i wrote a little song for my friends to sing. understatement of the century.

@zippyzipster46

10 ай бұрын

Umm. Not that great really. She wrote a few good songs. Never considered this to be a masterpiece. But she got rich and famous. Then in old age claimed her kid.

@RafaaGMadonnaLover

10 ай бұрын

Sour grapes! You lost your heart.

@faithfulgrl

10 ай бұрын

Hello @jjsands2317 One of the Best. Joni & Woodstock. For the people who weren't there, you didn't

@cuppatea4466

10 ай бұрын

I agree 100%

@byronagagen4980

10 ай бұрын

​@@faithfulgrl2:21

Joni didn't really miss Woodstock, Woodstock was missing Joni. Man what a beautiful voice !

@GarthGoldberg

3 жыл бұрын

Well stated.

@mom2adragon677

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@kerrymullin94

3 жыл бұрын

Young Joni such talent and just think the best was yet to come!

@mikiinajijic6763

3 жыл бұрын

...a "nice festival"....

@americanoboist

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on

She doesn't just sing; She channels something from another place. Just mesmerizing and even healing.

@steven1822

Жыл бұрын

strongly agree. peace.

@pamelajackson2383

Жыл бұрын

you said it !!!! she is other worldly and so is this miracle song.

@pambrown6260

Жыл бұрын

Jazz

@Sms8668

Жыл бұрын

1:36 A Company, always on the run !!!!

@smallfavors

9 ай бұрын

Yes!!! First time I heard her voice it resonated before I knew what the word resonated meant even. Your comment also joins in together with how it feels ❤

Astonishing that this footage exists - and that we have the privilege to watch it, and be moved to tears by this celestial but also very earthly being. God bless you Joni Mitchell.

@lplp8542

Жыл бұрын

I agree it is so great that they have that footage and the sound quality is wonderfull yes I had huge bell bottoms and a six inch wide belt paisley shirts peace sign patch sewn on a denom jacket

@ClarenceHW

Жыл бұрын

Can't say it any better than that, a privilege indeed.

@coleenhowe7874

Жыл бұрын

Mia Dia!

@kenyongray2615

Жыл бұрын

Joni is astonishing in the way she sings this song. I can't describe it.

@tamarayoung9861

Жыл бұрын

Essence of holy folk, no need to add any negativity ❤

I cried listening to this. I’m 70 now in 2021. The days of this music are gone. The sadness is immense.

@pamelajackson2383

2 жыл бұрын

i did too....i'm 67.

@Oshiiiiiiiiiiii

Жыл бұрын

The days of this music are not gone, they are just a little more intangible than they already were at the time. Which makes them timeless, which makes them real.

@Oshiiiiiiiiiiii

Жыл бұрын

People born after these years, like me, feel the magic, but we cant even hang a memory on it.

@frewofstew6304

Жыл бұрын

Just pass it around and bring it back! Good for these times!

@brianlund4567

Жыл бұрын

​@user-dp4co5qh2z create the memories you do have. And the music will fall into place..

It saddens me that today's generation has no one even within shouting distance of Joni Mitchell. They can be tall, blonde, attractive with 12 Grammys and not even come close to this one performance.

@donpaladino

3 ай бұрын

A.M.E.N.

@user-ui6kx7jl4k

3 ай бұрын

I'm from Ukraine and this song gives me chills. Once I heard it in "Six feet under"

@jayanirmala-lo3vp

2 ай бұрын

You mean taylor swift? She never ever reach this level.. This is a gift from the God

@48677

2 ай бұрын

The taylor swift shade...

@juniperwoodgreen4090

2 ай бұрын

Except for Amy Winehouse...

As I write this in March 2024, it seems beyond doubt that Joni Mitchell was divinely inspired to write this song. The lyrics are profoundly inspiring and, although fifty years old, are tailor-made for the current world situation. May the spirit of Woodstock infuse and inspire the People to throw off the devil's bargain and reenter the garden.

@user-xr8dq6ly7g

2 ай бұрын

That was an eloquent comment. Thank you

@eamonncoady9823

Ай бұрын

Couldnt agree more. I recently came to the exact same conclusion that god had to have been working through her and to prove it he gave her , her fair share of suffering and out of that came Blue.

@judithgordon7676

Ай бұрын

Things are changing in favour of us, The People. Stay strong - we enter the age of Aquarius in November this year when Pluto moves into Aquarius for 20 years.

@kevinclarke1222

16 күн бұрын

Bless you Judith love ya!

@NsyShwl

7 күн бұрын

IDK if I would say Divine.. mostly since nothing but debauchery went on during those festivals..

You know if Joni had gone to Woodstock, this song may have been very different or not at all. Sometime fate delivers us a gift. She wrote this gift to all of us who could not have the opportunity to attend and for those lucky enough to have been a part of that momentous event, it surely brings those days back to you.

"We've got to get ourselves back to the garden." As true in 2020 as ever.

@petereichhorst8373

3 жыл бұрын

Some people are paying attention.

@freisein6554

3 жыл бұрын

They are planning to turn it into a parking lot. Not with me 😘☝️

@carefulcarpenter

3 жыл бұрын

It is there to find. I found Avalon. 🌾🌼

@cynthiasarah4286

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@carefulcarpenter

3 жыл бұрын

@@cynthiasarah4286 Amen Ra. I discovered that Joni is my 5th cousin. I discovered that in about 2011 after discovering that David Crosby is a 5th cousin. Not that you or anyone could care, but caring has been a strong quality in our extended family. My neice and Joni have similar physical features as well. The Garden is a concept I wrote about on a creative messageboard back in 2003 to 2011. Since those days the world is less accepting of creative thoughts and civil conversation. 🐡🌾♥️

That's how you write a song if you are a very rare genius - and how you sing it if you are an ancient golden angel with a very special message.

