This song gives me chills.

@neilryan4166

4 жыл бұрын

Well put.

@christymarshall1938

4 жыл бұрын

It holds something special for me. There's just something about it that gets to me. It scratches some sort of weird itch and answers the questions I ask before I can even come up with the questions. The song is addictive to me. I love it. Always will. Thank-you Joni Mitchell. Thank-you very much. You've touched me!!!

@ashleyjudecollie

4 жыл бұрын

Joni gives me chills!

@pc-xg4gr

4 жыл бұрын

@@ashleyjudecollie completely. always.

@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson

4 жыл бұрын

It borderline pornography its so chilling....oh I was in love with Joni....in the early 70s.....and when I found out she was with Graham Nash I was heartbroken....fucken GN stealin my girl!!!!

Joni wrote a LOT of great songs. . . But this one always has struck me as the most quintessential Joni Mitchell masterpiece. A song she and only she could ever come close to writing, let alone pull off with such flair and virtuosity. It's just perfect.

@TheEleatic

Жыл бұрын

Great song, but Jaco Pastorius lifted it (the entire album) into the stratosphere. Did you know it is about her fling with Sam Sheppard during The Rolling Thunder Review? Search for her singing it in Gordon Lightfoot’s house with Dylan and Roger McGuinn.

@chart2071

Жыл бұрын

It’s about Sam Shepherd…that sexy Scorpio

@chart2071

Жыл бұрын

Love Jaco…modifying his bass guitar. Love love love!

@gilharrison8696

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEleatic I have a theory that this song is very telling about the life women lived during this movement, and it wasn't great. White lines always refer to cocaine, and the rest explains itself, especially the communal living and the wolf.

@geetallygee5089

Жыл бұрын

@@gilharrison8696thought Joni was describing her musicians’ life always traveling, becoming a prisoner of the freeway, those white painted lines on the freeway🛣️ 🤍

goddamn what a song ... brutality honest...she never fails

You can just tell by the way Rick and Robbie look over at Joni, she can capture the attention of the entire room, even the performers. Such a captivating and innovative performer.

@charleybarley914

8 ай бұрын

oh they ALL had a crush on Joni from Neil Young to Graham Nash to James Taylor to Leonard Cohen etcet..I think Joni crushes were endemic among the boys in the other bands.

@cactaceous

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@charleybarley914Not just crushes. They all fucked her. You forgot to mention David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report’s Don Alias…amongst many others most likely including Bob Dylan as well. Hell, this song is about her affair with Sam Shepard. She had a reputation of being passed around. Rolling Stone once infamously dubbed her the “Queen of El Lay”.

@Weshopwizard

4 ай бұрын

@@charleybarley914why wouldn’t you? She’s the total package.

@thestuffilike9206

Ай бұрын

They might be coyotes

Coyote is a very complicated song. The fact that The Band so tightly wedded to Jonies vocals just attests to their talents.that

Amazing, just amazing. She has always been the one who gets to the very core of it. There are no throw away lines

@texasburbie

3 жыл бұрын

Miss her! I was only 9or ten but 5 older sibs. Good times!

@TonyfromBham

3 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly right.

@jessestoler2828

3 жыл бұрын

No throw away *syllables*, let alone lines

@carnivaltym

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic guitar, as always, too!

@scottmckenna9164

3 жыл бұрын

One of all time great performances!

There is a whole movie in this one song. Love Joni.

@ScottOmatic

9 жыл бұрын

There is a whole movie..... IN YOUR REAR-VIEW MIRROR

@JohnGeorgeHill

9 жыл бұрын

ScottOmatic Oh no. :)

What an excellent performance by The Band, they played flawlessly on this incredibly complicated melody with glorious syncopated rhythms and Joni was... Joni.

@lauratanner8475

2 жыл бұрын

Yea they were an incredible "backing band" aside from being an incredible band in their own right. I like this version even more than her studio version. And her lyrics! So awesome on this song! It's like an abstraction above the normal mode of communication. If that makes sense? Anyway I love it!!!

@Taine2

Жыл бұрын

Might be the most heartfelt performance on this show which was chock full of them! Good Lord that’s good.

@malcolmf1381

Жыл бұрын

I am sure Joni wandered if ROCK BAND was up to backing her in this song. Wonder no more Joni.

@BobSoltis1

Жыл бұрын

@@malcolmf1381 Joni was well aware that this band was NOT a rock band.

