From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #611 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, April 28 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 611 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Torres and "Confessional" songwriters [Betsy Blue ] Joni at Prince's party inspires actress ["Allison Crowe Music" Subject: Torres and "Confessional" songwriters Excerpt from First Listen: Torres, 'Sprinter' on Npr.org: "Confessional" is a term often tossed around in discussions of singer-songwriters, but it's also one of the most misunderstood. In a recent interview, Mackenzie Scott, who makes music under the name Torres, called it "a four-letter word," common and pejorative, and overapplied to women in particular. But what does "confessional" even mean as an element of writing, considering that virtually every writer both taps into and goes beyond her own experience and insight in creating scenarios that others can comprehend? If Joni Mitchell was confessional when she wrote, "I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours," in a song about an ex-lover, isn't Bob Dylan, too, when he wails, "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, should I leave them by your gate," about his ex-wife? Yet one is broadly considered a prophet, speaking for experience well beyond his own. The other, the woman, is categorized as more intimate; her equally poetic language has been dubbed something to identify with first, and only after doing so to call art. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:38:42 -0700 From: "Allison Crowe Music" Subject: Joni at Prince's party inspires actress A fun mention in the press - which I spotted, by chance, at the gym today in the April 2015 edition of "Fashion" magazine (a Canadian magazine about, indeed, fashion). In a lengthy interview with Elisha Cuthbert, the actress mentions meeting Joni at Prince's house. I'd thought the piece may be online, but, all I can find is this excerpt: "When I met Joni Mitchell, I was dumbfoundedb& I cannot wait to get to a point when Ibm [Mitchellbs] age... She has no filter, shebs clever and shebs a genius. She has also reverted to not giving a damn about stupid things. Ibm excited for that time.b ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:57:38 -0500 From: lcs4bike@yahoo.com Subject: Grateful For friendships made over appreciation of Joni's music. Not everybody gets Joni, but those who do are the nicest, most thoughtful, most talented, and most outspoken people on the planet! Joni is all gift and people here are like that too. With love, Laura Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:43:53 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: Who changed the words? Hi Sally - I didn't provide any links in my post. Not sure what you're wanting a link to? Bob NP: Suzanne Vega, "Small Blue Thing" (hard to believe this song is from 30 years ago!) From: Sally To: Anita Gabrielle , Cc: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" , Jim L'Hommedieu , JMDL Date: 04/24/2015 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Who changed the words? I missed this link! Can someone help a woman out? Sent from Confunction Junction on my iPhone On Apr 24, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Anita Gabrielle wrote: >> I won't even mention Billy Squier's cover of River - he starts with "It's >> comin' on twilight" and goes recklessly astray from there. >> Bob > > Wasn't that Squier's famous BSN Zombie River Cut: > " It's coming on twilight > They're cutting off knees.... > > "Oors and Ploors of angel hair" > > And bing bong dung hills in the square? > I don't think I've laughed so much for a while. > Anita - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 and all computers and other devices. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:31:10 -0400 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Music & The internet This is subject that is of great interest to me - like most JMDLer's, I've been a consumer of music for the vast majority of my life and a lover of music as long as I can remember. Like most everything around us, the models have changed drastically in that time. The original model for me was buying vinyl albums and blank cassettes, recording the albums on tape so I could play them in my car or on the go or whatever. I would typically buy 8-12 albums a month. Records ranged from $5-$8 each and a case of GOOD blanks cost me around $15 or so, so at the time I was spending more or less $90.00/month on the recorded music of the time. That model worked from around 1973 to 1988, when I switched to CD's (buying many albums I already had on vinyl) but getting a product I could play at home or in the car or in a jambox. Record companies were in their heyday from the switch to digital as they were spending small amounts for CD's and selling them for around $15 a pop. I was still buying 8-12 albums on CD every month, sometimes less sometimes more. I can say that I did WAY LESS impulse buying of CD's. If a $5 vinyl record sucked, OK, but if a $12-16 CD sucked that was another thing. Obviously, I was earning at a higher rate in the late 80's and 90's then I was in the 70's and early 80's so some of those numbers are relative; still I was easily dropping more than $100/month for new music, sometimes borrowing CD's from friends and taping them because that was a free option and helped me to stretch my music dollars. Now, as we know, that model has blown up altogether. The internet made it possible to transfer the 1's and 0's of the digital product through the web. Then came smartphones, Itunes, downloads, streaming services and all hell has broken loose. If I wasn't a big music fan, I'd stream any one of a quadrillion internet radio stations out there, and stomach the ads or the constant pleas for support, but I AM a big music fan. I've always liked to be able to call the shots and listen to what *I* want to listen to without advertising or personalities begging for donations or, frankly, crappy music. I never illegally downloaded music but I have fully embraced the new model (I subscribe to Rhapsody for $9.99/month) and while I love it and it works perfectly and better than either of these older models I do feel guilty about the total frustration of artists to be able to be properly compensated for their work. One thing we do know is that the OLD model is not coming back. 2014 was the first year that streams outpaced downloads, and downloads have been pounding physical sales for awhile now. So where do we go from here? As stated above, I don't have an issue with spending a 3-digit number per month for getting access to the music I want (please don't share that with Rhapsody - ha!) but I DO realize that I'm an unusual outlier and most folks are content to use FREE Pandora or FREE Spotify to get their fix so if the PAID versions of the streaming services increased drastically I'm not sure that would solve the problem. Another option would be to follow the path of films; right now music is available on streaming services at THE SAME TIME as the stores. When I woke up last Tuesday, I instantly was enjoying the new Alabama Shakes record (which is 5-star excellent btw) and when I got to work I queued up the new Built To Spill (which is also 5-star excellent btw). What if I couldn't? If there's a movie I REALLY want to see I won't wait for it to become available on Netflix, I'll go to the theatre. VERY FEW films fit into this category however. By the same token, a couple artists I really like, Coldplay and Lucinda Williams, put out new records in 2014 that were NOT streamable at time of release. Coldplay's was released about 6 months later, and Lucinda's never has. I had no problem eschewing either of these records as direct purchases. Joni tributes notwithstanding, I only bought (1) CD last year from The Black Keys. The irony was that I hardly ever listened to it because I couldn't stream it. I'm not sure really what the point of all this rambling is other than to say that the current model is pretty awesome for consumers and pretty disastrous for the artists that aren't getting millions of hits per day. So the model will evolve - it has to in the same way it did from the Napster/Limewire/Kazaa era. I do know that wherever it goes I'll still be getting my share of new music, fair or otherwise. Bob NP: Suzanne Vega, "Knight Moves" Thanks, Jim for bringing this issue up. It's a real "situation." - ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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