Just got to the 2:30 mark. You describe "Ladies Of The Canyon" as her second LP. It was her third. "Clouds" was preceded by her 1968 debut release, "Song To A Seagull". This past spring, she released a box set, "The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)", which includes a new mix of "Song To A Seagull" and remasters of "Clouds", "Ladies Of The Canyon" and "Blue". All of the new post-production was supervised by Joni.
_Blue_ is Joni's _"Ziggy Stardust"_ but 1975's sublime _Hissing Of Summer Lawns_ is her _"Low"._ A deep dive into her brilliantly self-produced _Lawns_ foretells Kate Bush by several years.
John Wesley Harding and/or Highway 61 Revisited. The first for derailing psychedelia, the second for bringing high art poetry to a sustained collection of songs. (Yeah, I know, the order's not chronological).
I'd been listening to Blue for weeks. Never tiring of it. I'm not musically smart. One morning my tin ear worked out that the opening bars of River were Jingle Bells, and it floored me, reduced me to tears.
We are blessed to have lived in the lifetime of Joni and to have been changed and made better by her influence. Every time a young person hears Blue for the first time, his/her face changes to an awed expression. Sum it up with “holy shit!” Here’s to the next millions of first-time listeners. Enjoy 😉
Blue and Carole King's Tapestry were omnipresent in my circle in that time. It's so evocative of that time for me. And it's brilliant from beginning to end.
Sometimes I think I'm biased because I'm Canadian but then I hear other people in the music business who know music inside out rate her so highly and it always makes me smile.
For those who haven't seen it, look for Joni's "Shadows and Light" concert - it's usually here on RUclips for free. You know you've got something special when your 'backup band' is Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, and Don Alias . :-) Thanks Warren!
As a Canadian homer I’d like to think we punched above our wait back then; Mitchell, Young, Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Guess Who, David Clayton Thomas, Robbie Robertson, Steppenwolf and many others. As always thanks for your insights.
I never believed music could ve so detailed, intricate and introspective until I heard blue for the first time
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Thanks so much for this great bio Warren, I had the privilege of having her as a customer in my old coffee shop in Whiterock b.c. she was fond of my carrot cake lol
If there's one song I wish I wrote, it's Case of You. It's just so hugely creative and evocative in both lyrics and musical expression; it's an astonishing achievement.
Blue scored one of the happiest periods of my life. Falling in love and having our first child. This album seemed to be on a lot as my partner also loved the album. I still love the album as much as ever if not more than ever.
My Mom was making curtains for my room and asked me what color I would like, so without hesitation I showed her the cover of my "Blue" album; those curtains stayed up in that room until long after I had moved out. Looking at that color is still so soothing and still creates hope in me, I think especially because of my association of it to Joni's unique spirit that comes across in her words and music. This album challenges me to look as deeply and honestly into myself as she has in this masterpiece.
One of the all time greatist. My favorite album of hers is Court and Spark. Love you Warren. You have truly enriched my life with all you share with us.
It took me a long time to really get into Joni Mitchell. My dad and mom used to force her in the thin cracks between my guitar driven music so I pushed back. As an adult I can really sit back and admire what she did.
I've written a bit now and then alongside playing in bands and one thing strikes me so much about Joni, and especially about Blue, is the incredible completeness of her songs. When I write it's a guitar with vocals on top or an instrumental part, but her songs are never like that. Her songs are a complete thing of its own in some weird way. Her playing, singing and lyrics are all one thing together. Even though it's literally JUST her voice and a piano or a guitar, if you stop her songs at any point in a song, everything is going somewhere, it's not just happening in the vocals or lyrics but something is going on with the lyrics, melody and her instrument all at once, they're all going somewhere, and at rare and specific moments in her songs, like for one chord bar at the and of the chorus, they all find their place for a short while before they break up again and start searching for another place. Her capabilities of songwriting are just astonishing. It's even more incredible that it most likely is intentional because it's so subtle that you almost can't imagine someone deliberately wrote it that way, AND once you realize THAT you also can tell something about how she is perceiving herself and the kind of life she is living. It goes SO deep which makes her the best artist ever.
I first heard this album as a teenager, and even though it was the 90s, it still sounded so fresh and relatable. It almost instantly began to shape my musical tastes and my own awkward attempts at songwriting. It wasn't the only album to make such a big impression on me at that time, but it's one of the few that has held onto it's power over the years, and perhaps revealed even more depth. As a kid I heard the youthful energy of it, the sense of joy and adventure as well as longing and sadness. Now as an older adult I hear more of the regrets and disappointments of life, but also hard-won peace and acceptance, an admirable maturity that Joni was somehow able to embody at such an early point in her life. I expect Blue will continue to be a companion to me. What a wonderful gift.
