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On November 7, Joni Mitchell celebrates her eightieth birthday. Because it falls on a Tuesday, this City Winery event in her honour will be held two days earlier. There is no indication the lady herself will be present, she is certainly not listed as a performer. A long time resident of Los Angeles, she experienced a serious health scare in 2015 but last year she performed live at Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival for the first time since 1969, closing the show. She looked frail and performed seated; her voice is also an octave lower than in her prime. Having said that, she has been busy at home as can be seen from her official website.
Her Newport set was recorded, but she has not released a studio album of new material since Shine in 2007.
It is difficult to gauge where she stands in the ranks of songwriters, certainly she is one of the most influential of the modern era, of either sex. It is likewise difficult to rank her songs, but two of her greatest compositions were recorded definitively by other artists.
An upbeat rock version of This Flight Tonight was recorded by Nazareth for their fourth album, Loud ’N’ Proud in 1973, and Both Sides Now, the title track of Clouds, her second album, was recorded by Judy Collins.
If you are not of a certain vintage, check out Joni Mitchell’s official YouTube channel which currently has over 140 thousand subscribers.
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Sorry the link to summertime doesn’t work, I should have checked first
While I love Joni Mitchell’s albums from the past, I’m sad that she apparently ruined her voice with smoking and recently stained her reputation by supporting the official Covid Jab narrative. Fame and wealth can motivate people to do stupid things.
Jello Biafra, lead singer of the Dead Kennedys (a punk band that I used to listen to in the 1980s), has also morphed from an anti-establishment Punk, into a pro-establishment clown.
I am glad that Jello Biafra has lived long enough to see himself become the villain and become a pro-pharma “punk”, with his shilling for the Covid-19 clot shot.
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/joni-mitchell-removes-music-spotify-over-vaccine-misinformation-2022-01-29/
From the Reuters article you hyperlinked to— “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” Mitchell said in statement published on her website. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives”. It is Joni Mitchell’s “vaccine” shilling that has cost naïve people their lives. Thankfully, Joni Mitchell has now got the face she deserves, one of the MKUltra Witch that she is.
Anyone who sides with Neil Young on anything is an idiot.
Fuck Joni Mitchell ! I was a huge fan, especially during her collaborations with Charles Mingus and Jaco Pastorius, the fusion years. She was truly an inspiration. On one adventure while hanging around LA in the early 90’s I drove up Topanga Canyon naively looking for her house to give her a present. Her unbelievable stance on the covid vaxx and trashing those that didn’t buy the scam was really shocking to me. Also fellow Canadian Neil Young. Never more. I would not wish her anything malicious, but she is canceled for me. Curious if she ever made any apologies… Read more »
Her naive years 😏
Are you aware that Joni Mitchell lived in Laurel Canyon from 1964 to 1968!
She was part of the CIA Hippy psychological operation, that was fabricated in Laurel Canyon and I have my suspicions that she never wrote a single one of her “own” songs, like the rest the MKUltra “musicians” that were invented by the CIA in Laurel Canyon.
That is such an amazing story about the pentagon/CIA launching the hippy music/drug industry in the 1960’s. Wasn’t Charlie Manson part of that program?
He was a MKUltra experiment, by the CIA.
The MK-ULTRA director, Sidney Gottlieb, was the man who brought LSD to America, as he arranged for the CIA to pay $240,000, to buy the world’s entire supply of LSD from the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sandoz.
Your flying saucer is double parked.
Read the book —Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon : Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan.
There is a free PDF on the Internet Archive, and you can use the READ ALOUD feature on Microsoft Edge browser to read aloud the whole —Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon—PDF Book, if you are doing other things at the same time.
I thought that her home was in Topanga Caynon. Not that it is important but I may be correct. What impressed me immensely was an interview with her when she spoke about young girls, and the Hollywood inspired violent masculinity hyped on young women. She spoke cogently and with very deep logical wisdom. No idea where to find that piece. I was immensely impressed to see that side of her so when the vaxx hoax came out and the enormous body of evidence that contradicted it, available by the way to anyone wanting to research it, I was shocked that… Read more »
I’m not sure to what extent we should judge Joni Mitchell by her willingness to conform to our own political views, I do know that gutter language is best left in the gutter and not brought into public discourse.
“...gutter language is best left in the gutter and not brought into public discourse”—Mostly, but sometimes it is justified, as in this case.
Joni Mitchell, the MKUltra Laurel Canyon Witch, has become a Social Influencer, influencing her fans to poison their blood with a mRNA gene therapy.
Kill yourself Joni Mitchell, you MKUltra Laurel Canyon Witch, because that is exactly what you are telling your fans to do, with mRNA gene therapy!
yes….. he’s in the not so sure never never land.
yes, you are another not surer…. ubiquitous in USA now. You don’t know weather to shit or wind your fucking watch, gutter terms, like the gutter that San Francisco has become on your not so sure watch.
USA people just don’t get it walking around in their not sure ambiguous fantasy. The whole thing is falling apart while they contemplate the not so sure
“Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.” Psalms