Jerry Garcia’s pedal steel and Joni Mitchell’s harmony vocals turn “Laughing,” the most conventional song on the record, into the psych-folk ideal: a lazy sunset that gains resonance as it subdues. The kaleidoscopic opener “Music Is Love” was just a plaintive guitar riff before the ...
but as sessions proceeded and the work primarily came together on the spot, the truth began to trickle out. While it lacks a narrative arc or straightforward lyrics, the nine-track record lands upon something richer than obvious words: That of a distinct, persistent vibe indicative of ...
but this one deals with how you get very selfish when you fall in love with someone, and you don’t want to share them with the world, you just want them all about yourself. What’s genius about Mike’s lyrics is that ...
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Joni Mitchell In 2017, NPR set out to name the top 150 albums made by women. At #1 on that list? Joni Mitchell’s 1971 classic, “Blue.” Called simple and radical, “Blue” was a rousing call for equality.Mitchell's influenceon the music world—for male and female musicians alike—...
. . BE BRAINY: Pretend that you only dabble with pop in between your more cerebral artistic endeavours. Be a Writer (Pete Townshend became a consultant editor at Faber & Faber, Lou Reed published his lyrics as poetry) or an Artist (David Bowie and Joni Mitchell have declared that … ...
where he developed a fan following by performing at places like the Riverboat Coffee House. In the documentary, Lightfoot goes back his former stomping grounds in Yorkville to reminisce about his humble beginnings in the mid-1960s Toronto music scene, which included Joni Mitchell and Neil Young....
Video: Joni Mitchell Sings ‘Girl From the North Country.’‘I Shall Be Released’ & More April 28, 2014 Watch: The Hold Steady Premiere New Video for ‘I Hope This Whole Thing Doesn’t Frighten You’ + More April 28, 2014 Audio: Stream New Brian Eno/Karl Hyde Album, ‘Someday ...
This is stillPhantomfor good or ill. It still has Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score intact (which divides people), Charles Hart’s debatable lyrics, and the still murky flawed script by Webber and Richard Stilgoe which lets crucial information zip by so quickly (like Chr...
“Sad Mary” trope has other precursors in popular music:Joni Mitchelltold VH1 in 1991that fans wanted her “single and suffering.” But for black women in particular, that impulse feeds into a kind of pathological belief that they are superhumanly strong and impervious to major pain. In the...