This woman gave me my voice...I was born in 1960 and watched my brothers, all older than me in '69 take off for the Woodstock festival only a couple of hours from our home in Brooklyn, NY. I was 9 then and very shy. One of my bothers, who was a musician, heard me in my room singing along with my Joni Mitchell album .. (I'd eventually collected all of her LP's....and taught myself the guitar chords to each of her songs so I could sing to myself when I was blue).and he told me..."You sound just like her..". In later years, when I became a mother, I sang to my first baby, a preemie born at my 24th wk of pregnancy, while she was in the n.i.c.u for 4 months to comfort her in her struggle to live. After she'd passed away, 7 1/2 months later, Joni Mitchell's voice comforted me as I would sit alone in my grief. When my other children were bourn to me, again I was blessed and would softly sing Joni's tunes as I'd cradled each one in the carrier every day, over my heart, on our journey to the market, nursing them or just doing my chores around the apartment, lulling them to a peaceful sleep. I, myself was adopted as a child, so parenting is nothing I take lightly. I never knew my birth mother, but I thank heaven I was finally taken in to a permanent family. To this day, when I feel grief and the blues coming on, I sing to myself while going about my day. My heart broke when I had heard Joni was rushed to the hospital. I cried and prayed...There is no one, absolutely no one who compares to this lovely Angel on Earth. She is radiant!
I have not lived yours but your story adds to the poignancy of this moment. Joni's songs almost always bring tears to my eyes; and like you, I began grieving in anticipation of losing this brightest of lights from our presence. Be well, sister.
Anyone who could write one song like this would rightfully be considered a genius. Joni Mitchell wrote tons of songs like this. Add the guitar mastery and her voice and you have a brilliance beyond this world.
Albums full of music like this...I've never seen a singer-songwriter with such power and expression before, in all aspects of her music, but especially her voice.
@@bernlin2000 One of the 3 greatest songwriters of all time (and Dylan isn't one of them, try Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn, over time far and away superior)
@@michaelp6776 Richard Thompson for sure. Haven't heard enough Cockburn to have an opinion. I'd say Sarah Jarosz is the current generation's candidate, and maybe Ben Gibbard
I first heard Joni on a Kibbutz in isreal 1979. A young lady from Canada introduced me to the music. Joni is priceless with all the music memories she has given us..
She said once that she valued intuition over intellect. Ironically, of all her peers, her intellect shines brightest. This is most apparent here, for me her best song.
It's not how many books you read, but how you can effectively reflect your own experiences to others. It requires a grand mind, indeed, for your life itself to be artwork.
My husband and I met as students in 1982. Hejira was the album of our courtship, and Amelia was my favourite song, this one, my husband’s Amelia and Amy Johnson were my heroines. Although we are no longer married, after 38 years we are still together in a manner of speaking, parents and grandparents, we raised a family together, all the things we dreamed, our hopes and plans, the first time we made love, it was this album. We were soooo young. And so in love. So, thank you Joni. This is the record that built a family xxx
"In the church they light the candles, and the wax rolls down like tears; there is the hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed through the years." Such incredible poetry. I saw Joni at the Troubadour, sitting just a few feet away from her as she played guitar, dulcimer and piano, and sang like an angel. I feel lucky to have lived in her era.
Joni Mitchell, tired, starts off weak, gives herself to the audience, gives herself to the music, gives 110%, gives more than she has, finishes, puts down her guitar, walks off by herself, without a bow, without a word. A singularly great performance.
Well you got it partly right. It certainly is a great performance but I totally disagree that she started off weak and tired. It was wonderful from the first note. Particularly impressive since she was pissed off at the audience which is why she walked off at the end without acknowledging them.
she has more balls than a stadium full of hooligans, she has more voice than the entire chorus of nowadays singer, she writes music like marble columns , you'll find hundred years later in the middle of the gravel the music-industry left . Here ist the difference of music which has something to say (music+words) and the bum-bum-bum on the radio-stations.....
