tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513000334275607242024-03-13T20:35:55.624-07:00Joni Mitchell: Her Ten Greatest AlbumsPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-11255864053399979602018-10-22T05:27:00.002-07:002018-10-22T07:13:06.637-07:00Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell best albums #10<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqkjDqCRbZhvLdZib28sdiRPIN6L7UhAt7hF3hJyeb3kECkXrwevmriFU5rtlCm6jm7QM5KmGROplgLZeUArzJz9g5ekL7WshZt-K-Md9UYveFMSFZwsTIossBd2gRyvdKhkOCY3tXN_b/s320/court+and+spark.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>Back recording, Joni moves strongly into the jazz world with Court And Spark. The folk/rock/jazz mix proved surprisingly popular and this was Joni's most successful album commercially, reaching number 2 in the BIllboard chart. As cited on Wikipedia: "The album was kept from the top spot by three #1 albums - in order Bob Dylan's Planet Waves, Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were and John Denver's Greatest Hits". Not sure about John Denver but can't complain about the other two!</p>
<p>The album also features her only top ten single: Help Me.</p>
<p style="float:right">Other minor curiosity: it was the first time she'd released an album where she didn't write all the songs -- the last track "Twisted" isn't hers; she said, <em>"Because I love that song, I always have loved it. I went through analysis for a while this year and the song is about analysis. I figured that I earned the right to sing it"</em></p>
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<p>Side 1:</p>
<p>1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Z6I62yvfg" target="_blank">Court and Spark - 2:46</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEE-kR-Txg" target="_blank">Help Me - 3:22</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hcXdtqojFg" target="_blank">Free Man in Paris - 3:02</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMHA0f-7v4" target="_blank">People's Parties - 2:15</a></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaEyWhwXC7c" target="_blank">Same Situation - 2:57</a></p>
<p>6. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6sFSDpp7IU" target="_blank">Car on a Hill - 3:02</a></p>
<p>Side 2:</p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrZXjBdLI4w" target="_blank">Down to You - 5:38</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfK4zgg99Q" target="_blank">Just Like this Train - 4:24</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y3f61DXnfU" target="_blank">Raised on Robbery - 3:06</a></p>
<p>10. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juE9c18fkLg" target="_blank">Trouble Child - 4:00</a></p>
<p>11. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iisYw0epV_Q" target="_blank">Twisted - 2:21</a></p>
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<p>A slightly odd album in some ways, Roses sees Joni moving away from the folk roots and incorporating jazz themes for the first time. It's not a smooth transition as she was undergoing some turmoil in her private life at the time of recording - indeed the title track presaged her breaking from performing for twelve months:</p>
<p style="float:right"><em>Remember the days when you used to sit<br /> And make up your tunes for love<br /> And pour your simple sorrow<br /> To the soundhole and your knee<br /> And now you're seen<br /> On giant screens<br /> And at parties for the press<br /> And for people who have slices of you<br /> From the company<br /> They toss around your latest golden egg<br /> Speculation, well, who's to know<br /> If the next one in the nest<br /> Will glitter for them so</em></p>
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<p>Side 1:</p>
<p>1.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFZX6Q0iwjs">Banquet - 3:01</a></p>
<p>2.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG-BK08XF6Y">Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire - 4:17</a></p>
<p>3.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJrcWedGVXQ">Barangrill - 2:52</a></p>
<p>4.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfiW9KVHiSo">Lesson in Survival - 3:11</a></p>
<p>5.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdZz2alnzmw">Let the Wind Carry Me - 3:56</a></p>
<p>Side 2:</p>
<p>6.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CxiZoecMc">For the Roses - 3:48</a></p>
<p>7.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6W0c8o14c">See You Sometime - 2:56</a></p>
<p>8.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_blokUE3o">Electricity - 3:01</a></p>
<p>9.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GqB1t4PBA">You Turn Me on I'm a Radio - 2:39</a></p>
<p>10.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15irpO_doi4">Blonde in the Bleachers - 2:42</a></p>
<p>11.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwxtVk7TgZU">Woman of Heart and Mind - 2:38</a></p>
<p>12.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMD7mcEpU6U">Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) - 5:19</a></p>
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<p>Back in the studio after years away, A sticker on my CD says "The radiant return of one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our time". I don't think I'd ever use the word radiant unless I was reviewing gas fires but I can understand and forgive whoever wrote that - decades after her first songs and she's still producing some beauties. To illustrate her quality, the first track "One Week Last Summer" won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.</p>