When my Grandfather was born, there was only horse and carts and oil lamps and candles. By the time he was in his 70s, humans had, as stated here, walked on the moon. That rapid level of change will never be repeated. I think about that often.
The first Joni song that really stood out for me was the jazzy live version of Rainy Night House from the Miles Of Aisles album. That, Court & Spark and Hejira are the albums of hers I still love the most. I got into Blue later on after my girlfriend at the time bought me a copy. We saw her play too in Michigan in 1979 with the Shadows & Light band…amazing!
Love it, especially the generation 60's & 70's really found a creative way to express what it means to be human and left an impressive change on our planet! Thank you for this great episode, I'll turn on this LP again ✌
Well done, Warren. I first came across Joni via my first wife, while she was still my girlfriend in 1980. Court and Spark was one of the two albums she played me, but the one that still holds me to this day is For The Roses. Every song on that album is fraught with meaning and musical images - a true delight of genuine synaesthesia from beginning to end. I have listened to almost everything else she has produced, but cannot break my habit of holding back part of a creator's output so that I will always have something new to appreciate, so there are still one or two of her albums I have yet to listen to. I propose that she is the greatest artist of the 20th century. In any genre. No-one else, to my mind, has the reach, the depth, the originality, the scope and the sheer gorgeousness - and, God knows, my tastes are broad, my explorations eclectic and my research, well, pretty good. I read, watch, play, write, sing, record, absorb and assimilate. Nope. As much as I admire an immense cadre of artists across all muses, she is The One. Thank you for paying tribute in this fashion - and with great respect to your guests, I prefer it when you are the one holding the floor with your innate enthusiasm, articulate & passionate verbalising, and insight into how best to deliver to camera. Stick at it, Warren. You are marvellous.
Lucky for me that i began appreciating Joni before 'BLUE' trying to learn finger picking.I love all her work.....but, too many of my friend's would say , upon hearing BLUE would just comment on the 'sadness' of it. I feel she is a genious. thanks for this Warren.
You are so correct! I perform a version of Carey and I loved all of that recording. Thank you for such a detailed and loving look at such a great work…
So glad listen to your channel. I had never heard of Joni's Blue album. Checked it out, beautiful, more so when you reflect on what was going on in her life. Thanks for excellent post.
OK Warren-Epic Songwriters will help most these days. Sorry, that sounds heavy-but I do appreciate you educating peeps about song writing. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for enlightening me on the immense talents of Joni or Rebecca Joan Anderson. I love her honesty & soul bearing style. I did not know about her many skills with other instruments. Great analysis of her travels & accomplished history … ta 🎶🎸👍
Blue is a great choice here! Next, how about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - that might only take a few hours to cover :) Thanks for the channel and hi from Kent.
Tony Banks complained that the ending of Lamb Lies Down was unsatisfying/unresolved but it reminds me of many of my own dreams where a lot of crazy stuff is happening and nothing ever gets resolved and then you wake up and go Oh good I don't have to deal with that in reality.
"Hejira" hit me in a way it didn't before just in the last year or so, something to do with the current times and how the spirit of that record contrasts so sharply with them.
this record is sooo beautiful it's heartbreaking. ''The last time I saw Richard'', one of the best lyrics ever, best song interpretations ever. The way she sings ''I'm gonna blow this candle out...'' and how that changes the mood completely. The story, the way it connects with our love experiences. This album and Hejira are between my most treasured from anyone. Even hearing you talk about the songs brings tears to my eyes. Big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
I started with Ladies of the Canyon at 10, then Court and Spark, Nightride Home, Blue, Song to a Seagull, Hissing of Summer Lawns. My favorites are Hissing and Court and Spark. I literally grew up listening to her
@@g.belanger8302 Me too. I know 'Blue' is meant to be the "classic" and all that, but I do find those three Joni albums in particular far more interesting.
I came to that album really late, i.e. 2009. Don’t ask me why because I don’t know. It was for me a pivotal point in my life and remember that time and my first hearing of it. A true masterpiece.
Wow, great video, thanks Warren! I was 13 when Blue came out and I became obsessed with it . . . to this day I choke up every time I hear that voice. Tapestry and Mud Slide Slim came out around the same time and I loved those as well and really got into the Laurel Canyon scene . . . you live in a mythical place!