I'm a man, a fan since my 20s...and I share your depth of feeling for her words and music..I'm constantly playing and replaying her poignant songs in my head, reading and seeking their meaning. Yeah, I'm a sensitive guy. Gifted, I feel, in that way
Rebecca Horton She's currently in fair condition at either Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,(310)825-7484 or Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (310)423-5550. Both neither confirmed nor denied her being there for the obvious reason, but i asked the Spiritual Care department {the ph#'s) to please give her a note if she is there, expressing my regards and wishes to her.
Joni is the greatest multi talented genius in the world. She's not just a voice or guitar player. Joni is infact her own category. She has mastered it all. All while dealing with physical challenges. Plus one of the nicest, inspiring, intelligent, honest people in the creative biz. ❤✌️❤
This is a stunning performance. In 1986, I was 20 years old, and I doubt I would have appreciated this if I’d been there. I probably would have been pissed that Townshend didn’t play. At 53 now, I get it. Joni is brilliant.
+Ze Ze Ze I don't know what you disagree with that I said? I simply said about how much she gives in this performance, nothing about its power for non-anglophones or anything?
+Ze Ze Ze generally I guess because she is such a multi talented figure, but I mean as a poet, as a songwriter. shes just a consummate artist, no one can truly be compared to her because she's so singularly talented and unique I think
I disagree music is most certainly attached to all those things thats what gives different types of music its character and subtance and set it apart from other types of music. I understand what your trying to say though that everyone can enjoy music but your premise is wrong music is not created in a vaccum its created by artists who are people who have a culture race society class etc. And all that informs the music.
She scares me shitless, she sets a standard that leaves me totally inadequate, of course I love it, nobody quite gets to me like Joni. I know she is an artist, don't look just listen
She’s a genius. Her tunings, everything. Like Beethoven before her, she is just one of the special people. We never got to see Beethoven at work, but we’ve got Joni. Don’t be scared, be inspired!
This is a perfect rendition of Joni's classic song, getting into her Jazz era! And the lighting is awesome, with her hair shining with the backlight, like she's an Angel 💖 descending to this stage to sing for us! Which she is, for sure! Thanks you for posting this ~ Cheers!!
This piece is SO prolific, so full of things everyone has felt. Being able to artfully put this into words blows me away. l never get tired of hearing it and each time it sounds new. She just reaches in and grabs my emotions. What a gift! Thank you Joni with all my heart. ;)
I know all her music, THIS show the gracious bravery that cements are greatness as a music, leader, human being---you see so many on you tube harry's house on rosie odonnel, love puts on a new face on leno, she shines brilliantly, flawless performances, but this was a rough event for anyone but big bands party major music, so the grace she gets through this with while still trying to educate an audience, saying That is right, after the lyric superficial is above what all of this generation did, plus this music is utterly brand new and a new form of classical , she and larry move with wild hot gentle ease, no wonder she is always mention when her music was not hitmaking in her time, she points out same true of bille holiday and doris day, billie didn't sell until long after her death the wild things songs are a blast too thank you Theresa and others for getting her, sure has added to my lfe
She is singing from her soul here against a what sounds like load of yobs and yet she does not back off infact she totally triumphs and what a amazing song. It’s a work of art.
Friends of mine bought dead center seats, for my birthday, about 5 rows back, for a Joni Mitchell Concert in Vancouver in the late 70's or so, she was by then playing with some of the best jazz rock fusion musicians in the world, Pat Methany, Jaco Pastorious, Don Elias etc etc. It was simply the greatest Concert I have ever seen, transforming, brilliant, almost spiritual, and Joni from 30 feet away was simply one of the most beautiful women I've ever set my eyes on. I was swept away. She is a musical genius without parallel.
Difficult to compute how brilliant this is. She has accompanied my life not long after the forceps to getting increasingly near to the stone. Lyrically and musically this song and this album tops the lot for me.
If anyone asked me to exemplify the music and genius of Joni Mitchell in one song, I guess this would be it. This absolutely kills me. She did it as an encore in a later concert I attended which included nothing from this era of her career. It was so unexpected that out of her enormous repertoire, she would pick my favorite. It was an emotional moment, saying the least. Thank you, Joni!
@@jamesbadham228 Oh yes! And , for me, Song for Sharon! nevertheless, she chose that particular song, and it was like the universe reached out and touched me. One of "those" moments! Thanks for replying!
