colins
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Post by colins on Dec 20, 2019 10:37:40 GMT
I was clearing out some of the files from my 'favourites' folder when I rediscovered this sitting in there. Sometimes we forget how talented Joni Mitchell is, to me the best singer songwriter (after Woody Guthrie) that came from North America. I love the concept of tuning the guitar to the sonic references available in the surroundings, to the crows and waves etc.
Colin
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Welshruss
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 11:07:20 GMT
Post by Welshruss on Dec 20, 2019 11:07:20 GMT
Excellent stuff. I’d never really heard of Joni’s music before I did 3 workshops with Eric Roche in the early 2000s. The first one was on Nick Drake , the second on Joni. From that I discovered Blue and Herjia. If I remember we worked on Little Green in the workshop. Also as a big Marillion fan around the same time I was reading an interview with their guitarist Steve Rothery who said that Joni’s Court and Spark was a huge influence on his playing and now is one of my favourite albums too.
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 11:29:44 GMT
Post by dangad on Dec 20, 2019 11:29:44 GMT
Tried several times to get into Joni and never have... Court and Spark is great but outside the occasional song the rest has never really grabbed me.
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Post by scorpiodog on Dec 20, 2019 11:59:42 GMT
She became my favourite female singer in 1970 when I got Ladies Of The Canyon, and I have loved her ever since. The only one of her albums I find challenging is Mingus, and I listen to it every now and then anyway. I can't honestly say I like it, but I am starting to find it interesting.
Everything else is sublime. And so very varied.
Good call, Colin.
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 12:10:09 GMT
Post by fatfingerjohn on Dec 20, 2019 12:10:09 GMT
She's a bit marmite for me; love a few of her songs but don't get a lot more. Could be one of those things where you have to listen to them a lot more but I usually just wind through from halfway first time on a lot. Some are just too weird for my taste. That's what makes music so great though as we're all different.
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 12:19:04 GMT
Post by andyhowell on Dec 20, 2019 12:19:04 GMT
SHe is one of the all time greats, songwriters and innovators. Court & Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Heyja were genuinely innovative. This is stuff that will last.
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 12:27:26 GMT
Post by scorpiodog on Dec 20, 2019 12:27:26 GMT
SHe is one of the all time greats, songwriters and innovators. Court & Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Heyja were genuinely innovative. This is stuff that will last. I always think of Court and Spark as the last of her folk albums, but I know what you mean. Don Juan's Reckless daughter has become one of my favourites in recent years. I completely missed it when it was first issued. But I love the way her voice and delivery has matured over the years (something to do with her nicotine habit, I'm sure). Both Sides Now and A Case Of You on the Both Sides Now album from 2000 (why do I think of that as recent?) are incredible and so different from the original recordings.
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 12:50:31 GMT
Post by andyhowell on Dec 20, 2019 12:50:31 GMT
Don Juan's Reckless daughter is indeed superb. scorpiodog
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Post by dreadnought28 on Dec 20, 2019 17:48:15 GMT
Tried several times to get into Joni and never have... Court and Spark is great but outside the occasional song the rest has never really grabbed me. Both Sides Now? Big Yellow Taxi? California? Carey? A Case of You? Circle Game? Woodstock? For Free? Just a few of my favourites
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Joni
Dec 20, 2019 20:16:39 GMT
Post by vikingblues on Dec 20, 2019 20:16:39 GMT
Great singer, great songwriter, great guitar player, great song. A song that should be heard much more than it is. The wonderful Christy Moore / Declan Sinnott do a very powerful and respectful cover of this song too. Mark
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Post by Vinny on Dec 20, 2019 20:37:30 GMT
She became my favourite female singer in 1970 when I got Ladies Of The Canyon, and I have loved her ever since. The only one of her albums I find challenging is Mingus, and I listen to it every now and then anyway. I can't honestly say I like it, but I am starting to find it interesting. Everything else is sublime. And so very varied. Good call, Colin. My sentiments, exactly. The jazzier stuff not so much my cup of tea, but overall my favourite artist.
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colins
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Post by colins on Dec 20, 2019 23:20:40 GMT
I think that, shall we say the more mature amongst us, have lived through a golden age of music. We had the last hurrah of some of the great blues men, then Joni, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch and the other great British legends, and now we have Lynn McFarland ( Wild Violet), leoroberts and the Men in Black, we are a lucky bunch.
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Post by brianr2 on Dec 22, 2019 10:43:27 GMT
I think that, shall we say the more mature amongst us, have lived through a golden age of music. We had the last hurrah of some of the great blues men, then Joni, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch and the other great British legends, and now we have Lynn McFarland ( Wild Violet ), leoroberts and the Men in Black, we are a lucky bunch. So very, very true. To paraphrase Leonard Cohen: “ we may be old but we have the music”. One of my best ever buys is this box setBrian
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 28, 2019 10:55:19 GMT
I think that, shall we say the more mature amongst us, have lived through a golden age of music. We had the last hurrah of some of the great blues men, then Joni, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch and the other great British legends, and now we have Lynn McFarland ( Wild Violet ), leoroberts and the Men in Black, we are a lucky bunch. So very, very true. To paraphrase Leonard Cohen: “ we may be old but we have the music”. One of my best ever buys is this box setBrian I have that very same set. It was the set that made me realise how good she was over such a long time.
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Joni
Dec 28, 2019 13:38:44 GMT
Post by minorkey on Dec 28, 2019 13:38:44 GMT
She's not someone I'm familiar with.
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