What truly great album to cover. I discovered this album a couple years ago because a close friend introduced me to it, and I was hypnotized immediately. It was truly one of those albums that really made you sort of forget where you were at that moment and you end up being drawn into this world she was painting for you with her words and melodies on the instruments. Truly extraordinary. I'll never forget hearing this album for the first time and I can say with full confidence that it's one of the best of all time. Joni has so many fantastic albums and she's great to listen to when there are hard times and you feel like you want to escape for a while.
You clearly underscore the absolute necessity of putting personal MEANING in music to reflect the nebulous nature of one's being, reality. Perfect, Sir Warren, well done I say. Cheers, again. On the mark exactly.🍓
I love these history lessons, Warren. This is a real service in times of over-saturation and a lack of understanding of what makes timeless and resonating work. I watch your channel a fair bit and despite being a songwriter in bands and acoustically for around 17 years, your videos often remind me of where my focus needs to be as I'm putting together new projects and helping others to record, etc. A few good tools that you understand and a focus on capturing unique and soulful performances, has been the main take-away. Beyond the gear you have a passion for for that mystical something that's so hard to define and it's constant reminder of what gripped me the first time I heard ZZ Top's "Eliminator" on tape or "I want to break free" by Queen (on the same cheap cassette deck.) Great work, as always!
The albums between BLUE and HEJIRA are pretty great too, especially, Court and Spark.' Great overview and review of BLUE and Joni's contributions to that era.
Great work as always -- in a class by herself (known, among other things, for her open-tunings of the guitar to be able to make her "chords of inquiry") -- she was mining all kinds of dimensions, an 'artist' in every meaningful sense of the word.
Thank you for making this video, it was a joy to watch. I learned so much about this album that I didn't know and have often wondered about. I also wanted to say that I've never understood why her first album is so seldom mentioned. I love it just as much as Blue. One example; the song The Dawntreader is, to me, an astonishing feat of composition and lyricism with such a skillfully controlled range of colour and dynamics from just guitar and voice - like an orchestra.
Great job highlighting this wonderful album. It pleasantly surprises me how many people of this generation love Joni's music which is from my generation. You talked about her being perhaps the best lyricist and compared her to Bob Dylan or Lennon and McCartney. I agree, but I would have to add Jackson Browne to that list for sure! Read along with and listen to the song "Lives in the Balance." I think it's the greatest lyrical achievement of the 20th century. There is also "The Pretender to round out lyric genious. I will look forward to more of your insightful videos!
A CASE OF YOU is a masterpiece. Brings tears to my eyes every time after all these years. And James Taylor’s guitar playing is gorgeous. I met a woman. She had a mouth like yours….
For the Roses is my favourite album of all time and The Judgement of the Moon and Stars my favourite song, I never tire of it and it has stayed fresh longer than Blue fior me. All mg love from Dublin.
Thank you, Warren, for a great dissection of a perfect album - BLUE! So wonderful to hear the sonic details on this masterpiece. I would love to hear you take on THE CARS classic eponymous debut album. That’d be incredible.
An inspired and heartfelt commentary on Joni's classic album, peppered throughout with Warren's signature quotes and insider details. I was too young to understand the album when it came out, but the background and context that this video offers just adds to the experience of it for me today. Thanks Warren!
Great video, Warren. I loved hearing the insights into her experiences that inspired her writing. I've always concentrated way more on the quality, uniqueness and groove of the music in a song than the lyrics and there's songs that people have revered, but I have no desire to listen to because I think the music is boring (one of the reasons I don't own any Bob Dylan music). Joni Mitchell's songs are the best of both worlds, poignant, insightful lyrics and beautiful, unique and exquisitely written music.
Blue is my favourite album of all time. It's an absolute masterpiece, I've played it and lived with it more than any other album in my life apart from maybe #1 Record by Big Star. Ever thought of doing a video about that masterpiece Warren? Ardent studios has a fascinating history, maybe getting in touch with Big Star's last original surviving member, drummer Jody Stephens for an interview. Big Star have such a huge influence. Cheers.
@@Producelikeapro I could see you were moved. I pay play Joni every week... along with Dylan, John Martyn, Neil Finn, Richard Thompson, Beatles... and a lot of others... Probably stuck in the 60s 70s. I really like your critiques.. The Kinks one I really like. My wife and I do an accapello version.
