Joni, the singer, the composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist - the GREATEST of the greats bar none.
She really was special wasn't she. I know she got plenty of fame and recognition, but even with all of that I don't think she gets enough credit. One of the most talented, creative and inventive artists of the 20th century.
Hejira is one of my desert island discs and probably in my top 5 of all time. Such brilliant songwriting. No one writes lyrics as poetically as Joni. So much genius packed into the songs on this album.
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It was her new and unually chords that drew jazz musicians to her. Once David Cosby of Cosby, Stills and Nash, taught her open tunings on the guitar she was off flying. This was done more out of necassity because she had injured her hand during the polio epidemic as a little girl and couldn't grab the chords right. She eventually started to invent tunings of her own. She was getting some incredible sounds but she didn't have the music theory behind her to translate these new chords to other musicians. And they couldn't translate them either. She was essentually inventing her own musical language Joni's music became a little to sophisticated for the rock and folk crowd to follow so she sought out jazz musicians who could analyze her unually chord structures. I can never forget trying to figure out some of her songs on guitar, I could do it on piano but not on guitar. It wasn't until a friend of mine who was a music major started to show me some of her open tunings that I was able to do it. He then informed me that some of the professors in his University were even disgusing her new chords in their classes.
Have you guys heard Joni's album "Court and Spark"? There's alot of good songs on that album, including "Help Me", "Free Man in Paris" and "Raised on Robbery".
@@NicknLex It's her most accessible album and a great listen but my favorite is the one before it "For the Roses" which is more personal/confessional. "Hejira" is my 2nd favorite, a mature album.
Check out Shadows and Light - Joni’s live recording from her 1979 tour featuring literally one of the greatest bands ever assembled - Jaco, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays and Don Alias. It includes older work up to the groundbreaking Mingus album - brilliantly executed by this all star cast. Joni at the top of her game.
Joni's live album, Shadows And Light, features both Jaco and Pat Metheny in band. "In France They Kiss On Main Street," "Black Crow," and "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" are essential.
Amelia is unbelievably beautiful in the way Joni intertwines themes...not to mention the unusual tuning that contributes to the overall soundscape that’s created in this piece.
Joni Mitchell is her own category musically. She had the cojones to experiment and create her own genre. Glad you are enjoying her music, big fan here.
I watched a concert video on RUclips called Shadows & Light. It's from the Mingus album tour with songs form Hejira too live with Jaco. The thing to note is she's using an all-star band. Pat Metheny on guitar, Lyle Mays on keyboard, Don Alias on drums, Walter Becker on sax. This is the cream of the crop.
I saw this tour back in 1979, two weeks before the Santa Barbara performance was taped, at Red Rocks, Colorado. It was called The Shadows and Light Tour. That was Michael Brecker on sax. (Walter Becker is a guitarist/songwriter who formed Steely Dan with Donald Fagan) And Pat Metheny on guitar. The Persuasions opened and joined Joni later for a couple of songs, including Shadows and Light. The original idea was for Weather Report to open and to be Joni's back-up band later. But Joe Zawinul hated that idea and nixed it. So, then Joni tried to get Jaco, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Pat Metheny, and Herbie Hancock to be her band. Zawinul also nixed that concept because he had a clause in the Weather Report contract that no two of the band members could play together without permission from the other members. And Joe wasn't going for it. So, Wayne Shorter had to leave and was replaced by Michael Brecker. Erskine had to leave and was replaced by Don Elias. Then, two days before the tour was to begin, Herbie Hancock had to leave as well for other reasons. They were stumped as to who to get to replace Herbie on such short notice when Pat Metheny said "Lyle Mays can do it." And Mays learned the whole show in a day with Metheny and did the tour. And that's how this band ended up doing the tour. It all worked out in the end.
Great choices! Joni and Steely Dan seemed to share some of the same immaculate session players like Larry Carlton, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, and Chuck Findley.
Her career is the most evolving masterpiece of artistry you can imagine. There is a live cut of this with her playing with Bob Dylan at Gordon LIGHTFOOTS house you have to check out.
Isn't Joni amazing? Hejira marks her evolution as a musician. Up til this album Joni had always played the acoustic guitar. She picked up the electric guitar, having to relearn her style of picking and percussive strumming for the electric guitar which has a totally different action than acoustic. Joni actually produced three consecutive albums with Jaco Pastorious; Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, and her full blown jazz album Mingus. Joni wrote lyrics for some of Charles Mingus jazz classics. Her concert film, Shadows and Light, documents the Mingus tracks and Hejira, and a few of her other standards (Free Man in Paris, Woodstock) done with a new flair... 🙏
Brilliant choice Hejira is an amazing album from start to finish. More please, Black Crow is one of my favourite Joni songs ever and every song on this album is A++
Based on an “alleged” true-life tryst with Sam Shepard who was married at the time AND having an affair with a female on Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue ... AND with Joni too when she joined the tour. And he still had the stamina to eye the waitress’s legs. Lol. And Jaco. Ahhhh. Is there too fine a line between brilliance and madness? But oh, they made beautiful music together. Literally. Great choice. Fun reaction. 🤪
I met Sam Shepard at a bar (long story), and he confirmed this. I had no clue. He was playing my friend’s guitar, and I asked if he knew any Joni Mitchell. He said he did. I said Coyote is my favorite song. He looked at me and said, “That’s about me.” I said, “What did you do to her?” He said, “Nothing nice.”
@@TwoOnlyChildrenxoxox Wow, what a fantastic story. I knew it was true. I only used the word “alleged” to protect the guilty. Haha Thanks for sharing. 🤪
@@michelemichele3375 The “other woman” Sam Shepherd was seeing at the same time with Joni on that tour was Chris Odell, an Apple Beatles employee who used to live with Pattie and George Harrison and before that Leon Russell (who wrote his songs Pisces Apple Lady and Hummingbird about her) . She was the manager on the tour and had to sneak out another door in Sam’s room when Joni came to see him. Chris wrote a great book on these times and said after that tour she and Joni became really good friends for years and laughed about how crazy it was
My mother bought Hejira the minute it came out. I have been listening to it since I was seven years old. After all these years and many listens, it only gets better every time.
Hey guys thanks for the shout out and your reaction to this! I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.Years later I took guitar lessons from someone who played with Jaco when he was a teen.Another Jaco favourite of mine is Birdland by Weather Report!
