Always loved the line, "We are stardust, we are golden | We are billion-year-old carbon"

@googlerudick

3 ай бұрын

Blew my mind to learn that Joni wrote that beautiful lyric >10 years before Car Sagan's Cosmos ("The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.")

@DavidLindes

3 ай бұрын

@@googlerudick Oh wow, really? Interesting! Though (looking it up a little, right now), it seems the idea is quite a bit older... for example, a quote from a presentation at the Royal Society in 1918: "our bodies are made of star-stuff"... so, I guess Joni was doing her homework some way! Dunno how much it was in the Zeitgeist before Sagan further popularized it... would be interesting to know.

@simonl.6338

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidLindes It was definitely a thing in the (really) early counter culture of the 1920s, even the 1890s or earlier (if you look at the "occult" trend in the 19th century and the so called "Lebensreform Bewegung" in germany for example). It is even documented in some old greek schools of thought from classical antiquity. In the 1920s there was another resurgence of these ideas linked to (at that time) new scientific developments. If you look into 1960s and early 70s "hippie" counter culture(which is what we're talking about here) you'll realize that there was a resurgence of certain aspects of that earlier time happening aswell (neo-art-nouveau, certain aspects of fashion and art in posters, a new aprecitation for the expressionists, the pre-raphaelites, 1920s fantasy literature like Tolkien or Lovecraft but also older stuff like Oscar Wilde or Novalis, also an impact of "the occult" like wicca or "the order of the golden dawn"). So Ideas in which a interlinked connection of the cosmos in some way was posited are much older and were combined in the 60s and 70s youth movement. Interestingly enough you can find these same ideas getting a new run in current subcultures in the 2020s.

@Skevvy

3 ай бұрын

"We are golden | Caught in the devil's bargain | And we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden... I woke up today (Good Friday) with this song in my head!

Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, The Hissing of the Summer Lawns, Hejira, all fantastic albums everybody should have in their collections.

@TylerSines-ib8nr

Ай бұрын

Don Juan is my favourite.

Didn’t Joni write this song? That would make CSNY’s version the cover?

@hughmcfarland2454

3 ай бұрын

Yup

@PianoGardenMan

3 ай бұрын

Yes, Amy listens to the original first which is why CSNY is the next video to premiere.

Amy: "That could almost be a clarinet or a flute." I've been listening to Joni for decades and JUST. NEVER. NOTICED. Hearing music through your ears and your brain always adds something to my experience of the art, sometimes so much so that it's like I've never really heard the song or artist before. I so appreciate the time and effort the two of you put into this channel. It's a real gem. 💎

Joni is an absolute treasure.

@jaquestraw1

3 ай бұрын

That is the truth 💓

She says, “Billion year old carbon,” while looking like a beam of sunlight under those lights!

I've always been captivated by Joni's version. It has a celebratory yet cautious quality to it, and it's done with such graceful introspection. That line "I don't know who l am but, you know, life is for learning" is one of the most beautiful descriptions of the resilient yearning heart.

She makes me well up every time. Bless you Joni

Joni Mitchell has the unique ability to tell stories through pictures that she paints with her words.

And Mitchell is clearly one of the greats. I wouldn't quite call her a rock musician although some of her songs are rock-ish, or have been adapted (i.e. covered) by rock bands. But she's more in the jazz, blues and folk tradition, with some rock elements. A lot like Dylan that way, and they are obviously the "king" and "queen" of modern popular music composers and musicians. No one begins to come close, as individuals. You have to look to groups like the Beatles and Pink Floyd to find ones on their level. They're all clearly geniuses. In this rendition I could hear elements of the sort of jazzy piano blues and R&B made famous by the likes of Ray Charles and later carried on by musicians like Laura Nyro, Elton John and Billy Joel. But she's so far beyond the simplistic kind of pop music we're used to hearing. A world unto herself.

The lyric "I have come here to lose the smog/And I feel to be a cog in something turning" is so good.

The live performance of Woodstock on Shadows & Light was an epiphany for me, in more ways than one. What a great band Mitchell had at that time.

Joni uses Woodstock as a metaphor fot a spiritual quest, and follows Laura Nyro's Stoned Soul Picnic (1968). Joni uses Nyro's themes of nature music, trust, friendship and God, and repeats Nyro's lyric refenced to gold and dust. Stoned Soul Picnic was a Billboard No.3 for the 5th Dimension, who had most of their hits with Nyro covers. Nyro "probably influenced more successful songwriters than anyone " Elton John, 2007. Joni and Nyro were pals, and Nyro was Joni's only stated influence.