<p>The voice isn't quite what it was, sadly, and the songs are often harsher, reflecting the events that helped make her come back to speak out against "warmongering politicos and environmental myopia" (Paul Sullivan). Nonetheless, 99% of all known musicians must listen to this and weep.</p>
<p>The last track "If" is based on <a href="http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling's poem</a>.</p>
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<p>1.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJAB2ldIFqI" target="_blank">One Week Last Summer - 4:59 </a></p>
<p>2.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0aySOsX6fU" target="_blank">This Place - 3:54</a></p>
<p>3.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWyBD49W7a0" target="_blank">If I Had a Heart - 4:04</a></p>
<p>4.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBvHNgxwAvo" target="_blank">Hana" - 3:43</a></p>
<p>5.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFc6WlwaQwc" target="_blank">Bad Dreams - 5:41</a></p>
<p>6.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN6J16qVVM" target="_blank">Big Yellow Taxi - 2.47</a></p>
<p>7.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoc-WLD21PE" target="_blank">Night of the Iguana - 4:38</a></p>
<p>8.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uocbVICemc" target="_blank">Strong and Wrong - 4:04</a></p>
<p>9.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL02RTGMrQg" target="_blank">Shine - 7:29</a></p>
<p>10.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78cSts3tJw" target="_blank">If - 5:32</a></p>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-69967592872198406662018-10-22T02:37:00.002-07:002021-10-25T05:41:45.760-07:00Song To A Seagull - Joni Mitchell best albums #7<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1cFjGoM9Y_Vf5cFKCwiDKd8zJ4GM2_6g3HQbSNg_xVxWMShQTMcEe0fd7iWQjPDZH3TX0NtAC8_wGwUs553rMq9azq0mtOhb-P_cqCeJOZBVEEb_rn6KLx1oKuxNNjA_NMruuvUlmN2C/s320/song+to+a+seagull.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>Released in 1968 when she was 25, her first album is a haunting collection of songs, performed perfectly against her classical-pianist-influenced melodies and arrangements.</p>
<p>Joni thought of this as a two-part collection. The first part is melancholy (post-marriage collapse), the second deals with freedom and the sea.</p>
<p>Produced by David Crosby of CSN&Y fame.</p>
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Side 1: "I Came to the City"<br /><br />
1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKq6BDqIr9Y" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">I Had a King - 3:37</a><br />
2. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-iomVwcQk" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Michael from Mountains - 3:41</a><br />
3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXOs8ZBmRM" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Night in the City - 2:30</a><br />
4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfubxNVljw" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Marcie - 4:35</a><br />
5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQLPjt63k5U" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Nathan La Franeer - 3:18</a><br /><br />
Side 2: "Out of the City and Down to the Seaside"<br /><br />
1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadDIh5zl9Y" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Sisotowbell Lane - 4:05</a><br />
2. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-lyx5aW1EU" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Dawntreader - 5:04</a><br />
3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybe4w-b72EM" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Pirate Of Penance - 2:44</a><br />
4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcbhwA02fM" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Song to a Seagull - 3:51</a><br />
5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHcAfalhP4" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Cactus Tree - 4:35</a><br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-69330356645676015572018-10-22T02:31:00.000-07:002018-10-22T05:59:27.689-07:00Clouds - Joni Mitchell best albums #6<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BrA7WZmSMzr6Ud_9MYg6jR10NEjyznkYmv72hUOKlDi8ZwiL6l4njU1c4tqcT5buM0FcgQkPWRTxTw0EPnWvKQ_UmzETEHR27Saq_PoR93JQZJXhyJavUbyv0xLad7AMklJ2vKEco7Aq/s320/clouds.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>Joni's second album: very lightly arranged, which lets us appreciate her amazing voice and guitar work. Everyone knows "From Both Sides Now", previously recorded by other artists but here Joni does it herself for the first time and it's majestic.</p>
<p>Clouds won a Grammy for Best Folk Album 1969, was one of her greatest hits on the US charts and went gold, having sold over 500,000 copies in the US.<p>
<p>The Youtube clip linked at the end of this page is "Songs To Aging Children Come" - I've actually chosen someone else's version because it's from the film "Alice's Restaurant" and shows the burial of Woodie Guthrie. The link in the track listing is to Joni's original.</p>
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Side 1<br />
1.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEHz-wgtorc" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Tin Angel - 4:09</a><br />
2.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXe95iTtci0">Chelsea Morning - 2:35</a><br />
