Though Mitchell's debut, Song to a Seagull, was a heavy precedent for the era it's a harder listen now, the fin de siècle earth-mama lyrics playing strange against the stilted, formal musical settings. The delicate album suffers under Crosby's intrusive production; Mitchell would self-...
“Song to a Seagull,” the title track of Mitchell’s 1968 debut album, formally introduced her to the world. Judy Collins and Buffy Sainte-Marie had already released hit covers of her songs, but this was her own gentle, poetic meditation on feeling halved by the natural and manmade world...
歌手:Joni Mitchell 发行时间:2020-09-11 简介:This outstanding recording preserves one of Jonis superb early North American gigs, a performance at the intimate Second Fret Club in Philadelphia, captured by the citys Temple University radio station, WRTI, in November 1966 and broadcast across the ...
But for Joni Mitchell, it’s a ripe romantic metaphor in waiting. In “My Old Man”, the second track on her fourth album, 1971’s Blue, the singer-songwriter plays the piano while singing a sunny ode to the life she shared with a “singer in the park” and “dancer in the dark...
This living legend spoke to GRAMMY.com about her old associates Joni Mitchell,Leonard Cohen, andJacques Brel; her still-developing artistry, and the road ahead in 2023. (And, yes, the kitties.) This interview has been edited for clarity. ...
Her 1968 debut, Song to a Seagull, contains key songs from that initial flashpoint, like "Michael from Mountains" and "The Dawntreader."Mitchell’s artistic vision truly coalesced on her second album, Clouds. Although the production is a little wan and bare-boned, Clouds contains a handful ...
Mitchell's much-admired early songwriting produced hits for folk artists Judy Collins and Fairport Convention among others, before providing her with the foundation for both her self-titled debut album in 1968 and the following year's set Clouds. It was the latter album that provided the song ...
Bennighof sets out, as he explains in his introduction, to analyze all 167 original songs that have appeared on Joni Mitchell's albums over the last 43 years (p. xvi) and he does just that, moving album by album, track by track, from her eponymous...
专辑名:Clouds 歌手:Joni Mitchell 发行时间:1969-05-01 简介:by David Cleary Clouds is a stark stunner, a great leap forward for Joni Mitchell. Vocals here are more forthright and assured than on her debut and exhibit a remarkable level of subtle expressiveness. Guitar alone is used in accomp...
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Joni Mitchell's eighth album, an iridescent meditation on solitude, a masterpiece in her catalog and acr