There's a windswept quality to Joni Mitchell's Hejira that goes beyond the landscapes depicted in its songs. This 1976 album is a travel diary set to an expansive and evocative jazz-rock score. Coolly luminous, the music frames lyrics at once intimately conversational and meticulously poetic. ...
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歌手:Matt NathansonJoni Mitchell River - Matt Nathanson Lyrics by:Joni Mitchell Composed by:Joni Mitchell It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river ...
Her work helped birth a new idiom that was personal and poetic, creating a new space for songs that made artistic statements, unbound by cliché and tradition. Such was the strength of her music that Mitchell's lyrics didn't have to make sense. But they did, particularly to women. ...
Lyrics by:J.Mitchell Composed by:J.Mitchell It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to ...
Here are 10 deeper Mitchell cuts to start that journey, into this woman of heart and mind. "The Gallery" (Clouds, 1969) Mitchell blew everyone’s minds when David Crosby discovered her in a small club in South Florida. Her 1968 debut, Song to a Seagull, contains key songs from that ...
was how reliant this performance was on mitchell’s solo voice, for however much expert support she got from the cast. the songs taken from parts of her career when she’d already developed a more mature voice, in the ‘80s and ‘90s, work especially wonderfully now that she ...
Mitchell’s songs do this work, detailing the inner life of someone risking unbound thought: the high-flying dreams and the crashes into sadness, the struggles between “the power of reason and the flowers of deep feeling”—the way, as she sang in Hejira’s “Song for Sharon,” these ...
But what was remarkable — and maybe a little bit surprising even if you’d been fortunate to catch one of the rare previous Joni Jams — was how reliant this performance was on Mitchell’s solo voice, for however much expert support she got from the cast. The songs taken from parts ...
But what was remarkable — and maybe a little bit surprising even if you’d been fortunate to catch one of the rare previous Joni Jams — was how reliant this performance was on Mitchell’s solo voice, for however much expert support she got from the cast. The songs taken from...