Hey RagJam! We meet again on another channel. Came to check out “Coyote” by Joni with Jaco and found out you requested it! Fun. See you here or back at JJ’s. 🤪
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa " I will take care of you" or Joe Bonamassa guitarist and or singer combined. Amazing ...Beth is amazing too. Writes most of her songs too. Early on in her career just she and her guitar or piano small venue. Skip am I the one please for awhile till you know her
Jaco is my bass idol and his collab with Joni is almost too good to be true. Thank you for more great music. Listen to that fretless! Try some Weather Report soon.
I was just watching the Shadows and Light video the other day, it's soooo good. Shadows and Light is a 1980 live double album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was recorded at the Santa Barbara Bowl in September 1979 on Mitchell's Mingus tour. It was released on CD October 25, 1980, by Elektra/Wea/Rhino. A film of the concert was also released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD. Disc one: No. 1. "Introduction" (Included on LP and CD. Featured in VHS/DVD opening credits) 2. "In France They Kiss on Main Street" 3. "Edith and the Kingpin" 4. "Coyote" 5. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" music: Charles Mingus; lyrics: Joni Mitchell 6. "Jaco's Solo" (only on VHS/DVD) Jaco Pastorius 7. "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus 8. "Amelia" 9. "Pat's Solo" Pat Metheny 10. "Hejira" Disc two: No. 1. "Black Crow" (omitted from first CD release) 2. "Don's Solo" (omitted from VHS/DVD and first CD release) Don Alias 3. "Dreamland" (omitted from VHS/DVD) 4. "Free Man in Paris" (omitted from first CD release) 5. "Band Introduction" 6. "Furry Sings the Blues" (DVD version and CD version were recorded on separate dates) 7. "Raised on Robbery" (only on VHS/DVD) 8. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" 9. "Shadows and Light" 10. "God Must be a Boogie Man" (omitted from VHS/DVD) 11. "Woodstock" (omitted from VHS/DVD) Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals Pat Metheny - lead guitar Jaco Pastorius - electric bass (Fender Jazz) Don Alias - drums, percussion Lyle Mays - electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1) Michael Brecker - saxophones The Persuasions - backing vocals on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and "Shadows and Light"
I inherited a soft spot for "Blonde in the Bleachers" from my mom. "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" is a lot of fun, too. As for The Last Waltz, that's PACKED with great music, mostly showing off the Band as it was their last big concert (when you back Bob Dylan you get to call yourselves The Band if you want). But you also get Joni, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris and a slew of other people. They invited all their friends.
Hejira or Help Me might good ones for your next Joni Mitchell tracks. Another artist in this vein that is more than worth checking out is Rickie Lee Jones. I adore her first album, especially. Favorite tracks on that album are Last Chance Texaco and Coolsville.
When I first heard my sister playing Blue on the family's old Motorola Console, even though I was just 8, or 9 years old, I could tell this person isn't a songwriter, a painter, a poet... she is a bundle of it all. Today, in my own feeble-minded attempt at resolution I see her as a rare version of creativity. One only she owns.
I have yet to listen to that, too! I can’t wait! I love her so much and have for years. It’s so great to discover “new” stuff as ironic as that sounds for those who have been listening to this for years. Thanks for your support! :) - Lex
If you listen to her entire catalog, you will realize there is Joni Mitchell...then there's everybody else. She's Number 1, without peer. Poet, Songwriter, Guitar player, singer, artist, genius.
you are absolutely right about being born in the fifties and getting to grow up with this music...getting to hear these sounds for the very first time on earth...to go from andy williams and doris day to hendrix and joplin...it was worth millions of years of evolution to get to that point...when I was a kid we didn't have MTV, we had to take drugs and go to concerts...
Her early songs often had classic verse/chorus structure (Big Yellow Taxi, Circle Game, Case of You), but the Hejira album is her in her Dylan kind of songwriting phase, where the refrain is just the last line of each verse. (see Tangled Up in Blue, Simple Twist of Fate) Amelia, Refuge of the Road, Coyote, etc all do this.
That's really difficult thing to do. She was the perfect combination between the first person songwriting almost confessional point of view with some inventive figurative ways in the mix, but without missing the point. Mist of her peers even confessed that about her songwriting style. You can't be singing about princess and dragons all the time if you don't experienced them in real life. Or about political themes. But the price once you do it so personal it takes a lot of effort to be able to do that and share it with world, Joni is the best in that category. Every male musician in music industry wish they could write like her, a lot of her peers even said it many times. That's talent!!
Joni's songs are not only great because of music/musicians/her voice etc--but because she is one of the greatest lyric writers ever. If u read the lyrics to Coyote w/o the music--it's brilliant. The 1st Joni album I bought was Court in Spark--I was about 15yrs. (Phenomenal album) I remember sitting in my room listening & following along with the lyrics which were printed inside the album--thinking her IQ must be off the roof. Who can come up with lyrics like her?
The 'For the Roses' album has so many great songs from a period when she isolated herself after breaking up with James Taylor....and the songs speak to his sensitivities. All great relationship songs but the title track speaks to the vulnerability of the artist in a 'dog eat dog' world of rock stardom. Very touching and insightful. Every song on that album reveals her world weary state of mind. So much so, that (I think) Kris Kristofferson told her to 'save something for yourself'.......
Thanks for the shout out... 😀. And yes, you should do Amelia next, it’s the other famous song off the album. Jaco doesn’t play on Amelia, but don’t be put off by that, it is one of Joni’s absolute best songs - and you know how high that bar is! A masterpiece. And did we mention, the whole album is majestic. My favourite album of hers by FAR.
This is my favorite Joni album album. IMO, Joni was untouchable during this period. The holy trinity of her work, "Court and Spark", "Heirjira" and "The Hissing of Snakes in Summer Lawns ". You can't go wrong with any of them. And live album during this period, amazing! Too bad I was too young and immature at that time to appreciate what she was doing...
'The hissing of summer lawns' album title referring to lawn sprinklers apparently which were in abundance where she once lived. There is a painting on the cover though featuring a large snake (anaconda?) being caught in the jungle.
@@moonstone1159 That must be lovely to hear, especially in the evenings. I'm in England so not so many exotic creatures around! But the birdsong now it's springtime is a bonus, especially the dawn chorus.