When I finally met Joni in '96, it was her Hejira cd cover that I asked her to sign. Oh, my sweet Joni who traveled with me throughout my 20s and now forty decades onward. Her music and lyrics ooze out into the atmosphere and seep into my veins. I love music, but no other musician can create that feeling. Of awe, of intimacy, of universality. (My son currently lives in an old Victorian house that she rented in her early days... and that single thought, and to stand in that space... thrills me to no ends.)
Just settling down to lose myself in Joni's singing when my guitar nerd jumped up and pointed at the headstock of her Strat that has 'Gibson' on it. Thanks, guitar nerd, now I can't thnk of anything else! It even gave me the moment when you can see it! 0:26
My deepest thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard it in a long time. It brought me back to hearing the album when it came out, sitting on the floor and listening to every song without even pausing it. This video reminded me that Joni wrote some simply beautiful songs. I mean, who else could have written “white flags of winter chimneys call truce against the moon….In the mirrors of a modern bank through the windows of a hotel room.”
Musical ecstasy!......not much more to say... There is a look of 100 Centuries in her eyes as she sings...I think she knew she hit her Zenith here and walked away knowing nobody would top this live performance finger picking, caressing and noodling a Strat like it was the most majestic Classical Guitar on the planet 🌠 Just wow! Thank you Mr. Marshall for sharing this :)
Hejira more than any other Joni Mitchell album makes me cry too! She was such a major part of my childhood. I was a teenager trying to figure out all my mixed emotions about life and my place in it. Joni's ability to paint emotional pictures is incomparable! I had the privilege of meeting her in the 80s, and she was sweet. I will forever cherish Joni Mitchell ❤🎉
One of her best songs. How weird it must be to perform before such a huge audience where so many seem to be partying and ignoring what's happening onstage. Mitchell's rapport with brilliant bassist Jaco Pastorius was magical, but he was sadly very troubled, provoking bar fights for unknown reasons. The worst of these put him in the hospital where he died of his injuries just a year after this performance. A tragedy for popular music.
Stunning performance in every way. She uses her mouth to twist and mold the words so that they fit the music and spit out her conviction. Her eyes look far away beyond the audience as if she is a soaring bird above the mundane. Then she just walks off at the end like she has spoken her mind and got energized and is off to some unknown.
Want to give a shout out for the UK based HejiraTribute Band currently on tour (July 2024) Check them out. Nothing they do detracts from the original and is a respectful almost reverential nod to the genius of Joni Mitchell
The cigarettes are starting to take their toll here. A life long heavy smoker since the age of 16 she refuses to acknowledge that they ever affected her voice. In spite of a million cigarettes she still casts a spell and weaves her magic. She truly has no peers. A one off magnificent woman. My idol and my hero.
The best of all singer/songwriters ever. She is the Shakespeare of our times.
Agreed!👍
Say it for the people in the back
How about Natalie Merchant & the incredible Ani di Franco
Shakespeare who? or is that whom... and gods help us if we're making these puerile comparisons....
Hyperbole much! Scccheeeeeesch. Many compelling artists out there still working. Relax, see some more.
This woman gave me my voice...I was born in 1960 and watched my brothers, all older than me in '69 take off for the Woodstock festival only a couple of hours from our home in Brooklyn, NY. I was 9 then and very shy. One of my bothers, who was a musician, heard me in my room singing along with my Joni Mitchell album .. (I'd eventually collected all of her LP's....and taught myself the guitar chords to each of her songs so I could sing to myself when I was blue).and he told me..."You sound just like her..". In later years, when I became a mother, I sang to my first baby, a preemie born at my 24th wk of pregnancy, while she was in the n.i.c.u for 4 months to comfort her in her struggle to live. After she'd passed away, 7 1/2 months later, Joni Mitchell's voice comforted me as I would sit alone in my grief. When my other children were bourn to me, again I was blessed and would softly sing Joni's tunes as I'd cradled each one in the carrier every day, over my heart, on our journey to the market, nursing them or just doing my chores around the apartment, lulling them to a peaceful sleep. I, myself was adopted as a child, so parenting is nothing I take lightly. I never knew my birth mother, but I thank heaven I was finally taken in to a permanent family. To this day, when I feel grief and the blues coming on, I sing to myself while going about my day. My heart broke when I had heard Joni was rushed to the hospital. I cried and prayed...There is no one, absolutely no one who compares to this lovely Angel on Earth. She is radiant!