@Trallalinda08

2 жыл бұрын

love what you said Rick

@brookegoslin

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely an ancient golden Angel with a very special and important message !

@Dan-zq5wt

2 жыл бұрын

Perfectly said. No one like her in pop music history.

@TheAtticradio

2 жыл бұрын

It probably is the right way to write a song but Joni Mitchell is no ordinary artist. When I heard this song first it stopped me in my tracks I was used to the CSNY version and I adored the song. Tears came to me as the song moved me so much with Joni singing this. The lyrics are so good … We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden … Fantastic message and of course there’s more messages in the song … brilliant by JM. Actually love both versions equally … Joni is in tune with the earth around us.

@juscogens5541

2 жыл бұрын

Joni is surely a billion year old piece of carbon...we are all stardust..she is golden!

America needs Joni and Woodstock today more than ever

@Cat-tastophy83

Жыл бұрын

As a Canadian, I'd like to keep her here please lol.

@111jow

4 ай бұрын

Needs Jesus

@simonl.6338

2 ай бұрын

Sadly you can't create something again out off context. BUT Iam pretty sure society will develop in a direction where a need for this kind of humanity and freedom arises again, and it will happen. Maybe not that far from now. Everything seems to get more grim but it will swing around. Like it always did

@xboxgamer7453

2 ай бұрын

You guys need Donald Trump more than ever.

@frankshailes3205

Ай бұрын

@@xboxgamer7453 Like a hole in the head.

She's got to be one of the greatest singer songwriters of our time. Just beautiful.

@gmarti2013

Жыл бұрын

Of the century and for many more to come ❤

@jerrywise9578

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@christianwallgren1687

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@heathercollins4432

Жыл бұрын

She is....

@roycosper8649

Жыл бұрын

Ever!

The song still gives me chills. My first year of college. Bell bottom blue jeans, long hair, and protests against the war. We never found our way to the garden.

@zachdrejza8515

Жыл бұрын

Your last sentence reminds me of the Hunter S Thompson wave quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Don’t cut yourself and your generation short, I think you guys did make it to the garden.

@jun0c0rn

Жыл бұрын

...and we've neve been so lost

@verified139

Жыл бұрын

@@zachdrejza8515 Exactly. Gardens don't just happen. We make them.

@gregscheyd4131

Жыл бұрын

NO WE DIDNT , BUDDY !!!!!! BUT I ASSURE YOU WE WILL GET THERE ...... NOT BY OUR OWN EFFORTS !!!

@fernandoguevara8258

Жыл бұрын

Are not the same said peace-loving people with their guitars and pianos that played in the keys of protest, playing And beating on the drums of war now?

She had a stroke recently. Watching her sing this live, when she was so young, is an excellent reminder that none of us stay young forever. Be kind toward seniors. You will be one sometime.

@coolbuzztastywaves4720

4 жыл бұрын

If we’re lucky

@Jamaramlolz

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolbuzztastywaves4720 Sounds like the privileged old folk again, getting old is a luxury these days.

@nannettenerenberg9267

4 жыл бұрын

But ppl are not nice to seniors

@1johnnygunn

4 жыл бұрын

Age is a gift denied to some.

@patriot20000

4 жыл бұрын

Sad to think of her having a stroke and maybe not being able to play the piano. When you're young you can't picture yourself old, so you think somehow you will be the first to not age. Maybe making fun of old people helps them feel invincible.

I met Joni in 1976 in a natural foods store in Boulder Colorado.. She walked right up to me in the store and said: "You look like someone I know." She was so beautiful and flirtatious that I just got tongue-tied and paralyzed. I couldn't even talk to her like a normal person. I was geeked-out. She was heartbreakingly beautiful like a dream come true. I couldn't even say much to her and she ended up walking away. Later on, I learned from a Boulder friend of the musician Robben Ford (who was studying at the Naropa Institute and she was in town then visiting him) that she was traveling around by herself getting inspiraton for the Hejira album

@richj011

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. At 53 I know very little about her but what a beautiful song.

@charlottewalker6490

Жыл бұрын

I used to have the Hejira, I think it's a street in Culver City, California.

@donpaladino

3 ай бұрын

DAYUM!!!!!!!

@Samasiam

2 ай бұрын

If you haven't see Rick Beato's Dinner With Joni. What I'd give just to have been able to observe that meeting between one of the greatest artists and most intense celeb crush of my life, something I know I probably share with millions, and the guy whose chronicling of music I cherish. But as he does so well, Rick shares his joy with us.

@darkoanton5

2 ай бұрын

​@@SamasiamRick is a gem.

Exquisite. Played in some minor key that captures the mood perfectly. Along with perfect singing. What a genius artist she is.

@JT-rc7vx

4 ай бұрын

A dream we had that died in its and our youth. We were warned, I guess.

@borjonx

4 ай бұрын

​@@JT-rc7vx. Don't give up my friend. There's still hope - it's just that *you* might have to lead the revolution.

@Natalia_Belenkaya

2 ай бұрын

That's E Minor, ideal for her voice

How does a 20 year old have the depth to write such powerful words? Pure brilliance, maybe a gift from God? She stands with Dylan as one of the greatest lyricists.