@@LlydrwyddSounds lovely! Yes, summers in California do get pretty hot in my neck of the woods--and there are lots of lawns! But due to the drought, people are getting rid of their water-guzzling lawns (and sprinklers) for more sustainable gardens which use drip systems instead. But come to think of it, I don't hear any hissing from flower beds as I do with lawns, tho. Oh, well.
Moonstone this is definitely a reference To the sprinklers that were everywhere in the seventies keeping the manicured lawns green that were everywhere in the hills and privileged walled homes of Los Angeles … this title track was supposedly inspired by an uncomfortable visit Joni had at the home of Jose Feliciano who allegedly was controlling and overbearing with his wife… a dysfunctional , perhaps mentally abusive marriage …the darkness she sings about is his blindness , she patrols the fence to a “Latin drum” , but at the end of the day “ it’s the lady’s choice” … he had played guitar on the title track to court and spark , her previous album
I'm a huge Rush head (I've played drums for over 40 years so it's kind of mandatory) and found your channel thanks to all of your Rush reactions. I'm enjoying your reactions so much. Some great choices and I'm glad to see you embracing all of this amazing musicianship. Thanks for taking the time to do this. A welcome addition to my Covid shut in list of cool things to watch! 😀
After her Court and Spark album where she used rock musicians, Joni said rockers weren't giving her the sound she was looking for, but Jazz musicians did. So Hejira, the next album marked the beginning of an extended jazz phase where she worked with Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock.
I never get tired of this song. So many great elements. The rhythm guitar. The harmonics. Jaco's percussive playing on his fretless bass. And of course, Joni's signature vocal delivery and esoteric lyrics. Pure brilliance. Nick. Your ear is SO good. You pick up on the uniqueness of this stellar track. And Lex, I love your heart for music. You are so inquisitive and playful. I absolutely love your reactions.
Grew up with Joni in the late 60s thanks to elder siblings. Loved her work with Jaco and Pat Metheny. An off the wall suggestion is a cover version done by Colosseum II (Gary Moore/Don Airey/Jon Hiseman etc) of her song "Down To You"....a 10 minute exploration of a beautiful song. Thank you for all the different genres on your channel. PS thanks for the Angela Gossow Arch Enemy track. Seen her live a few times. Awesome
Nick, as a big Jaco fan, I'd love to see you guys react to Weather Report's "River People", specifically the live version from the album Live and Unreleased. Wayne Shorter is also featured prominently on the tune, but I love Jaco's playing on it!! Keep up with your wonderful reactions- I love seeing you two groove on great music I've known for decades (Yes, Genesis, Joni, Steely Dan).
I've been enjoying Joni's amazing songs for 50 years now and I love her as much as ever. My top three albums: Court and Spark The Hissing of Summer Lawns Hejira but then, they're all great albums no matter which one you listen to. song favorite songs: Song for Sharon Amelia Harry' House Free Man in Paris Help Me Edith and the kingpin
I got to see her, in her prime, 2 times. She was hypnotic! Please react to her Studio Recordings (more or less chronologically): Night in the City, That Song About the Midway, All I Want, Help Me, The Same Situation, Twisted, Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody, Be Cool, Lucky Girl. Video Performances: Sex Kills (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I love the set decor!) and Night Ride Home & Number One (Dick Driver, host of TVNZ music show RADIO WITH PICTURES). This last clip has a short interview before she sings. Both magical performances. Highly recommend!
Amazing Joni... probably suggested before, please listen to the live version of "In France they kiss on main street" with Jaco in one of his most iconic bass lines.
This whole album ia a total masterpice. I would suggest doing a reaction to Amelia from the album, although the whole album can still hold me totally spellbound like a classic film or book. It has such great depth and an atmosphere to it. Such strong imagery and so many layers. Great review.
Listen to "Lesson In Survival", "Electricity" and "For The Roses" from Joni's most beautiful though often overlooked album "For The Roses" (1972) which was the follow up the her classic masterpiece album Blue (1971).
Classic Joni Mitchell. Gives me the chills every time I hear this concert. Hard to believe she does this live. Pat Metheny on guitar and Jaco on the fretless bass.
Yes, please react to 'Amelia', it is a mixture of the new sound she used on this album, but has her classic introspective mood and poetic lyricism. Her songs are really poetry set to music, and, unlike so many other artist lyrics, they often have no set measure. The song writing 'appears' so natural and effortless that you don't even notice there is so often no rhyming either. They can easily stand up on their own without the music. They are often cinematic, from the very fine detail of a scene to the panoramic, from the everyday to the deeply profound , from the inner most feelings to the universal.
She's not exactly my style of music but I remember back in my youth she was often on the radio and always enjoyable. It's been a long time since I've heard her voice and it brought me back to those days. I do remember this song.
I just found your channel today, and was thrilled when I saw this video. I love this entire album, and Coyote is one of my most favorite Joni songs. Like all of her music, the imagery she creates with her lyrics is so vivid. Like “Coyote’s in a coffee shop. Staring a hole in his scrambled eggs. He picks up my scent on his fingers ...”
Walked into a stereo store & they were playing this on laserdisc. I was stunned! The band from heaven! Shadows & Light - Joni... You have to see it! Get both the album & DVD if you have to... I did!
When you get the ability to watch videos, you should check out her live performance of "Amelia" continuing into an evocative guitar solo by Pat Metheny from her "Shadows and Light Tour" DVD (On RUclips). On that tour she had Metheny, Jaco Pastorius (who has a solo spot), Mike Brecker, Lyle Mays, and Don Alias backing her up. For me, Metheny's facial expressions also transmit the emotions of his solo. I think a lot of the emotional impact is tied to what Lyle Mays is playing behind him.
@@NicknLex Shadows and Light is fantastic. In addition to all of the musicians that R.Gray listed, you also get The Persuasions adding some vocals on a couple of songs. And really Lex - who doesn't like Pat Metheny?
I love this album and this song. I kept this album in my car CD for so many months before changing it out for something else. I just couldn't get enough of it.
I first heard this song when I saw her perform it in The Band's 'Last Waltz'. I have since become a huge fan. Always loved her playful vocals and the personification of the Coyote. Great upload.
