Dear fellow jmdl members,
I emerge from lurkdom to observe that, while [EMAIL PROTECTED] has referred
to a Carole King album named "Thoroughfare," I have a music book (but not a
recording) for one named "Thoroughbred." Perhaps that is the one to which
our correspondent refers.
As I am receiving the only-joni digest, it would not surprise me if someone
receiving the separate messages has already pointed this out.
While I've been a list member/subscriber since October, this is my first
post; two things that have militated against my doing so earlier have been
the built-in delay just mentioned, and the volume of this list on some days,
coupled with the other things I am receiving by e-mail. It's been fun to
read, however.
I have corresponded with several members off-list, and now, some asides to
them:
Sherelle: Thanks so much for the demo tape. Your voice reminds me of that of
Taylor Dane. Consider that a compliment.
Bob "SCJoniguy": I haven't forgotten; I still plan to dub for you Paul
Winter Consort performing "Both Sides Now" and send it, and also a blank CD
for one of the covers collections; I still think I'll start with No. 13. A
local jazz guitarist, Bruce Anthony, has recorded a cover of "Jungle Line."
Would you like that? If so, because I don't have a dual-well cassette deck,
it would be simpler to send you my copy of one of the demo cassettes for you
to copy and return.
Ashara: Likewise, I still plan to send you a blank cassette to dub the Foni
Mitchell recording onto.
Somebody else that has a live recording of the Camden, NJ, Both Sides Now
tour conert: Ditto. I have your name and address at home, which is not where
I am now.
Almost certainly, my introduction to Joni Mitchell's music was Judy Collins'
orchestrated recording of "Both Sides Now," still a favorite of mine. I
can't pinpoint when I first heard a recording of Joni herself, but it was
probably prior to 1970. I first went to a Joni concert in either 1974 or
1975 at Duke University, my undergraduate alma mater, while living in
Raleigh, N.C., staying there after taking a master's degree at N.C. State.
In 1993, I returned to my previous residence in Dover, Del., and have since
attended a 1998 Joni + Bob Dylan + Dave Hitchcock and the Guilty Men concert
at U. of Md., College Park, and the 2000 stop of the Both Sides Now tour in
Camden, N.J., just across the Delaware River from Penns Landing in
Philadelphia where, next weekend, I'll be enjoying the Independence Blue
Cross -- WXPN Singer Songwriter Weekend with Nanci Griffith, Jeb Loy
Nichols, Mark Cohn, North Mississippi All Stars, Erin McKeown, Dave Carter
and Tracy Grammer and Liza Carthy, and a few others, but, sadly, not Joan
Baez, whose sister, Mimi Farina (just imagine the tilde over the n), has
taken a turn for the worse (mestastasized lung cancer). Those of you so
inclined, please pray for Mimi, and also for Maureen Reagan (malignant
melanoma mestasasized to the brain). If any of you who read this will be at
SSW, please say "hi" if we recognize each other. (How?!)
Anyway, I work for the local newspaper, and was initially a copy editor, so,
you know, I can't resist making corrections. I play keyboards some, and mess
around a little with autoharp, guitar and hand percussion; therefore, I was
happy to find a score for "Blue" on the jmdl site. It seems to be the only
thing there with a score -- complete notation, as opposed to chord names or
lyrics only -- and that and several copies of "Both Sides Now" in
compilation music books from late '60s and early '70s are all the JM scores
I have. "Rise Up Singing" has chord names and lyrics for several more songs.
Are there more scores (complete notations) on the jmdl site I missed?
Tim Spong
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