Saturday, November 30, 2013
Joni Mitchell-Urge For Going
In '66, Joni Mitchell was a Canadian folkie. Over the next few years, her lyrical and melodic genius would make her a fixture on the international music scene where she would stay for decades. Here's an early glimpse and with my personal favorite of her many wonderful songs.
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I first heard "Urge For Going" on Tom Rush's 1968 album "The Circle Game" - he must have been the first to cover Joni and James Taylor songs, as several of theirs are on this.
ReplyDeleteI had discovered Joni by 1969, so got all the albums, and saw her in several concerts, and even met her in the street once, purely by chance, and had a nice conversation with her, in 1972. Thats at the Joni label on my own blog!
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There is a good interview with her, and a retrospective look at her albums in the English music magazine "Uncut" in their December 2013 issue, with Joni commenting on being 70 now ! My report on meeting Joni is now in their January 2013 issue, in the letter page. I will be posting that on my own blog soon. I cover a lot of 1960s stuff too - and love 1966-67 (BLOW-UP in particular) and those early 60s years.
Your blog looks fantastic and is now bookmarked! Thanks!
DeleteThere is a lovely 2013 interview with Joni from Canadian TV on YouTube as well. After watching it last night, I sent it to Trina Robbins who was the "Trina" Joni mentions at the beginning of the song LADIES OF THE CANYON. Trina wrote back,"God, she's still so beautiful, isn't she?"