@lupcokotevski2907

3 ай бұрын

Jimmy Webb may well have taken Nyro's first 4 chords for Wichita Lineman which are the same and unusual for pop at that time. Every writer was listening to Nyro. Joni's Blue has Nyro's influence all over it, as noted by the contemporary review of Blue by the New Musical Express, the UK's premier rock magazine.

“She has a beautiful voice.” Yes. That’s what some of the fuss is about. ✅

@arferbargel

3 ай бұрын

understatement of the century

I was going to recommend that you listen to the album Blue from start to finish. Then I thought, hey, you've gotta experience the entirety of Ladies of the Canyon first! Then Court and Spark raised its playful hand and said, what about me? The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Herija, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus... All vied for recognition... So I stopped myself in my tracks. Just listen to Joni in your lifetime. You won't regret it for one moment.

Joni is a musical genius. If you do another of her songs, I hope you will concentrate even more on her pure musicality, her use of suss chords, etc. And her vocals are magical because of how unusual her style is. It is musical in a way that few other singers can even begin to imitate.

Jann Wenner stated he didn't believe that Joni Mitchell was considered rock. Joni isn't rock but enough rock people know her and have deep appreciation for her music, lyrics and creative talents. Enough folk artists crossed over to the rock genre and because international artists and she deserves all the credit to the collective counter-culture. Thanks for the analysis and thoughts Amy.

@somedude6161

3 ай бұрын

Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, CSN&Y, the Grateful Dead, etc., belong to a subgroup of rock called "folk rock". So, basically folks but rockers want them more!

More Joni Mitchell please!!!!!

Amy, what Joni sings about is what us hippies were thinking and feeling. I wasn’t there either, I was only 15 and would/should have run away to go. I love the words to this song. Joni is an amazing musician and person.

@cyndifoore7743

3 ай бұрын

I agree

I really like the Matthews Southern Comfort cover of this one.

@flyingardilla143

3 ай бұрын

Good Idea! Oh Lord!

@ftlpope

3 ай бұрын

Me too. Got to No1 in the UK - I saw them aged about 13, Oxford Town Hall.

Awesome! So happy that you finally got to hear the legendary Joni Mitchell, one of the great musicians and songwriters of our time. You were able to connect this song with your recent Hendrix Woodstock experience. Glad you were pulled into the story, and that you were able to pick up on the essence of the hippie movement represented in this song. I've always loved the "bombers turning into butterflies" line, reflecting the peace movement of that time. "Life is for learning" is another great line. Your saying it had an ethereal quality was a good way of characterizing it. Great observations at the end reflecting back on the song. I would love for you to do a harp rendition. I would also enjoy hearing your own piano rendition. I think because most people heard the CSNY version first, some had a harder time with Joni's beautiful original since it is so different, and is not rock. The lyrics are much more front and center in the Joni version. Whereas the CSNY version is much more about the rock vibe of the music. Yasgur's farm in the lyrics is the farm land on which the Woodstock Festival was held. I loved how you spoke on how Joni overcame the difficulties in life, from her early polio to her later brain aneurism. Which as you noted this spoke of Joni's deep seated conviction that life is for living, and we have reason to hope.

@w.geoffreyspaulding6588

3 ай бұрын

Well said…as usual, Lee.👋

@LeeKennison

3 ай бұрын

@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 Thanks Helene.

@splitimage137.

3 ай бұрын

Hello Lee, and well met! I'm afraid I'm one of those types that you listed above. I heard CSNY's version first, and that my favorite, still. I've had a number of girlfriends who would kill/die for Joni, but, as wonderful as she is, she's not really my type. However, I consider Joni one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, nevertheless!

@LeeKennison

3 ай бұрын

@@splitimage137. Hey Split! Yeah, I was the same when these came out, the CSNY version was the only one I really listened to at the time, and I listened to the entire Deja Vu album a lot. I talk about this in one of my comments on the CSNY version. In short here, I started listening to the CSNY version when I was ten in 1970 and my brother-in-law had given me his old 4-track stereo and tapes when he upgraded to 8-track. But over the years I grew to really love the Joni version, which I thought really emphasized the lyrics more. Now it is hard for me to even pick a favorite of the two. I like them both for different reasons.

@splitimage137.

3 ай бұрын

@@LeeKennison No one (in their right mind) can argue with that!