Absolute..
I hope you're well.
I have not lived yours but your story adds to the poignancy of this moment. Joni's songs almost always bring tears to my eyes; and like you, I began grieving in anticipation of losing this brightest of lights from our presence. Be well, sister.
That was a beautiful story. Join's music has also comforted me in sadness and joy. Blessings to you.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your story.
Her guitar tuning is as brilliant as her songwriting skills ..what a marvelous musician of the highest standard possible.
This makes a grown man cry just from the beauty and perfection of it.
The greatest songwriter ever.
What fool would have the nerve to hit the dislike button. One of my regrets in life is never having seen her perform live.
The best lyrics, arrangements, words and phrasing I would never think to use. I've listened to her for almost 50 years. She touches my soul!
❤
Anyone who could write one song like this would rightfully be considered a genius.
Joni Mitchell wrote tons of songs like this.
Add the guitar mastery and her voice and you have a brilliance beyond this world.
Albums full of music like this...I've never seen a singer-songwriter with such power and expression before, in all aspects of her music, but especially her voice.
@@bernlin2000 One of the 3 greatest songwriters of all time (and Dylan isn't one of them, try Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn, over time far and away superior)
@@michaelp6776 Richard Thompson for sure. Haven't heard enough Cockburn to have an opinion. I'd say Sarah Jarosz is the current generation's candidate, and maybe Ben Gibbard
She ought to be the second musician given a Nobel for literature.
I first heard Joni on a Kibbutz in
isreal 1979. A young lady from Canada introduced me to the music. Joni is priceless with all the music memories she has given us..
She is Something.
She is singing her heart out on this one. She is one of the giants of our lifetime.
She said once that she valued intuition over intellect. Ironically, of all her peers, her intellect shines brightest. This is most apparent here, for me her best song.
I believe she wrote this from a way of intuition
That's what happens when one's intellect integrates into intuition......
Much in the same way that Einstein valued imagination over knowledge.
But she always followed her intuition.
It's not how many books you read, but how you can effectively reflect your own experiences to others. It requires a grand mind, indeed, for your life itself to be artwork.
Wonderful interpretation of Joni but Jaco we miss you
La creme de la creme:
Joni, Jaco, Pat… shadows and light
Joni makes me cry. With her singing, when I held my little baby girl in my arms along the DISRAEWA Paris river. Listening to her sing!
Me to...
She's AWESOME!!!
My husband and I met as students in 1982. Hejira was the album of our courtship, and Amelia was my favourite song, this one, my husband’s Amelia and Amy Johnson were my heroines. Although we are no longer married, after 38 years we are still together in a manner of speaking, parents and grandparents, we raised a family together, all the things we dreamed, our hopes and plans, the first time we made love, it was this album. We were soooo young. And so in love. So, thank you Joni. This is the record that built a family xxx
It was not a wife, but a shot time intense fling (in Istanbul with Turkish girl), we run out this disc.........
She is out of this world.😍
Just so ---------- Joni Mitchell, variable, but always just so good ! Play on Lady !
I will always be grateful for her accompaniment of my life between the forceps and the stone. Since age 15, now 63, getting closer to the stone...
The vocal by Joni on this is heart stopping, it's pure beauty. The playing also makes the old ticker miss a few beats, amazing and so special.
The tone of her guitar is truly beautiful. The woman who looks best on guitar in the world❤
It does not get any better than Joni Mitchell.
"In the church they light the candles, and the wax rolls down like tears; there is the hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed through the years."
Such incredible poetry. I saw Joni at the Troubadour, sitting just a few feet away from her as she played guitar, dulcimer and piano, and sang like an angel. I feel lucky to have lived in her era.
Joni Mitchell is still the very best singer and songwriter. Superb.
500k views in TWELVE years. The work of a genius simply languishes, Looms large in the pantheon but lacks the celebration she deserves.
