you know, the CSN version of this is AMAZING. also, when Herbie Hancock did his tribute album to Joni he called it "River." people have probably told you that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4lx86B6a3kc.html&ab_channel=Crosby%2CStills%2CNash%26Young-Topic
One more absolutely beautiful MUST HEAR Joni Mitchell song, Jamel: *"Songs To Aging Children Come"* I'm so serious... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3q2jiRUVLgI.html&ab_channel=JoniMitchell-Topic
Never heard the version before. I know the song, but we get to share a first-time experience this time with her version. Just mesmersizing. So glad there is still unheard old music around to enjoy, since little is being made today. Peace to all Americans. Let's move ahead instead of suffering from the past. Let the music play.
Yo think of all the great musicians that lived in Laurel Canyon and inspired such great music Joni Mitchell; Frank Zappa; Jim Morrison Carole King; The Byrds; Buffalo Springfield; Canned Heat; John Mayall; members of The Eagles; Neil Young; Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys , James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Harry Nilsson, and Micky Dolenz & Peter Tork of The Monkees.
Aww been drawn to listen to her lately.. and now realizing it was just her birthday 😊 and it’s the same as my niece’s 🎂 happy birthday to two of my favourite girls 😘
By appearance, a little mouse of a girl from the Canadian prairie. But when she opens her mouth, and strums her guitar or tickles the ivories, the lioness of talent within her saunters out and commands attention and respect. One moment, she lifts spirits to scintillating heights, and the next transports us to her private world of sadness and self reflection.
I just want to say thank you, Jamel. Joni turned 77 years old yesterday and she has been in poor health the last couple of years. But in my heart, she will always be the tall, willowy blonde from Canada whose voice could, as you said, scare you and soothe you at the same time. She is a once in a generation talent.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for honoring the great Joni Mitchell! She is an unsung hero in music that does not get the respect he deserves and she has EARNED! THANK YOU!
🎶💙I could have written this almost verbatim, but I was 18. In college apt when I heard a knock & opened the door. “Can I come in I’m so f***ing lonely?” Still long distant friends 50+ years. She introduced me to Joni & the Doobie brothers on an amazing stereo that blew me away. Music became my first love. My single Mama was my first, & she bought me a book shaped transistor radio from JCPENNY 1964. 11yo me in Colorado could get WGN & Koma. Heaven. She let me take her console stereo to college. Girls in the dorm would shyly come to our open dorm & ask what song & band was playing. Kept the local Budget Tape & Records in business. Mama, “When you run out of money for food, you’ll have to eat your records.”Our son, “Mom, don’t EVER get rid of your albums.” Boyfriend, now husband, helped me many times moving to different houses, apts & the albums had to be on the front seat. Music is life! 💙🎶
Just started to listen all her songs lately and I could sing all her songs and know all the lyrics. I realized that I was 11 was singing her songs (1969).
"We are billion year old carbon" is a genius way of concurrently restating the "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" proverb and saying that we are all essentially connected, created equal in the eyes of the universe.
It's a call back to stardust, in that we needed stars to collapse and send carbon lightyears across the universe so it could be a part of our bodies. What Carl Sagan said.
As much as I like Crosby, Stills, and Nash, the pensive nature of Joni's vocals is more appropriate for this song. And as you said, her voice is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for your review.
@@Hrizzzz I've heard people say that but I don't hear anything foreboding about Joni's song. It seems mystical - almost transcendental - and celebratory, affirmative of our rightful place as children of God/the Universe, trying to get back to that place of spiritual innocence and oneness, where weapons of war could maybe really turn into butterflies, just because half a million people willed it to be so. Without wanting to get into current politics that may be divisive, I thought I felt that spirit in America again just the other day, alive and well, with people dancing in the streets, laughing and shouting for joy, celebrating freedom and another chance, perhaps, to 'get ourselves back to the garden'. Please. please - anyone reading - feel free to ignore that last bit though, if it's distressing for you. Please know that no-one hates you. No-one wants to cheat you. Let the truth come out, as it will. We are all stardust. Love and peace to all.
Agreed, I love me some blues-rock, but nothing brings me down from a panic-attack like singing along to this performance, and I've been feeling pretty anxious lately, so this came at a good time!..
I was at Woodstock and this performance brought tears to my eyes. She really captured the spirit as she's done with countless beautiful songs- what a voice!!
Woodstock was so beautiful, the people so caring and wondrous, no went without and everyone helped each other as it should be. Then I grew up, I have tears running down my face remembering the love that was given to all.