@bassfacekillah

Жыл бұрын

So true! But to be fair there were plenty of overdubs that happened in post ;)

Just when you think you can grab hold of the melody, it darts away from you; just an epic song from a superb story teller.

@arvismar

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Changing keys back and forth. Only a true musician could sing it.

@williamherron1281

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Gzoratto

2 жыл бұрын

Robbie Robertson, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell? Canadian friggin' assassins.

@Cristobels-Green-Boots

2 жыл бұрын

Try ‘Barangrill’. 🤨?

@staynielherbayn657

Жыл бұрын

Maybe if it’s one of your first time listening to the songs. Surely you know it once you listen to the song a bunch?

Her brilliance is staggering.

@futureselfnow

9 ай бұрын

agreed a million percent. i’m in utter awe of her.

This song of quiet desperation, loneliness, and looking for love in the arms of strangers is Joni at the peak of her powers.

@markdarnell614

6 жыл бұрын

It's supposedly about Sam Shepard

@only5186

5 жыл бұрын

Her delivery is so fkn perfect! I mean she makes you get it ya know? Like it almost starts out inaccessible but right away the inflection and sharp rounded smoothness of her voice just pulls ya right in. Wow!

@gashousegorillas1

2 жыл бұрын

GET YOURSELF A DOG

I will not pretend to be eloquent enough to describe this beast of a talent. There is only one Joni Mitchell. She is timeless!

I love how she giggles when she says "and lead me on that way". You can hear it even more clearly on the Last Waltz live recording. What an icon.

@renbernscott4637

2 жыл бұрын

I so agree! I am now seeing 30 year olds 🤍Joni

Love the way Rick and Robbie are captured looking at her; excellent camera work camera person

An artist to be remembered for all time. Pioneer, songstress, poet, artist, free thinker, musical ground breaker... independent soul......

@lindafleming3907

5 жыл бұрын

.. genius!

@garycoon6866

4 жыл бұрын

U summed up exactly the way I feel about Joni, and that performance in particular

@ashleyjudecollie

4 жыл бұрын

Incandescent Joni!

@unenslaver1333

4 жыл бұрын

Facial structure, movement, vibe. Every note in a perfect groove. Pure genius.

@AA-sn9lz

4 жыл бұрын

Songstress?

This movie, and for me, this performance in particular, really shows off the Band's musical chops as they manage to sound like the world's greatest backing band by sounding good while playing with artists from across the rock/pop/blues spectrum

Peerless. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but Joni is such a singular, unmatchable spirit that she stands apart and alone. I've never thought of "the next Joni Mitchell" because it's not possible.

@georgeingmire7258

3 жыл бұрын

I've given up on figuring out who she drew inspiration from - the closest I've come was based on her collaboration with Charles Mingus, but that did not solve the mystery of her singularity in the least.

@lowlypieceofdata7542

3 жыл бұрын

She is a precious gem forged purely by the times

@kilgoretrout321

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgeingmire7258 listen to her Archives box sets. It's interesting how she starts off a folkie but keeps working on her own music and step by step starts adding her own twists and turns to her style until she no longer sounds like a folkie, she sounds like Joni Mitchell. She just kept growing, playing with other people, and trying to express herself. Plus the tunings she came up with kept her from getting stuck in the guitar rut that we all fall into, where we just default to the same patterns over and over. She could escape that and focus on the music

@arvismar

2 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@arvismar

2 жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly

This is probably the best performance of all time.

So impressed by how The Band can play with anyone.

@craigedwards2940

11 ай бұрын

They had Garth Hudson.

@YewtBoot

11 ай бұрын

@@craigedwards2940 And Robbie!

@jameshannigan6551

4 ай бұрын

It’s all in the rhythm.

the songwriting was so far ahead of its time

280 people voted thumbs down? What does Joni owe them money? You can't name one person, man or woman, who could give such a performance today.

@eddythefan

2 жыл бұрын

FOOLS who didn't even watch all of it!!

@chrissarles1686

2 жыл бұрын

She’s good but she’s no cardi-b Lol I nearly choked writing that LIE

@woodsyboy69

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck them people

@fosbury68

7 ай бұрын

280 dead souls. 560 tin ears.

@silentm999

7 ай бұрын

Coincidentally, there are 280 worldwide member of the He-Man Woman Hater's Club.

That nose, those high cheek bones, such intensity and sensuality and intelligence. No female singer of country rock or folk can match her today.