Perhaps the most beautiful woman ever
We all get old and run out of time, we don't all get the chance to leave what Joni has left us, she has been blowing me away for decades
Yah mon
I believe we’re hear this angel singing in heaven.❤😊
Joni Mitchell, tired, starts off weak, gives herself to the audience, gives herself to the music, gives 110%, gives more than she has, finishes, puts down her guitar, walks off by herself, without a bow, without a word. A singularly great performance.
Well you got it partly right. It certainly is a great performance but I totally disagree that she started off weak and tired. It was wonderful from the first note. Particularly impressive since she was pissed off at the audience which is why she walked off at the end without acknowledging them.
The audience, even tho they clap and cheer at the end, were noisy and not truly listening - their loss!
she has more balls than a stadium full of hooligans, she has more voice than the entire chorus of nowadays singer, she writes music like marble columns , you'll find hundred years later in the middle of the gravel the music-industry left . Here ist the difference of music which has something to say (music+words) and the bum-bum-bum on the radio-stations.....
SO much ... with YOU and ... Her !?
She gotta lot of cigarette butts in her ash tray.
"Thought I heard the voice of Miles Davis coming through the trees." It does not get better than this, ever.
exactly, my friend. I totally agree
She has more guts than the DNC and Trumpagoon Party period
I'm a man, a fan since my 20s...and I share your depth of feeling for her words and music..I'm constantly playing and replaying her poignant songs in my head, reading and seeking their meaning. Yeah, I'm a sensitive guy. Gifted, I feel, in that way
a masterpiece by a genius
moz frank I agree.
Rebecca Horton She's currently in fair condition at either Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,(310)825-7484 or Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (310)423-5550. Both neither confirmed nor denied her being there for the obvious reason, but i asked the Spiritual Care department {the ph#'s) to please give her a note if she is there, expressing my regards and wishes to her.
moz frank yes yes yes
Jim Marshall it will be devastating to all if dies. When I listen to her songs, I still get chills and enjoy.
+Nina Peyser I hear that she is home, walking, talking and eating by herself...
I'm sitting here listening to Joni's music all alone. Just sobbing. She as always left me speechless and teary eyed.
The gods have Vermeer, Schubert and Shakespeare so they gave us Joni.
College, 1978 and introduced to Joni......Life hasn't been the same since! What an excellent Story teller! Joni Speaks My Language!
Joni is the greatest multi talented genius in the world. She's not just a voice or guitar player. Joni is infact her own category. She has mastered it all. All while dealing with physical challenges. Plus one of the nicest, inspiring, intelligent, honest people in the creative biz. ❤✌️❤
Joni is a gift to my generation. 🥰
This is a stunning performance. In 1986, I was 20 years old, and I doubt I would have appreciated this if I’d been there. I probably would have been pissed that Townshend didn’t play. At 53 now, I get it. Joni is brilliant.
i have no idea how she could do a whole show when she gives her entire soul in this one song alone, Joni is literally incomparable
+Ze Ze Ze do you not agree?
+Ze Ze Ze I don't know what you disagree with that I said? I simply said about how much she gives in this performance, nothing about its power for non-anglophones or anything?
+Ze Ze Ze generally I guess because she is such a multi talented figure, but I mean as a poet, as a songwriter. shes just a consummate artist, no one can truly be compared to her because she's so singularly talented and unique I think
I disagree music is most certainly attached to all those things thats what gives different types of music its character and subtance and set it apart from other types of music. I understand what your trying to say though that everyone can enjoy music but your premise is wrong music is not created in a vaccum its created by artists who are people who have a culture race society class etc. And all that informs the music.
Yeah. She is definitely way more incomparable than her peers.
(yup, that's an attempt at irony... sorry)
She makes me good-cry.
I coul listen to this singer sing this song over and over
She scares me shitless, she sets a standard that leaves me totally inadequate, of course I love it, nobody quite gets to me like Joni. I know she is an artist, don't look just listen
She’s a genius. Her tunings, everything. Like Beethoven before her, she is just one of the special people. We never got to see Beethoven at work, but we’ve got Joni. Don’t be scared, be inspired!
Got to hardest song for bass player... Jaco I believe is only , or few people she proudly gives credit for writing.. God bless Jaco and long live Joni
Co-writer.. I ment to say
This is a perfect rendition of Joni's classic song, getting into her Jazz era! And the lighting is awesome, with her hair shining with the backlight, like she's an Angel 💖 descending to this stage to sing for us! Which she is, for sure! Thanks you for posting this ~ Cheers!!
