yeah i'm not thinking just in terms of lyric but in the notes she chooses, the mood of the song, but then also the lyric filtered thru those decisions
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
also maybe hearing it thru decades of "hippie dream goes sour" songs/writing/movies etc
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
from the very beginning of her recording career there are always plenty of blue notes in Joni's songs that complicate the words
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
She did go and live in a cave the next year, though; there a sense of mourning but she's not Arthur Lee or Zappa casting a jaundiced eye on the hippies.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
I like Austra's floaty goth version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYE7s9EVSRU
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, July 6, 2021 10:31 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Southgate Serves Imperialism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, July 6, 2021 10:32 AM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
In fact, through hearing it performed in the Isle of Wight festival film, which was filmed the following year.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
Unearthed tape of Mitchell in Ottawa in 1968, recorded by Hendrix; sounds great:https://www.stereogum.com/2155564/joni-mitchell-the-dawntreader-jimi-hendrix-ottawa-1968/music/
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
had heard rumors of this tape but assumed the quality would be very lo-fi — this sounds much better than I expected. Jimi must've had good equipment.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
Four days before her first album was released.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
This was also when Joni first met Graham Nash
― doug watson, Thursday, 29 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Hmm, apparently that meeting happened four days earlier when The Hollies played the Capitol Theater. Joni did a two week gig at Le Hibou in March 68.
― doug watson, Thursday, 29 July 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
Anyone check out the new Archives box set yet? The bulk it seems to be whole shows.
― birdistheword, Friday, 12 November 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
Didn't think they'd shipped yet? Got a notice my copy had, but seems to have been premature, UPS shows no movement...
― Soundslike, Saturday, 13 November 2021 06:58 (two years ago) link
Ah ok. I thought they'd be in stores by now. Online shops that sell hi-res downloads already have them available. If it's streaming, I may give them a good listen over the weekend.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 07:03 (two years ago) link
I think she got better and better over the course of her first four albums, with Ladies of the Canyon and especially Blue being the two great ones, and I feel that's more or less reflected in the contents of the new Archives installment. The Hendrix recordings are a great find, no question about that, but I enjoy the Carnegie Hall recordings more and the final live recordings accompanied by James Taylor even more than both. Similarly, the demos and studio leftovers for Blue are more enjoyable simply because they involve better songs - to be fair, it would be hard for anyone to compete with them - and the earlier live performances of a few Blue songs are wonderful too.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 08:26 (two years ago) link
Blue is overrated and most everything else she did is somewhere between under appreciated and vastly underrated.
― zacata, Saturday, 13 November 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
There's probably some discussion upthread or elsewhere but 'For The Roses' is just as great as Blue but is sadly overshadowed by it. I think the kinda shitty, washed-out cover artwork is somehow partially to blame.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 13 November 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Weirdest discovery of the box for me so far isn't on the discs. In the accompanying booklet, there's an ad for a late '60s Joni performance, and on the bill is Four Jacks and a Jill. The show does not take place at a Ramada Inn in Kansas City. Maybe Fred Willard was on the scene in the '60s and dredged that memory up for Spinal Tap. Kinda neat to find out they were a real band.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 November 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Apparently the name was used earlier than that for a film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Jacks_and_a_Jill_%28film%29
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
The article for the band is also kind of interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Jacks_and_a_Jill#Career
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
About two dozen mentions in ILX archives. Skot a big fan.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
I didn't think Blue is overrated - it's her best work alongside several other masterpieces, not to mention a string of good-to-really-good albums - but given how it's been canonized in recent years as the greatest this and greatest that with virtually no mention of her other albums, I can see how it's overrated at the expense of everything else.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
*didn't think Blue was overrated
Appropriate that she was taped by Hendrix, before the debut alb release: they both emerged fully formed---later changes seemed logic of evolution (maybe some devolution in her case, as she lived so much longer, but then the covers album and some other resurgence from time to time). I'd already read sooo much about Dylan, that I wasn't that surprised by finally hearing him, but they just showed up.
― dow, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Of course, I'm talking late 60s, coulda prep-read tons about them later.
― dow, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Talking to Cary.
https://www.newstatesman.com/katemossmaninterview/2021/12/joni-mitchell-carey-california-blue-lyrics-cary-raditz-interview
― that's not my post, Friday, 17 December 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
The Last Time I Saw Richeard.
― Alba, Monday, 20 December 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
CLASSIC: https://jonimitchell.com/news/newsitem.cfm?id=1592
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 29 January 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
I think the Spotify fallout warrants its own thread
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 January 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
I wonder where Joe Rogan stands on Morgellon’s
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 29 January 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
Would it mess up Acts that are not on Spotify ?