I've always thought that if Joni had gone to Woodstock she probably wouldn't have written this song. You should continue your exploration of her music to see how her evolution from her origins as a folk singer through to jazz musician was profound and significant. She is undoubtedly one of the most important and original musical geniuses of our time.

@dreamprescription8852

3 ай бұрын

If she didn't write that song then Bad Company would never have written their namesake.

I love this song. I love Joni and I love Virgin Rock so it’s a good Saturday.

I didn't realize that Joni Mitchell had written this. Are you going to play the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young cover that made this a hit, now?

@CraigPMiller

3 ай бұрын

Yes - This isn't a cover, but who cares. 😀❤

Great reaction...!!! You picked up well on Joni Mitchell... What a piece of music... what a performance...!!!

So glad you got to her. I knew you would like her. She has an immense range, both vocally and sytlistically. This is still relatively young Joni. Her career arc through musically and lyrically sophisticated takes on folk, rock, jazz and pop is fascinating to trace. BTW one of her other early setbacks, which wasn't widely known at the time, was that she had a child whom she had to give up for adoption. She wrote a beautiful, tender song (on her Blue album) called Little Green, which some years afterwards she revealed was about her hopes and dreams for the little girl she had lost. They did find each other later in life, which is when Joni explained the song.

When you have time, some time, take a listen to "Shadows and Light" which is a live album. Her band was made up of absolutely top tier jazz musicians (Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, etc.)

@63MGB1

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget the phenomenal Lyle Mays. RIP

@grahamokeefe9406

3 ай бұрын

@@63MGB1 Indeed

Another good pairing: Joni's "Circle Game," her response to friend Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain."

I'm glad Joni came to you channel, finally! She is my favorite female vocal artist and 'Blue' is one of my favorite albuns. Such an inspiring woman! I think you will have the opportunity to listen to it all, as you're doing your study very well. And hope Crosby, Still, Nash & Young too :)

@johnpress

3 ай бұрын

Blue may be the best LP ever.

@Blue-qr7qe

3 ай бұрын

​@@johnpress Agree -

** Every time I hear Joni Mitchell sing certain clear, high notes, I get chills and feel like I am going to cry. She has such a beautiful voice. Those flips and unexpected notes! I love her classics. My favorite song is "A Case of You". "Big Yellow Taxi" is fun, yet sobering environmental message. I also love comparing her young/older versions of "Both Sides Now" (looking forward vs looking back). I think Amy would find the comparison interesting, and she would make insightful observations about the differences.

This song gives me chills every time I hear it. I love both versions, but I think this one is better.

I never heard this before. I'm just amazed by the power of her voice and the presence of this voice, really incarnated. This moves me.

@lynby6231

2 ай бұрын

Listen to “The circle game” by her

@RhiannonFan

Ай бұрын

*Recommendation:* listen to her album named 'Blue'; in particular 'A Case of You', 'River', and 'Carey'.

A big thank you from someone who, like Joni and millions of my generation, was not at Woodstock but wish we were. We grew up with 1960's television that, though it was flickering and transient, occasionally welded us together in indelible moments that we still share in memory. Such as the murder of JFK or the Beatles invading America on the Ed Sullivan Show. Joni, with her leaping song lyrics that flitter unbound to her octaves just like the butterflies that she mentions, connects us to the spirit that still binds us to a chaotic grubby muddy unmanageable rock festival that no one would have expected to be still cherished. For bringing Woodstock back like it was yesterday, please accept thanks from this ageing hippie - I am just talking about my generation.

Most interesting for you would be comparing her versions of "Both Sides Now" from about 1970 and 2000 (with an orchestra). The difference is mesmerizing.

@randomname4726

2 ай бұрын

Yes and I love the lyrics

Joni is an angel on earth. I think her Court and Spark album is her best.

The feelings of peace, love and understanding, embodied in this, and a few other songs of the period, held out a hope of a simpler life - a hope that was, sadly, shortlived...

@wardka

3 ай бұрын

I haven't given up hope. The 60s were a turbulent time just as today is. The pendulum swings back and forth, and many of us still want the dream. A new cultural revolution may come about.

Oh I love this woman.

Joni Mitchell is simply a completely underestimated musician. If you look at her guitar tunings, it is such an interesting approach to the guitar.

