As someone who benefits greatly from context and narrative, this may be personal, but to me, a great review falls somewhere between reading and listening. Even as you're reading it there are subtle recalibrations of sense memory taking place, different positions from which to view experience opening up; I return to the music altered, the music changed too. Hard to explain. Anyway, that was a great review.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
blue motel room perfectly understated, suits hejira like buckets of rain does blood on the tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Raw8Hmlj4c
honey tell 'em you've got... ggggeeeerrrms
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:43 (seven months ago) link
Thank you; we've got our first cold morning in Savannah and this will be the perfect thing to listen to while driving the kids to school.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:48 (seven months ago) link
Coyote's in the coffee shopHe's staring a hole in his scrambled eggsHe picks up my scent on his fingersWhile he's watching the waitresses' legs
awful good
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 18 February 2024 12:45 (three months ago) link
The lyrics are just next level, the sheer craft of them.
Something I was struck by recently is how perfectly each opening line sets up the song’s story (not in the sense of encapsulating it; more like dropping a pin on a map and then exploring outwards from there) and draws you in:
- “No regrets, Coyote / we just come from such different sets of circumstance”- “I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes / Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain”
etc.
You immediately want to know what is coming.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:27 (three months ago) link
This is my favourite JM album. Going to listen again right now.
― Duke, Sunday, 18 February 2024 23:18 (three months ago) link
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― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 31 May 2024 04:38 (one week ago) link
Great deep dive into Hejira in the new Uncut, (featuring a few bits, I must confess, by me)https://www.uncut.co.uk/publications/uncut-july-2024-146032/
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:51 (one week ago) link
I'll have to get my hands on it!
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 31 May 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
There are some good live videos of this era of Joni Mitchell and her all star jazz band with Jaco, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker and Don Alias online.
Definitely worth looking up on the tube.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 31 May 2024 19:43 (one week ago) link
This is my favorite Joni album (although Court comes close) but it only hits at full impact in mid-late Autumn.
― Slim is an Alien, Friday, 31 May 2024 20:02 (one week ago) link