@joshuaarandt2448

5 ай бұрын

Don’t close yourself off, art is art, a great to be sure, but it’s subjective to an extent. But.., probably right 😁

@spikejonzelover420

26 күн бұрын

Men can’t appreciate anything a woman does without pointing out their appearance

Best version of Coyote ever. Joni takes no prisoners, and the rhythm of the Band is incomparable

@KayDuBrall

9 күн бұрын

100000% - and I love every version. But this one? Oh my God! ❤❤❤❤

I've watched this 100 times. I still can't get over the way I'm mesmerised by this performance. And every time, I hear something different in the lyrics, an expression, a smile....

@Snakenumber9

8 ай бұрын

yes!! thats exactly it, it’s enchanting! always noticing something new about a song you love 💕⭐️💫

@mcparlandt

3 ай бұрын

Coyote, yo.

As close to perfect as a song can be,. Joni rolling it with the best backup band ever.

@davidgoulden5956

11 ай бұрын

Agree. An absolutely dazzling song.

She is so beautiful in every way, it is staggering.

maybe my favorite song of the great Joni Mitchell. I can't recall the number of times I listen the Hejira album

Imagine being in a flirtatious relationship and wanting to write about it come up with something this complex, poetic and witty! It’s just staggeringly beautiful x

Massive Joni fan. Just replayed this on "Shadow and Light"........with Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker and Pat Metheny in her backing band...for fuck's sake.... cannot get better!

"their pills and powders to get them through this passion play" on that specific stage in those specific circumstances...man, Joni always comes in at a deeper level

@VolodyaVolodenka1981

5 жыл бұрын

@hello is it me youre looking for lots of coke is said to have been consumed on that tour

@MosesDeLaRoses

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Pretty sure Scorsese was rubbing it in to his bell end at that point

@lynnchotoocho9713

3 жыл бұрын

When she sang that lyric the guy to her left smiled and looked impressed .

@cvarga

3 жыл бұрын

And the alliteration! Along with" "You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail"; "He went running thru the whisker wheat" "Privately probing the public rooms"; "While he's watching the waitresses' legs / He's too far from the Bay of Fundy"; "And the air conditioned cubicles / And the carbon ribbon rides"; & " To run away and wrestle with my ego"!

@DuchessWow

3 жыл бұрын

@@cvarga Man, I've heard this song a million times, and never put that together intellectually (though of course it's a big part of how and why I've responded to the lyrics that feel so - rhythmic!)

"No regrets coyote, I just get off up aways". YOU SLAY ME JONI!! Such a badass song written by an incredible songwriter. She gets into the nitty gritty of what a rock n roll relationship was really like. The good, the bad, AND the ugly

The most singular songwriting talent of the 20th Century. Just to have shared a planet with her is a joy.

Joni Mitchell never lies!

Jesus Joni....her lyrics and voice cut straight through my soul. I don't know why her stuff (especially this period) just gets to me. Beautiful.

The groooove of this tune is off the f-ing charts, man. She’s just a magically musical gift to us all.

No regrets, coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance I'm up all night in the studios And you're up early on your ranch You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail While the sun is ascending And I'll just be getting home with my reel to reel There's no comprehending Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes And the lips you can get And still feel so alone And still feel related Like stations in some relay You're not a hit and run driver, no, no Racing away You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway We saw a farmhouse burning down In the middle of nowhere In the middle of the night And we rolled right past that tragedy 'Til we turned down to some road house lights Where a local band was playing Locals were up kicking and shaking on the floor And the next thing I know That coyote's at my door He pins me in a corner and he won't take no He drags me out on the dance floor And we're dancing close and slow Now he's got a woman at home He's got another woman down the hall He seems to want me anyway Why'd you have to get so drunk And lead me on that way You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway I looked a coyote right in the face On the road to Baljennie, near my old home town He went running thru the whisker wheat Chasing some prize down And a hawk was playing with him Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes He had those same eyes just like yours Under your dark glasses Privately probing the public rooms And peeking through keyholes in numbered doors Where the players lick their wounds And take their temporary lovers And their pills and powders To get them through this passion play No regrets, coyote I just get off up aways You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway 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 He's too far from the Bay of Fundy From appaloosas and eagles and tides And the air conditioned cubicles And the carbon ribbon rides Are spelling it out so clear Either he's going to have to stand and fight Or take off out of here I tried to run away myself To run away and wrestle with my ego With this, this flame You put here in this Eskimo In this hitcher In this prisoner Of the fine white lines Of the white lines on the free, freeway

Hejira is one of the greatest albums ever.

Not only is she on top form, but all musicians involved are peaking. Unreal. Such a musician: hard to understand how anyone can be this good.