I watch a lot of these " first time reaction videos" and I must say yours is by far the best as you have the lyrics written down in advance and you are also able to analyze the music with some authority. Although Woodstock is very simple musically having just the normal chords associated with the key of E minor. Joni however is very sophisticated playing 3 instruments very well and she pushed the boundaries of her use of the guitar by having recorded songs with over 50 different guitar tunings!! Do you ever put the harp in a different tuning? It is Joni's lyrics writing however that draws us into metaphysical realms were the trials and heartache of love are laid bare in delicate watercolour imagery. Listen at length to her Blue album it has won so many awards and rightly stands as one of music's greatest achievements.

Joni is Goddess ♥ ♥ Than you for this, Amy!!

Joni is a luminary. I often note that people will casually leave her name off lists of greats that include Dylan, Young, etc. Maybe part of this is that she is a woman, but I think it is due to the fact that she is such a singular talent. She seems willing to give more of herself and be more ruthlessly introspective. She also has her own melodic and harmonic vocabulary. She recorded a live album, Miles of Ailes, early in her career-touring with L.A. Express-and self deprecatingly refers to herself as "the chirp". I wonder what that younger Joni would have thought of her future self collaborating with Mingus or recording Paprika Plains. She's a fearless hero to me. So glad she is recovered and getting so much love late in her life. She's given us all so much.

Interesting that you noticed how she made her voice sound similar to various wind instruments.🥰 One song that she wrote, had a part that she'd composed for trumpet, in the hopes that she could get her father to start playing his trumpet again, and join her on the song. (he'd played in marching bands and taught a bit during her childhood) She never managed to get him to play trumpet again, so she ended up SINGING the parts she'd written for trumpet, as well as what she'd planned for vocals. She loved so many sounds and styles of music, and utilized those interests/appreciation in her compositions! 🥰

my fav of Joni's is "Morning Morgentown"

You should also listen to the recorded version. There’s a lot of background vocals that she does that changes the feel of it slightly but it’s still lovely and wonderful. I’m happy you got to hear the song.

Another folk singer from that era who was at Woodstock was Melanie Safka. Her song Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), featuring the gospel group Edwin Hawkins Singers, was written about her experience at Woodstock.

Still cry, when I listen to this. Great art...? Well, yeah.

Very well placed and beautiful comments on a magnificent and beautiful artist. Thank you Amy.

One of the things that I find amazing is how quickly singer-songwriters can create a song after seeing something on the news or a magazine then capture the essence of the story so eloquently. Joni saw the TV news about the festival and the people going to the festival, writes the song, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young learn the song then perform it on stage on the third day of the festival (Monday). Neil Young wrote his song "Ohio" after seeing the photos of the Kent State shooting of War Protesters published in a Life magazine that David Crosby had brought with him. Neil went off, wrote the song, came back and worked with Crosby to arrange studio time to record the, get Stills and Nash to join them. It was recorded, mastered then rush released by Atlantic records and getting played on Radio. Joni dated both David Crosby and Graham Nast. Graham Nash wrote his song "Our House" after buying flowers for Joni while they were out for a walk. While Joni was putting the flowers in a vase, Graham sat down at the piano and started to create the song. Crosby, Stills and Nash appear in the Woodstock movie. While Young was there and played with them refused to appear in the film, as he wasn't officially a member of the band and didn't want to distract attention from the trio.

This belongs in the Great Non-Covers series.

@PianoGardenMan

3 ай бұрын

In the Great Covers series, Amy always listens to the original before listening to the cover. Her CSN cover has been listed as pending for over a day now.

Check out the old episode of the Dick Cavett show from the day after woodstock where Joni explains the whole story of her missing woodstock. Also on the show is jefferson airplane and Crosby and Stills and others.

One interesting cover is Joni Mitchell's cover of her own song "Both Sides Now". She did a performance of the song with an orchestra when she was 57.

@LeeKennison

3 ай бұрын

She also just performed it at 80 years old during the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Consider reacting to Joni's "Chelsea Morning." Pure delight!

And I feel to be a cog in something turning...

I TELL EVERYYYYYONE ALLLL THE TIME THAT SHE WAS THE BEST, HER AND ( KAREN CARPENTER ) R.I.P ☹ TO THAT ANGEL TRUE CONTRALTOS👍😊I'VE LISTENED TO JONI FOR OVER 50 YEARS NOW SO, SHE GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS THRU MY BODY WITH HER GORGEOUS VOICE AND SHE WROTE,COMPOSED, PLAYED,SANG, AND EVEN PAINTED AS AN ARTIST! I'M SUPER GLAD THAT YOU GOT TO ENJOY HER FINALLYYYY, YEAH!!! 😊

One of the interesting things she did, was when she wrote she did a lot in her British Columbia home. She called it raga tuning. She listened to the sounds outside, the birds, the tones of nature around her, and tuned her guitar to it. She did a lot with alternative tunings, maybe it had to do with her restrictions because of the polio.