This piece is SO prolific, so full of things everyone has felt. Being able to artfully put this into words blows me away. l never get tired of hearing it and each time it sounds new. She just reaches in and grabs my emotions. What a gift! Thank you Joni with all my heart. ;)
Joan, You sure know how to reach right into people. Thanks girl. ;)
I know all her music, THIS show the gracious bravery that cements are greatness as a music, leader, human being---you see so many on you tube harry's house on rosie odonnel, love puts on a new face on leno, she shines brilliantly, flawless performances, but this was a rough event for anyone but big bands party major music, so the grace she gets through this with while still trying to educate an audience, saying That is right, after the lyric superficial is above what all of this generation did, plus this music is utterly brand new and a new form of classical , she and larry move with wild hot gentle ease, no wonder she is always mention when her music was not hitmaking in her time, she points out same true of bille holiday and doris day, billie didn't sell until long after her death the wild things songs are a blast too thank you Theresa and others for getting her, sure has added to my lfe
Beyond genius. What privilege to listen to Joni!
and meet her soul
She doesn’t have a good voice
The Queen.
The one, the only, never to be repeated genius of Joni Mitchell.....mesmerizing.
She is singing from her soul here against a what sounds like load of yobs and yet she does not back off infact she totally triumphs and what a amazing song. It’s a work of art.
Not only is the performance incredible but duet between these two lovers is amazing. They worked really well together.
which are the lovers here ?
@@51tomtomtom Joni and Larry Kline on bass were married when they did this.
She is so deservedly famous. My love for her and her art is sheer anguish.
Me too. And what a beautiful way to put it
Friends of mine bought dead center seats, for my birthday, about 5 rows back, for a Joni Mitchell Concert in Vancouver in the late 70's or so, she was by then playing with some of the best jazz rock fusion musicians in the world, Pat Methany, Jaco Pastorious, Don Elias etc etc. It was simply the greatest Concert I have ever seen, transforming, brilliant, almost spiritual, and Joni from 30 feet away was simply one of the most beautiful women I've ever set my eyes on. I was swept away. She is a musical genius without parallel.
Difficult to compute how brilliant this is. She has accompanied my life not long after the forceps to getting increasingly near to the stone. Lyrically and musically this song and this album tops the lot for me.
If anyone asked me to exemplify the music and genius of Joni Mitchell in one song, I guess this would be it. This absolutely kills me. She did it as an encore in a later concert I attended which included nothing from this era of her career. It was so unexpected that out of her enormous repertoire, she would pick my favorite. It was an emotional moment, saying the least. Thank you, Joni!
My favorite, too, from my favorite album. This and Amelia.
@@jamesbadham228 Oh yes! And , for me, Song for Sharon! nevertheless, she chose that particular song, and it was like the universe reached out and touched me. One of "those" moments! Thanks for replying!
There has never been anyone to match Joni.
Might be one of the best things I’ve ever heard.
Wow that’s sad
It’s just an opinion. I’m drawn to Joni’s work.
When I finally met Joni in '96, it was her Hejira cd cover that I asked her to sign.
Oh, my sweet Joni who traveled with me throughout my 20s and now forty decades onward.
Her music and lyrics ooze out into the atmosphere and seep into my veins. I love music, but no other musician can create that feeling. Of awe, of intimacy, of universality.
(My son currently lives in an old Victorian house that she rented in her early days... and that single thought, and to stand in that space... thrills me to no ends.)
Literally the light of my 61 old life .
Just settling down to lose myself in Joni's singing when my guitar nerd jumped up and pointed at the headstock of her Strat that has 'Gibson' on it. Thanks, guitar nerd, now I can't thnk of anything else! It even gave me the moment when you can see it! 0:26
She brought so much beauty to the world.
This song, in fact this whole album puts me into a trance. Unbelievably good.
She continues to amaze me. Genius is the only word one can use to describe her.
Wow! Damn I love Joni Mitchell's music so much. What a pure gem!