Love this one! Hejira is super quirky but really holds up over time. The personnel for this track: Joni Mitchell - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Abe Most - clarinet, Jaco Pastorius - fretless bass, Bobbye Hall - percussion. For next Joni - album - Court and Spark - title track or Free Man in Paris. Keep going!
Would love to see you react to Morphine, a 3-piece using drum kit, sax, and a 2-string slide bass. Really different sound. Many great Tracks: “Buena” or “Good” to start. Mark Sandman, vocals & bass, sadly died onstage at an appearance in Italy. RIP. Lost him way too early ... but Great & unique sound while they performed. 🤪
Of all the great performances from The Band's "The Last Waltz" concert, Coyote is my favorite. Joni Mitchell is amazing in how she challenges herself and those she's playing with.
So glad ya'll chose to listen to Coyote. I LOVE this song. It has a very special guitar tuning and is not hard to play, in fact, it's very fun to play. Good job guys!
Oh, yeah! Hejira is one of my all time favorite albums - bought LP in '76. Needed cassette to make those long trips. This is a road trip album, as well as a destination album!
I started listening to Joni in the 60's yes I'm that old as the seventies started I started working in the music business building audio equipment ,house boards , speaker enclosures by day ,gigs at night,house sound .
Yeah! Coyote is wonderfully beautiful! Still waiting for the promised Jericho (off of Don Juan's Reckkess Daughter) though. There you get the perfect mash of folk and jazz(fusion). It's also one if the best and most beautiful songs in history! Imo 😍
Incredible song, and one of my favorites among many Joni favorites. This song was written in 1975 while on the road with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, inspired by her brief, tempestuous fling with Sam Shepard, her newfound addiction to cocaine ("A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway"), and life on the road. Hejira is a true gem, and possibly her las "great" commercial success. Joni is incomparable.
This is a big departure from her acclaimed folk album 'Blue'; there were two other albums, 'Court & Spark' and 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' that come between the albums 'Blue' and 'Hejira.' "Coyote" set the tone for the entire album, a jazzy album of movement and of being on the road.
Love the track, and your reaction(s) Of her work with Jaco I love the track Don Jaun's Reckless Daughter best. Of her jazz work the live version of God Must Be A Boogie Man is brilliant... Keep on reacting 😉 Thanks! Fred
She's just a musical genius. No debating. Period. I'm 60 now and I first heard her music back in the early 70's. It still hits me the same way. I fell in love with her voice and talent. I saw her in an interview recently and I was saddened to see how much she's aged. All that smoking didn't help.
OHHHH WOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!! I love Love LOVE THIS SONG!! So amazing! Yes!!! Beautiful! Thank you for this!!! What a surprise....I’m smiling from ear to ear! 😃😃😃💕😍💕😍
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Joni, the singer, the composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist - the GREATEST of the greats bar none.
She really was special wasn't she. I know she got plenty of fame and recognition, but even with all of that I don't think she gets enough credit. One of the most talented, creative and inventive artists of the 20th century.
@@steeleye2112 Absolutely. I couldn't agree with you more.
Yes. I agree. She's a genius.
Yep. Hejira is a masterpiece.
Desert island 5. Easy
Indeed. The title track is as good as popular music gets.
Second!!!
Third. My absolute favourite of all of her songs.
Hejira is one of my desert island discs and probably in my top 5 of all time. Such brilliant songwriting. No one writes lyrics as poetically as Joni. So much genius packed into the songs on this album.
Same! Hejira is the album that took me from just liking Joni to becoming a massive fan.
It's such an incredible piece of work.
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Between the forceps and the stone...
Consider that she had the greatest jazz musicians of her age eager to back her up. Not just on records, but live. They lived for someone like her.
It was her new and unually chords that drew jazz musicians to her. Once David Cosby of Cosby, Stills and Nash, taught her open tunings on the guitar she was off flying. This was done more out of necassity because she had injured her hand during the polio epidemic as a little girl and couldn't grab the chords right. She eventually started to invent tunings of her own. She was getting some incredible sounds but she didn't have the music theory behind her to translate these new chords to other musicians. And they couldn't translate them either. She was essentually inventing her own musical language Joni's music became a little to sophisticated for the rock and folk crowd to follow so she sought out jazz musicians who could analyze her unually chord structures. I can never forget trying to figure out some of her songs on guitar, I could do it on piano but not on guitar. It wasn't until a friend of mine who was a music major started to show me some of her open tunings that I was able to do it. He then informed me that some of the professors in his University were even disgusing her new chords in their classes.
@@keithdubois8579 great comment!
"Hejira' is my favorite Joni Mitchell album. I love her jazzier era in general. The title track, in particular, is beautiful imo.
Have you guys heard Joni's album "Court and Spark"? There's alot of good songs on that album, including "Help Me", "Free Man in Paris" and "Raised on Robbery".
I’ve never heard that album either! We’ll definitely have to get into it! :) - Lex
@@NicknLex It's her most accessible album and a great listen but my favorite is the one before it "For the Roses" which is more personal/confessional. "Hejira" is my 2nd favorite, a mature album.
@@1nelsondj Forgot about that album, guess what I'll be listening to tonight after my nightly herb pain medication!
Pleeeeeease react to Court and Spark :)
He picks up my scent on his fingers
While he's watching the waitresses' legs.......damn Joni!
For the decade I've known this album, I've never made that connection. Damn you nasty, Coyote.
He’s too far from the Bay Of Fundy,
From apaloosas and eagles and tides
Damn, Sam!
What would you expect from the Holy Modal Rounders drummer?
@@timpindar the highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy
Check out Shadows and Light - Joni’s live recording from her 1979 tour featuring literally one of the greatest bands ever assembled - Jaco, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays and Don Alias. It includes older work up to the groundbreaking Mingus album - brilliantly executed by this all star cast. Joni at the top of her game.
Joni's live album, Shadows And Light, features both Jaco and Pat Metheny in band. "In France They Kiss On Main Street," "Black Crow," and "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" are essential.
Check out the video of the concert, if you haven't seen it. It's available on RUclips.
Yes, the video is a must see! The late, great saxophonist Michael Becker is on it, as well as Lyle May's and The vocal group The Persuasions.
black crow !!!!
Amelia is unbelievably beautiful in the way Joni intertwines themes...not to mention the unusual tuning that contributes to the overall soundscape that’s created in this piece.
