RE: Carrboro, 8 Dec 2003, Go Room 4

["Lama, Jim L'Hommedieu" <jlamadoo@fuse.net>]

Thanks for the report.  I think we could talk a long time about those
vowels.  I wasn't aware of this until recently but Joni Mitchell said that
she picked up some different vowel pronunciations when she was hanging out
with Nash/Crosby/Stills/Young (especially Nash).  To me (a middle-aged guy)
that's just old-school, good manners for a singer.  What simpler trick to
help a listener lock into the WORDS than to change a soft "uh" into a long
"E" like James Taylor does, eh?

I'm thinking of the "AMATEUR SHORTWAVE RADIO" version of "Ruby Tuesday".
It's far more than a cover because of those vowels.  Over time, I'll
probably write many screens about this topic.

Lama
np: "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" from Paul Simon's GRACELAND.  Hey,
what do you want?  I told ya I'm old-school.


Benjamin Torbert said,
> Karin sounded all sorts of Southern.  My wife and I have long felt an
> affinity for OtR because we felt they were closet Southerners.  Something
> about the near Midwest, Karin's vowels, I don't know.  It's a feel thing.
> Anyway, Karin was all over the backed /a/ 'on,' raised /epsilon/, fronted
> /u/ tonight.  Although the fonted /u/ could just be Ohio.

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