@rayokoa222

7 жыл бұрын

agree, such imagery - Blue

@strawberryseason

6 жыл бұрын

She was 27, but still yes, brilliant.

@dlee732ad

6 жыл бұрын

Dylan is way over rated- check out Robbie Basho, and yes, Joni was great! But then Rimbaud wrote his poetry at 18 and 19 and Alexander the great conquered the Greek known world at 19, Galois died at 19 after a duel- the night before he wrote the basis of modern group theory.

@stanapperley3169

6 жыл бұрын

i agree brilliant blue at 21 what a voice and talent

@deborahwatts643

6 жыл бұрын

I so agree. How could such a young person know so much about life. Makes n=me believe that she was an old soul whoi was reincarnated. Such wisdom about life.

Joni missed performing at Woodstock and yet she wrote a song that enabled everyone who missed it to experience the feeling of being there.

@jeffmak1012

4 жыл бұрын

Amen

@onetrueslave

4 жыл бұрын

the CSNY version of this song was the first one I heard, at age 11. Took me awhile to warm up to the actual writer's version, but, i certainly have.

@bobedwards7657

4 жыл бұрын

@@onetrueslave Checkout Ian Matthews Southern Comfort version.very smooth!!

@shiningstar2903

4 жыл бұрын

And getting on Dick Cavett's show was more important. It did not seem that it was her decision and thats awful.

@afghanwhigs01

4 жыл бұрын

Same!!

She didn't get to go, and she writes the most iconic song of that festival happening. Thank you so much Joni! LOVE THAT SONG

@mariamcclanahan470

Жыл бұрын

So right!

@MattBoyce-fm3nr

5 ай бұрын

So true, but a ticket to Joni and Jimi on the same gig would have been magic :)

She’s is a special gift to our world? She is stardust and golden!

@donpaladino

3 ай бұрын

A.M.E.N.!!!

@penelopeplimsoul3617

2 ай бұрын

I loved her sweet voice.

@nancyashmore8042

19 күн бұрын

One of a kind

"I wrote a little song"...wow...a "little song" that would define a whole generation and beyond!...

@keithcitizen7314

5 жыл бұрын

I actually cry when I hear her version, there is so much emotion in it, even as Crosby Stills Nash & Young did such a great rendition, she is such a contained inner explosion of talent that it all just has to be felt not just heard, salute Joni. Beautiful, enchore!

@irishguy13

5 жыл бұрын

It was a little song about a little generation.

@gregoryscott3858

4 жыл бұрын

It's a humble statement, and it's true. When you're singing about stars and stardust, it puts you and your songs and achievements in perspective. We're all tiny, unimaginably tiny :-)

@grahamcawthorne

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful ❤️

@justinbendich6686

4 жыл бұрын

She was god-like

In my opinion one of the greatest songwriters/ Artists of the 20th century

@arthurdick9553

3 жыл бұрын

Your not alone in that opinion.

@Peptoid

3 жыл бұрын

for sure

@H1delta

3 жыл бұрын

I and David Crosby agree with you and he should know. He hung out with her.

@OrangeSunshine2

3 жыл бұрын

@@H1delta Well, you and David have excellent taste🎶💖 David loved her. He loved her music and everything that made Joni who she was. 1967 they dated. He produced her 1st album. She was a Goddess. A lady of the Canyon.

@EmmaSwiftsings

3 жыл бұрын

correct! x

Excuse my french ,but, HOLY SHIT! I've heard this song a million times on my local radio stations by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and never knew she had written it! But what a beautiful, much more pure, deep version I am now hearing of this song done by such a talented, gifted woman!! Joni Mitchell is so under rated and should be blasted over every radio station playing that generation's music, just as loud and often as every other famous performer or band at that time! What range, and clear as a bell in any octave as she sings! And her talent as a song writer as she plays guitar or piano! And the piano backing her voice to this song is legendary and wonderful! Here is how you can grade the talent of this woman,,, her songs only need ONE instrument to accompany her songs, and they are immeasurable! I gotta tell ya,, what a talent she was!!!!! All these years later and her songs still bring tears to my eyes to listen to!

@trog.lodyte

Жыл бұрын

She also wrote "This flight tonight" , most widely known by the Nazareth version.

@frewofstew6304

Жыл бұрын

@@trog.lodyte On the album Blue!

@simplesimon5739

Жыл бұрын

Big yellow Taxi

@frewofstew6304

Жыл бұрын

@@simplesimon5739 good for the times!

@reginemcsweeney6135

Жыл бұрын

❤

This song is both a poem and a prayer. Thank you Joni Mitchell you have touched the hearts of the multitude in a beautiful and everlasting way.

@frewofstew6304

Жыл бұрын

Her music is great for current times! There is a lot of message here...good for the younger folks to learn her music in these times! Lot's of her music includes a statement of where we are and makes you think about where we need to be!

@stuartlimbrick4187

Жыл бұрын

@@frewofstew6304 I noticed all of our comments here reflect on her power that comes through her sound to the plain of divinity. It must be the closest a human can get to something immortal. Love it !!

@frewofstew6304

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartlimbrick4187 Nice response! Explains it pretty well!

@cosmicman621

9 ай бұрын

Sacred Music...HOLY HOLY HOLY...🐝🌹🌈💫

@MattBoyce-fm3nr

5 ай бұрын

I can't recall any lyrics justifying any religion. This song calls for peace, which we all know will not happen in our lifetimes. Read Deuteronomy 21:18-21 is this your peaceful loving God? Would you stone any child to death if that child behaved badly repeatedly?

