At 6:17 PM +0000 1/4/02, Paul Castle wrote:
>Doing some research I found an article from 'Acoustic Guitar' magazine
>(August 1996) - http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/9608ag.cfm - which
>states that "only two of her songs 'Tin Angel' and 'Urge for Going' are in
>standard tuning."
>
>Does anyone on the list know if this is correct?
Yes, although since 1996 she also wrote "Havana in Harlem" in
standard tuning. As far as I know, those are the only 3 songs in
standard.
>"Because of the way I play now I can't really remember
>the whole chronology of it. I tend to think of the top three strings
>as muted trumpets, or the high end of an orchestra--horn stops.
>I think of the midrange as viola, I guess not violins--but the
>orchestra's mid-register, say French horn and viola. The thumb
>is a very sparse, eccentric bass line. Timewise the thumb can
>play vertically while the rest of the fingers are swinging, which
>gives a funny kind of Senegalese quality to my shuffle, as if my
>thumb is playing a monkey chant and the rest of me is swinging
>somewhere in the U.S.A.--like Robert Johnson on Mars."
>
This is why I love Joni Mitchell...her creativity sends chills up my
spine!!! great quote, Paul. thanks, sue
PS when did Shawn Colvin cover Urge for Going? Where can I find that?
--
"Heart and humor and humility
will lighten up your heavy load ... " - Joni Mitchell
