Reasons to love Joni Mitchell's Hejira album

that’s funny because I haven’t listened to Spotify since then

touché

bit of a dickish comment from me tbh

goat album. outstanding review. accurate score.

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.

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

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.

Coyote's in the coffee shop
He's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
He picks up my scent on his fingers
While he's watching the waitresses' legs

awful good

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.

This is my favourite JM album. Going to listen again right now.