From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #679 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, June 17 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 679 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #96 [Annatr ] James on Joni [Les Irvin ] Re: James on Joni [Les Irvin ] Re: The James Taylor Interview [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:06:40 -0400 From: Annatr Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #96 Here's what IMDB says about "Love." Mitchell's music made an appearance in the movie _Love Actually_ (2003) . In this mostly comedic film, actress Emma Thompson's character is a fan of Joni Mitchell's music. At one point in the movie, Thompson's character discovers that she has been betrayed by her husband for a much younger woman. She puts on a brave face for the kids, but her moment of private, painful revelation is shown on screen accompanied by an audio track that is silent except for an overdub of Joni Mitchell singing "Both Sides Now", not the original upbeat recording from the 1960s when Mitchell was a 23-year-old ingC)nue, but rather the recent re-recording, a somber sentimental performance by the now husky-voiced middle-aged Mitchell, backed by a lush orchestra -- a performance akin to an older, wiser Frank Sinatra singing the retrospective "It Was A Very Good Year" when he was sixty. This poignant scene is the dramatic pinnacle of the film. Anna - -----Original Message----- From: JMDL Digest To: joni-digest Sent: Tue, Jun 16, 2015 10:46 am Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #96 JMDL Digest Tuesday, June 16 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 096 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- Love (1982): Joni acts [Michael Sentance ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:40:57 -0400 From: Michael Sentance Subject: Love (1982): Joni acts Wandering around IMDB, I found this: "Love" (1982), ananthology of vignettes on the subject of love. Joni Mitchell is credited as one of the actresses. More can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084271/ Has anyone seen this? Are there copies somewhere? The usual suspects (Amazon, Netflix, iTunes) seem to be unaware of it. Michael - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #96 **************************** - ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:34:01 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: James on Joni NPR's Here and Now has an interview with James Taylor today in which he is asked about Joni. Check it out... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:06:56 -0600 From: Les Irvin Subject: Re: James on Joni Here's the link to the James Taylor interview. The Joni question is the very last one, I believe. http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/06/16/james-taylor-before-this-world On 6/16/2015 12:34 PM, Les Irvin wrote: > NPR's Here and Now has an interview with James Taylor today in which he is > asked about Joni. Check it out... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:53:48 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: The James Taylor Interview We play Enough to be on your Way and, let me tell you, it is not an easy guitar part at all. The opening with the violin is a wonderful etude and the rest of the song is full of lush chord movement and suspensions. James Taylorbs later music - mid 90s onwards - perhaps sounds on the surface like more 70s acoustic folk, albeit well recorded (Best Engineered Grammy winner for Hourglass), but to play it right is bloody challenging. As a guitar player Joni perhaps has the edge for originality with her tunings, but for smooth facility JT is hard to match. What Ibm saying is his apparently straightforward acoustic folk has evolved very far into a wonderfully articulate chamber-folk music. Ibm not a collector of his early work - no particular interest in Mexico or How Sweet it is - but in the last twenty years he has become a really fine musician and songwriter who has no problem making music that still connects with his fans. Hebs still humble and approachable, down to earth, and is courteous to interviewers even though he must have been asked the same questions a thousand times. After fifty years you have to admire that! Dave > On Jun 16, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Laurie Antonioli wrote: > > It's not long, but he says a lot. Very touching. He's so real and > straight forward, like his music. He keeps it simple musically - but kind > of like Bonnie Raitt, another favorite, has a sound and style that's > carried him through the years. They both have battled their demons and I > don't know Bonnie's story but it was Michael Brecker (who as you all know > worked with Joni) that helped James get clean. Michael was a powerful > force in the recovery community in the NY area among musicians when he was > alive. RIP Michael (jazz musicians ALWAYS mourn his passing) and congrats > to James for producing another beautiful record. Honestly, as time passes, > it's harder and harder for musicians to create and I applaud him for going > off to be alone to find some more songs to write. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #679 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe