Joni, the singer, composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist - the GREATEST of the greats bar none.
That's Joni on piano; she plays multiple instruments and that heavenly voice! Not to mention her songwriting skills and that she's an artist (painter). Check her out performing with Pat Methany and Jaco Pastorius.
My daughter sang this song during a "Christmas Pagent" her junior year. She nailed it and hit all those high notes. Not a traditional Christmas song but she pulled it off. So yes,, this is one of my favorite songs. Joni is freaking honest to a fault. She is the MOST UNDER APPRECIATED artist of all time. So much more talented than most of the BOYS she competed against. Chod you rock! Love your takes and taste.
I think she is almost universally put in the top ten songwriters and is in the songwriters hall of fame.....so I wouldn’t necessarily say she was under appreciated by her peers nor by her fans back in the day. I WILL say that women artists are almost universally overlooked and under appreciated on reaction channels and that Joni WOULD be loved by the younger generation right now if they heard her music.......She would blow Billie Eilish out of the water....and Eilish is no slouch.
If you want to hear Joni live, look for the Shadows and LIght concert. My favorites are 'Amelia' and 'Coyote', but everything in this concert was great... I think this was the tour for her Hejira album... And, as others have said, the backing guitar and bass by Pat Methany and Jaco Pastorius is special, too...
She has some great concert footage. One of the first ones is her on Mama Cass's show doing Both Sides Now (over 50years ago) But her at Wembley has some good sound quality. So sad for all of us that she is very ill.
This is such a sad song. The lyrics "Now I've gone and lost the best baby that I ever had" and "I made my baby say goodbye" are oblique references to the fact that she got pregnant and gave her baby up for adoption so that she could pursue her musical career. This song is full of loss and regret. Happily, they found each other later in life and reconciled.
Hey, you just said you don’t think you have seen Joni live. You need to watch her 1979 concert with Jaco Pastorious, Pat Metheny etc. She & they are brilliant.
Isn't it always amazing when such a moving, and soul bearing song can be so spiritually lifting. The magic of Ms Mitchell. Lovely reaction too Wilburn.
In 1965, she gave birth to a daughter. At the time, unmarried mothers were uncommon, and when the father of Mitchell's baby refused to marry her, she worried for her daughter's future. With no means of supporting a baby on her own, Mitchell made the difficult decision to give her daughter up for adoption.
@@zenpuppy6025 I do not think her lyric is to be taken literally as to be about her offspring, but is her boyfriend or husband. It is a song about regrets. Certainly having to give up her daughter was one for her.
Ah! Here we have the soundtrack of my adolescence. Bedcovers over my head, supposed to be asleep, lost in her voice and singing. Thanks for reminding me.
"Elite" is such a good description of Joni. I have been a fan of this very talented lady since the early 70's. And that voice, oh my goodness!! I fell in love with her right away as well. I actually used to go to sleep listening to that heavenly music when I was in the navy. I am with Chod on everything you said about Joni, and the others as well. If you get an opportunity check out Juice Newton, Hurt, Break it to Me Gently and Angle of the Morning. Hurt - RUclips
When they finally get around to carving a Mount Rushmore for music, Joni definitely has one of the spots. Between her brilliant compositions, her angelic voice and virtuosity on multiple instruments ... there are few who can stand in her company.
Loved the look on your face when Joni first hit the high notes! You can hear the emotion in this song, because Joni and Graham Nash had just broken up and Joni had realized, that Graham was the "Love of Her Life" and she had driven him away. Her honesty about her faults , is Joni truly bareing her Soul. Every Man and Half the Women who met her, fell in love with Joni, and who can blame them!
Joni is incredible! Now you should check out Annie Haslam, with the group 'Renaissance'. They will take you onto a lush and colorful ascent into the classical, Goth prog rock world they created, with Annie's angelic five octave voice taking you away to the past, and into a musical utopia!
second that one. Renaissance is a very underrated prog rock band. Annies voice is heavenly and their "Live at Carnegie Hall" album is one the best live albums ever.
'For Free', beautiful voice and piano, 'Free Man in Paris', 'In France They Kiss On Main Street', and 'This Flight Tonight' also covered by Nazareth. Truly talented lady.
Joni is in a class by herself, truly. Voice of an angel, yes, and gifted lyricist, but also a fearless innovator, one of very few popular musicians who embraced, owned, transcended, and sometimes transformed every genre she encountered (Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, and a few other greats are on that short list). Anyway, enough bloviating. I think you'd REALLY enjoy this session she did at Gordon Lightfoot's house, with Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn: ruclips.net/video/zeaO5UZ5OcI/видео.html
For a very different side of Joni Mitchell, try her live album, Shadows and Light. Superb work by Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. A lot of great music on that album.
Yay, more Joni!! This song it actually from the Blue album. One if my favorites. Iirc, it's about her breakup with Stephen Stills. I'd recommend you do some live Joni next... For piano, there's a great one of For Free. If you've never seen someone play a dulcimer, definitely check out her performing California. Let me know if you want links.
@@joelliebler5690 I can’t keep track of her loves in those years....I be.I eve she was romantically linked to Nash, but also Cosby? James Taylor? Several gentlemen in the songwriter brotherhood.....Do yo know?
I’m just watching this year old review by you and I can’t remember if I sent a comment at the time but since you have taken a much deeper dive into Linda Ronstadt I’m sending it now on a Christmas album Linda did she cover the song almost a note for note it’s like she was trying to do it as if she were Joni… So you should go take a listen and you will be not the least bit surprised that Linda nails like she nails everything
For a great live performance, check out Joni singing "Coyote" in the movie "The Last Waltz" (one of the greatest rock movies ever made), backed by Robbie Robertson and The Band. Oh, and if you want to hear another beautiful woman's voice, try Emmylou Harris's song "Boulder to Birmingham".
For something live watch something from the Shadows and Light convert video - she has an all star back up band and plays some killer songs. - 2 of my favorites are "In France They Kiss On Man Street" and "Coyote"
Thank you for this, brother. So you know, there's a fantastic tribute album to Joni by the GREAT Herbie Hancock you may wish to check out someday. He recognized her genius, too. Again, thanks.
You're missing so many fine songs by cherry-picking one or two, and especially from gosh-awful greatest hits stuff. This is from her one of her most heralded album, BLUE, which was her 4th. I usually push folks to start with #3 LADIES OF THE CANYON, then let them go to #4 BLUE, #5 FOR THE ROSES, #6 COURT & SPARK and #7 HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS. Then, find your own way back. That's a good year's worth. If you were listening to the album BLUE, the next song after RIVER is LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD, a piano ballad masterpiece.
Love that you’re such a big Joni fan! Just not sure why she has to be one of your favourite ‘female’ artists instead of just one of your favourite artists. Her talent stands up against anyone… Great reactions though!
A very good live version of Joni is Real Good for Free, Joni Mitchell - For Free - RUclips and California. I like California because she plays the dulcimer. Joni Mitchell - California @ The Johnny Cash show (1969) - RUclips
Joni Mitchell? Fan since Court and Spark came out! "Troubled child"! Studio version. "Car on a hill"! Would love to see you react to "and I moved" from Pete Townsend, album Empty Glass! Studio version please.
...as at least 1 other commenter was speaking to in their comments: There "is no-one else" (which is, actually, not entirely accurate: This album [Blue] is, very much: Joni Mitchell and her long-time partner in Production and genius Engineer: Henry Lewy -with whom she created the best albums of her career (AND the most famous, as well): Clouds, Blue, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Court & Spark, et al.!!!! -into the '80s!-. There are, yes, a FEW other musicians who play some stuff (mainly guitar and drums) on this album: Russ Kunkel [drums], Stephen Stills [guitar and bass], Sneaky Pete Kleinow [pedal steel] and James Taylor [guitars] - "J.T." was, also, her "bounce back" relationship after her years-long relationship with Graham Nash had ended (just prior to this) ...Quite a turbulent period in Miss Mitchell's life (to say the least). ....) So, yeah: essentially (except for a few guests, as mentioned, Blue was, pretty much: Joni, herself and Henry Lewy engineering it. Lewy, worked, earlier in his career, with greats such as: Leon Russell, Jackie DeShannon and The Mamas And The Papas as well as also, working with numerous powerful and unique song-writers "in the game" at the time, later and during the period he was working with Joni, as well. Artists such as: Judee Sill [you need to hear her!], Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, ...even pop singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop (producing his album which contained his huge hit "On & On" -I want to say: 1976?? ...but ...don't quote me on that (I could be off by a few years, there. 🤷♂️🤷♂️) and, even Minnie Riperton. It is (this album), necessarily intimate and so intimately personal that ...it flows in your veins, not through your ears. ...It is, almost, intrinsic. -Not to imply that there are ANY effective "comparisons" -there aren't- However: I am not writing 16 separate comments to avoid "confusing" someone, just because they, ridiculously, "feel" that: they have some "right" to, or that "it is natural" to immediately "combine" or "associate" everything written in one, specific, post (when that is NOT, at all. the vase. I mean: only so far as those associations are, exactly, the ones that I, the writer, define and explain. Otherwise. NO! 😡😛🤘🤘). ...so: not comparing, however, if you wanted to hear a "more produced," but equally lovely and wonderful version of this song, I would, HIGHLY, recommend Miss Holly Cole [another Canadian vocalist, singer-songwriter (with a jazz background)!]'s indelible performance, from her 1997 album: Dark, Dear Heart. Holly Cole is a gem. Joni Mitchell is a genius (and, rightfully: a living LEGEND! 🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥). ...the rest of: Blue and her albums: Court And Spark [her biggest commercial breakthrough, arguably], Hejira and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns await you (among others!)! -Let's, just, say this: When PRINCE quotes you IN one of HIS songs (both musically AND lyrically!) ....That defines you as "SOMETHING, TRULY, SPECIAL (in fact: SPECTACULAR!)"-without question! [Go listen to "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" from Prince's "magnum opus": Sign O'The Times [the estate will NEVER permit you to publish a "reaction" video (or anything else!), however: if unfamiliar with it, you need to become INTIMATELY knowledgeable about Prince (and that album, definitely!) 🤘🤘🔥💜🤘🤘]
Good suggestion; loved Fairport Convention since discovering them in 78’, and later found a solo album. My favorite was her experimental song called “ All Our Days” when she hired an orchestra for backing - absolutely breathtaking !
Joni, the singer, composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist - the GREATEST of the greats bar none.
That's Joni on piano; she plays multiple instruments and that heavenly voice! Not to mention her songwriting skills and that she's an artist (painter). Check her out performing with Pat Methany and Jaco Pastorius.
Also, he’s saying “they” about the production, but Joni produced all her own records after the first one.
All that and she can ice skate too!
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard 🎤💫 Joni Mitchell 😊💕
For a really stunning live performance, I'd highly recommend her 1970 BBC performance of "Woodstock". It's hauntingly beautiful and captivating.
The best
When Angels want to listen to music , they put on some Joni . - she's a gift to all of us .
Joni's voice is soothing, like an elixir that absorbs into our very cores. Another Great FeMale Artist of that era Chod - Carly Simon!!
I'm so glad you are checking out Joni, she is a Canadian treasure!
People like her only come once in a lifetime!!!!! Perfection!!
Love this so much, Blue is in my top ten albums constantly, love every song 💕
I love Court and Spark too. I have had a number vinyls of her work.
One of my favourite Joni songs and a must for the Christmas playlist.
My daughter sang this song during a "Christmas Pagent" her junior year. She nailed it and hit all those high notes. Not a traditional Christmas song but she pulled it off. So yes,, this is one of my favorite songs. Joni is freaking honest to a fault. She is the MOST UNDER APPRECIATED artist of all time. So much more talented than most of the BOYS she competed against. Chod you rock! Love your takes and taste.
I think she is almost universally put in the top ten songwriters and is in the songwriters hall of fame.....so I wouldn’t necessarily say she was under appreciated by her peers nor by her fans back in the day. I WILL say that women artists are almost universally overlooked and under appreciated on reaction channels and that Joni WOULD be loved by the younger generation right now if they heard her music.......She would blow Billie Eilish out of the water....and Eilish is no slouch.
Yep, if she was an American male, she would be considered the pinnacle.
If you want to hear Joni live, look for the Shadows and LIght concert. My favorites are 'Amelia' and 'Coyote', but everything in this concert was great... I think this was the tour for her Hejira album... And, as others have said, the backing guitar and bass by Pat Methany and Jaco Pastorius is special, too...
I suggest her live performance of “A Case of You” where she plays dulcimer while singing.
Her album Blue... a rare, captivating gem. Joni soars... an amazing talent, beyond this mundane realm.
The most amazing singer songwriter with that special voice!👍🏻❤️☮️🎤🎹
What a great and beautiful song, Joni’s voice is like an Angel, and you’re awesome with your reactions
Love this album so much, Blue is a masterpiece. Little Green gets me every time.
The best version of Jingle Bells ever :) Beautiful music and a great reaction.
JONI…….GENIUS!!!