3.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVwaDh5MDpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">I Don't Know Where I Stand - 3:13</a><br />
4.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9R82TThjdw" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">That Song About the Midway - 4:38</a><br />
5.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXLEGTFgIA" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Roses Blue - 3:52</a><br /><br />
Side 2<br />
1.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_VsRYUfFw0" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Gallery - 4:12</a><br />
2.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjjJA9YitM0" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">I Think I Understand - 4:28</a><br />
3.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGMzuo6jwjU" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Songs to Aging Children Come - 3:10</a><br />
4.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6z79WMOPtk" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Fiddle and the Drum - 2:50</a><br />
5.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Both Sides Now - 4:32</a><br />
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<p>Songs To Aging Children Come</p>
<p><em>Does the moon play only silver<br />
When it strums the galaxy?<br />
Dying roses, will they will their<br />
Perfumed rhapsodies to me?</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXZcwxJ7V0" target="_blank">Sung by Tigger Outlaw at the grave of Woody Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant</a></p>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-19735850424087511772018-10-22T02:15:00.002-07:002018-10-22T02:17:48.144-07:00Shadows And Light - Joni Mitchell best albums #5<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguL-bIxeMAgT3xcm0aUue9asS0D51pZZntWs-I91IXPpwBIN0G_CGprlVdHcQPSkCJ1JwYmiIYTy33yYoICiuArjRuxm1fa_lpdoudRGdW08pN6GrZOyZC608pTJtBsQXlkquxCnL5_P0h/s320/shadows+and+light.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>Most of the albums I've chosen are studio recordings; Shadows is a live double CD from a concert, at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, September 1979, with Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. If you've listened to any of the tracks above you'll know what a great live performer Joni has been and this is her at her best. There aren't many artistes who transfer lush and complex studio arrangements so successfully to live performances - she does.</p>
<p>There are a few great concerts I can almost literally say I'd kill to have been there -- this is one of them, along with Woodstock and a certain Captain Beefheart night where bad things were thrown to the audience. Seriously, glorious music. If you want an extra treat, <a href="https://amzn.to/2ELsawy" target=_blank>there's a DVD of the concert on Amazon</a>.</p>
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<p>Disc: 1</p>
<p>1. Introduction</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7MCf7Ga3wc" target=_blank>In France They Kiss On Main Street</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJh1LecHOM" target=_blank>Edith And The Kingpin</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbr0hXkArWg" target=_blank>Coyote</a></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIQv1Xoi4M0" target=_blank>Goodbye Pork Pie Hat</a></p>
<p>6. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpyCEUESEw" target=_blank>The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines</a></p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFgxKov8Ts" target=_blank>Amelia</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYgfoBEicQ" target=_blank>Pat's Solo</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeFuhBD61WA" target=_blank>Hejira</a></p>
<p>Disc: 2</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmt0F83PrvA" target=_blank>Black Crow</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HHjJG7yWBE" target=_blank>Don's Solo</a> Paco</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH27LzBre5k" target=_blank>Dreamland</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A7yX9Kgv7I" target=_blank>Free Man In Paris</a></p>
<p>5. Band Introduction</p>
<p>6. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJyjFhCgkE" target=_blank>Furry Sings The Blues</a></p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwyUpGd8d8" target=_blank>Why Do Fools Fall In Love?</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NwwWuGN3ns" target=_blank>Shadows And Light</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtP_LGxgSA" target=_blank>God Must Be A Boogie Man</a></p>
<p>10. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyo1TsUlK-Y" target=_blank>Woodstock</a></p>
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<p>Another album where the songs were written while she was travelling, (hence the title), and still jazz-inspired, though perhaps more accessible than some of her other jazz works. Musically and lyrically it works perfectly and is another of my absolute favourites.</p>
<p>The album was liked by the critics but failed to appeal to commercial radio. Germany's Spex magazine rated this its 55th best album of the century and I might well agree with them.</p>