Amy: “Well, she’s had quite a life, hasn’t she?” Heck, Joni had quite a life by 27 when she recorded Blue.

I only caught the end of this, but will go back and watch everything. Joni is one of my favourite musicians and Emily Dickinson a favourite poet.

Simple yet powerful. She wrote , played, and sang with no autotune live.

I love Joni 's voice and her music. This song 's melody reminds me of Bad Company 's title song Bad Company.❤ Just an observation! Love all of your reactions ❤❤❤

Standing on the Moon... Molly Tuttle is my fave cover of all time

Hello awesome analysis, watching this brought a tear to my eyes because it was so beautiful, Joni Mitchell was young here but you just knew she was absolutely full of musical energy...energy that was waiting to explode, and it did.

There are so many great songs by Joni Mitchell ("River", "Amelia", "Help me"...). It would be interesting to listen to his two versions of "Both sides now".

@rosmeeker1964

3 ай бұрын

Amelia is underrated. Such a beautiful important bit of work. Such beautiful poetry.

Glad you have encountered Joni. She is essential for your journey, must be in the top 10 best songwriters of the late 20th century. Try 'Clouds' or 'Both Sides Now' when you can, then progress to something more jazzy than folky, say from the 'Hissing of Summer Lawns' album?

Although this live version is good, the studio version is truly special. I hope you will treat yourself to it.😊

Joni Mitchell a wonderful song writer and performer.

What a wonderful introduction to an incredible artist. Joni is the real deal. Sometime you should treat yourself to her Blue LP. It's remarkable. Actually though, my personal favorite of all of Joni's LP's is Court & Spark. Thank you for sharing this one, Amy. 🙂

AND HER SONGWRITING AND STORYTELLING SKILLS WERE PHENOMENAL!!! 💯😊WE DON'T REALLYYYY HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HOW SHE CAN RIP AND DIP WITH THOSE VOCAL CHORDS!😮ONE OF HER FAVORITE LINES " I'M JUST A PAINTER, I LIVE IN A BOX OF PAINTS ' 👍FROM HER GREAT SONG : A CASE OF YOU, SHE WAS BEAKING UP WITH ( GRAHAM NASH ) DURING HER EPIC RELATIONSHIP ( 71 ) ALBUM BLUE☹ANYWAY JUST SO GOOD!

Joni Mitchell is so creative. I listen willl not be enogh for you to appreciaye her tallent.

She didn't watch it on TV in 1969 since it wasn't broadcast.

@caldor560

3 ай бұрын

She didn't watch it live on TV but she certainly could have watched the highlights on the news.

@betsyduane3461

3 ай бұрын

@@caldor560 There were no highlights on TV. There was news about the highway shutdowns and the problems, film of people going in and out, and a few shots of the show inside from a distance, but no live or recorded music footage. In fact no one saw any footage of Woodstock until the doc movie was released in March 1970. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYWXp8iAZMi4d6w.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXyXybeHncirlaw.html

She really shows off her unique guitar style on her first album Song to a Seagull. After that she really developed into a multi-faceted artist and widened her musical pallette, but brought things back to basics on Hejira, which features incredible bass playing by the great Jaco Pastorius.

yay Joni!...for me the best songwriter of that whole era! I got to say, I play guitar, but while its easy to strum along to a lot of bob dylan and pick up a lot of fingerstyle guitar songs- joni, for me is so difficult! She doesn't pick the regular tunings many others do,and other than "the urge for going" (which is a great tune), but played standard tuning (eadbge) I haven't tried much of hers, as I'm worried my guitar might snap or I will get slapped in the eye with a string! I can't wait to see more joni analysis.. I feel like you have reacted to one of the very good ones..but far from the best,you still have so much more to enjoy! BUT the lyrics are almost always so thoughtful and interesting.

So glad to see you get a first taste of Joni. I feel you will love her work. 'Case of you' from the great album Blue will be a great piece to experience. Hope you do it someday. Cheers

It was NOT a "Wurlitzer Electric" (@7:12) but an acoustic concert grand, and if I saw correctly that that farthest keys were black, it may have been a Bösendorfer Imperial.

@johnsilva9139

3 ай бұрын

I believe what Amy was reading was refering to her album recording of the song. In this video clip of her performing live, she is obviously playing an acoustic grand.