This still gives me chills and tears 50 years later.

@MetalliBucket

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, but I’m 25 and I’ve only known the song for a few years lol!

@sayrock6343

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! All her songs still have that effect on me!

@genebaumwoll9679

3 жыл бұрын

Me too and I was there...

@philliplanger5530

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. My comment is above.

@veriteri32

3 жыл бұрын

@@MetalliBucket Welcome! It's never too late to discover great music. I still do

I met her when she was a still younger wench serving coffee in a Toronto Yorkville coffee house. It was mid or later several afternoons. I was on my way home from a day at university. She would pour and serve our coffees (our because sometimes I had a friend with me, hoping to turn my friend onto her). When nothing else was happening beyond her 10 cent tip, she'd go to a small stage in the background and start playing a guitar. I wasn't, and I'm not even now, someone who can tell good music from bad. But somehow I knew that what I was hearing from that stage was unprecedented.

@danl.4743

3 жыл бұрын

Comments like yours is one of the main reasons I often more interested in reading comments than reading or listening the article or a video. These little pieces of reality and history give such a feel for what and how she is. Thank for posting this gem.

@GreatgramaMcCormick

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, ha. Please eloborate! I guess you mean #1. You're off the hook. I came here after Googling the song. No idea she wrote it. Big Yellow Taxi was side B! noun 1. ARCHAIC•HUMOROUS a girl or young woman. "in the new film about Columbus, she plays the token buxom wench" 2. ARCHAIC a prostitute. verb ARCHAIC (of a man) consort with prostitutes.

@GrikWorldNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thanks

@DPK12

3 жыл бұрын

Great snippet Frank, thanks for sharing 🇮🇪🇮🇪🍺🍺🍀🍀

@GreatgramaMcCormick

3 жыл бұрын

Someone "liked" my reply! 🥰

Joni's ear is so very different. She hears and sings differently. She really is amazing. Thank you so much Joni.

@cannonball666

10 ай бұрын

Joni's music is different because it's folk with jazz elements sometimes more sometimes less.

I am a boomer and in looking back with different eyes & ears … I sometimes wonder if brilliant musicians like Joni aren’t actually higher dimensional beings whom dropped down in density here to wake us up … as these lyrics cannot be even more relevant now within this war that is finally going to wake up EVERYONE

@kristieshanahan3746

Жыл бұрын

Woohooooo

@equinart1

Жыл бұрын

Back then we had genuine stories to sing about. Not the fabricates drama of today

@plt903

Жыл бұрын

She is an angel!!

@Juicing369

Жыл бұрын

I think so, too... never fit in school and quit regular school and art school. She was thinking way out of the box even back then.

@willec7105

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree. Whatever she channels and comes through her is a mystery and it's a transcendent experience hearing it.

This is among the best humanity has ever acomplished.

@richardplume3212

11 сағат бұрын

Real as rain and sun

A gift from the divine! A little girl from Saskatchewan with voice of an angel, the poetic mind of Robert Frost and the musicianship of Chopin. No way to describe her but genius.

@JosephanieAckman

Жыл бұрын

Beautifully and accurately stated. No auto tune would ever be allowed or needed for her.

@TheCoupe06

Жыл бұрын

@Dana Of course there's another way to describe her, a better way I'd say. And you've already said it from the first: "a gift from the divine."

@dananicolay5530

Жыл бұрын

@@paulb2092 I refer to her musicianship not to her technical ability on the piano. Her range of music went from straight forward classic folk music into very sophisticated jazz. Chopin pretty much stayed in classical piano.

@bradjames6748

Жыл бұрын

She was from Fort MacLeod Alberta and splits her time between Los Angeles and British Columbia , while she did spend some time living in Saskatchewan

@johntechwriter

11 ай бұрын

The musicianship of Charles Mingus, who was a close friend.

Seeing this again after her return to the stage after her aneurysm gives me the chills.

@ursulamulder110

Жыл бұрын

@Sigal family - ABSOLUTELY! The Newport Folk Fest appearance has had me gobsmacked for the better part of a week. I salute her genius and her resilience. And yes, this particular piece gives me the chills, too... Be well.

@tomkohlman8110

Жыл бұрын

I love her story on not making it to Woodstock. She should have been there 😢

@elvissadsongspresley5913

Жыл бұрын

What is aneurysm

@rickmccloy4201

Жыл бұрын

@@elvissadsongspresley5913 It was a '60's movement that opposed ignorance and general bad manners. It is also called a stroke if you were serious in your question.

@wsfwsf1497

Жыл бұрын

You are not the only one......

Her voice range is insane, you wouldn't believe that a soft spoken person like her would have the most powerful voice.

Amazing. "We are stardust...billion year old carbon, caught in the devil's bargain.... and we got to get ourselves back to the garden" More true now than ever. Where did her wisdom come from!?

@deborahwatts643

6 жыл бұрын

I have often wondered the same thing. How could she be so young and yet so prescient and wise. Makes me believe in reincarnation.She was born with an old soul.

@radiolush5003

5 жыл бұрын

I wondered the same thing...

@namafarm

5 жыл бұрын

I think she is a Bard, inspired by God...

@seandelaney1700

5 жыл бұрын

She is other worldy.

@tayub3

5 жыл бұрын

So gifted! So wise! So loving!