JONI AM AN OLD BLACK VET i BELEVE IN YOUR MUSIC ITS MY LIFE MY BIBLE. 74 WISE YET YOUNG. THANK YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE. bob

La letra, genial, pero la música de esta canción es una maravilla! Qué calidad y con qué gusto canta❤

This performance was beyond incredible. Some of the best musicians in the world were figuring it out on the fly how to keep up with Joni. Robbie Robertson figured it out and Rick Danko tagged along. Simply amazing.

@johnvastola7748

Жыл бұрын

Yes I noticed same, jazz players had easier time following her. She has her own spot somewhere between jazz, folk and progressive rock.

@johnvalencia9927

Жыл бұрын

No way this was on the fly, they definitely rehearsed it.

@jukeboxfandango

Жыл бұрын

Danko was no Jaco

@philfriden4164

Жыл бұрын

@@jukeboxfandango but Danko did very good with this number, well done

@fosbury68

7 ай бұрын

Nobody was Jaco@@jukeboxfandango

There's something hypnotic about watching Ms Mitchell live

Pure, unadulterated brilliance. This woman never ceases to inspire.

"On the road to Baljennie near my old hometown." That line caught me the first time I heard this song on FM radio. My dad's mother was born in Baljennie, as one of the first non-native babies born out on the Saskatchewan prairie.

She's a genius. Her music will live as long as there are people to listen.

Don't underestimate her talent. It towers above most everyone else.

@diorme7510

4 жыл бұрын

she is a genius

@arisumego

4 жыл бұрын

nightridehome - put it perfectly

@nealmac187

4 жыл бұрын

She was always a most awesome, precise rythmn guitarist, as well as a poet.

@instanceTu

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

@aquamarine99911

3 жыл бұрын

There have been lots of talented musician/songrwriters. Some are even geniuses. But Joni is on a different spiritual plane. You can argue about the Beatles and the Stones, but Joni is incomparable to anybody else. Maybe Hendrix would be the closest to her, in terms of making the guitar their own and writing and singing lyrics on a different wavelength.

"you just picked up a hitcher" , nice memories too! Thank you!

Makes me feel privileged to be in the same generation and to have listened to her all my life from 67-68 till now.

Joni Mitchell has always been way ahead of all her so called contemporaries.

One of humanity's true bright lights. Joni is proof that nature is capable of magnificence when it can gift a being with such unearthly, staggeringly deep musical talent. Stuff like that doesn't come along but once every couple of generations--we are lucky to be around for this one.

Don’t you just love the respect The Band give Joni 🙏🏽

She is the angel of our generation, channeling the cosmos right into our ears.

Joni is something special when she sings.

Brilliant Joni ... and I love how Danko concentrates on her every nuance and move. The best.

@Zappaiti

7 жыл бұрын

I'd watch her every nuance and move, too (and did, in '78, when I first saw this ... OMG)

@eugenewardjr.3506

7 жыл бұрын

+la la Liz And Robert Plant had An Aching In His Heart..to be Goin' To California to meet her. Oh Joni! What do you do to these men? You know the same rowdy crowd that was here last night is back again!

@patrickstrittmatter6925

7 жыл бұрын

That's what I love about The Band. they are constantly watching each other staying in sync. look at Levon and Richard Manuel all throughout the last waltz. guys were such pros. left everything out there on the stage.

@madeleinehague648

7 жыл бұрын

I read a Led Zeppelin bio, and it was hilarious reading how Page and Plant - two "rock gods" were shaking in their boots as they were about to meet Joni. LOL!

@Zappaiti

7 жыл бұрын

Madeleine Hague as they should!

I can never, ever watch this video just once...she's a singer, songwriter and an actress all together. Wonderful woman.

I remember watching this in the mid-80s on a VHS, just hanging with friends, while in college. I'd heard Joni before for sure. But I heard and saw this, and had one of those musical moments, those epiphanies when the music shows you a whole new world. I will never forget it, and it's with me still. And as an aside, amazing to see her exhaling smoke and stamping out her cigarette as she goes on stage.

How many fell in love with Joni ?

@Twigliz

8 жыл бұрын

+Clive Richardson Everyone with taste!

@annettemarshall4895

8 жыл бұрын

+Clive Richardson At least two members of Led Zep for starters

@Gomek2

8 жыл бұрын

+Clive Richardson She show infinitely more artist talent and merit than virtually 100 percent of the so called musicians today! Let's see them get up without a teleprompter and sing a song as complex as this all the way through.

