Thanks so much for writing about Joni, in a way that honors her. Your life mirrors so much of mine that reading your posts is like reminiscing. Only you do it so much more elegantly than I could. Appreciate you.
I listen to all of Joni’s albums that you mentioned. I too limited myself to those albums. Then a few years ago, I listened to Night Ride Home and Turbulent Indigo. I was hooked! Highly recommend you give them a listen. They are now on repeat for me. Same intoxicating Joni.
Oh yes, of course. The first time I heard the chirping crickets at the start of the song Night Ride Home, I was love-struck. Nothing Can Be Done is Joni's finest 'rock' moment, and the lyrics, naturally, are killer. "...You had some trash-can rock band pounding..." Slayed.
Turbulent took me a while to sink into, but I got there.
Thank you for your writing. I forget I am reading and am just carried away by the unnameable. Magical.
Great piece Woodruff. We agree on Hissing but I think much of her later catalog is overlooked and brilliant.
Love your mother’s black keys memory.
You just wrote about my favorite album. I love that the critics didn't get it.
Thanks so much for writing about Joni, in a way that honors her. Your life mirrors so much of mine that reading your posts is like reminiscing. Only you do it so much more elegantly than I could. Appreciate you.
Joni went all the way home with the Mingus album. She is a jazz singer and always was.
Check out Tutu Poane's Joni Mitchell Project and other updated jazz interpretations of her work.
Don't stay stuck in the past, she evolved!
Cheers, Frederick...
'Hissing' really is as amazing as you write it to be.
And thank you for letting me know Joni is back on Spotify.
I listen to all of Joni’s albums that you mentioned. I too limited myself to those albums. Then a few years ago, I listened to Night Ride Home and Turbulent Indigo. I was hooked! Highly recommend you give them a listen. They are now on repeat for me. Same intoxicating Joni.
Hello Ellen
Oh yes, of course. The first time I heard the chirping crickets at the start of the song Night Ride Home, I was love-struck. Nothing Can Be Done is Joni's finest 'rock' moment, and the lyrics, naturally, are killer. "...You had some trash-can rock band pounding..." Slayed.
Turbulent took me a while to sink into, but I got there.
Thank you for your comment.