Joni is a musical genius, poetess, and her voice, guitar, piano playing is unmatched. Her unique phrasing, rhythms, changes in volume, pitch, her control; no one can match her, she is unique. She was also a great record producer.

@betsx6512

5 жыл бұрын

Love her music.

@vaneast411

5 жыл бұрын

musical genius... yes...

@dorinbodea3614

5 жыл бұрын

yeah

@seandelaney1700

5 жыл бұрын

So well said. Just unreal.

@Cryo837

5 жыл бұрын

She intimidated CSN with her raw talent and especially her song-writing ability and open tunings. Underrated...yes.

Joni is the energy that created Woodstock. A being of light, fully awake.

Here in March 2024...honoring a genius artist in our own time, when we're alive. We're blessed

I’m certain Joni wasn’t thinking about her image, or album sales, or fame when she wrote this. She was a vessel through which this was channeled; no producer was saying “write a hit about that festival thing the kids would buy”. Money corrupts art- Joni kept it pure.

@johnnieguitar5724

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right. Read the book Restless Daughter and you'll see the juggling act she managed in LA. Wow. We may never see an artist again so honest, humble and so hugely gifted. Many people can play, and write good songs, but her poetry and original piano and guitar playing is peerless. Every album shows her changes, and it just seems to keep improving. Her goal was to play what she felt inside for us, her audience--- no other reason.

@CatherineSTodd

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnnieguitar5724 : Did you mean "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell" by David Yaffe? Found this on Amazon. If so, thanks!

@CatherineSTodd

5 жыл бұрын

curious nomad, Joni herself says in her song "River" she's going to "make a lot of money and quit this crazy scene." So money does count; do you think it corrupted her? I doubt it, but just wondering based on your post.

@chaipod

5 жыл бұрын

@@CatherineSTodd Its a pulling idea every musicians have....many musicians didn't make ends meet

@elkanahgray9810

5 жыл бұрын

But she says....she could not attend Woodstock because of a television engagement....its nice to think of our idols of being pure....but Joni Mitchell was hard driven women in the music industry to advance her career! great artist, but also a person seeking fame and fortune.

I feel as if my heart is going to burst listening to her sing. What a voice, what a privilege to have been a part of that generation ❤️

@atozzerotoninedude

2 жыл бұрын

amen

@justjeph6927

2 жыл бұрын

And blessed to not be a part...

@goofe.washington953

2 жыл бұрын

@@justjeph6927 You wouldn’t understand…

@klydon12345

Жыл бұрын

Amen Mama

@NAS43462

Жыл бұрын

@@justjeph6927 You missed it. Too bad.

Thank goodness the audience was so respectful. No whooping, no hollaring, no coughing just pure adoration of this incredibly beautiful woman, singing her poignantly wonderful song.

"I wrote a little song for my friends to sing" - Understatement for the ages....

First time I've seen this 🖤🖤🖤 Joni is my cousin. She looks sooo much like my grandma in this performance!! Grandma and uncle Bill who was Joni's dad were 2 of 11 children!!

@pressureflipin1992

3 жыл бұрын

Do you keep In contact with her? I know she's not doing to well health wise

@trevorrichardson2200

3 жыл бұрын

@@pressureflipin1992 I don't but my Mom and my aunt's do and yeah she isn't in the best of health

@27ajfarrow

2 жыл бұрын

Been thinking about your cousin a lot lately.... We met a long time ago... Please if you can send her lots of love and let her know she is thought of so much by so many of us. I have been saying lately how I am looking forward to sitting somewhere wonderful and reminiscing together in heaven.... Please if you can pass this on to your beautiful cousin... Thank you 🎶🦋

@heaven-is-real

2 жыл бұрын

that is so cool (great memories)

@knelson3484

Жыл бұрын

You come from good genes Trevor.

If this song and performance was somehow the only Joni ever made, it alone would stand as testament to her being the greatest singer-songwriter of her generation, and maybe of all time.

Oh my God I am just finding up about this Legend today. On my home from work leaving Bensalem Pennsylvania headed back to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and listening to one of my favorite Classic Rock Radio stations. The guy or I'm sorry rather the DJ mentioned one of his most influential female stars and then he played help me by this great woman and I swear, I was blown away. I am a super fan of this woman now

@twoaces79

2 ай бұрын

She is great isn't she.

I feel so sorry for myself not knowing this level of music for thirty years

While the Vietnam war was raging and guys were being killed for no reason , the song reflected the mood and thinking of many disillusioned people. Haunting and ethereal.

You can't measure genius. It is what it is and there are no formulae to account for it. This woman is astonishing.

@steviesevieria1868

2 жыл бұрын

Lot of mundane comments on here, but yours rings true. Joni will be remembered long from now as one of the greatest of her era of music.

There is Magic in the air and music in the heart. And the notes are born from Joni Mitchell. She sings like a river that we can sail away on... thank you Joni for all that you have given us all these years eternally grateful

She really has the voice of a soulful siren. I like the studio version of this song but this live performance is what mesmerises me. Also she's such a great pianist that i feel people don't talk about that aspect more often.

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon. ^ fucking genius

@RobobinAnne

6 жыл бұрын

"and we got to get ourselves back to the garden"

@RobobinAnne

6 жыл бұрын

No need for name calling. You point is better made without it. :-)

@ronaldsneek

6 жыл бұрын

Never knew she sings that, thanks!

@ronaldsneek

6 жыл бұрын

@ 4:40

@stephanhaeke589

6 жыл бұрын

why so aggressive? why do you call someone you don't know a fucking idiot?