A brilliant artist! I fell in love with everything about her in the 60s ! Treated poorly but the men of the time.
she is and will always be thee best
Remarkable. Transcendent brilliance. What a song- unsurpassed. This period was my favourite and her peak I think. An artist without equal.
no one else like Joni.
just beautiful
Just incredible.
This is a lovely song by a brilliant and lovely woman. Thank you Joni for your music.
Magical Joni nobody better than you ❤
She was my guru! Thank you for giving us a whole different perspective in this crazy world!
We love you Joni!
My favorite song of hers. Absolutely transcendent.
The girl with the golden voice ...!
Even after 40 years I tear up in awe of the naked complex plaintive vocals meshed seamlessly into the flow of her journey.
My deepest thanks for posting this. I hadn’t heard it in a long time. It brought me back to hearing the album when it came out, sitting on the floor and listening to every song without even pausing it. This video reminded me that Joni wrote some simply beautiful songs. I mean, who else could have written “white flags of winter chimneys call truce against the moon….In the mirrors of a modern bank through the windows of a hotel room.”
Exactly . . Such an amazing song. She makes you see and feel her lyrics
She was awakening indeed!
Musical ecstasy!......not much more to say... There is a look of 100 Centuries in her eyes as she sings...I think she knew she hit her Zenith here and walked away knowing nobody would top this live performance finger picking, caressing and noodling a Strat like it was the most majestic Classical Guitar on the planet 🌠 Just wow!
Thank you Mr. Marshall for sharing this :)
poète, peintre musicienne, chanteuse, guitariste hors pair, belle, géniale : telle est Joni Mitchell
Love you Joni. Glad you are feeling better ❤️
Hejira is incredible! Genius lyrics!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
What an extraordinaire woman! Beautiful.
Hejira more than any other Joni Mitchell album makes me cry too! She was such a major part of my childhood. I was a teenager trying to figure out all my mixed emotions about life and my place in it. Joni's ability to paint emotional pictures is incomparable! I had the privilege of meeting her in the 80s, and she was sweet. I will forever cherish Joni Mitchell ❤🎉
One of her best songs. How weird it must be to perform before such a huge audience where so many seem to be partying and ignoring what's happening onstage. Mitchell's rapport with brilliant bassist Jaco Pastorius was magical, but he was sadly very troubled, provoking bar fights for unknown reasons. The worst of these put him in the hospital where he died of his injuries just a year after this performance. A tragedy for popular music.
This is Larry Klein on bass, not Jaco.
She shook my out of sleep and set me on my own road, really. Forever grateful to this wonderful artist and woman.
Brilliant, beautiful, and blessed.
That vocal is so great I could cry. What a performance!
Ain't no yeah I like her. You either love her or you don't.And I love her.
This performance is special
the philosophers will always look back and wonder how one drop of reality touched down and put out so much truth and beauty
Stunning performance in every way. She uses her mouth to twist and mold the words so that they fit the music and spit out her conviction. Her eyes look far away beyond the audience as if she is a soaring bird above the mundane.
Then she just walks off at the end like she has spoken her mind and got energized and is off to some unknown.
Mesmeric
I have not seen this performance. Man she is all there, soul standing in her life. Love this.
From the first time I heard Joni's music in 1972 until now, no artist has touched me more.
no auto tune just pure talent here.
Gorgeous. Joni inspires me every day.
Want to give a shout out for the UK based HejiraTribute Band currently on tour (July 2024) Check them out. Nothing they do detracts from the original and is a respectful almost reverential nod to the genius of Joni Mitchell
I first started listening to her around 17 years old. In late 60's. Made love to her music many times. Love her sweet soul. Love her
Everything about this is stunning.....
I miss Jaco on this one 😔 the guy on the fretted is trying his best but it’s just not as soul filled at Jac. Joni Is truly one of a kind 🤍
Always a crazy voice ! all my love Joni ( from France)
The cigarettes are starting to take their toll here. A life long heavy smoker since the age of 16 she refuses to acknowledge that they ever affected her voice. In spite of a million cigarettes she still casts a spell and weaves her magic. She truly has no peers. A one off magnificent woman. My idol and my hero.
i imagine you're the only person who has listened to this recording and thought about her smoking habits