So why did Joni’s Gershwin award turn me off?
Continue reading...163: Joni Mitchell, ‘For Free’
222: Joni Mitchell, ‘River’
Joni, skating on thin ice, on a river so long that our own feet can fly us away from this troubled world.
Peace on earth, goodwill towards men and women, everyone.
277: Joni Mitchell, ‘Electricity’
Why Joni Mitchell isn’t relevant in a world of Millenial zombies.
Continue reading...106: Joni Mitchell, ‘Cactus Tree’
Most of the little I understand of the female psyche I’ve learned from Joni Mitchell.
Continue reading...260: David Crosby/Joni Mitchell, ‘Yvette in English’
David Crosby.
Sometimes he gives you a high.
Sometimes he makes you want to jump off something high.
In 1993, he and Joni Mitchell wrote a beautiful, enigmatic song together.
259: Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau: ‘Marcie’ (Joni Mitchell), ‘Don’t Think Twice’ (Dylan)
You don’t need Thile and Mehldau to justify the standing of Dylan or Mitchell. But their fresh new readings may still amplify and even enhance the originals.
Continue reading...215: Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’
A close reading of the harrowingly intimate Joni Mitchell masterpiece, ‘Blue’.
Continue reading...177: Joni Mitchell, ‘Woodstock’
50 years ago I was at the Woodstock festival, in the mud and the mire and the morass. Joni wasn’t, but she got it right in the song. True Woodstock is in the mind.
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