I was only 14 in '69, but I remember so well. The young people, the hippies, were fighting against, protesting against, the same things we're protesting today. We hated war. We hated racism. We hated sexism. We hated government overreach and police brutality. We tried, we really did. And I thought we had made great strides in the 70's. I still thought things were better even in the 80's. What happened?
@@rubyschwartz9893 You said a big truth Ruby. I'm the same age as you and I remember being just old enough to be on the edge of those fights and a few years later thinking we were winning. But it was all a ruse. The big shots took over again and kept people right where they wanted us. Now the struggle still feels new.
Irl, she was never a “Hippie Chick”. By her own assertion. In the song, The Boho Dance from 1975’s, “The Hissing of Summer Lawns”, “But even on the scuffle The cleaner's press was in my jeans And any eye for detail Caught a little lace along the seams...”
The funny thing is she wasn't really a hippie chick. She dressed conservatively. Never like say Janis Joplin. She was upper middle class. An absolute musical and lyrical genius. This woman for the most part wrote not only the music to her vast catalogue of songs, but the lyrics as well.
That is the most beautiful voice I ever heard. The way she looks, her voice and those words , my god, she's an angel. She is one of the best songwriters that ever lived. The way she can make all those complicated stories and manage to make them fit to the music (or fit the music to the lyrics) is unreal. I enjoyed watching you freak out to this masterpiece. I really think your life was changed forever.
Jamel, you seem to connect with the music of my generation. Are you sure you didn’t live in the 60’s and early 70’s and reincarnated in the 80’s ☮️☮️💯💯🎶🎶❤️❤️
The music was purer then. A lot of todays music has a veneer of plastic over it that often stands between the soul and the universe. Joni connects your soul directly to the universe
Thanks Jamel, I have listened to this song my entire life. And this is the first time I ever heard the person who wrote it sing it. Thanks for keeping great music alive and teaching some of us a little history.
Robert, you will know the C,S,N & Y version, there is also another version from a band called Mathew's Southern Comfort which is also worth checking out, take care buddy.
I thought of this a while back, but unfortunately Woodstock performances get blocked by GooTube. Such a shame, as Richie Havens "Freedom" would be a great reaction video for Jamel.
The depth of Joni's lyrics is mind blowing especially when you consider her very young age at the time. And here we are 50 years later and we have only gotten farther from the "Garden" of Eden...
That’s a vocal masterclass. The modulation, the pacing, the ridiculous sliding pitch, the feeling put into every word. And it wasn’t even 1970 yet when she put it together in an evening. And you’re right. Live?? Come on now.
That lady exudes beauty. Her face and eyes, smile, kind gestures and shyness, voice, lyrics, and melodies all have aided to bring great light and love to this too oft dimly lit world. God bless.
Joni's voice is like Crystals & Angelic & Karen's voice to me is like smooth cream, silky & addictive! I love that you appreciate them both. I grew up with these super powers and I LOVE BEING A HIPPIE! Couldn't make it to Woodstock Festival, I was only 7 and my mom was first generation Italian.....FORGET-A BOUT-IT!!!!! ✌
My baby boy German Shepherd (4 months young) barked and then growled as she sang 'we've got to get back to the garden' ... not once, but twice during this beautiful song by Joni !!... gave me chills both times as you can imagine.
Joni...I grew up listening to her and that voice! My Dad was a pro musician and he & I always said it's like a flute, one of the 12 instruments he played. But,Joni has some tricks up her sleeve. She can rock with the best of them with "Raised on Robbery" which will bring a smile to your face and major shoulder moves. Then, she will break your heart with "Come in From the Cold". A deep cut for sure but if any song would make you cry on screen, that's it. And yeah, it was WAY more fun back then. Thanks for allowing me to relive so many great memories during such a trying time. Peace & Love!
This song always brings tears to my eyes. This live performance always brings tears to my eyes. Your reaction brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, honey.💙🌿💚
From the mid-60s to the mid-70s was the height of the singer-songwriter era. During my high school to college years was filled with great music and songwriters that wrote amazing songs that would be considered poetry in an earlier era. Joni Mitchell is one of the greats. Others are: Bob Dylan Carole King Cat Stevens Stephen Stills James Taylor Jackson Browne Dan Fogelberg Neil Young Harry Nilsson Paul Simon Jimmy Buffett John Prine Leon Russell Van Morrison.
@@catherinestratton5836 he reacted to a much slower version that she did years later, after she lost her upper register. I'm saying that he should hear the version from her Clouds album, from 1969.
