what I would like to say, Is that . . . even tho I may not necessarily like a particular song, I cherish e v e r y expression of Joni's . . every utterance, every shared thought. every opinion, etc. I am glad she wrote all that she wrote and I am glad she shared it. I treasure all of her. Alway grateful. Very much. Marianne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 21:34:51 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: paprika plains Catgirl, there are accurate charts for both of those on the website in the piano section. Howard Wright and I did For Free and Michael Dunn did Rainy Night House. Published songbooks are a joke usually and seems to think people want dumbed down easy piano arrangements with the right hand playing the melody instead of what is actually on the record. Even Joel Bernsteins supposedly definitive book did that, to my disappointment. On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Debra Pease wrote: > Wow! What a Joni undertaking! I wish I could play the piano and even though > I have tried her songbooks are not written correctly. I tried For Free and > Rainy Night House. Both are marginally good. Someday, David, maybe you can > get the originals and transcribe away! > Cheers, > Catgirl ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #473 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe