miserableoldgit Posted 19 January, 2015 Share Posted 19 January, 2015 http://www.openculture.com/2015/01/vintage-video-of-joni-mitchell-performing-in-1965.html Fantastic glimpse of Joni Mitchell before she was Joni Mitchell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeintheslowlane Posted 19 January, 2015 Share Posted 19 January, 2015 (edited) Ha! Such a pure voice...very much in the Joan Baez style with a noticeable vibrato at that time. Just an amazing songwriter from an early age. This sound only video is from 1967, recorded for a Philidelphia radio station... It's only a year before her first album with a lot of songs from that first recording with the vibrato still in evidence but in that year she largely eliminated the vibrato which, I think distanced her from her folksy roots. These early recordings have only surfaced in the last 10 years so I was brought up with the straight delivery sans vibrato, I'm pleased to say. Not that I don't like these early recordings but she discovered her own style in the coming years. Edited 19 January, 2015 by lifeintheslowlane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 21 January, 2015 Share Posted 21 January, 2015 I loved her first 5 or 6 albums - up to Court and Spark. But then she lost me. Her lyrics became too convoluted and the music lost its melodic charm. And then she became precious and arrogant and bitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 21 January, 2015 Author Share Posted 21 January, 2015 Blue is a wonderful album...but I agree about the post "Court and Spark" stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeintheslowlane Posted 22 January, 2015 Share Posted 22 January, 2015 (edited) Well I love it all. Like everybody we absorb influences and develop and so it should be with musicians. I think she's an exemplar of this, if you don't add those life experiences to your music you stagnate and repeat yourself until you fade away. Maybe she has become, "precious and arrogant and bitter"...that's how she's portrayed, she's an artist and she exhibits a lot of human failings. I find that more reassuring than that she were a media luvvie...she's never been that. Still interesting to listen to...this is cut from a much longer interview recorded before her 70th birthday... Edited 22 January, 2015 by lifeintheslowlane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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