Blue is definitely a groundbreaking album, but the fact that she got even vbetter in subsequent albums of the 1970s -all of them masterpieces- is mind blowing. For me, Hejira is the pinnacle of her catalogue, my favorite album of all time by any artist.
I sometimes feel like an outsider; the Joni Mitchell albums that work for me are those from 75 to 80: The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus, and the live album Shadows & Light. I don't think I've ever listened to Blue, end to end. But, over time, I heard tracks and live versions, and with such a powerfully talented writer like her, you know there's always quality songs on a Joni Mitchell LP somewhere. But that 5 year period from 75 onward made successful steps into Jazz, in a way that seemed made for her voice. Thanks for the vid
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Just got to the 2:30 mark. You describe "Ladies Of The Canyon" as her second LP. It was her third. "Clouds" was preceded by her 1968 debut release, "Song To A Seagull". This past spring, she released a box set, "The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)", which includes a new mix of "Song To A Seagull" and remasters of "Clouds", "Ladies Of The Canyon" and "Blue". All of the new post-production was supervised by Joni.
She's in the canyon too.
Love Joni!
Scritti Politti … either Cupid & Psyche or the pure pop perfection of Provision
_Blue_ is Joni's _"Ziggy Stardust"_ but 1975's sublime _Hissing Of Summer Lawns_ is her _"Low"._ A deep dive into her brilliantly self-produced _Lawns_ foretells Kate Bush by several years.
John Wesley Harding and/or Highway 61 Revisited. The first for derailing psychedelia, the second for bringing high art poetry to a sustained collection of songs. (Yeah, I know, the order's not chronological).
She's in a category by herself, incomparable to no one else at no other time.
Agreed 100%!!
Joni Mitchell is unique stand alone artist. She is her own category. Never heard phrasing so unique and creative.
Indeed, so beautiful
One of my top 5 favorite albums.
As many have said the greatest singer songwriter album of all time!
That includes Joni’s peers!
I'd been listening to Blue for weeks. Never tiring of it. I'm not musically smart. One morning my tin ear worked out that the opening bars of River were Jingle Bells, and it floored me, reduced me to tears.
Thanks for sharing that Ben!
We are blessed to have lived in the lifetime of Joni and to have been changed and made better by her influence. Every time a young person hears Blue for the first time, his/her face changes to an awed expression. Sum it up with “holy shit!” Here’s to the next millions of first-time listeners. Enjoy 😉
Very well said Diane!
Blue and Carole King's Tapestry were omnipresent in my circle in that time. It's so evocative of that time for me. And it's brilliant from beginning to end.
Both Masterpieces!
Dsom as well
Sometimes I think I'm biased because I'm Canadian but then I hear other people in the music business who know music inside out rate her so highly and it always makes me smile.
You cannot overstate how important Joni Mitchell is!
I adore Joni. I can’t wait for next year when For The Roses turns 50. That album is spectacular and deserves more shine and praise.
Yes, beautiful!
For those who haven't seen it, look for Joni's "Shadows and Light" concert - it's usually here on RUclips for free. You know you've got something special when your 'backup band' is Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, and Don Alias . :-) Thanks Warren!
Absolute masterpiece!
@@Producelikeapro "Every picture tells a story..."
Joni Mitchell’s honesty and openness still resonate to this very day. My 24 yr old loves JM.
Your 24 year old has amazing taste!
Joni and Jaco... perfection. Hejira is her magnum opus. The songwriting is next next level
Yes, masterpiece
I was hoping you would do this album! An absolute work of art.
Thanks ever so much! Agreed! Masterpiece
@@Producelikeapro Oh, I have a suggestion for another album - Every Picture Tells A Story by Rod Stewart.
@@TR4Ajim beautiful album!
The quintessential story teller of our lifetime.
Well said!!
She is peerless. This is yet another wonderful video, thank you.
Thanks ever so much!
As a Canadian homer I’d like to think we punched above our wait back then; Mitchell, Young, Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Guess Who, David Clayton Thomas, Robbie Robertson, Steppenwolf and many others. As always thanks for your insights.
Absolutely! All great artists!! Add comedians in there too and you’ve got it sealed!
Kate and Annie McGarrigle
What makes Joni tops is that her lyrics, melodies, and rhythms are all sewn together--- of a piece, not merely adjacent.
Agreed 100%!!
Didn't discover her until Hejira, back tracked after that, My love of Jaco made me but that as always thanks Warren!
I believe many did that!
