My only brother died this morning. He turned 70 ten days ago. Informed he had pancreatic cancer on April 8th, he died just 20 days after being diagnosed. I'm hurting. I love him so much. We're from Virginia and we both made our way to California. Me in '72. He in '80. He loved Joni Mitchell. And I wanted to play and listen to this song for him. Goodbye Johnny. I love you. I hope I see you again.
California is a postcard song from her escape trip to Europe. She ended up living in Matala, Crete, with a bunch of cave-dwelling hippies and her dulcimer. It’s a wonderfully chatty lyric about her experiences there, good and bad. She’d left Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain, but was longing to return to the heartland of the counterculture and pop-making. Yet California was also a place of semi-conscious denial: the opening verse touches on the early realisation, in the 1970s, that peace and love seemed over. The song feels pregnant with those times. Her return to LA had her falling for James Taylor. Although the relationship left her in despair, he joins her exquisitely on guitar for this difficult yet uplifting song of homesickness and her need to escape back to the garden.
I first heard this album when I was 16 or 17 in the '70s I didn't hear much about Joni Mitchell before I heard this album but her lyrics are to the point no pun intended being a record but very strong, cleverly woven into the melody and then huntingly blues tempo on the mandolin I think? ,and the album cover, beautifully put together...
You have to love the Good of the 70s, I’m sorry for being a kid and listening to Disco! She’s got my love and Karen Carpenter as well! Their voices will never stop regardless of their personal experiences! 🙏❤️ California! Wouldn’t have been great to hear them both at the same time? 🤙❤️
"They won't give peace a chance / That was just a dream some of us had" What a devastating line. Gets me every time, and it's just snuck in there, almost under her breath. She's resigned to her disillusionment, and at the height of the Vietnam War, I couldn't blame her.
Well put. It's like a punch in the gut every time I hear that line in this song because so many of us really did believe world peace was attainable back then.
This song makes me bawl. Born & raised in Cali, became a traveler at 19. Everytime I hear her singing about coming back home I get the chills, reminds me of all the times I drove away from my road family in whatever state to come visit my parents, the old friends.. love it
Same. I live where it's cold, old and settled in its ways. I miss sunshine and love in the Golden State. I always play this when I cross back by the Welcome to California sign. Might as well say "welcome home".🍊
Same! Moved out to Wyoming for a year at nineteen, been in Texas for a bit now, planning a big move out to Washington in a bit. Miss California every day.
This music is timeless. It will be heard beyond the next millennium. Beautiful people will always find her beautiful music hauntingly familiar. She will live forever through her art.
I was born in 68 and I swear I can still remember hearing this lady's voice in my cot. I associate Joni Mitchell with pure happiness and she has to be the one artist that epitomises the 60's vibe.
I wish that I could afford to move to California, my Son lives there. I am so proud of him. He helps troubled kids. I hope that my dream comes true to live in California before my 62nd birthday. 💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@@fowlerham Somehow I feel like you need to see a kitten video. Here's Ariel the first time he learned to climb up and found out he had to get back down and some of my other cats. 😻😻😻😻😻😻 I didn't know how much I love cats until we moved here and the neighborhood is full of feral cats. One more will be 50 I've spayed and neutered. 40 girls and 9 boys. No kittens since Ariel, kinda miss having a kitten, but I've got enough animals. :-) czcams.com/video/hyITCl5tjzw/video.html
Lyrics [Verse 1] Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't wanna stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here [Chorus] Oh, but California California, I'm coming home I'm going to see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a Sunset pig California, I'm coming home [Verse 2] I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh, the rogue, the red red rogue He cooked good omelets and stews And I might have stayed on with him there [Chorus] But my heart cried out for you, California Oh, California, I'm coming home Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band I'm your biggest fan California, I'm coming home [Bridge] Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read Just gives you the blues Just gives you the blues [Verse 3] So I bought me a ticket I got on a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue They said, "How long can you hang around?" I said a week, maybe two Just until my skin turns brown [Chorus] Then I'm going home to California California, I'm coming home Oh, will you take me as I am Strung out on another man California, I'm coming home [Chorus] Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Oh, will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Will you? Will you take me as I am? Hmmm mmmmm Take me as I am
As a Calfornia girl who is living on the east coast for college, this song has become stuck my head constantly and gives me a much needed boost. Joni is wonderful . . .
I love you Joni…been living in Utah for 30+ years, listened to this and sobbed. Tell the ocean how much I miss her…I lived in Culver City and was born in Santa Monica…happy long life to you…I too would kiss a Sunset pig if I could too, I used to hang out on Sunset Blvd., God I miss California, in my heart I never left
Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They won't give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldn't wanna stay here It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh, but California California, I'm coming home I'm gonna see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a sunset pig California, I'm coming home I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh, the rogue, the red, red rogue He cooked good omelets and stews And I might have stayed on with him thereBut my heart cried out for you, California Oh, California, I'm coming home Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band I'm your biggest fan California, I'm coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read Just give you the blues Just give you the blues So I bought me a ticket I got on a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue They said, "How long can you hang around?" I said a week, maybe two Just until my skin turns brown Then I'm going home to California California, I'm coming home Oh, will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man California, I'm coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Oh, will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Will you? Will you take me as I am? Mmm, mmm Take me as I am, mmm
Being a California native, and having lived in many places, I remember this song when I was stationed in Spain with my beautiful wife Susan. We listened to this all the time till we came back in 76. Since that time...we left...not the same place. Love visiting however...
