You can tell that this version was sung with all the experiences of life under her belt. It’s mature and melancholy with good and hard memories. It’s a work of art. Joni is amazing.
This is the version that Joni Mitchell recorded many years later. It hits you in a whole different way. Such incredibly beautiful song. Biz I hope you will check out the song River by Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock, the jazz pianist It’s incredible.
It is amazing Joni was so young when she wrote this lovely and insightful song with all these lovely metaphors and images. You will like 'Amelia' also.
It's funny, when I heard this version on lousy TV and laptop speakers, I preferred the original. But with the headphones, when you can hear the full character and depth of the voice, I absolutely prefer this one.
Joni became pregnant at 20 when she was a college student and had no support from the baby’s father or her parents. Eight months after giving birth to a baby named Kelly Dale Anderson, Mitchell decided to place her infant daughter for adoption in 1965 - and the two reconnected over 30 years later "It left a hole in me that I didn't fill until the day I saw her again," life is not always easy she has seen life on Both Sides Now. Peace out.
Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, her lover, said Joni sang like she painted. She painted her own album covers. Once in a generation artist.
she wrote this song when she was 20ish(how someone that age writes a song like this smh) and at that age the song when she sings it gives off an entirely different vibe. this version probably 40 years later shows how life and its weathering of the soul puts everything into perspective
Joni did her own album cover work, as well. An artist in many ways. We grew up listening to her beautiful creations...and for this, I am so glad. She offers a special sound.
A contemporary of singer/songwriter and another folk recording artist of Joni Mitchell is Judy Collins. Judy collaborated with Stephen Stills with their release of "Pretty Polly" which is a folk-rock song that might be worth checking out from 1968.💋👠🎤🎸🎹🥁🔊🔥☮
Check out Joni's song, "Coyote", which she wrote while touring with Bob Dylan on his Rolling Thunder tour in the mid '70s. One of the guys on the tour (a poet that later did some acting in movies) was doing the "guy thing", getting with girls on the tour. Joni uses the coyote metaphor to document his behavior. Worth a listen.
I am pretty sure the coyote was Leonard Cohen. Supposedly he "slept" his way across Canada. Must have been a smooth listener and talker. Advice to all the young single guys - notice I put listen before talk A player at a younger age - now I've been married for 48 years grandkids - trust me young man listen first - they will stay. you will have your turn to talk who knows someday you might be married for48 years
@@dwhite849 According to the articles that I read, it was (the late) Sam Sheppard... playwright and actor who accompanied the group on the Rolling Thunder tour. Joni wrote it based on his pursuit of her and others on the tour, even while having a wife back home. The white lines referenced in the song are the highway centerline and the people stuck in the tour bus. If you like rock docs, check out the Rolling Thunder Review and you can see Joni present the song for the first time to Dylan, Roger Mcguinn and others during a stop in Canada.
This incredible later years performance really is the perfect companion to her original 1969 version. You can hear and feel the wisdom of living a full life has on an evolving art.
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Mitchell said he was reading a book where the character was flying to Africa, looking down at the clouds -- when she was on a plane, looking down at the clouds. The rest is a genius geniusing.
She is a top 4 singer/songwriter, IMO, along with Dylan, Simon, and Leonard Cohen. Both Sides Now is her signature song. She wrote it at a young age. Old soul. Btw, the version you are hearing now is from a later recording, not the original album version.
I'm not saying you should react to it, but for your own sake, as a fellow artist, you should see her doing this live!! She did one at the Kennedy center a few years ago that was very moving!!!
The words to this song are still very impactful to me. It is one of the songs that has been in the soundtrack of my life. Set in the background of a loving but complicated family life the true nature of these words were manifested in how life played out for me and my sister. Nearly 45 years later my Sis still believes in the fairytale depiction of clouds despite the cruel hand life dealt to her. I love her for that, because she never became bitter. I chose the more cautious path as the youngest and I guess I really chose to see the clouds from both sides. Now nearly in our sixties , we only have each other and we are a perfect balance to each other. The clouds need to be seen from both sides. Miss Mitchell was a visionary when it comes to songwriting. I am so thankful for this song that truly is a gift .