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<p>1. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfaBePrMXI" target=_blank>Coyote - 5:01</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAb6Jgb41mo" target=_blank>Amelia - 6:01</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ionRca6THE8" target=_blank>Furry Sings the Blues - 5:07</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFCsWHWZ6o" target=_blank>A Strange Boy - 4:15</a></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj5Be5ovas" target=_blank>Hejira - 6:42</a></p>
<p>6. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG0kNny3WlY" target=_blank>Song for Sharon - 8:40</a></p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2JmqMjBsc" target=_blank>Black Crow - 4:22</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkz_whh1bo" target=_blank>Blue Motel Room - 5:04</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-DW0_zUvAY" target=_blank>Refuge of the Roads - 6:42</a></p>
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<p>1970 saw Joni's third album released and I have to say it's one of my favourites - partly because of the time in my life that it coincided with but mainly because of the beauty of the lyrics. I've often thought that she doesn't write songs, she writes poetry set to music, and some of the tracks here are glorious,.</p>
<p>Most of you will have heard of Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock and The Circle Game - three songs off one album that have crossed musical barriers and become standards.</p>
<p>Special treat: a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp5iJGOHOlY" target="_blank">new, live version of Woodstock by David Crosby and his latest band.</a>
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<p>Side 1:</p>
<p>1. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbxg4u90so" target="_blank">Morning Morgantown - 3:12</a></p>
<p>2. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSgoNNQ0m8" target="_blank">For Free - 4:31</a></p>
<p>3. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rIS0vVHu-I" target="_blank">Conversation - 4:21</a></p>
<p>4. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph3SM0Vu_A0" target="_blank">Ladies of the Canyon - 3:32</a></p>
<p>5. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHyKCduedxM" target="_blank">Willy - 3:00</a></p>
<p>6. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maWOn_1Oeco" target="_blank">The Arrangement - 3:32</a></p>
<p>Side 2:</p>
<p>7. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v5Siv33hL4" target="_blank">Rainy Night House - 3:22</a></p>
<p>8. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAIqFTLlV4E" target="_blank">The Priest 3:39</a></p>
<p>9. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQX7y6bNlw" target="_blank">Blue Boy - 2:53</a></p>
<p>10. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20" target="_blank">Big Yellow Taxi - 2:16</a></p>
<p>11. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26LYjMww0GY" target="_blank">Woodstock - 5:25</a></p>
<p>12. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5HXT0bn7QY" target="_blank">The Circle Game - 4:50</a></p>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-1263927516595166612018-10-21T12:09:00.000-07:002018-10-21T12:09:21.888-07:00Joni Mitchell: Her Ten Best Albums<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV96fGwul8w4gsl8FCcsTNS8aH3mr-ppqn11uw30skh5SCfhwx2h5gkxn0a6eL2b6D-wqGswuDwfgEZGTYfF-SACuxVu5Bm-MKIixAl_jakepA92bxS9pxUd6bJFyRaWi81wpf_gGYv2fy/s200/joni+in+concert.jpg" width="250" height="250" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>Joni Mitchell's ten best albums - my favourite Joni albums and it's been a difficult choice to narrow it down to a top ten.</p>
<p>From my teenage years, when I first heard Clouds and her most famous album, the classic Blue, I have loved Joni Mitchell's songs - lyrics, music, delivery, all are incredible. Then I bought Ladies Of The Canyon and I was completely hooked for life. Joni Mitchell's best albums show her moving over the years from folk to jazz styles, with African influences on some records, her classical piano training adorning others. Whatever the style she delivers beautiful music. She's remained one of my favourite artists and here I list my ten favourite Joni Mitchell albums.</p>
<p>As a young woman Joni moved from Canada to New York, then Los Angeles, becoming part of the scene that included David Crosby, Jackson Browne and a host of now famous names from that golden era. Her background was the Canadian folk circuit but despite her lack of experience she wowed anyone who heard her: she's been doing it ever since. Here's my selection of Joni Mitchell's ten best albums: They include some of her greatest hits as well as a couple of less famous albums. I hope they become your favourites as much as they are mine.</p>
<p>Click an album cover below to go to a post, click any song on track listings to bring up a Youtube clip. Some are straight from the albums but I've tried to find live performances from the right era where available - check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzMt0M8fRc" target="_blank"> Little Green</a>, for instance.</p>
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Intro Pic: Joni in concert, 1972, BBCPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-6888932127727689682018-10-21T08:53:00.001-07:002019-09-19T08:56:35.094-07:00Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell best albums #2<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHnen9oIg2_Rxrp_2lvfdKTn-HtYt8G-L0NwTtvACsJmNYum0IrA0-IFM4xsEwNQfMV5sJIx0Yxx82Ummx9O8IoL0cfON2-ogavOaPQ-7kLTX78Za4ZuUARPcn9YbOPQ2jFaoGspC3gaqC/s320/hissing+of+summer+lawns.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>1975 saw the release of "Summer Lawns". Musical influences range from jazz to orchestral to African drumming to folk rock -- and yet it's a wonderfully coherent set of songs. As ever, the lyrics are beautiful and float on the arrangements, whether they be full orchestra or just Joni's guitar. One of my absolute favourite Joni Mitchell albums.</p>
