Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock

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RECORD REVIEW FLASHBACK: Jasper Gate - Sunny Days & Fear

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH (Free subscription) | yesterday

... are far less obvious - for better or worse - and in their place are sounds similar to middle-era Joni Mitchell (think “Free Man in Paris”), combined with the pop sensibilities of Out of the Grey and even, in places, the Carpenters.Stand-out tracks are “Bittersweet”, where Patrick’s e-bow brings to mind the Over the Rhine song “Jacksie” - it has a strong vocal melody yet always remains...

THRILLER ADDED TO NATIONAL REGISTRY

PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

MICHAEL JACKSON's THRILLER album has been named among the 25 recordings that will be added to America’s National Recording Registry by Library of Congress officials.The 1982 smash-hit, which has just been remixed, remastered and re-released for its 25th anniversary, joins Smokey Robinson & the Miracles’ Tracks of My Tears, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and For the Roses by Joni Mitchell...

• “Thriller” Added to Library of Congress’ Registry - Rock and Roll Daily
• Arts, Briefly: Library of Congress Adds to Aural Archive - New York Times
• See the 16 articles on the same subject

New eco-townhouse can be toured on Friday downtown

Latest Local News Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

Quite the opposite of Joni Mitchell's 1970 ballad, Big Yellow Taxi, the Dayton-based Litehouse Development Group is turning a parking lot into a community of earth-friendly town homes.

Bloggy Goodness: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails

Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

... additions that met the criteria are Micheal Jackson's Thriller, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and Joni Mitchell's For The Roses; which will sit alongside Harry Truman's speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention and the first trans-Atlantic broadcast. We’re hoping next year they add a heady Dark Star from ‘72 and Trey's legendary speech from Coventry.

Parking lot becomes earth-friendly town homes

Latest Local News Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

DAYTON — Quite the opposite of Joni Mitchell's 1970 ballad, Big Yellow Taxi, the Dayton-based Litehouse Development Group is turning a parking lot into a community of earth-friendly town homes.

Clip of the Day - The Tea Leaf Prophecy by Herbie Hancock

Crossword Bebop (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

Joni Mitchell's presence in the Canadiana Crossword inspired me to put up this song, which in my mind is the exclamation point on the album River: The Joni Letters As I said before about this album, no one is shoving their way to the front on this album, no one has anything to prove. Newsreels rattle the Nazi dread- The able-bodied have shipped away- Molly McGee gets her tea-leaves read- You'll be...

Canadiana Crossword - Saskatchewan Savants

Crossword Bebop (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

... Labrador, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are provinces. But getting back to Saskatchewan savants... Joni Mitchell has been in the spotlight lately, with an album of her songs winning Record of the Year and all. Allan Blakeney was a Premier of Saskatchewan, and Allan Fotheringham has had a long career as a columnist in many different Canadian publications, most notably Maclean's. Eddie...

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Herbie Hancock Tours North America with "River"

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

Jazz visionary Herbie Hancock will launch an international tour next month to support his latest Grammy-winning album, River: The Joni Letters. [National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the Library of Congress will preserve for "culturally, historically or aesthetically significants," inducted jazz artist Herbie Hancock's 1973 fusion smash Headhunters...

Leine vs Biolay

Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Finally, a real Dutch fille fragile. Leine (real name Marjoleine), a singer-songwriter who's heard comparisons like 'Ane Brun meets Feist meets Corinne Bailey Rae meets Emiliana Torrini meets Joni Mitchell meets Fay Lovsky meets Mathilde Santing'. She mostly sings in English, but on her debut-ep (from 2006, and I just heard about it, dammit!) she does a wonderful bossa-fied reprise of...

Herbie Hancock -- Herbie's take on Joni Mitchell, and the value of gigging

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Herbie Hancock, winner of the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy for River: The Joni Letters, took the stage with collaborator and inspiration Joni Mitchell when he taped a show for Nissan Live Sets that debuted April 1 on Yahoo! Music. Mitchell sang three of her songs, "River," "Tea Leaf Prophecy" and "Hana." Hancock, backed by guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Marcus Miller,...

BOOK/MAGAZINE: Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock"? Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: "It was the first line of the chorus...

• Some cultural history - Vox Verax

If You Could Read His Mind, You'd See This Stamp [No Geddy Lee Stamp, No Justice]

Idolator (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Canada, a nation unafraid to honor its cultural icons while they're still living, is rolling out a series of stamps honoring the most famously banal of their musical acts—Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Anka, Anne Murray, and (somewhat strangely) Joni Mitchell. While I have the same sentimental nostalgia for "Danny's Song" as anyone, did the Canadian Post Office miss the boat with their choices?...

King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

In "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," Sheila Weller weaves the biographies of the singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, and reveals the three as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.

Cat Power - Jukebox

tunequest (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Jukebox is the second record in Cat Power’s career that mostly features her renditions of songs written by “noted elder statesmen” of the pop music pantheon, including Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, and James Brown, among others. Not being all that familiar with large portions of the source material, I can't say [...]