From a devotee since 1974. ❤️❤️
She has some great concert footage. One of the first ones is her on Mama Cass's show doing
Both Sides Now (over 50years ago)
But her at Wembley has some good sound quality.
So sad for all of us that she is very ill.
‘Elite’. Good word to describe Joni and her talents. One of the greatest...ever...
For some amazing live Joni, check out anything from her Shadows and Lights tour--
There's a video of her playing piano and singing "For Free", her ode to street singers.
This is such a sad song. The lyrics "Now I've gone and lost the best baby that I ever had" and "I made my baby say goodbye" are oblique references to the fact that she got pregnant and gave her baby up for adoption so that she could pursue her musical career. This song is full of loss and regret. Happily, they found each other later in life and reconciled.
I teared up just seeing that you were reacting to this song. It gets me every time I hear it.
Hejira - the whole freaking album
One of her greatest songs . One of her best albums .
Hey, you just said you don’t think you have seen Joni live. You need to watch her 1979 concert with Jaco Pastorious, Pat Metheny etc. She & they are brilliant.
Isn't it always amazing when such a moving, and soul bearing song can be so spiritually lifting. The magic of Ms Mitchell. Lovely reaction too Wilburn.
"I made my baby cry" With such a poetic line, of course she sings a sad and melancholy song. Sparse and beautiful.
In 1965, she gave birth to a daughter. At the time, unmarried mothers were uncommon, and when the father of Mitchell's baby refused to marry her, she worried for her daughter's future. With no means of supporting a baby on her own, Mitchell made the difficult decision to give her daughter up for adoption.
@@zenpuppy6025 I do not think her lyric is to be taken literally as to be about her offspring, but is her boyfriend or husband. It is a song about regrets. Certainly having to give up her daughter was one for her.
Some other suggestions: "Carey", "Just Like ThisTrain", "Chelsea Morning", or "A Case of You". Joni is my favorite Female artist!
Loved your facial reaction to those beautiful high notes.
Ah! Here we have the soundtrack of my adolescence. Bedcovers over my head, supposed to be asleep, lost in her voice and singing. Thanks for reminding me.
Pick your favourite artist, Joni is bound to be one of their favourite artists/influences.
spot on.
"Elite" is such a good description of Joni. I have been a fan of this very talented lady since the early 70's. And that voice, oh my goodness!! I fell in love with her right away as well. I actually used to go to sleep listening to that heavenly music when I was in the navy. I am with Chod on everything you said about Joni, and the others as well. If you get an opportunity check out Juice Newton, Hurt, Break it to Me Gently and Angle of the Morning. Hurt - RUclips
This is a great song. Joni is timeless ❤ Heart also sings this and it is just as beautiful. Thanks for your reaction.
When they finally get around to carving a Mount Rushmore for music, Joni definitely has one of the spots. Between her brilliant compositions, her angelic voice and virtuosity on multiple instruments ... there are few who can stand in her company.
Loved the look on your face when Joni first hit the high notes! You can hear the emotion in this song, because Joni and Graham Nash had just broken up and Joni had realized, that Graham was the "Love of Her Life" and she had driven him away. Her honesty about her faults , is Joni truly bareing her Soul. Every Man and Half the Women who met her, fell in love with Joni, and who can blame them!
I'm crying. This is only the thousandth time I've listened to this.
There's a live version of her doing Woodstock on piano, another one of her on dulcimer doing California.
America's great musical poet.
stunning. gifted. one of a kind.
Joni's piano playing and composing, and words , deep perception and emotions.
Joni is incredible! Now you should check out Annie Haslam, with the group 'Renaissance'. They will take you onto a lush and colorful ascent into the classical, Goth prog rock world they created, with Annie's angelic five octave voice taking you away to the past, and into a musical utopia!
second that one. Renaissance is a very underrated prog rock band. Annies voice is heavenly and their "Live at Carnegie Hall" album is one the best live albums ever.
"Ashes are Burning" is a great showcase for Annie's vocals...
This song is actually from her INCREDIBLE ! Album Blue
'For Free', beautiful voice and piano, 'Free Man in Paris', 'In France They Kiss On Main Street', and 'This Flight Tonight' also covered by Nazareth. Truly talented lady.
I love the piano in this song too!
Oh, thank you so much. So rarely hear this. You are a great audience for this song
I love Joni, thank you
Crazy beautiful song, she's so good!!
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire.
Woman of heart and mind.
Going with the female vocalist theme, Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" is very worth checking out.
This Flight Tonight...one of her greatest songs !