Joni Mitchell is her own category musically. She had the cojones to experiment and create her own genre. Glad you are enjoying her music, big fan here.
It helps to have the world's greatest bass player. (Jaco RIP)
I need to see you react to Richard and Linda Thompson. Pick any song of theirs and it should open a rabbit hole of great music for you.
I watched a concert video on RUclips called Shadows & Light. It's from the Mingus album tour with songs form Hejira too live with Jaco. The thing to note is she's using an all-star band. Pat Metheny on guitar, Lyle Mays on keyboard, Don Alias on drums, Walter Becker on sax. This is the cream of the crop.
I saw this tour back in 1979, two weeks before the Santa Barbara performance was taped, at Red Rocks, Colorado. It was called The Shadows and Light Tour. That was Michael Brecker on sax. (Walter Becker is a guitarist/songwriter who formed Steely Dan with Donald Fagan) And Pat Metheny on guitar. The Persuasions opened and joined Joni later for a couple of songs, including Shadows and Light.
The original idea was for Weather Report to open and to be Joni's back-up band later. But Joe Zawinul hated that idea and nixed it. So, then Joni tried to get Jaco, Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine, Pat Metheny, and Herbie Hancock to be her band. Zawinul also nixed that concept because he had a clause in the Weather Report contract that no two of the band members could play together without permission from the other members. And Joe wasn't going for it. So, Wayne Shorter had to leave and was replaced by Michael Brecker. Erskine had to leave and was replaced by Don Elias. Then, two days before the tour was to begin, Herbie Hancock had to leave as well for other reasons. They were stumped as to who to get to replace Herbie on such short notice when Pat Metheny said "Lyle Mays can do it." And Mays learned the whole show in a day with Metheny and did the tour. And that's how this band ended up doing the tour. It all worked out in the end.
Amelia for sure, and please Black Crow. I love this album.
Great choices! Joni and Steely Dan seemed to share some of the same immaculate session players like Larry Carlton, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, and Chuck Findley.
You should go back to the previous album, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns," and listen to "Edith and the Kingpin."
She does an excellent live version of this in the movie “The Last Waltz.”
Can't go wrong with Joni and Jaco's bass just makes it even better. Definitely one of the greatest female vocalists of all time.
Her career is the most evolving masterpiece of artistry you can imagine. There is a live cut of this with her playing with Bob Dylan at Gordon LIGHTFOOTS house you have to check out.
Along with Roger McGuinn of The Byrds.
every time I see someone with a five-string bass, I remember the old saying: "Jaco only needed four"
Isn't Joni amazing? Hejira marks her evolution as a musician. Up til this album Joni had always played the acoustic guitar. She picked up the electric guitar, having to relearn her style of picking and percussive strumming for the electric guitar which has a totally different action than acoustic. Joni actually produced three consecutive albums with Jaco Pastorious; Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, and her full blown jazz album Mingus. Joni wrote lyrics for some of Charles Mingus jazz classics. Her concert film, Shadows and Light, documents the Mingus tracks and Hejira, and a few of her other standards (Free Man in Paris, Woodstock) done with a new flair... 🙏
Brilliant choice Hejira is an amazing album from start to finish. More please, Black Crow is one of my favourite Joni songs ever and every song on this album is A++
Based on an “alleged” true-life tryst with Sam Shepard who was married at the time AND having an affair with a female on Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue ... AND with Joni too when she joined the tour. And he still had the stamina to eye the waitress’s legs. Lol.
And Jaco. Ahhhh. Is there too fine a line between brilliance and madness? But oh, they made beautiful music together. Literally.
Great choice. Fun reaction. 🤪
Your insight into the history of the song and Jaco's life ... Thank you.
I met Sam Shepard at a bar (long story), and he confirmed this. I had no clue. He was playing my friend’s guitar, and I asked if he knew any Joni Mitchell. He said he did. I said Coyote is my favorite song. He looked at me and said, “That’s about me.” I said, “What did you do to her?” He said, “Nothing nice.”
@@mrtyreus0 Love both artists. Thanks for your comment. Please read the next reply to my post. Wow. 🤪
@@TwoOnlyChildrenxoxox Wow, what a fantastic story. I knew it was true. I only used the word “alleged” to protect the guilty. Haha Thanks for sharing. 🤪
@@michelemichele3375 The “other woman” Sam Shepherd was seeing at the same time with Joni on that tour was Chris Odell, an Apple Beatles employee who used to live with Pattie and George Harrison and before that Leon Russell (who wrote his songs Pisces Apple Lady and Hummingbird about her) . She was the manager on the tour and had to sneak out another door in Sam’s room when Joni came to see him. Chris wrote a great book on these times and said after that tour she and Joni became really good friends for years and laughed about how crazy it was
This is my favourite Joni album. I’ve been listening to it lately...again...and it never, never gets old.
My mother bought Hejira the minute it came out. I have been listening to it since I was seven years old. After all these years and many listens, it only gets better every time.
Hey guys thanks for the shout out and your reaction to this! I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.Years later I took guitar lessons from someone who played with Jaco when he was a teen.Another Jaco favourite of mine is Birdland by Weather Report!
Thank you for the support! Weather Report is definitely on our list! :) - Lex
@@NicknLex Teen Town from the album Heavy Weather. Trust me.
Hey RagJam! We meet again on another channel. Came to check out “Coyote” by Joni with Jaco and found out you requested it! Fun. See you here or back at JJ’s. 🤪
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa " I will take care of you" or Joe Bonamassa guitarist and or singer combined. Amazing ...Beth is amazing too. Writes most of her songs too. Early on in her career just she and her guitar or piano small venue. Skip am I the one please for awhile till you know her
Jaco is my bass idol and his collab with Joni is almost too good to be true. Thank you for more great music. Listen to that fretless! Try some Weather Report soon.
It's wonderful to hear a bass be so center stage!
I was just watching the Shadows and Light video the other day, it's soooo good.
Shadows and Light is a 1980 live double album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was recorded at the Santa Barbara Bowl in September 1979 on Mitchell's Mingus tour. It was released on CD October 25, 1980, by Elektra/Wea/Rhino. A film of the concert was also released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD.
Disc one:
No.