I never believed music could ve so detailed, intricate and introspective until I heard blue for the first time
Thanks so much for this great bio Warren, I had the privilege of having her as a customer in my old coffee shop in Whiterock b.c. she was fond of my carrot cake lol
Sounds like you make great carrot cake!
I'm very envious. I fantasise about going for a coffee with her, just to be able to tell her how much I love her and her work.
Joni is indeed the greatest on so many levels, thank you for doing this. Her first album Song To A Seagull is often overlooked, a masterpiece.
So cool to hear the rare reference to Alvin Toffler. So glad you brought others into this video.
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
The "River" cover by opera singer Renée Fleming with Fred Hersh and Bill Frisell is my favorite song. Thanks for the video, Warren !
Good call - I love the Robert Downey Jr take in Ally McBeal. Very moving.
If there's one song I wish I wrote, it's Case of You. It's just so hugely creative and evocative in both lyrics and musical expression; it's an astonishing achievement.
Yes, a masterpiece!
Blue scored one of the happiest periods of my life. Falling in love and having our first child. This album seemed to be on a lot as my partner also loved the album. I still love the album as much as ever if not more than ever.
My Mom was making curtains for my room and asked me what color I would like, so without hesitation I showed her the cover of my "Blue" album; those curtains stayed up in that room until long after I had moved out. Looking at that color is still so soothing and still creates hope in me, I think especially because of my association of it to Joni's unique spirit that comes across in her words and music. This album challenges me to look as deeply and honestly into myself as she has in this masterpiece.
thanks for this emotional story. Joni is my favorite singer of all my life
Thanks ever so much for sharing
Mitchell is great ! Awesome artist!
Thanks ever so much! And, yes, agreed!
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is an ever present album in our house. Such a beautiful sonic experience.
Beautiful
One of the all time greatist. My favorite album of hers is Court and Spark. Love you Warren. You have truly enriched my life with all you share with us.
Wow! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate your kind words
It took me a long time to really get into Joni Mitchell. My dad and mom used to force her in the thin cracks between my guitar driven music so I pushed back. As an adult I can really sit back and admire what she did.
It really is a beautiful, brilliant record, and it cuts deeper and more viscerally when returning to it at different periods in my life.
I've written a bit now and then alongside playing in bands and one thing strikes me so much about Joni, and especially about Blue, is the incredible completeness of her songs. When I write it's a guitar with vocals on top or an instrumental part, but her songs are never like that. Her songs are a complete thing of its own in some weird way. Her playing, singing and lyrics are all one thing together. Even though it's literally JUST her voice and a piano or a guitar, if you stop her songs at any point in a song, everything is going somewhere, it's not just happening in the vocals or lyrics but something is going on with the lyrics, melody and her instrument all at once, they're all going somewhere, and at rare and specific moments in her songs, like for one chord bar at the and of the chorus, they all find their place for a short while before they break up again and start searching for another place. Her capabilities of songwriting are just astonishing. It's even more incredible that it most likely is intentional because it's so subtle that you almost can't imagine someone deliberately wrote it that way, AND once you realize THAT you also can tell something about how she is perceiving herself and the kind of life she is living. It goes SO deep which makes her the best artist ever.
I first heard this album as a teenager, and even though it was the 90s, it still sounded so fresh and relatable. It almost instantly began to shape my musical tastes and my own awkward attempts at songwriting. It wasn't the only album to make such a big impression on me at that time, but it's one of the few that has held onto it's power over the years, and perhaps revealed even more depth. As a kid I heard the youthful energy of it, the sense of joy and adventure as well as longing and sadness. Now as an older adult I hear more of the regrets and disappointments of life, but also hard-won peace and acceptance, an admirable maturity that Joni was somehow able to embody at such an early point in her life. I expect Blue will continue to be a companion to me. What a wonderful gift.
So well said! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Fabulous choice! Such a tremendously influential album.... I have come to Joni's music pretty late, but I'm glad I finally did.
Thanks for sharing!
When my Grandfather was born, there was only horse and carts and oil lamps and candles. By the time he was in his 70s, humans had, as stated here, walked on the moon. That rapid level of change will never be repeated. I think about that often.
Yes, my Grandfather told me so much of his life and it resonates just what he saw during his lifetime!!
The first Joni song that really stood out for me was the jazzy live version of Rainy Night House from the Miles Of Aisles album. That, Court & Spark and Hejira are the albums of hers I still love the most. I got into Blue later on after my girlfriend at the time bought me a copy. We saw her play too in Michigan in 1979 with the Shadows & Light band…amazing!