Joni is in a class by herself, truly. Voice of an angel, yes, and gifted lyricist, but also a fearless innovator, one of very few popular musicians who embraced, owned, transcended, and sometimes transformed every genre she encountered (Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, and a few other greats are on that short list). Anyway, enough bloviating. I think you'd REALLY enjoy this session she did at Gordon Lightfoot's house, with Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn: ruclips.net/video/zeaO5UZ5OcI/видео.html
For a very different side of Joni Mitchell, try her live album, Shadows and Light. Superb work by Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. A lot of great music on that album.
Joni live, 1970 BBC’s coverage of “Woodstock”!
She produced something like 13 of her albums, starting with 2nd album, and then only "added" her then-husband as co-producer for final few albums. :D
Yay, more Joni!! This song it actually from the Blue album. One if my favorites. Iirc, it's about her breakup with Stephen Stills. I'd recommend you do some live Joni next... For piano, there's a great one of For Free. If you've never seen someone play a dulcimer, definitely check out her performing California. Let me know if you want links.
I believe you meant to say Graham Nash about her lost love on River!
@@joelliebler5690 I can’t keep track of her loves in those years....I be.I eve she was romantically linked to Nash, but also Cosby? James Taylor? Several gentlemen in the songwriter brotherhood.....Do yo know?
@@joelliebler5690 Ah, I believe you are correct, thanks.
Awesome voice!!
Incredible album.... my favorite is The Last Time I saw Richard.
Do "California" by Joni live in the 1970;s -- you'll see her play the dulcimer!
I’m just watching this year old review by you and I can’t remember if I sent a comment at the time but since you have taken a much deeper dive into Linda Ronstadt I’m sending it now on a Christmas album Linda did she cover the song almost a note for note it’s like she was trying to do it as if she were Joni… So you should go take a listen and you will be not the least bit surprised that Linda nails like she nails everything
One of my Joni favourites - lovely and excellent review again 👍🏻
Thank you for more Joni!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A most amazing poet.
For a great live performance, check out Joni singing "Coyote" in the movie "The Last Waltz" (one of the greatest rock movies ever made), backed by Robbie Robertson and The Band. Oh, and if you want to hear another beautiful woman's voice, try Emmylou Harris's song "Boulder to Birmingham".
A truly beautiful song from a “grown up” song writer n artist.
My favorite J. Mitchell song.
Great reaction.
Good analysis young man, good job. It’s difficult to not gush over Joni Mitchell.
For something live watch something from the Shadows and Light convert video - she has an all star back up band and plays some killer songs. - 2 of my favorites are "In France They Kiss On Man Street" and "Coyote"
Her song Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire is an amazing song. It is her break-up song to James Taylor due to his addiction to heroin.
Solitude, reflective, bare-boned and agreed, well produced. Liked.
Thank you for this, brother. So you know, there's a fantastic tribute album to Joni by the GREAT Herbie Hancock you may wish to check out someday. He recognized her genius, too. Again, thanks.
Please Try Leon Russell...."Out in the woods"
Joni is an amazing singer/songwriter 🎙😇
Request :
Joni Mitchell & The Band singing Coyote
( live from The Last Waltz concert )
You gotta check out her version of Both Sides Now! Talk about feeling her vibe
"The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" to hear Joni do some hardcore jazz...
I recommend her live performance of Woodstock
You're missing so many fine songs by cherry-picking one or two, and especially from gosh-awful greatest hits stuff. This is from her one of her most heralded album, BLUE, which was her 4th. I usually push folks to start with #3 LADIES OF THE CANYON, then let them go to #4 BLUE, #5 FOR THE ROSES, #6 COURT & SPARK and #7 HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS. Then, find your own way back. That's a good year's worth.
If you were listening to the album BLUE, the next song after RIVER is LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD, a piano ballad masterpiece.
Leave it to Joni to make the most unusual Christmas song in recording history!!!
I am sure others have mentioned "Free Man in Paris".
Love that you’re such a big Joni fan! Just not sure why she has to be one of your favourite ‘female’ artists instead of just one of your favourite artists. Her talent stands up against anyone… Great reactions though!
Blue Rodeo does an awesome cover of this song. You should check it out.
@WILBURN REACTIONS AFAIK, Joni produces her own music. So that rawness is what she specifically asked for.
Joni Mitchell is (always!) a "master class" in: writing, performance and arrangement.
There is NO-one, even, remotely like her. At all.