1. "Introduction" (Included on LP and CD. Featured in VHS/DVD opening credits)
2. "In France They Kiss on Main Street"
3. "Edith and the Kingpin"
4. "Coyote"
5. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" music: Charles Mingus; lyrics: Joni Mitchell
6. "Jaco's Solo" (only on VHS/DVD) Jaco Pastorius
7. "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus
8. "Amelia"
9. "Pat's Solo" Pat Metheny
10. "Hejira"
Disc two:
No.
1. "Black Crow" (omitted from first CD release)
2. "Don's Solo" (omitted from VHS/DVD and first CD release) Don Alias
3. "Dreamland" (omitted from VHS/DVD)
4. "Free Man in Paris" (omitted from first CD release)
5. "Band Introduction"
6. "Furry Sings the Blues" (DVD version and CD version were recorded on separate dates)
7. "Raised on Robbery" (only on VHS/DVD)
8. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
9. "Shadows and Light"
10. "God Must be a Boogie Man" (omitted from VHS/DVD)
11. "Woodstock" (omitted from VHS/DVD)
Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals
Pat Metheny - lead guitar
Jaco Pastorius - electric bass (Fender Jazz)
Don Alias - drums, percussion
Lyle Mays - electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1)
Michael Brecker - saxophones
The Persuasions - backing vocals on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and "Shadows and Light"
I inherited a soft spot for "Blonde in the Bleachers" from my mom. "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" is a lot of fun, too.
As for The Last Waltz, that's PACKED with great music, mostly showing off the Band as it was their last big concert (when you back Bob Dylan you get to call yourselves The Band if you want). But you also get Joni, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris and a slew of other people. They invited all their friends.
Hejira or Help Me might good ones for your next Joni Mitchell tracks.
Another artist in this vein that is more than worth checking out is Rickie Lee Jones. I adore her first album, especially. Favorite tracks on that album are Last Chance Texaco and Coolsville.
When I first heard my sister playing Blue on the family's old Motorola Console, even though I was just 8, or 9 years old, I could tell this person isn't a songwriter, a painter, a poet... she is a bundle of it all. Today, in my own feeble-minded attempt at resolution I see her as a rare version of creativity. One only she owns.
A music reviewer called Blue on its release, “the most intensely personal album ever recorded.”
2 Joni reactions today for me. I should go buy a lottery ticket 😀
Lucky you! 🍀 Thanks for being here! :) - Lex
Nice! Joni is one of my favorite artist ever! Great album, but my absolut favorite is For The Roses!
I have yet to listen to that, too! I can’t wait! I love her so much and have for years. It’s so great to discover “new” stuff as ironic as that sounds for those who have been listening to this for years. Thanks for your support! :) - Lex
If you listen to her entire catalog, you will realize there is Joni Mitchell...then there's everybody else. She's Number 1, without peer. Poet, Songwriter, Guitar player, singer, artist, genius.
Wanna make your husband cry again (and possibly yourself too, if you haven't heard it)?
Try Joni's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", and check out her band.
you are absolutely right about being born in the fifties and getting to grow up with this music...getting to hear these sounds for the very first time on earth...to go from andy williams and doris day to hendrix and joplin...it was worth millions of years of evolution to get to that point...when I was a kid we didn't have MTV, we had to take drugs and go to concerts...
Your comment Lex on the notes on Jaco, illustrated what I miss about vinyl. The liner notes!
I was more of a Jaco fan than a Joni Mitchell fan. Incredible, but sad story of one of the best bassist ever.
Hejira is probably Joni´s masterpiece. Has to be listened in totality. Her voice, her winding retuned guitars, Pastorious´ coiling snaky bass. Unique.
Mmm Hejira is a tasty album. Love the guitar sound. Amelia is such a beautiful song.
One of the first things I noticed about her stuff, is that it usually doesn’t have a formal “chorus” - her songs just go on and on flowing.
Her early songs often had classic verse/chorus structure (Big Yellow Taxi, Circle Game, Case of You), but the Hejira album is her in her Dylan kind of songwriting phase, where the refrain is just the last line of each verse. (see Tangled Up in Blue, Simple Twist of Fate) Amelia, Refuge of the Road, Coyote, etc all do this.
That's really difficult thing to do. She was the perfect combination between the first person songwriting almost confessional point of view with some inventive figurative ways in the mix, but without missing the point. Mist of her peers even confessed that about her songwriting style. You can't be singing about princess and dragons all the time if you don't experienced them in real life. Or about political themes. But the price once you do it so personal it takes a lot of effort to be able to do that and share it with world, Joni is the best in that category. Every male musician in music industry wish they could write like her, a lot of her peers even said it many times. That's talent!!
Joni's songs are not only great because of music/musicians/her voice etc--but because she is one of the greatest lyric writers ever. If u read the lyrics to Coyote w/o the music--it's brilliant. The 1st Joni album I bought was Court in Spark--I was about 15yrs. (Phenomenal album) I remember sitting in my room listening & following along with the lyrics which were printed inside the album--thinking her IQ must be off the roof. Who can come up with lyrics like her?
The 'For the Roses' album has so many great songs from a period when she isolated herself after breaking up with James Taylor....and the songs speak to his sensitivities. All great relationship songs but the title track speaks to the vulnerability of the artist in a 'dog eat dog' world of rock stardom. Very touching and insightful. Every song on that album reveals her world weary state of mind. So much so, that (I think) Kris Kristofferson told her to 'save something for yourself'.......
My favorite album of hers.
Mine as well! In a collection av around 3000 album, For The Roses is in my all time top 10! A true masterpiece!
I love love LOVE the whole For The Roses album, but the album you're referring to about Kris Kristofferson is Blue. Cheers.
@@dggydddy59 She obviously didn't take his advice!
Do yourselves a huge favour and listen to the whole album Hejira..it's as close to perfection as makes no difference.
Jaco Pastorius adds a groove to this song. The album is fantastic as well...
Thanks for the shout out... 😀. And yes, you should do Amelia next, it’s the other famous song off the album. Jaco doesn’t play on Amelia, but don’t be put off by that, it is one of Joni’s absolute best songs - and you know how high that bar is! A masterpiece.
And did we mention, the whole album is majestic. My favourite album of hers by FAR.
This is my favorite Joni album album. IMO, Joni was untouchable during this period. The holy trinity of her work, "Court and Spark", "Heirjira" and "The Hissing of Snakes in Summer Lawns ". You can't go wrong with any of them. And live album during this period, amazing! Too bad I was too young and immature at that time to appreciate what she was doing...