@Justin72walker

8 жыл бұрын

+Clive Richardson I think I've always been in love with her... yep, I'm sure of it. I've always been in love with all that is majestic, female and creative.

@RollingOrmond

7 жыл бұрын

Nope. Buck-toothed pretentious cow.

Her mouth.. and the way words form and tumble out of it.. is beautiful, incredible and mesmerizing. 💋😘

I actually forgot how damn good she is . the best of the best.

HAPPY Belated BIRTHDAY Joni!!🎉 Sitting here watching The Last Waltz on this early Sunday morning.

Its more than beautiful, its legendary and irreplaceable.

One of the most uncompromising artists of all time.

Her Court and Spark Album along with Kate Bush's The Hounds of Love will always, and I mean always will be on my top 10 albums of all time, no matter how old I live to be. Those two women are the embodiment of what it means to have pure skill and talent where music is concerned. Their music will stand the test of time, where so much of what is being produced now will be long forgotten in less than a decade, maybe sooner.

@Missjunebugfreak

5 жыл бұрын

Joni and Kate are two of my favorite songwriters and musicians of all time. Both incredibly gifted with words and great storytellers. For me Joni's 'Hejira' and Kate's 'The Dreaming' are in my favorite albums of all time.

Rest in Peace, "Coyote." Sam Shepard, 73. Great actor, but genius playwright. You will be sorely missed!

@jimsmint

4 жыл бұрын

Is that who she's singing about??

@johnenglish1955

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimsmint 🤠Yep. She said in many interviews that the song was about Sam. 👍

@John-pc3cx

3 жыл бұрын

Well she wrote it during the Rolling Thunder tour, Shepard was on it but so where a lot of guys. Could have been Dylan too.

@johnenglish1955

3 жыл бұрын

@@John-pc3cx 🤠It's certainly possible. I've often wondered if Robbie Robertson is a possibility???🤔 Knowing Joni's self-confessed, younger "wild streak" days it could be a combination (or pack) of several coyotes! 🐺🐺🐺LOL

@poetcomic1

2 жыл бұрын

@@John-pc3cx SHE said it was Sam Shepard and Dylan and Joni? NO WAY.

Brilliantly smart, with a taut unique sense of rhythm.. so sly and witty, so damn knowing, in deeply original, complex but elegant music and lyrics.. sounds great 40 years later.

this performance was the first time I had heard Joni. I was spellbound by her. still am. music got bigger for me. her songs are big.

What a wonderful wordsmith and vocal and instrumental talent she is. She's given the music world tons of astonishing melodies and lyrics. It's hard to fathom it all...

@joecamiling3812

3 жыл бұрын

Prisoner of the white lines of the freeway .. yes

Incredible lyricist.. she’s def next level

One of my ALLTIME favourites! It was love at first sight/listen! I have carried this track - proudly! - in my "backpack" for more than four decades!

Fabulous - RIP Robbie Robertson

"Untouchable" is the word that keeps popping into my mind as I watch this.

I can’t believe this was from 1976 . Where does the time go ? Joni, is so beautiful…

The face at 4:20 - 4:22 is the pure joy of the creative artist captured for eternity..

I've watched this video about 15 times recently after recently re-discovering Joni. Cant imagine anyone today creating lyrical content like this, or performing it as tightly within the song.. She says in interviews how "I always had good time"... well, I guess so, imagine trying to remember the lyrics, let alone fit them so gracefully and perfectly within a live band performance. I only wish she could watch this and feel the same way I do... Thanks Joni..

@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube

8 жыл бұрын

Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian is considered the greatest songwriter of the last 20 years (including Rolling Stone). Off the top of my head, listen to 'I fought in a war'. Cheers.

@safiadoumani2426

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3-GpsNvfLfehZs.html Greetings from the future-thanks for the recommendation!

Sublime! Joni - Canadian. The Band - Canadian. This song is about her "fling" with Sam Shepard during the Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975-1976.

This song makes things so clear. Her pace and phrasing are perfect.

Goddess Joni and her timeless creations. Love Danko.

"He picks up my scent on his fingers/ while he's watching the waitress' legs..." By far the most adult, witty and daring couplet to appear in a song lyric on Top 40 radio... I *still* can't believe she got away with that! Bob's autobiographically obscure and Whitmanesque image-lists are great, and he was a god between '65 and '76, but for direct-yet-complex poetry you can't beat Joni Mitchell (I defy anyone to find something from Bob that stands up to the bawdy frankness of the lines I cite here). If any lyric-writer *should* have gotten a Nobel, it should have been Mitchell. But this world is just not that kind of world, sadly.

