Love and sex and pretty pictures for the papers - this is what people talk about when it comes to Joni Mitchell and her boy gang, but that was all extra. Music was the point, and the prize. I need to talk about the music Joni made with, about, for, and despite the boys. Comin...
“These are my last two records. I’m quitting after this, because the business has made itself so repugnant to me.”—Joni Mitchell,Wmagazine The quote from Mitchell is interesting for a number of reasons. Arguably, at this point in her long career, it could be said that she’s done ...
The more intense became her fans' devotion, the harder it became for Joni Mitchell to express her innermost feelings without inhibition. "After a while when people come up and say they love a song it begins to sound hollow and you meet so many people that misunderstood what you said," she...
and you look forward to hearing each part come around again! Good old Joni Mitchell, and her brain. Actually, let me correct two statements I made in that last paragraph, as they're bothering me even now, just moments after I typed them: (1) This album doesn't sound like Television....
Now reissued on 180g vinyl, Joni Mitchell's third album found the singer-songwriter perfecting her confessional – and highly influential – style, says Steve Sutherland It's complicated. There's a song on Blue, Joni Mitchell's fourth LP, which is not th
now, very vividly, when you put those records on. You feel what Mitchell felt about Woodstock: the urge to get back to the garden, fully aware that it can’t be, that it’s impossible and faintly annoying to think otherwise, but knowing also that people’s best intentions are always ...
Mitchell returned with a new sound. Her core folk leanings were still there, but now they were coated in a jazzy gloss. The result is a major achievement in adult pop music. This grown-up vision didn't hurt sales one bit: 'Court and Spark' includes Mitchell's only Top 10 single, "...
Mitchell's debut album is a tentative first step. She's pretty much solo here, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and piano. Stephen Stills provides bass on one song; David Crosby produced (Mitchell was dating their bandmate Graham Nash at the time). Her best songs would come later, ...
Mitchell's debut album is a tentative first step. She's pretty much solo here, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar and piano. Stephen Stills provides bass on one song; David Crosby produced (Mitchell was dating their bandmate Graham Nash at the time). Her best songs would come later, ...
That summer, Bowman invited Mitchell down to the station to record an audition tape. Sitting on a stool in front of a microphone, she laid down nine traditional folk songs over the course of two evenings: “House of the Rising Sun,”“Tell Old Bill,”“Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song),...