Yes, masterpiece after masterpiece! What an artist!!
yes that version ofRainy Night House is a presage of her turn toward jazz.
*_Binging on Joni now (Amazon Music) . . . thanks._*
Fantastic! That’s amazing to hear
Excellent.
Thanks ever so much
Love it, especially the generation 60's & 70's really found a creative way to express what it means to be human and left an impressive change on our planet! Thank you for this great episode, I'll turn on this LP again ✌
Well done, Warren.
I first came across Joni via my first wife, while she was still my girlfriend in 1980. Court and Spark was one of the two albums she played me, but the one that still holds me to this day is For The Roses. Every song on that album is fraught with meaning and musical images - a true delight of genuine synaesthesia from beginning to end. I have listened to almost everything else she has produced, but cannot break my habit of holding back part of a creator's output so that I will always have something new to appreciate, so there are still one or two of her albums I have yet to listen to.
I propose that she is the greatest artist of the 20th century. In any genre. No-one else, to my mind, has the reach, the depth, the originality, the scope and the sheer gorgeousness - and, God knows, my tastes are broad, my explorations eclectic and my research, well, pretty good. I read, watch, play, write, sing, record, absorb and assimilate. Nope. As much as I admire an immense cadre of artists across all muses, she is The One.
Thank you for paying tribute in this fashion - and with great respect to your guests, I prefer it when you are the one holding the floor with your innate enthusiasm, articulate & passionate verbalising, and insight into how best to deliver to camera.
Stick at it, Warren. You are marvellous.
One of our greatest exports! Thanks for this, Warren!
Indeed!
Another good one Warren. Thanks.
Thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro you’re always welcome Warren.
Lucky for me that i began appreciating Joni before 'BLUE' trying to learn finger picking.I love all her work.....but, too many of my friend's would say , upon hearing BLUE would just comment on the 'sadness' of it. I feel she is a genious. thanks for this Warren.
Small world!
Was just playing this yesterday.
Fantastic!
You are so correct! I perform a version of Carey and I loved all of that recording. Thank you for such a detailed and loving look at such a great work…
Thanks ever so much! Yes, I’m a huge fan
Thank you Warren. An interesting account of the album songs. I always liked the bare-boned engineering sound and mixing of this 1971 release.
Me too! Beautiful sounding album!!
So glad listen to your channel. I had never heard of Joni's Blue album. Checked it out, beautiful, more so when you reflect on what was going on in her life. Thanks for excellent post.
Wow! That means a lot! Really glad to be able to introduce people to music that is new to them!
Wow! One of my favourite albums and artists! Great. Thanks Warren 👍😁
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
OK Warren-Epic Songwriters will help most these days. Sorry, that sounds heavy-but I do appreciate you educating peeps about song writing. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing!
You’re very welcome! I’m glad to be able to help!!
It's a truly magical and honest record. And the production was so raw.
Dire Straights "Brothers in Arms" would be a nice episode.
Thanks for sharing!
More Joni Mitchell albums please.
Absolutely!!
Thanks for enlightening me on the immense talents of Joni or Rebecca Joan Anderson.
I love her honesty & soul bearing style.
I did not know about her many skills with other instruments.
Great analysis of her travels & accomplished history … ta 🎶🎸👍
Blue is a great choice here! Next, how about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - that might only take a few hours to cover :) Thanks for the channel and hi from Kent.
Masterpiece of an album!
Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle.
Squonk
Tony Banks complained that the ending of Lamb Lies Down was unsatisfying/unresolved but it reminds me of many of my own dreams where a lot of crazy stuff is happening and nothing ever gets resolved and then you wake up and go Oh good I don't have to deal with that in reality.
@@lucydreamsart it's on the list!
"Hejira" hit me in a way it didn't before just in the last year or so, something to do with the current times and how the spirit of that record contrasts so sharply with them.
this record is sooo beautiful it's heartbreaking. ''The last time I saw Richard'', one of the best lyrics ever, best song interpretations ever. The way she sings ''I'm gonna blow this candle out...'' and how that changes the mood completely. The story, the way it connects with our love experiences.
This album and Hejira are between my most treasured from anyone. Even hearing you talk about the songs brings tears to my eyes. Big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina
I started with Ladies of the Canyon at 10, then Court and Spark, Nightride Home, Blue, Song to a Seagull, Hissing of Summer Lawns. My favorites are Hissing and Court and Spark. I literally grew up listening to her
Me too! I remember hearing Blue and Hejira and going back and discovering a huge wealth of incredible music!