<p>This album was slated by many critics, which only goes to show that major media critics should be shot.</p>
<p><em>Dressed in stolen clothes she stands<br />
Cast iron and frail<br />
With her impossibly gentle hands<br />
And her blood-red fingernails
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<p>1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgcHrbyTgk" target="_blank">In France They Kiss on Main Street - 3:19</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOBQ9YNRuYQ" target="_blank">The Jungle Line - 4:25</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJh1LecHOM" target="_blank">Edith and the Kingpin - 3:38</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EsKgeiic0k" target="_blank">Don't Interrupt the Sorrow - 4:05</a></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYMLKt-bK0" target="_blank">Shades of Scarlett Conquering - 4:59</a></p>
<p>7. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erQUlp6GYno" target="_blank">The Hissing of Summer Lawns - 3:01</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQc-reJOQ8A" target="_blank">The Boho Dance - 3:48</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgSS2fHbB7g" target="_blank">Harry's House/Centerpiece - 6:48 (Joni Mitchell/Jon Hendricks, Johnny Mandel)</a></p>
<p>10. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCriATVBcWk" target="_blank">Sweet Bird - 4:12</a></p>
<p>11. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_7d-qwYxs" target="_blank">Shadows and Light - 4:19</a></p>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451300033427560724.post-29277135827009440162018-10-21T08:34:00.003-07:002021-12-20T17:00:27.187-08:00Blue - Joni Mitchell best albums #1<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fbGBD0Cc08R6M5zFAArZvwFKO0F2ZUwE2iKVyMHSRw19YFNOO1iXIIKfrI2rSR26u8VlFr4fAe8XYZUdF2eX8iqaGv0qQV2iySWEh_8Pv66ttGt9elvUmzjnX7Yz0N_fHaTieyVA7gnq/s320/blue.jpg" width="320" height="320" style="float: left; margin: 0px 20px 5px 0px;" />
<p>The monster album, perhaps her most famous and the one that still has people raving to this day. Teenagers and solitary souls of the era ranked this with Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room - it was so powerful in its lyrics. Many who heard this first rank it as the best Joni Mitchell album, a favourite to listen to year after year,</p>
<p>The songs were written in several locations as Joni travelled after she and Graham Nash had broken up. They are raw with emotion, sad, and will strike a chord with anyone today. Do <strong>not</strong> however let the sadness and pain behind them put you off - this is a truly amazing set of songs.</p>
<p>In 1979 Mitchell reflected to Rolling Stone, "The Blue album, there's hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either".</p>
<p>Forty years after Blue's release, the track River was performed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-594U07NZfw" target="_blank">Lea Michele in the Glee 2011 Christmas special</a>. Not bad, but not Joni.</p>
<p>There's a good piece on <a href="http://flowerandthevine.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/sweet-inspiration-joni-mitchell-and-graham-nash/" target="_blank">some of the things that led up to Blue</a> on The Flower And The Vine blog.</p>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/22/joni-mitchell-blue-my-favourite-song-james-taylor-carole-king-graham-nash-david-crosby-kt-tunstall-birdy">Interesting celebration of Blue reaching its 50th birthday where various musicians talk about the album and their favourite tracks. </a>
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<p>1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AavxMdFiZo" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">All I Want - 3:32</a></p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_PIuEmj8s" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">My Old Man - 3:33</a></p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzMt0M8fRc" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Little Green - 3:25</a></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFGrRSVW8jk" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Carey - 3:00</a></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5782PQO5is" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Blue - 3:00</a></p>
<p>6. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm39YkGrHp8" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">California - 3:48</a></p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmfT5YPWrr8" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">This Flight Tonight - 2:50</a></p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpFudDAYqxY" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">River - 4:00</a></p>
<p>9. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_OtHVLAF4o" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">A Case of You - 4:20</a></p>
<p>10. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK_KtWwyLg" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Last Time I Saw Richard - 4:13</a></p>
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