'The hissing of summer lawns' album title referring to lawn sprinklers apparently which were in abundance where she once lived. There is a painting on the cover though featuring a large snake (anaconda?) being caught in the jungle.
@@LlydrwyddBut lawns do hiss without sprinklers...all the creatures hissing away in the summer heat. : )
@@moonstone1159 That must be lovely to hear, especially in the evenings. I'm in England so not so many exotic creatures around!
But the birdsong now it's springtime is a bonus, especially the dawn chorus.
@@LlydrwyddSounds lovely! Yes, summers in California do get pretty hot in my neck of the woods--and there are lots of lawns! But due to the drought, people are getting rid of their water-guzzling lawns (and sprinklers) for more sustainable gardens which use drip systems instead. But come to think of it, I don't hear any hissing from flower beds as I do with lawns, tho. Oh, well.
Moonstone this is definitely a reference To the sprinklers that were everywhere in the seventies keeping the manicured lawns green that were everywhere in the hills and privileged walled homes of Los Angeles … this title track was supposedly inspired by an uncomfortable visit Joni had at the home of Jose Feliciano who allegedly was controlling and overbearing with his wife… a dysfunctional , perhaps mentally abusive marriage …the darkness she sings about is his blindness , she patrols the fence to a “Latin drum” , but at the end of the day “ it’s the lady’s choice” … he had played guitar on the title track to court and spark , her previous album
I'm a huge Rush head (I've played drums for over 40 years so it's kind of mandatory) and found your channel thanks to all of your Rush reactions. I'm enjoying your reactions so much. Some great choices and I'm glad to see you embracing all of this amazing musicianship. Thanks for taking the time to do this. A welcome addition to my Covid shut in list of cool things to watch! 😀
Thank you so much for your support! So glad to have you and we’re also enjoying this so much during these Covid times! :) - Lex
After her Court and Spark album where she used rock musicians, Joni said rockers weren't giving her the sound she was looking for, but Jazz musicians did. So Hejira, the next album marked the beginning of an extended jazz phase where she worked with Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock.
I never get tired of this song. So many great elements. The rhythm guitar. The harmonics. Jaco's percussive playing on his fretless bass. And of course, Joni's signature vocal delivery and esoteric lyrics. Pure brilliance. Nick. Your ear is SO good. You pick up on the uniqueness of this stellar track. And Lex, I love your heart for music. You are so inquisitive and playful. I absolutely love your reactions.
Your choices are always so diverse. I love it!
Miles of Aisles is a fantastic live record with Joni,Jaco,Metheny and Tom Scott and the LA Express.
Metheny and Pastorius are on her late seventies live album.
Yes! Circle Game!
Grew up with Joni in the late 60s thanks to elder siblings. Loved her work with Jaco and Pat Metheny. An off the wall suggestion is a cover version done by Colosseum II (Gary Moore/Don Airey/Jon Hiseman etc) of her song "Down To You"....a 10 minute exploration of a beautiful song. Thank you for all the different genres on your channel. PS thanks for the Angela Gossow Arch Enemy track. Seen her live a few times. Awesome
Nick, as a big Jaco fan, I'd love to see you guys react to Weather Report's "River People", specifically the live version from the album Live and Unreleased. Wayne Shorter is also featured prominently on the tune, but I love Jaco's playing on it!! Keep up with your wonderful reactions- I love seeing you two groove on great music I've known for decades (Yes, Genesis, Joni, Steely Dan).
I've been enjoying Joni's amazing songs for 50 years now and I love her as much as ever.
My top three albums:
Court and Spark
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Hejira
but then, they're all great albums no matter which one you listen to.
song favorite songs:
Song for Sharon
Amelia
Harry' House
Free Man in Paris
Help Me
Edith and the kingpin
I first heard this song in The Last Waltz! If you haven’t heard/seen that, it’s a must do! My heart is full right now...💕💕💕
Joan the Bone as James Taylor calls her....Amazing as usual..... no regrets🕊
Wow. Out of my favourite Joni phase from 'Court and Spark' up to this album.
Very atmospheric, very evocative!
I got to see her, in her prime, 2 times. She was hypnotic! Please react to her Studio Recordings (more or less chronologically): Night in the City, That Song About the Midway, All I Want, Help Me, The Same Situation, Twisted, Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody, Be Cool, Lucky Girl. Video Performances: Sex Kills (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I love the set decor!) and Night Ride Home & Number One (Dick Driver, host of TVNZ music show RADIO WITH PICTURES). This last clip has a short interview before she sings. Both magical performances. Highly recommend!
Joni's lyrics are just above and beyond anyone except possibly Dylan. Calling her brilliant is an understatement.
wow first reaction I see with Jaco Pastorius! He's a legend of bass, I recommend by him Donna Lee ;)
I've been listening to Joni for most of my 63 years. "Hejira" and "For the Roses" are the two albums I keep going back to.
Amazing Joni... probably suggested before, please listen to the live version of "In France they kiss on main street" with Jaco in one of his most iconic bass lines.
This whole album ia a total masterpice. I would suggest doing a reaction to Amelia from the album, although the whole album can still hold me totally spellbound like a classic film or book. It has such great depth and an atmosphere to it. Such strong imagery and so many layers. Great review.
Listen to "Lesson In Survival", "Electricity" and "For The Roses" from Joni's most beautiful though often overlooked album "For The Roses" (1972) which was the follow up the her classic masterpiece album Blue (1971).
Classic Joni Mitchell. Gives me the chills every time I hear this concert. Hard to believe she does this live. Pat Metheny on guitar and Jaco on the fretless bass.
Yes, please react to 'Amelia', it is a mixture of the new sound she used on this album, but has her classic introspective mood and poetic lyricism. Her songs are really poetry set to music, and, unlike so many other artist lyrics, they often have no set measure. The song writing 'appears' so natural and effortless that you don't even notice there is so often no rhyming either. They can easily stand up on their own without the music. They are often cinematic, from the very fine detail of a scene to the panoramic, from the everyday to the deeply profound , from the inner most feelings to the universal.
Yes! Amelia is such a masterpiece!
Count me in on the Amelia Club. Very nice commentary on Joni’s artistry.