A very good live version of Joni is Real Good for Free, Joni Mitchell - For Free - RUclips and California. I like California because she plays the dulcimer. Joni Mitchell - California @ The Johnny Cash show (1969) - RUclips
Please check out her "California" live on BBC. You will be blown away
She was living in Southern California and was missing her Canadian home and climate. She had just broken it off with Graham Nash, I believe.
Talking about the "industry", and breakup with Graham Nash.
They broke the mold.
Listen to Amelia, Harry's House/Centerpiece, Come In From The Cold, The Jungle Line, Dreamland, Hissing of Summer Lawns
Look up the term "eclectic tastes" and you'll see a photo of Chod. Great music is great music, no matter where it comes from.
'Cause Joni Mitchell never lies...
"A Case of You" please, please, please!
Joni Mitchell? Fan since Court and Spark came out! "Troubled child"! Studio version. "Car on a hill"! Would love to see you react to "and I moved" from Pete Townsend, album Empty Glass! Studio version please.
...as at least 1 other commenter was speaking to in their comments: There "is no-one else" (which is, actually, not entirely accurate: This album [Blue] is, very much: Joni Mitchell and her long-time partner in Production and genius Engineer: Henry Lewy -with whom she created the best albums of her career (AND the most famous, as well): Clouds, Blue, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Court & Spark, et al.!!!! -into the '80s!-. There are, yes, a FEW other musicians who play some stuff (mainly guitar and drums) on this album: Russ Kunkel [drums], Stephen Stills [guitar and bass], Sneaky Pete Kleinow [pedal steel] and James Taylor [guitars] - "J.T." was, also, her "bounce back" relationship after her years-long relationship with Graham Nash had ended (just prior to this) ...Quite a turbulent period in Miss Mitchell's life (to say the least). ....)
So, yeah: essentially (except for a few guests, as mentioned, Blue was, pretty much: Joni, herself and Henry Lewy engineering it.
Lewy, worked, earlier in his career, with greats such as: Leon Russell, Jackie DeShannon and The Mamas And The Papas as well as also, working with numerous powerful and unique song-writers "in the game" at the time, later and during the period he was working with Joni, as well. Artists such as: Judee Sill [you need to hear her!], Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, ...even pop singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop (producing his album which contained his huge hit "On & On" -I want to say: 1976?? ...but ...don't quote me on that (I could be off by a few years, there. 🤷♂️🤷♂️) and, even Minnie Riperton.
It is (this album), necessarily intimate and so intimately personal that ...it flows in your veins, not through your ears. ...It is, almost, intrinsic.
-Not to imply that there are ANY effective "comparisons" -there aren't- However: I am not writing 16 separate comments to avoid "confusing" someone, just because they, ridiculously, "feel" that: they have some "right" to, or that "it is natural" to immediately "combine" or "associate" everything written in one, specific, post (when that is NOT, at all. the vase. I mean: only so far as those associations are, exactly, the ones that I, the writer, define and explain. Otherwise. NO! 😡😛🤘🤘).
...so: not comparing, however, if you wanted to hear a "more produced," but equally lovely and wonderful version of this song, I would, HIGHLY, recommend
Miss Holly Cole [another Canadian vocalist, singer-songwriter (with a jazz background)!]'s indelible performance, from her 1997 album: Dark, Dear Heart.
Holly Cole is a gem.
Joni Mitchell is a genius (and, rightfully: a living LEGEND! 🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥).
...the rest of: Blue and her albums: Court And Spark [her biggest commercial breakthrough, arguably], Hejira and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns await you (among others!)!
-Let's, just, say this: When PRINCE quotes you IN one of HIS songs (both musically AND lyrically!) ....That defines you as "SOMETHING, TRULY, SPECIAL (in fact: SPECTACULAR!)"-without question!
[Go listen to "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" from Prince's "magnum opus": Sign O'The Times [the estate will NEVER permit you to publish a "reaction" video (or anything else!), however: if unfamiliar with it, you need to become INTIMATELY knowledgeable about Prince (and that album, definitely!) 🤘🤘🔥💜🤘🤘]
👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Joni live? Shadows and Light- Black crow
"Last Time I Saw Richard"
The only comparative voice is Sandy Denny. Listen to "Banks of the Nile" or "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". You won;t be disappointed,
Good suggestion; loved Fairport Convention since discovering them in 78’, and later found a solo album. My favorite was her experimental song called “ All Our Days” when she hired an orchestra for backing - absolutely breathtaking !