It's also great to listen her version on "Travelogue", the album with an orchestra. It is the same song but it sounds so different, fifty years later, saying that moment from another different place. It is indeed one of the best songs ever written.

The BBC's Carole King In Concert from 1971 features songs from her Tapestry album and songs other artists recorded.

Virgin Rock, thank you thank you thank you

When you get chance try the live version of her song 'Amelia' with Pat Metheny on amazing guitar, Jaco Pastorius on bass and many other fine great musicians, its quite spellbinding how she see's herself her life her heartaches as a parallel to Amelia Earheart..

Proud to be a Canadian.... You should make some popcorn, and watch the whole Woodstock movie to absorb even half the feeling.

Her song "Big Yellow Taxi" is an absolute treasure. And it has a cover by The Counting Crows.

Freaking out a little bit before this starts so excited

She wrote it. CSNY just happened to release it a month before her.

Love Joni Love you

Joni is a treasure. I’m glad you are getting to discover her.

It may inteest you to know that she has said that her compositions during the late '60s and early '70s had to her mind more in common with Schubert's art songs than with traditional folk music.

Very Earth day feel to this beautifully sung song. If you wanna watch a movie with an Earth day feel Amy, watch "Silent Running". Great performance by its star Bruce Dern, and a song by Joan Baez, who actually performed at Woodstock. Another nice analysis Amy! 👏

Hi, i am glad that you mentioned Hendrix Woodstock performance and confirm that was a quite experience for you. Now i desperately want to see your reaction to that, although not first listening!😁☮️❤

Other songs by Joni you should listen to: Both Sides Now, River, A Case Of You, California (the live version on dulcimer is great), Carrey, Free Man In Paris, Help Me, Amelia, Blue and Big Yellow Taxi

Good job Vlad in also working in the studio version as Amy was sharing her thoughts at the end. I'm glad you did the live version for the reaction itself. Amy got to both see Joni and hear her story about the song.

Love this one, seeing you discuss one of my favorite songwriters. Even the best female artists could be overshadowed in their time. But Joni is now getting more acclaim, as many before categorized her as a 'hippy' era artist. Thank you.

I can't listen to the Angle sing without being overcome... And I played Blue so much I had to buy several copies. She must know the Polish Proverb, Be Humble for You are made of Earth, be Noble for you are made of Stars.

"Woodstock" is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. At least four notable versions of the song were released in the same year, 1970. Mitchell's own version was first performed live in 1969 and appeared in April 1970 on her album Ladies of the Canyon and as the B-side to her single "Big Yellow Taxi". This publication was preceded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's cover version, which appeared on their March 1970 album Déjà Vu and became a staple of classic rock radio and the best-known version in the United States.

Can't wait for you to her her on dulcimer... she's a master of that as well. Our goddess of art and beauty...

You can see clips of her on the Dick Cavett Show the next day, and Crosby and Nash had made it back from the festival. Later on, she became more influenced by jazz, and had musicians like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, and more on her albums - I hope you get to that music too.

Our Canadian❤️ Queen

@MUSICADELCENTRO

3 ай бұрын

But here she's Goddess

yay joni...for me the best songwriter of them all!

One of my favourite live performances.

What a voice, It must be nice when nobody else sounds like you, her yodelling is top notch too!

AND THIS CONCERT WAS A BBC SHOW BACK IN 70!!! 😊IT'S INSANE AND IT'S SO SO GOOD!👍SHE PLAYS PIANO, ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND SHE PLAYS AN APPALACHIAN DULCIMER IN A COUPLE SONGS : A CASE OF YOU & CALIFORNIA 😊YOU SEEM AND SOUND MUSICALLY TALENTED YOURSELF, THAT HARP IS COOL, THAT'S GREAT!

When she was younger, Joni’s voice was indeed “shimmery”……light, highly nimble, with a huge range. Her first album…Song to a Seagull, is still my favorite because her voice was so clear and crystalline…Being a heavy smoker…..as she got older, her voice became lower, more husky…with a “smoky” timbre …..perfect for the more jazzy direction she took.

@LeeKennison

3 ай бұрын

Perhaps it was her lifetime of heavy smoking that contributed to her brain aneurism in 2015. I don't know that this is the case, just guessing. I know you would see her chain smoking in her rare interviews prior to her aneurism, but I have never seen her smoking since then. If you haven't seen it, be sure to check out the fairly recent interview that Elton John did with her back in November 2022.

Joni is a force of nature.