She's not exactly my style of music but I remember back in my youth she was often on the radio and always enjoyable. It's been a long time since I've heard her voice and it brought me back to those days. I do remember this song.
If ever a song had wings....
It's this one.
I just found your channel today, and was thrilled when I saw this video. I love this entire album, and Coyote is one of my most favorite Joni songs. Like all of her music, the imagery she creates with her lyrics is so vivid. Like “Coyote’s in a coffee shop. Staring a hole in his scrambled eggs. He picks up my scent on his fingers ...”
Every Joni song is fantastic-Please explore. You guys will be glad that you did
Walked into a stereo store & they were playing this on laserdisc. I was stunned! The band from heaven! Shadows & Light - Joni... You have to see it! Get both the album & DVD if you have to... I did!
When you get the ability to watch videos, you should check out her live performance of "Amelia" continuing into an evocative guitar solo by Pat Metheny from her "Shadows and Light Tour" DVD (On RUclips). On that tour she had Metheny, Jaco Pastorius (who has a solo spot), Mike Brecker, Lyle Mays, and Don Alias backing her up. For me, Metheny's facial expressions also transmit the emotions of his solo. I think a lot of the emotional impact is tied to what Lyle Mays is playing behind him.
R.Gray steaks the truth!
One of the best concerts ever!
That sounds amazing! Nick loves Pat Metheny!! That will be so fun!! Thanks for the suggestion! :) - Lex
@@NicknLex Shadows and Light is fantastic. In addition to all of the musicians that R.Gray listed, you also get The Persuasions adding some vocals on a couple of songs. And really Lex - who doesn't like Pat Metheny?
@@NicknLex Would love for you to react to PMG! "Jaco" or "San Lorenzo" or" Lone Jack."
Keep listening, it never grows old.
I love this album and this song. I kept this album in my car CD for so many months before changing it out for something else. I just couldn't get enough of it.
Memories stir with this . Jaco ,awesome bass . Also Michael Manring
She wrote this song while she was touring with Bob Dylan in 1975,on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Check out if you like. It was a fantastic tour.
I first heard this song when I saw her perform it in The Band's 'Last Waltz'. I have since become a huge fan. Always loved her playful vocals and the personification of the Coyote. Great upload.
Love this one! Hejira is super quirky but really holds up over time.
The personnel for this track: Joni Mitchell - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Abe Most - clarinet, Jaco Pastorius - fretless bass, Bobbye Hall - percussion.
For next Joni - album - Court and Spark - title track or Free Man in Paris. Keep going!
The album, of course! Listen to the whole album!
This was my favorite song of the album some 40 years ago. It's really a great song... And album!
Would love to see you react to Morphine, a 3-piece using drum kit, sax, and a 2-string slide bass. Really different sound. Many great Tracks: “Buena” or “Good” to start. Mark Sandman, vocals & bass, sadly died onstage at an appearance in Italy. RIP. Lost him way too early ... but Great & unique sound while they performed. 🤪
AMEN!! love Morphine but hardly find anyone who is familiar
@@acustomer7216 NICKNLEX recently reacted to two Morphine tracks, In case you’re interested. They were more popular abroad, I think. 🤪
I've always been in love with her! Her lyrics are hypnotic!
Of all the great performances from The Band's "The Last Waltz" concert, Coyote is my favorite. Joni Mitchell is amazing in how she challenges herself and those she's playing with.
So glad ya'll chose to listen to Coyote. I LOVE this song. It has a very special guitar tuning and is not hard to play, in fact, it's very fun to play. Good job guys!
She's the best 👌you can't go wrong with her. Whatever you choose will be great 👍
Oh, yeah! Hejira is one of my all time favorite albums - bought LP in '76. Needed cassette to make those long trips. This is a road trip album, as well as a destination album!
Great reaction. That was awesome guys, I love me some Joni Mitchell..
I started listening to Joni in the 60's yes I'm that old as the seventies started I started working in the music business building audio equipment ,house boards , speaker enclosures by day ,gigs at night,house sound .
Yeah! Coyote is wonderfully beautiful! Still waiting for the promised Jericho (off of Don Juan's Reckkess Daughter) though. There you get the perfect mash of folk and jazz(fusion). It's also one if the best and most beautiful songs in history!
Imo 😍
Incredible song, and one of my favorites among many Joni favorites. This song was written in 1975 while on the road with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, inspired by her brief, tempestuous fling with Sam Shepard, her newfound addiction to cocaine ("A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway"), and life on the road. Hejira is a true gem, and possibly her las "great" commercial success. Joni is incomparable.
this song was with Jaco and Pat Matheny, the absolute best jazz artists of their time! I saw this in concert in Detroit so many moons ago!!! Lucky me!
Shadows and Light concert with Joni and Jaco (and many others) can be found on RUclips. I was lucky enough to be there. Amazing.
This is a big departure from her acclaimed folk album 'Blue'; there were two other albums, 'Court & Spark' and 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' that come between the albums 'Blue' and 'Hejira.' "Coyote" set the tone for the entire album, a jazzy album of movement and of being on the road.
I heard her play this one live in Wisconsin, on the "Shadows and Light" tour. It may be the best show I've ever seen.
Love the track, and your reaction(s) Of her work with Jaco I love the track Don Jaun's Reckless Daughter best. Of her jazz work the live version of God Must Be A Boogie Man is brilliant... Keep on reacting 😉 Thanks! Fred
She's just a musical genius. No debating. Period. I'm 60 now and I first heard her music back in the early 70's. It still hits me the same way. I fell in love with her voice and talent. I saw her in an interview recently and I was saddened to see how much she's aged. All that smoking didn't help.
I am just now finding this tune and loving it and thrilled that you guys reviewed it !! Jaco was sooo damn good !
Hola si esto es maravilloso veanlo en vivo todo el concierto con Jaco y Par Metheny...es magnífico...
OHHHH WOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!! I love Love LOVE THIS SONG!! So amazing! Yes!!! Beautiful! Thank you for this!!! What a surprise....I’m smiling from ear to ear! 😃😃😃💕😍💕😍
Just wait till you hear Hejira itself and Ameila. Then you will know what haunted sounds like...Unbelievable, what she did there.
A song that lyrically and musically transports you every time you hear it. Great choice! Excellent commentary.