I remember hearing this beautiful song performed by Judy Collins, I didn't realise that Joni wrote it and performed it originally. Although Joni has a unique style and beautiful voice, I think I prefer Judy's version. It's a little more up tempo and Judy has an amazing voice also. Laurel Canyon in the '60s was crawling with talented musicians living communally while waiting to hit it big. Joni, Judy, David Crosby, Steven Stills, Jackson Browne, all the Mamas and Poppas, Jim Morrison, Byrds and others I can't remember. It wasn't an economically rich neighborhood, but talent wise - an embarassment of riches... You Tube has several good documentaries on this time and place.
She got to you Biz. I know you like “beautiful shit.” If you are interested in another songsress extraordinaire, check out Janis Ian “At Seventeen” and any other song from her album “Between the Lines.” Thanks for taking the Joni Mitchell dive another league deeper.
"Both Sides Now" was a massive hit for Judy Collins in 1968. It was one of those songs that defined pop music in the sixties. Check out that version to better understand the song. Some radio stations were still playing it in the early seventies. Judy Collins is the "Sweet Judy with the Blue Eyes" in Crosby, Stills & Nash "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". And when you're ready for more from Joni Mitchell also check out "Chelsea Morning", "Help Me", "Free Man in Paris", "California", "Woodstock", "Court And Spark", "Down To You", "Raised on Robbery" and more, that is, if you haven't already...
Clapton played Freddie's "key to the highway" on Derek & the Dominoes Layla album. I grew up in Austin & Antone's blues club would celebrate The Three Kings every year, Albert, Freddie & B.B. Please check out Freddie's "Key to the Highway" thx.
YOU ARE AMAZING!! You watched and you listened and waited and then you spoke your mind. Absolutely lovely! I grew up gay in Canada in the 1970's. Her voice and music, and relatively big hits were on the CBC every morning growing up. I didn't feel like a free man in Paris while shoveling my Mom's porridge into my fledgeling, Gay Canadian mouth. Quite the opposite. I was furious and longed for safe places to express my identity and then suddenly 'Freeman in Paris' was suddenly on the radio. I didn't at first understand what the verses and lyrics were about but I came to understand. David Geffen was gruising for gay sex and he told Joni Mitchell about and now here we are. '''"thinking how Ill feel when I find, that very good friend of mine.". What else?
I still remember your reaction to, "For Free", Biz---- that's what made me subscribe to your channel. That's going waaaay back, I think you were just getting started. I hope you'll continue into the Joni Mitchell rabbit hole, there's so many gems in her catalog.
The album version is great! But of course it's her song, and she can sing it anyway she pleases! I still listen to her frequently. Kind of nostalgic, like me. ✌️❤️🤟🥁
Never a "formula" musician, her albums are each so unique. Each album and era of her career has it's own feel and approach, as she and the world around her changed. One of my favorite of her albums is Hejira, which has a lot of traveling/exploring vibes. The song Amelia from that album even includes lyrical references to a song she wrote called Cactus Tree from her FIRST album "Song to a Seagull". 🙂 Indeed, "fairy tales" re: romance and expectations about adulthood have not always been particularly helpful! 😏 Combine that with the fact that until well into the 1970's women weren't even allowed to have their own checking account, savings account, make major purchases on their own etc., and many well-intentioned men still thought that ALL women would WANT to quit their jobs, careers and creative outlets and be "taken care of" as part of the "falling in love" process, which resulted in conflicting emotions and responses. It was a confusing time for both men and women! (and still is, to some degree, as you noted! 😉)
A great song by Joni Mitchell,but this is not her 1969 version which appeared in her Clouds LP.This is a much more recent version,as you can hear by her voice.She´s not singing high notes like she used to but the expression of her mature voice I like even more.
It's interesting if you contrast this song when from she sang it when very young. This version is one of experience, and a more intense level of emotion...although I love them both, of course. It's a woman reflecting on "love" in this version, and not a girl just beginning to try and understand "love".
You should listen to the original when she was younger and compare it to this one. You can tell how her view has changed as she got older even though the words are the same.
This is a version she did way later in her career, after her voice got deeper/smokier. I love this version as an alternate, but you should check out her original version. Check this one out, live on the Mama Cass TV show...If this doesn't mesmerize you into a stupor of emotion, nothing will :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4NdsnFZm0X4.htmlsi=pTYdOPcTDxwduAnD
Not the original from 1960s but more refined, introspective and mature view of life, i find it better but I'm 72 now and also looking back, the version from last years grammy show even better
about 30 years earlier when she cold sing high vocals this is what she sounded like on 2 songs including BOTH SIDES - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GFB-d-8_bvY.html