Court and Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns, and Hejira are Joni’s peak period for me. What a powerful trio of releases!
@@g.belanger8302 Me too. I know 'Blue' is meant to be the "classic" and all that, but I do find those three Joni albums in particular far more interesting.
I came to that album really late, i.e. 2009. Don’t ask me why because I don’t know. It was for me a pivotal point in my life and remember that time and my first hearing of it. A true masterpiece.
Thanks for your report.
Thanks ever so much
my favorite ablum of all time!
Thanks for covering Joni. Most brilliant songwriter ever! This album, and Hissing of Summer Lawns are her two best, IMO.
Ladies of the canyon was Joni's 3rd album - not her 2nd.
Indeed! Mistakes happen!
Oops, I just posted a comment about that before seeing yours.
Wow, great video, thanks Warren! I was 13 when Blue came out and I became obsessed with it . . . to this day I choke up every time I hear that voice. Tapestry and Mud Slide Slim came out around the same time and I loved those as well and really got into the Laurel Canyon scene . . . you live in a mythical place!
Great video! Thanks so much for covering one of my favorite records. Also love the contributions from Louise and Caitlin!
Thanks Eddie! Yes, Louise and Caitlin are wonderful!
What truly great album to cover. I discovered this album a couple years ago because a close friend introduced me to it, and I was hypnotized immediately. It was truly one of those albums that really made you sort of forget where you were at that moment and you end up being drawn into this world she was painting for you with her words and melodies on the instruments. Truly extraordinary.
I'll never forget hearing this album for the first time and I can say with full confidence that it's one of the best of all time. Joni has so many fantastic albums and she's great to listen to when there are hard times and you feel like you want to escape for a while.
You clearly underscore the absolute necessity of putting personal MEANING in music to reflect the nebulous nature of one's being, reality. Perfect, Sir Warren, well done I say. Cheers, again. On the mark exactly.🍓
Thanks ever so much Brian!
Yours, always, friend.
I love these history lessons, Warren. This is a real service in times of over-saturation and a lack of understanding of what makes timeless and resonating work. I watch your channel a fair bit and despite being a songwriter in bands and acoustically for around 17 years, your videos often remind me of where my focus needs to be as I'm putting together new projects and helping others to record, etc. A few good tools that you understand and a focus on capturing unique and soulful performances, has been the main take-away. Beyond the gear you have a passion for for that mystical something that's so hard to define and it's constant reminder of what gripped me the first time I heard ZZ Top's "Eliminator" on tape or "I want to break free" by Queen (on the same cheap cassette deck.) Great work, as always!
I do love Blue, but I have to be careful with it. There are times it is very inconvenient to break down in tears!
Well said!
The albums between BLUE and HEJIRA are pretty great too, especially, Court and Spark.' Great overview and review of BLUE and Joni's contributions to that era.
Great work as always -- in a class by herself (known, among other things, for her open-tunings of the guitar to be able to make her "chords of inquiry") -- she was mining all kinds of dimensions, an 'artist' in every meaningful sense of the word.
Thank you for making this video, it was a joy to watch. I learned so much about this album that I didn't know and have often wondered about. I also wanted to say that I've never understood why her first album is so seldom mentioned. I love it just as much as Blue. One example; the song The Dawntreader is, to me, an astonishing feat of composition and lyricism with such a skillfully controlled range of colour and dynamics from just guitar and voice - like an orchestra.
"Song to a Seagull" is one of my favorite albums. Almost every song is a gem.
Great job highlighting this wonderful album. It pleasantly surprises me how many people of this generation love Joni's music which is from my generation. You talked about her being perhaps the best lyricist and compared her to Bob Dylan or Lennon and McCartney. I agree, but I would have to add Jackson Browne to that list for sure! Read along with and listen to the song "Lives in the Balance." I think it's the greatest lyrical achievement of the 20th century. There is also "The Pretender to round out lyric genious. I will look forward to more of your insightful videos!
I can’t even listen to Blue without tears. If Shakespeare were a musician, Blue would be his magnum opus. An ode to broken hearts for the ages.
Yes, masterpiece! I see you’ve worked on some of Jaco’s beautiful music! I’m currently doing a video on him, can I interview you?
@@Producelikeapro Absolutely, Warren. I’d be happy to do that. I’ll look for a way to send you my contact info privately.
