Scott Price wrote:
>
> A friend sent me this link to Billboard.com which features Joni chastising
> the current state of the music business (can you believe it? :-) and
> discussing her next album, to be recorded with an orchestra in London. She
> also names several of the tracks. Good stuff!
>
> <http://www.billboard.com/billboard/musictomyears/index.jsp>
thanks, Scott!
from the article:
I'm recording 24 of my songs, with handpicked players
from
the [London] Philharmonic and some of the BBC's
players to
make the strongest orchestra we can put together in
London.
We did the last one that way, and now we're doing a
two-record set of new arrangements of my music that
we'll
record in November for Reprise."
Which songs has she selected for the program? "The
ones
that have classical compositional aspects," she says,
citing
"Coyote," "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song),"
"Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune),"
"For
the Roses," "Just Like This Train," and "The Last
Time I Saw
Richard."
"Also," she adds, " 'Refuge of the Roads,' for
instance,
translates really beautifully to this approach, as
does
'Borderline' and 'Cherokee Louise.' We're also doing
'The
Dawntreader' from my first record. I'm just
distilling what I
think are essential songs in terms of my best writing
but
bearing in mind what translates to symphonic
production."
Does Mitchell know what she's going to name the new
album? "Well, I've been quitting since I entered this
businessbsince I wrote 'That Song About the Midway'
[from Clouds, 1969]," she allows with a chuckle. "So
in my
current state of mind, I'm thinking of calling it
Swan Song."
now me:
oh my god!!!
let's see, recording in Nov 2001
that means release sometime in 2003, right?
looking forward to it, a lot,
shy brei
np: still the todd mundt show, where the subject is communications
between people, and it reminds me of one of the wonderful things about
this list!
--
After twenty-three years you'd think I could find
A way to let you know somehow
That I want to see your smiling face
Forty-five years from now.
--Stan Rogers
