(guest blogged by Howie Klein) Joni Mitchell’s new album, SHINE, will be released, by Hear Music (Starbucks) and our good friends at Concord Records, Tuesday. C&L has an advance and we were told to keep it semi-quiet but leak it to our community. So don’t tell anyone you don’t know. There’s a new version of “Big Yellow Taxi” and there’s this incredible adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling poem, “If.” Joni described the new CD “as serious a work as I’ve ever done.” I was floored by this song, “If I Had A Heart,” which we’re proud to debut right here at C&L. The New York Times described it as “one of the most haunting melodies she has ever written.
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And here’s an EPK of Joni talking about the making of this record and why this project is so unique and so important to her.
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Rudyard Kipling also wrote well of Afghanistan, and of how things can go wrong there.
Joni is one of a kind! A true original!
Another home run for C&L. I hope everyone orders Joni’s new album
Can’t wait for the album. What a career she has had, pretty much all on her terms.
Ahhhhhhhh another master of musical art.
Beautiful
I like her voice on this one…huskier than it used to be, no?
Congrats on the premiere. Awesome artist, (sad to she ‘er smokin’)
She NEVER disappoints.
“Starbuck’s is great” did anyone else notice this nonsequiter toward the bginning of the dance sequence. Sounds like a blatant ad cut to me.
What is Starbuck’s idelogical stance anyway? Are they, for instance, a very gay-friendly company? Did they support BushCo in any way in the Iraq & Aghanistan wars? If Starbucks is cool politically then I can forgive them for making nasty coffee.
Indigowatcher @ 10:
Howard Schultz, Chairman
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/by.....rst=howard
Looks like another beautiful album from Joni. Thank you C&L
on you crazy diamond!!!! Hello Joni!
The greatest American songwriters: George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Richard Rogers, Billy Strayhorn, Joni Mitchell.
(a woefully incomplete list, but you get my point)
This report on Starbuck’s CEO campaign contributions is a bit more complete.
Starship: Miracles -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f5UgimK3vrI
King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpX71RZeev4
it sounds really pretty, but I couldn’t understand three words out of five. i hope they’re gonna remix that sucker.
Joni - wow.
I never could figure out her guitar stringing, but more than any other artist…she gives herself away. Everything. Thanks C&L. And thanks Joni.
Joni - Live 1970 : Both Sides Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
What a treat! Thank you C&L, I’m so glad I checked in tonight. Joni just gets better and better. I’m so tickled that my 14 year-old is playing and appreciating her music now too.
Yikes! Gorgeous song.
Interesting that Kipling’s work has just this year entered the public domain. 70 years after the authors death or 120 years from creation. No sharing of publishing royalties. sweet deal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iLPnDCQ1g Cat Stevens…..Peace Train.
Joni said something about it hard to rationalize optimism but let me try. The worst thing that has ever happen to this country is the Bush cartel, yet it may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened! If enough people wake up and do something about the criminals who now run things, take back a free democracy and never let such a thing happen again, well then is that optimism?
Frank Sinatra - High Hopes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Aerosmith
Nobody’s Fault
no, no, no: Saturday night is right for fightin’
What an amazing & unique talent…one beautiful songstress she is.
My ex-husband got to jam with her on on the ferry docks in Toronto at Mariposa one year…it remains one of the highlights of his life.
Incredibly talented & interesting lady.
I loved her with Jaco and Brecker too….
A new Joni album? Alright.
I’ve loved her for years and years and years.
My favorite song of hers is “Electricity” off “For the Roses”.
John -
> I loved her with Jaco and Brecker too….
Wasn’t Metheny with her also then?
Blue Cheer
Parchment Farm
I recall a particular Saturday night over at Gary’s place in horrible Trumball Park when Stoner and Shithead Smith politely discussed going outside to have a fight all the way thru four sides of Physical Grafiitti and a case of fight-starter. At some point during UFO, Force It the deed was done. Stoner, alas, had to concede because he couldn’t stop laughing — what could he do, we were tripping our balls off.
The last two Joni CD’s I bought have religious poems put to her music.Yeat’s Second Coming is on Nightride Home titled; Slouching Towards Bethlehem and on another great CD Turbulent Indigo titled; The Sire Of Sorrow (Job’s Sad Song).I love that.
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Little Jack Melody with his Young Turks: slouching towards bethlehem -
http://technohippie.com/geeklo.....2222434657
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Court and Spark I think is my favorite album but I can’t find anything from it so-
Joni Mitchell-California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Led Zeppelin
Achilles Last Stand
‘course, I was just groovin’ the whole time …
This song is so devastating and so beautiful that, if there’s any chance, maybe she just gave it to us.
A Danish cover band named “Big Yellow Taxi” (seriously) has done a great CD of her songs- best cover ever.
UFO
Out In the Street
could we borrow Michael … for six albums or so
Joni Mitchell sings Woodstock at Isle of Wight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZOtykZ0fA
Joni Anderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Thulsa Doom
Overhang
psyche Norwegia
Gotta love the Joni. All this years later and she’s still got that thick Canadian accent (and the cigarette habit).
Excellent contribution, LG!
Joni Anderson Mitchell in Canada 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaWlSfqT0O4
an old, dear love of mine, Joni.
i’ll have to listen to this a few times through…it’s really not grabbing me right away. maybe i’m just too used to Court and Spark…Blue…and so on. This…I mean, I hate to sound contrary in the face of so much admiration in this thread. So I’ll be quiet. Maybe it will grow on me. But I can’t really find the melody I’m used to. Tho I do appreciate the gift very much.
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez @ 44:
No its all good. I’ve found that Joni’s last couple of albums (Turbalent Indigo, Taming the Tiger) demanded repeated listens. So while her later music doesn’t have the immediacy of Court and Spark or Blue, I think it’s still holds up.
So the new record will most likely grow on you, just as her other later albums have grown on me.
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez @ 44:
Yes, do keep listening, it gets better and better and better and better with each hearing. You are probably just having trouble staying with the precise attitude of it… the mood attitude… maybe no word for it, but it’s like a diamond needle picking up the sound of something vital. So do keep listening.
What a beautiful surprise that was! Thank-you so much. :)
Leonard Cohen
Suzanne
http://www.dailymotion.com/rel.....live_music
Andy K @ 48:
Hey Andy k WHERE YOU BEEN? We missed ya!
April March
Cet Air La
http://www.dailymotion.com/rel.....r-la_music
lafin gas @ 49:
Workin’ early at my regular job, late on the weekends fer the second job.
I said hi to ya a few weeks back on a LNMC thread, lg, but you were looooong gone!
Thank you so much for this extraordinary post.
I have listened to Joni Mitchell while driving through the Yukon at night with the headlights on high, playing ‘Waiting for a Car on the Hill’, ‘Oh Canada,’ ‘Circle Game,’ and also many newer tracks. She’s been my mental soundtrack on railway trains in Europe, and in the southern hemisphere. Probably like many others, I’ve replayed ‘Both Sides Now’ in my head while looking down on cloud formations on long air trips; pondering the literal, and proverbial, truth of that song from 35,000 ft.
The beauty of the dancers moving to her music in this video posted tonight has me misty-eyed, and I am so grateful for the beauty encountered here tonight.
Looking forward to Tuesday.