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 29 January 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah, someone start fresh
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 29 January 2022 04:09 (two years ago) link
Sam Stone interviews Patrick Milligan on Vol. 2 of the archive series: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=5126
Vol. 3 will apparently cover 1972-1975.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
Cant wait for that volume
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 19 February 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
Joined by Brandi Carlile, Marcus Mumford and other artists, Mitchell played guitar, told stories, and sang a dozen songs in a surprise Newport headlining performance.“I just realized, Joni’s the least nervous person up here,” exclaimed Brandi Carlile halfway through a historic Newport Folk Festival set that paid tribute to Joni Mitchell, in her first full set-length concert appearance in two decades.Over 13 songs, Mitchell, who last appeared at the festival 53 years ago, in 1969, held court as a star-studded crew of musicians (Carlile, Blake Mills, Lucius, Wynonna, Celisse, Taylor Goldsmith, Marcus Mumford, and many more) sat around on couches on-stage playing a mix of her favorite oldies (The Persuasions’ “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” The Clovers’ “Love Potion No. 9” as well as an array of Mitchell masterpieces.Sitting in a throne, Mitchell began the set by occasionally singing along to her own songs, accompanied by vocalists like Carlile, (“Carey”) Goldsmith, (1991’s “Come In From The Cold”) and Celisse (“Help Me”). But by the end of the hour-plus performance, the 78 year-old singer who only recently sang on stage for the first time in nearly a decade had stood up, played a lengthy guitar solo (“Just Like This Train”) and sang a moving baritone lead vocal on Gershwin’s “Summertime'” as well as tear-jerking takes on “Both Sides Now” and “Circle Game.”The premise: Recreating the recently infamous “Joni Jams,” the informal A-list gatherings of musicians at Mitchell’s Los Angeles home in recent years, where everyone from Carlile to Elton John to Herbie Hancock to Bonnie Raitt gather around Mitchell and trade songs and stories in the years following Mitchell’s aneurysm. ”No one brings folk singers together like the humility of trying out a new song in front of Joni fucking Mitchell,” as Carlile, who curated and organized the entire set, explained in the introduction to the performance.At the end of the set, Carlile pronounced the night’s eternal important: “Joni Mitchell,” she proclaimed, “has returned.”
“I just realized, Joni’s the least nervous person up here,” exclaimed Brandi Carlile halfway through a historic Newport Folk Festival set that paid tribute to Joni Mitchell, in her first full set-length concert appearance in two decades.
Over 13 songs, Mitchell, who last appeared at the festival 53 years ago, in 1969, held court as a star-studded crew of musicians (Carlile, Blake Mills, Lucius, Wynonna, Celisse, Taylor Goldsmith, Marcus Mumford, and many more) sat around on couches on-stage playing a mix of her favorite oldies (The Persuasions’ “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” The Clovers’ “Love Potion No. 9” as well as an array of Mitchell masterpieces.
Sitting in a throne, Mitchell began the set by occasionally singing along to her own songs, accompanied by vocalists like Carlile, (“Carey”) Goldsmith, (1991’s “Come In From The Cold”) and Celisse (“Help Me”). But by the end of the hour-plus performance, the 78 year-old singer who only recently sang on stage for the first time in nearly a decade had stood up, played a lengthy guitar solo (“Just Like This Train”) and sang a moving baritone lead vocal on Gershwin’s “Summertime'” as well as tear-jerking takes on “Both Sides Now” and “Circle Game.”
The premise: Recreating the recently infamous “Joni Jams,” the informal A-list gatherings of musicians at Mitchell’s Los Angeles home in recent years, where everyone from Carlile to Elton John to Herbie Hancock to Bonnie Raitt gather around Mitchell and trade songs and stories in the years following Mitchell’s aneurysm. ”No one brings folk singers together like the humility of trying out a new song in front of Joni fucking Mitchell,” as Carlile, who curated and organized the entire set, explained in the introduction to the performance.
At the end of the set, Carlile pronounced the night’s eternal important: “Joni Mitchell,” she proclaimed, “has returned.”
(Fellow more or less retiree Paul Simon apparently also popped up to play at the Fest with, um, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 July 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
holy shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqGjaFDTxQ
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 25 July 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
also burning jealousy at Mills getting to lead on "Amelia" which is probably my favourite of all
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 25 July 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
sorry you had to work with Mumford Joni, be well
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 July 2022 08:28 (one year ago) link
goddamn joni you make me cry in the office
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 25 July 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
such an absolute wonder of songwriting I can't fathom how it was written by a 22 year old
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 25 July 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
it only grows
Truly stunning
― Mule, Monday, 25 July 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
“Both Sides Now” just made me bawl like a baby. Such a beautiful performance.
― Skrot Montague, Monday, 25 July 2022 12:36 (one year ago) link
It made me think to myself, you know, one day she'll be gone and I'll probably never get over it.
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 July 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
Annoyingly "twee" hippy songstress with a piercing warble that could make dogs' heads explode.
This could be the single worst take I've read in my (admittedly, relatively short) time here.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 July 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
Incredible. So happy to see and hear her again.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
she sounds fantastic
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 July 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
idk if she'll ever be able to perform a full concert again, let alone go on tour, but i'm incredibly glad that this happened
xxp olde ILM is full of takes like that, it's quite the contrarian time capsule
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Monday, 25 July 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
Damn, i cried. Welcome back.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 July 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link