I mean how on earth could anybody give this a 'thumbs down'? They obviously are clueless. A time in history that can never be repeated, with a song with words that will never be so well written (Billion year old carbon)(Caught in the devil's bargain), sung by one of the best song writers of our times, and a GREAT song that actually has melody. Whoever gave this a thumbs down either has to be forgiven because they are young and stupid, or they are just oblivious to the importance of this time in history and the meaning of this song.

@77drumsrock

8 жыл бұрын

♡ very well stated!! watching and listening to Joni Mitchell sing this song she wrote is nothing less than brilliant !!! ♡

@ultimtdisc

8 жыл бұрын

I love this song, Mitchell was a great writer, but if I did such things as "thumbs up/down" I'd give it a down. Could never stand her singing.

@kathrynpe1

8 жыл бұрын

word

@lukethedrifter8302

8 жыл бұрын

Some times people just don't expose their children to culture and art. When you have to explore things on your own, you miss so much.

@kathrynpe1

8 жыл бұрын

+Luke Thedrifter word

Even though she wasn't personally at the legendary festival, her song became the anthem of Woodstock. Whenever I hear this song, it touches me, simultaneously reminding me of Woodstock. I was a teenager myself when I first saw and heard her. A simple blonde girl with a guitar in hand and a divine voice with profound lyrics. I was immediately in love. Not just with her voice. - She is and remains an extraordinary artist under the musical sky.

i love it so much. the high pitch, the fact she wrote it, alluding to our cosmic origins. it's super powerful.

LOVE LOVE LOVE !!!! I'm 67 and I still feel this song deep in my bones! The whole scene was beautiful.Where did this vibe go? I hope there are still people that feel that groove out there.PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL OF MY KINDRED SPIRITS !!!!!

@chidiejikeme4898

5 жыл бұрын

56 and I'm feeling it all way in nigeria. The sheer musicality and magical timbre to her voice is breathtaking and priceless. God bless Joni for sharing

@sebastiaanmartens9280

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, hard to not feel this treu and treu. that highs..... they dont exist anymore. btw 31 summers Old.

@marcosreal11

4 жыл бұрын

That unabashed soul in the mysic, too.

@onewhosmilesalot

4 жыл бұрын

makes me cry

@Jazzineva

4 жыл бұрын

It still lives in some of us, Stephen. I'm 67, too, and as today is the anniversary of Woodstock, just happened to come across this. Geez, the memories are pouring through me. Keep up the love and peace. We're gonna get it back, I tell ya!

I just watched the episode of Six Feet Under in which the character Ruth plays the tape of her sister's songs: "Sarah's Songs" and she starts softly singing to this song. So touching, almost made me cry. Anyone relate or seen that episode?

@sonicboy19

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, I love that episode of Six Feet Under! It might actually be one of my favorite episodes of any television show ever! It's just so beautifully done. I'm so glad Joni allowed them to use Woodstock, as she doesn't always permit the use of her songs in television and film. But she must have recognized how appropriate it was for this for her to have allowed them to even use her own recording of it. And although I'm somewhat biased, being such a fan of Joni's work, I honestly can't think of any other song that would have served the storyline of that episode as perfectly as this one did.

@Tradebear

10 жыл бұрын

sonicboy19 Oh wow, I never thought of that. Cool. Yeah, I got goosebumps while watching that scene. I have older sisters that it reminded me of.

@MaddenManification

8 жыл бұрын

+J Bartek I just remember growing up in a funeral parlor. No Joni Mitchell, just dead bodies.

@jeffkiper8199

8 жыл бұрын

+J Bartek Me too. After getting hooked on this fantastic show ( I've downloaded each season one by one) I just had to find out who sang this song from season two, episode 7. Absolutely heavenly.

@jeffkiper8199

8 жыл бұрын

+J Bartek By the way did you see or remember the episode where Brenda's mother ( played by Joanna Cassidy, who I just love) attacked her husbands mistress in her car? Joanna Cassidy did such a good job with that scene. Later Brenda tells Nate, " My mother practically beat the shit out of this woman in the parking lot." I laughed my ass off, fuckin' hilarious.

She seems like such a gentle soul we need more people like that in this world

I love this song - the melody , and especially the word - they have such meaning ! Joni Mitchell’s is one of a kind ! Fit right in during the hippie era - I love it . Bless you Joni Girl ! ,

Joni at the top of her game. Hauntingly ethereal; beautiful rendition. A remarkable and astounding creation with transcendent vocals!

@joeyu5865

2 жыл бұрын

And taking part in cancel culture in 2022? She's acting like a 8yo tik toker

@heaven7360

2 жыл бұрын

maybe Taylor Swift will do a version of this some day

@michaelulbricht9438

2 жыл бұрын

Although Ms. Swift is at the top of current singer/songwriters; Joni is the queen and gold standard. Take care & Peace!

@heaven7360

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelulbricht9438 I was joking.

@michaelulbricht9438

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping you were being "satirical," but just in case I was trying to be "diplomatic." ✌

I was sitting, reading in our college apartment with our cat, Effy curled in my lap in 1971 when my friend, Keith brought in a new album he'd just bought. He put it on the turntable and we sat in silence listening to Blue. He got up once to turn the record over. When it was done, we sat quietly for a long time before he got up, turned it to the first side and we listened through a full second time. We were mesmerized, and I've been in love with that voice, that passion and intimacy ever since.