@@artysanmobile did you email me? I will look for it again
What a great video about a timeless classic of an album. Your videos are way beyond most of the "docs" I see on streaming services. Fantastic!
Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it
Thank you .
The first album I ever bought!
Well, the world is once again really crazy so I expect some great songs soon.
Haha indeed
A CASE OF YOU is a masterpiece. Brings tears to my eyes every time after all these years. And James Taylor’s guitar playing is gorgeous.
I met a woman. She had a mouth like yours….
Wow, very inspiring episode and contributions. Thank you!
Thanks ever so much!
Absolutely excellent loved it as per normal superb stuff thank you so much Warren.
Best review of Blue ever! Thanks Warren!
Wow! Thanks ever so much
For the Roses is my favourite album of all time and The Judgement of the Moon and Stars my favourite song, I never tire of it and it has stayed fresh longer than Blue fior me. All mg love from Dublin.
Down to you is amazing song , amelia live version is a killer
Thank you, Warren, for a great dissection of a perfect album - BLUE! So wonderful to hear the sonic details on this masterpiece.
I would love to hear you take on THE CARS classic eponymous debut album. That’d be incredible.
An inspired and heartfelt commentary on Joni's classic album, peppered throughout with Warren's signature quotes and insider details. I was too young to understand the album when it came out, but the background and context that this video offers just adds to the experience of it for me today. Thanks Warren!
Great video, Warren. I loved hearing the insights into her experiences that inspired her writing. I've always concentrated way more on the quality, uniqueness and groove of the music in a song than the lyrics and there's songs that people have revered, but I have no desire to listen to because I think the music is boring (one of the reasons I don't own any Bob Dylan music). Joni Mitchell's songs are the best of both worlds, poignant, insightful lyrics and beautiful, unique and exquisitely written music.
Blue is my favourite album of all time. It's an absolute masterpiece, I've played it and lived with it more than any other album in my life apart from maybe #1 Record by Big Star. Ever thought of doing a video about that masterpiece Warren? Ardent studios has a fascinating history, maybe getting in touch with Big Star's last original surviving member, drummer Jody Stephens for an interview. Big Star have such a huge influence. Cheers.
Totally agree regarding Blue. Your commentary and analysis is excellent. A bit of a fan indeed? 🙂
Huge fan of Joni! Thanks Brian!
@@Producelikeapro I could see you were moved. I pay play Joni every week... along with Dylan, John Martyn, Neil Finn, Richard Thompson, Beatles... and a lot of others... Probably stuck in the 60s 70s.
I really like your critiques.. The Kinks one I really like. My wife and I do an accapello version.
God! Incredible artist!Only recently i really listen to her albuns. What a surprise
Thanks ever so much Renato!
Huge fan of course and you nailed it Warren, very informative with lots of love for her music. Love this!!
Thanks ever so much John!
Another great video! I appreciate your breadth of interest.
Thanks Warren for another brilliant video!! this album is exceptional
Blue is definitely a groundbreaking album, but the fact that she got even vbetter in subsequent albums of the 1970s -all of them masterpieces- is mind blowing. For me, Hejira is the pinnacle of her catalogue, my favorite album of all time by any artist.
Worth the wait. Thank you, Warren. So good 👏🏼👏🏼
I never knew about tapestry and blue being recorded at the same time and place. That has to be something more than coincidence. What can you say?
I sometimes feel like an outsider; the Joni Mitchell albums that work for me are those from 75 to 80: The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus, and the live album Shadows & Light. I don't think I've ever listened to Blue, end to end. But, over time, I heard tracks and live versions, and with such a powerfully talented writer like her, you know there's always quality songs on a Joni Mitchell LP somewhere. But that 5 year period from 75 onward made successful steps into Jazz, in a way that seemed made for her voice. Thanks for the vid
Indeed. I'd add Court and Spark, of 1974, to the list.
Matala Crete, one of the most common mega artists location of the 70s... i live 25 kilometres from there...
One of the greatest albums, Thanks!
Other albums? Grace, Jeff Buckley! Please..
On the list!
Great!!! 👍🏻😁
@@hectormann1843 Thanks!
Joni knows no equal as a lyricist. Only a handful come close!
Agreed 100%!
I know her album Hejira, Blue has somehow gone past me, I've listened to it before watching this video and it's beautiful :-)
Thanks very much!
The Way It is, Help Me, I Had A King, Just Like Me, Cactus Tree, My Old Man, Night Ride Home.
Thanks Audrey!