"Amelia" is a heart-breaking ode to Amelia Earhart, the woman pilot who was lost in an attempt to fly around the world. The live version with Pat Metheny on guitar and Jocko Pastorius on bass is a damn good concert all the way through.
Her music, her lyrics, are pure magic. It has been the back ground to my life since 1969. The vocals she does at the end of 'Woodstock' still gives me chills. In a 'Case of You' she sings, "love is touching souls", and indeed she has touched mine.
Pitch-perfect...mesmerizing...masterful...an artist's artist. Now you know why she's had so many devoted fans for decades. This is my favorite version of the song. Its tone is haunting; its lyrics philosophical. No question, it captured the zeitgeist of that era.
You are killing me with these Joni reactions! I love seeing how her music touches you, pretty sure she has that effect on everyone. Please, please, please do A Case of You next. Please?
I can't hear this without tearing up. She said it. It was the time of man. I was 18, enjoying my life as an East Coast hippie. Loving all of the great music, mother nature and my friends. Behind all of the joy was the fears of the Vietnam Nam War and the draft. So many friends went and came back changed. I was going, reluctantly but willing since I saw my friends go. I was spared by a medical deferment and then the lottery. I will always love this version the best. Bless you Miss Joni
Woodstock the movie is one of the greatest witness to youth culture in the 60’s/70’s. If you can find it, well worth watching. I remember going to the theatre to watch it (on my musician boyfriend’s night off ) and we were blown away. The music! The performers! Woodstock!
All the times, I've heard this song, this is the first time, hearing Joni Mitchell do it! It immediately brought tears to my eyes! "HAUNTING" is an understatement!
She was, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. She wrote, played and sang that song. By just seeing it on TV. And so many other great songs that were unique and beautiful. Thank you Jamel_AKA_Jamal for bringing her to a new generation. Just remember, there is no cure.
So glad to see you have discovered Joni. She, along with Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, composed some of the best music to ever come out of Canada. Or anywhere, for that matter. Thank you for keeping great music alive.
It's as if the hand of God reached down and put this voice of the angels into her delicate body for all to marvel. Both versions of this song are timeless, but only Joni's version gives me chills each time I hear it.
I must have heard this song a hundred times, but it never fails to make me cry. From the first moment she drops into her lower range to sing “got to get ourselves back to the garden...” I’m totally gone.
"Raised on Robbery" is my all time favorite Joni Mitchell song and "The Circle Game" is my second favorite. She is just iconic, an artist for the ages.
Love all these, particularly Circle Game. Joni wrote it in response to Neil Young's Sugar Mountain. Listening to her song you will be struck by the sweet simplicity that carries such a strong message. Very hard to get through this song without crying.
Joni has got to be in the Legendary Category of Artists of all time, her voice soars like an Eagle and her storytelling is magic. She lifts your very Soul and makes you want to fly and if her lyrics don't make think about the World and life then I don't know.
It’s beautiful how Joni really feels every note. You can see on her face how passionate she is and how much a part of her music is. A favorite of mine that Joni sings is Blue. Absolutely stunning! It gives my goosebumps goosebumps.
Joni is pure perfection. Her words (she loves words). Her piano. Her guitar. Het freaky chords! Her heart. Her voice gets huskier over the years due to smoking, but she sounds wiser too. I just love her. Listen to "Two Grey Rooms" 💖
Jamel ! I hope and pray that you and yours are all safe and well ! Thank you for playing Joni Mitchell ! No ONE will Ever replace her music, words, musical accompaniments, and her Angel Voice!!!!! Please, when you have time, just find her song - "River" and listen to it... Just like all her other music, it takes you to a place where Joni was... Most of her songs were about her life, her fears, her triumphs, her loves, and on and on.. This little, Canadian girl... Had polio, it jacked her hands.. She had to make up her own chords, her own musical settings on her guitar so she could play it correctly... And she played that old time instrument that you lay across your lap, the Appalachian Dulcimer, wait until you hear her play That, and sing.... God Bless you and yours !! Fran Danco
"Sooth you and scare you at the same time" just says it, Jamal. She was/is a revelation. You're gonna get to her "Both Sides Now" eventually . . . and Seal's version of it live, in front of her, is pretty excellent too . . . Thank you for your you-ness bruddah.
Joni Mitchell just turned 77 on Nov 7. She didn't stay in one musical place for too long. She smoked a lot and her voice deepened over the years. She's an accomplished painter, too.