@lena8705ec

6 жыл бұрын

I wish your photo was on here. I like what you've said a l ot. I am alison, not emma.

@gloriaannkeeley3111

5 жыл бұрын

I did this very same thing with the album Ladies of the Canyon.

@holarc

5 жыл бұрын

thnx tom.

@TehWinnerz

5 жыл бұрын

that's lovely!

@radiolush5003

5 жыл бұрын

Blue is a masterpiece!!!

No wonder Nash's heart was broken. Wow. What a gig. What a gal.

Rural Canada produced this. Amazing. She sounds like an ancient flute calling us to go within.

This is what pure musical genius looks like. She wasn't even there yet she created a song that defined a generation.

@peteb1206

4 жыл бұрын

As she has said herself, it's because she wasn't there that she was able to write it. She saw the event on TV and felt the ideal in a way that would have been impossible mixing with the grimy movers and shakers backstage. She missed the spectacle, and the associated fame it would have given her, but she gifted us all this masterpiece of spiritual hope.

@stevoschannel4127

4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@talzohar6966

4 жыл бұрын

@@peteb1206 her friends sang it during the festival, and their version became a legend. She wrote it before

@peteb1206

4 жыл бұрын

@@talzohar6966 not according to Mitchell herself, or any other sources. She first performed it at the Big Sur Festival about a month after Woodstock and it was released in early 1970 as the b-side of Big Yellow Taxi. Crosby Stills and Nash did not perform "Woodstock" at Woodstock, they recorded their cover of it afterwards.

Joni couldn't be there. Fated to write a distant song for all us who couldn't be there.

@YarrBr0

8 жыл бұрын

That's a nice way to look at it :)

@9thedreaming9

6 жыл бұрын

Wow. You really got me thinking with this comment. What Woodstock's experience meant is far more important than the experience itself. Maybe Joni was able to channeled the true meaning of it all by not being there.

@flemingcourt

6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant insight, my friend!

@artb99

6 жыл бұрын

Was there, had mixed feelings during the actual event, because I was worried, really, that our sense of community there couldn't last. Joni went right to the heart of it, she knew we were trying our best. Love to Joni for that. And for gracing us with her genius for over 40 years.

@miguelmarquez4192

5 жыл бұрын

@@artb99 i find it very interesting that you could sense that it wasnt to be at the height of it. Before all these mass shootings began i had fears of being in rooms of crowds and crowds of people thinking people were coming to slaughter us. Everyone laughed, or my dad would get mad. i felt crazy and irrational, yet here we are. What the heck are we connected to, huh? Or maybe we can see the writing on the wall and just unable to change the progression.

not only a song, a hymn for a new mankind

She is extraterrestrial. We are so lucky to have known this beauty and talent in our lives.

That was such a classic.The bombers turned to butterflies got to me.

Amazing voice. Her ability to drop from soprano to alto in mid-lyric gives me chills.

@Missjunebugfreak

7 ай бұрын

It's amazing the way she does those vocal transitions while making it sound effortless. She has wonderful range.

@donpaladino

3 ай бұрын

A.M.E.N.!!!

Joni was at the center of all the music I loved through this era...the hurricane of music by Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Cream, and many others. Her voice, and the lyrics, are almost spiritual to me.

@SpayAndNeuterChristians4Safety

Жыл бұрын

History won't understand its impact for years still.

@billstevens3796

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, Jimi Hendrix was a fan, and actually personally recorded an early performance of hers.

Fast forward 50 years and who would have guessed the insurmountable challenge faced by musicians to find par with this magnificence.

"It was a really a nice festival I guess." And then she writes this song. The mind boggles.

We’re so lucky to have KZread to remind us.

This is so beautiful and all my hippie years passed with my friends from then where many are no longer with us .... But what a time, what a gift, what we were allowed to experience .... That changed me for always and became a memorable memory in my life....thank you beautiful wunderful Joni, I love you ❤️🙏🏻

What a hauntingly beautiful, powerful, magical piece of music....and sung from the depth of her soul. Truly, back to the garden, to a simpler way of life, will give us all peace.

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

Hi how are you doing?

“So I wrote a little song.”

@margies735

4 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful humble lady

@PhillipLandmeier

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that's how it is for a genius in their field. To her it was a little song. And we are left to listen in awe.

@chiro792222

4 жыл бұрын

@@PhillipLandmeier Yep. There's a video where an interviewer asks Bernie Taupin if he remembers exactly when he was when he wrote Your Song. He said he didn't, but he did remember he was eating breakfast at the time.

@davidghost2913

4 жыл бұрын

YES FUNNY.A LITTLE SONG WITH SUCH A BIG MESSAGE...50 YEARS LATER.BACK TO THE GARDEN.✨🌾

@brookegoslin

4 жыл бұрын

susansname A Magnificent Song She Wrote ! Brilliant ❤️👍🏼✨

The Pure Spirit of the 60s

I was 14, in Ohio, and had a ride to Woodstock, but my parents wouldn't let me go. I cried and stormed around the house for a couple weeks. Haha....❤😊😊

Je suis Français et j'adore Joni Mitctchell. Joni, JE T'AIME

She is simply the most beautiful human being, a one off, a prophet, a poet, a goddess, I'm moved the first moment a word leaves her lips! The power of woman

@albertedmunds7500

4 жыл бұрын

........ditto!

@christinalaakso2342

4 жыл бұрын

I agree ! She is a goddess!

