I just got these songs yesterday. I like clouds and songs to a seagull. I tend to like all the earlier work groups or artists do. Joni is no exception. Songs to a seagull is great, her voice and guitar playing is unrivaled. The fiddle and the drum! Oh my god this is the greatest. I like Nathan La Franeer. No one was doing stuff like this back then or even now. She reminds of british mod psyche groups like Fairfield Parlour, or early Syd Barrett, they were most likely influenced by her. This goes beyond folk or folk rock it's truly poetry in motion. I like songs to aging children, roses blue, gallery, I had a king, I used to go and see jewel kilcher at a little coffee house in pacific beach for free, every Thursday at the inner change. I watched the place get busier and busier, all of sudden there were people in suits and then jewel got signed. Joni blows her away, just flat smokes anyone I've heard try to play acoustic folk in the last twenty years. It really takes balls as a performer to be that unique and sing out that strongly in such a weird, haunting way, and she ties everything together and makes it work. I really had just heard her "hits" before. I joined this list after hearing her version of Woodstock for the first time, such a powerful, piercing, work, and, really one of those things that really puts the world in perspective for you. I don't like the CSN version the lyric is garbled and their guitar work stinks ... anyway... I don't understand why nash ever left the hollies, look through any window, bus stop, carrie ann, and the hollies drummer is a genius. Just my opinion. Ted
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Notaro Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:47 AM To: Bob Shemkovitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Song to a Seagull I've always found it sad that Joni herself despairs this part of her career, referring to it as her helium voice period. It was the voice of youth, beauty, hope, and filled with the joy of life like no other from its time. Jerry Bob Shemkovitz wrote: >I was glad to find the recent posts from Andrew, Kate & Kerry in this >morning's digests - it's nice to be reminded that there are others out there >who find this album so meaningful. > >Song to a Seagull is a thing of rare beauty. Joni is absolutely ethereal >throughout. > >There is such a timeless quality to these songs - in spite of all the >references to 20th century artifacts like drip dry and light bills and meter >maids and neon nights, I always have the sense that these songs could have >been written a thousand years ago. They're like a voice from days gone by, >echoing through the years and finding us in the here and now, giving voice >to the eternal needs and desires and turmoils of the human condition. > >I know what you mean about goosebumps, Kate, I often have that response to >this album. The emotional and psychic content of these songs strike so deep >a chord. The beauty of The Dawntreader, the despair of Marcie, the idylls of >Michael from Mountains, the aching and longing of the title song, every >emotion from the joyful to the bittersweet, it's all so heartfelt and >intense, and Joni conveys it all so well. > >And just on a purely aesthetic level, the poetry of her lyrics is so far >beyond anything I've ever heard from a "pop" artist, even by Dylan, Lennon, >Chrissie, or Neil, it just puts Joni in a category all her own. This album >is one of those precious gifts to be grateful for. And I agree with you, >Andrew - listening to it on a beautiful spring day is a highly recommended! > >About 60 hours to go for Heart & Mind, and I'm jonesing with the rest of >you... > >Bob in CT > >Fold your fleet wings, I have brought some dreams to share >A dream that you love someone >A dream that the wars are done >A dream that you tell no one but they grey sea - >They'll say that you're crazy!