@stockvaluedotcom

7 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

@little_wonderer9290

7 жыл бұрын

The river you can skate away on... Leonard Cohen , too. We Canadians are poetic as Hell aren't we? Are you single by any chance LOL

@quogir1

7 жыл бұрын

travelogue -it is poetry

@tmac8892

7 жыл бұрын

+aliceislooking throughtheglass get oot!

@Velvet0Starship2013

7 жыл бұрын

"We Canadians are poetic as Hell aren't we?" Not to forget: Rufus Wainwright and the late-'70s cast of SCTV....

Neil Young brought me here. So I started looking for more and more folk music for helping me in the farm works, and there are some brazilian folk to (modão de viola etc.) and I see it has no end. Thank God Almighty

I always loved this song. One of the FM radio best back in the day.

So many great tracks in this set but this is one of the best.

One of my favs from Joni Mitchell, she's an amazing song writer/singer/performer.

@jamesknox64

7 жыл бұрын

she was amazing. x

@dadzbluz

7 жыл бұрын

Joni is also a fantastic painter, which is likely the source of the delicious visual imagery in her songs.

genius..she's got everything going on...nuanced vocals, guitar, facial expressions, dancing. Combined in one exquisite presentation....

I swear I only blinked once and thought this was yesterday.

There are some artistes of the live performance who can be watched over and over again and Joni is one of them, and for me this one is a weekly fix. So beautiful, such a voice, such cheekbones, love ya Joni.

Great artists in this film but this is the highlight. She crushes it.

I don't know how anyone could have written this. it is the most personal honest poetry I have heard, it blows me away every time I hear it. While some of us try to put down in paint as indeed she did too, it feels pointless she had already done it with words, wish I could tell her.

a prophet. We had Prince....and we had a Princess....Joni. Thank you for all the hits and REALITY in your music

A true artist! Don't get any better than this!

talk about songwriting, eh? she was really fucking good at it. one of the best. ever.

@Jeff-S

7 жыл бұрын

I heard that she wrote it while on tour with Dylan, sang it a few days later live and then added a few more verses. She also couldn't decide on the word prisoner and was thinking of singing "victim of the white lines"

@Marunius

3 жыл бұрын

Prisoner was the right choice :)

@j.c7719

3 жыл бұрын

She never even listens to her own work back she just continues creating in several mediums that’s a true artist.

Never saw Joni look and sound more beautiful.

The only broad onstage that night and a WELL-DESERVED placing amongst these rock 'n' roll heroes born in the 40's and continuing the counter-culture generation (spawned by Kerouac, Burroughs, et al) that affects us to this very day. Mitchell is the SECOND best pop music songwriter and lyricist EVER, IMO, bested only by the mighty Bob Dylan (Freewheelin' Forever)! LL

Love the scene in Rolling Thunder when Joni is introducing and playing this to Roger McGuinn and Dylan, great scene !

Moments like this a "Priceless" - Joni the finest Singer / Songwriter period.

Can never get enough of this song! Joni - I fall in love with women all over again every time I hear this performance.

Having read some of these comments, I couldn’t agree more with all of them . Joni Mitchell is , and always was , a genius , totally unique talent in so many ways. Her songwriting, meaningful lyrics and delivery are second to none. When she came to Australia in the 80’s , her record company rang our florist shop to order flowers to be sent to her hotel to welcome her. And I was the lucky florist who was honoured to make the floral arrangement which was sent to the Sebel Townhouse for her to enjoy. I still consider it a privilege to have created a floral tribute for this amazing artist.

A song that will live forever.

Joni Mitchell was nothing short of brilliant.

@mhartung8335

7 жыл бұрын

still is........

@RollingOrmond

7 жыл бұрын

Just sing whatever comes to your head, and you'll be like Joni.

@richardbamsey5242

6 жыл бұрын

is, no was for now

@alanvacca1524

6 жыл бұрын

+Rolling Ormond lol, and tune your guitar to something that sounds nice. play 2 open chords, and lay it down with confidence

She's consistently excellent since the first time I heard her I'm 76 years old.

November 7, 2021 Happy Birthday your Majesty! Take care & be well - love from Brighton UK 🙏🏻🌹🙏🏽

@lucamayer657

2 жыл бұрын

Wow it’s so amazing 🤩 to hear this from you Barbara, thanks a lot