@cliffnyman3552

4 жыл бұрын

It's damn near hypnotizing

@texthedog

4 жыл бұрын

just another human as exhibited by her 5 decade addiction to of all things. . .tobacco

@Len124

3 жыл бұрын

@@texthedog Well, I don't want to put words in Mark's mouth, but I don't think he meant to imply she was literally some sort of divine entity beyond the petty desires and vices of mere mortals. In the realms of singing, writing, and performing music, however, she's well above the norm. No one's perfect and many individuals' relationships with substance use devolve into dependence disorders--including Joni, and many other musicians of her generation (some of which, as I'm sure you know, would ultimately prove fatal)--but I'm willing to bet you know that's not _really_ what was being discussed when others alluded to her being a "goddess," a poet, powerful, etc.

Perfection. To have a voice like that, and a mind like that. She sings in paintings, she paints her songs.

@francesj.jenson6698

4 жыл бұрын

So incredibly well said! Thank you!

@lincolnanderson8130

4 жыл бұрын

and a spirit like that.

@ejej1187

2 жыл бұрын

well, she did once describe herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance"

Joni performed this song a few months before I was born. What a magical performance.

The voice of an angel. The heart of a true poet. One of a kind. Joni, we love you forever and always.

How amazing... Left out...and She produced this... One of the greatest song's in history... What a woman.

This woman wasn't there but captured it perfectly in this song I know I was there This woman is a soulful genius Bless her This song will live on representing this festival forever

I'm speechless in awe...beyond any words at all. Feeling grateful for having grown up in a time such as it was. Thanks for this video @sonicboy19 and thank you Joni Mitchell for being alive during my lifetime.

Her music touches the soul.

I love that's she's so confident in her voice, absolutely LOVE IT, she uses her entire range

@gregscheyd4131

Жыл бұрын

YES , WHEN SHE IS TALKING , SHE IS JUST TALKING , LIKE A YOUNG GIRL , LIKE A CHILD REALLY : BUT WHEN SHE SINGS , JESUS : WHAT JUST HAPPENED ?????????

Joni is a goddess made of stardust.

@TheMonolake

5 жыл бұрын

She is an angel i feel lucky to be in her era.

@hoffer54

5 жыл бұрын

We are all made of stardust literally!

WTF is happening these days? We’re reversing all the progress we made over the last 50 years. Todays youth better wake up and fight back.

Joni, you are a musical genious , a well loved poet. Much love to you.

One of the greatest and most meaningful songs ever written.

@kiwanishinton9410

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is

So many singers. So few Joni Mitrchells.

@tom7979

4 жыл бұрын

jimashtube there’s only one Joni Mitchell

@timhallas4275

4 жыл бұрын

Thank God! Three of them would have made me doubt the theory of evolution.

@wtmuller1

4 жыл бұрын

She is not a singer...... she is a genius writer and performer that brings life to words, that can bring the human experience to a picture we can all see and appreciate. The only writers I can put in her class are Jackson Browne and John Prine. They can all write songs that can bring tears to my eyes and some understanding to my heart. I'm 66 now and been a Joni fan since high school years. What a talent.

@martinnolan4800

3 жыл бұрын

Tom Matthews you said it .... there’s just one, I’m grateful that I have lived in her time.

@jimashtube

3 жыл бұрын

@@wtmuller1 it always amazes me when no one understands my comments.

OMG, that voice. I’ve been a fan forever, but her voice never fails to amaze me.

One word to describe the lyrics: profound.

I just watched Gram Nash say Joni is a musical genius. I am glad Gram agrees with me.

@subg8858

7 жыл бұрын

It's not even a matter of opinion

@trry699

6 жыл бұрын

Graham knew her very well as they used to live together. Love them both.

@WhisperVoyeur

6 жыл бұрын

gym shoe hows the weather up on your high horse, fool ?!

@craiganderson3170

6 жыл бұрын

Dylan made me laugh

Stunned by the beauty of this musician’s incredible voice

@joeyu5865

2 жыл бұрын

Awful old woman

@justjeph6927

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeyu5865 really? She became a bch?

@zapkvr

Жыл бұрын

@@joeyu5865 Hey and look at what happened to that sap Dylan? Born again christian for fuck's sake. If you live long enough you grow feet of clay.

@stanibol

Жыл бұрын

@@joeyu5865 ??? Joni contracted a disease - one that is red listed by the CDC. The label morgellons had 5 definitions- Delusional parasitosis is the tag that mainstream chooses. Very wrong. Very sad. The psych medication they offer generally causes weight increase and does zilch to combat the parasitic/fungal pathogens.

@gailbarejka77

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised to hear of her very ego driven comments at times..about other musicians, etc..

This proves this era was directly connected to god.we had the best of all worlds.im in tears.

@user-xr8dq6ly7g

Ай бұрын

We're still connected ❤

How someone can have such a diversity of supreme taste and talents, piano, vocal, literary, visual arts, all justifying the term genius, plus personal beauty, is impossible and will never be equaled.

She introduces is like it's almost a little ditty and then absolutely plays and sings the heart out of it.

@CA-xs6sr

4 жыл бұрын

"I just sorta pieced this one together about ten minutes ago...I dunno."

a seminal poem of the 20th century. resonates today. she is...a genius.

That first line is just brilliant. Brilliant songwriting. Deep bows and thank you

I cried too, didn´t know it. This is one of the wonderful messages ever, We are Star Dust, We are Golden, and we muct get ourselves Back To The Garden,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,