That is awesome, keep it going. I started listening to JM when Court and Spark was released. I had a great gym teacher who would bring in great albums for us to listen to. I was 13, been a fan ever since, I'm 59 yrs young
This takes me back to Berkeley in the 1970s helping my friend organize portions for the food conspiracy. Eating fresh backed bread, drinking wine, listening to Joni.
I was born in California and i’ve had to move around quite a few times across the U.S. because of my dads job but we finally get to move back and i’ve been listening to Joni since i was a small child, my granny played her for my mom and my mom always plays her for me and I just love Joni her voice is absolutely angelic and this song has always been my favorite and i’m so excited to fly back home and see my family 😁😁
I love this! Joni says she wishes she wasn't so "whiny" in some of her earlier songs but I see it as the evolution of her voice. It was splendid the whole way through. I love the lyrics!
Not to say she could'nt manage try a different style voice if she'd doubted herself back then to compete with Janice or Grace Slick... (did'nt need to, a silly thought I just had)
I have been living in another country for two years now.. and in two weeks I am finally flying back home to California... this song brought me to tears with feels... Joni Mitchell, you are speaking to my soul!
I'm play this at 60% voiume (not Loud)+ High Freq Max Volume to scare mice 24/7 365 ...there's a tiny twinge sound as if something not for mere humans that makes these poor old speakers yelp there 😵💫
I actually forgot just how much I loved Joni's Mitchell's music until earlier today when I heard her sing River from the Blue album. I bought everything she ever released and listened to her sing and play those chords constantly, day and night, for years and years. I think I put her aside because her music reminded me too much of my ex who I wanted to forget, but shame on me for forgetting Joni too. Hearing her sing again (and somehow remembering all her beautiful lyrics) made me fall in love with her all over again! How incredibly wonderful is that!!!
The California song by Joni (aside from the tears that fall from my eyes on hearing it) reminds me of my favorite part of CA. / that's Ventura Coastline to Santa Barbara and those calico hills that roll down to the Sea . I would be honored if my resting place could be among the Chumash Indians there overlooking lines of Waves off the Point Conception area. Yah Joni that song really makes us feel...
Byrd Lover At least we had the brilliant show Patti Smith put on for Bob's Nobel Spectacular as an invited musical guest artist... and can still watch it via yOUtUBE
Love her voice and, as you rightly say, the structure, simple and efficient. I can only regret I didn't hear it earlier in my life. Even now, all of the lyrics make sense, or at least could be put into motion by younger people. I only wish ...
+Papa Momotte listening to a lot of Sarah Mclachlan recently and realized she covered a bit of Joni's work. amazing to hear the influence and the pure artistry of her vocal talent. amazed and greatfull to be exposed to simple, elegant and amazing vocalists even 40 years late. I know my parent both knew Joni's work and with them both passed and gone it feels like a little piece of them still lives on in great music.
This album brings me back 48 yrs as a 21 yr old U S Navy Storekeeper sitting in my storeroom stoned defending America and waiting to get out. Thanks Joni
Found this album at my local record store about a week ago. I knew of Joni Mitchell before but never really listened to her. This album blew me away this first time I heard it, I fell in love with it immediately! I listen to this album 2-3 times a day now because I can’t go without it.
I was in college back in the 1970’s and I felt the same way when I first heard this song and this album! Listened to it over and over…moved to California in 1980.
Makes me so nostalgic for my high school days in San Francisco, 1972. Joni Mitchell's voice is like a paint brush on a canvas creating all the colors life has to offer.
I've listened to this LP so many times since it came out. Never gets old. Feels fresh every time. If everyone could have just a nano once of poetic songwriting ability as Joni, what a wonder it would be. Will forever be in my top 10 lp's
I have listen to her since the beginning of her career. Everytime I listen to her brings me back to when I was in my 20's..just finish playing both sides now..Love her voice God bless her
Currently watching Colin Farrell and Jamie Lee Curtis, Actors on Actor interview; she mentioned this song, and, I’d thought I was familiar with all of her music. I wasn’t..🫢. So that why I’m here. Another great tune of hers❤❤
Joni Mitchell was always getting played in the car on our way up to Massachusetts to my grandmas. definitely didn't appreciate it at the time, now, 20 years later is always a sweet mellow trip into the past. then I read my post and I realize 20 years has passed. holy shit... the beauty of music
Loving Peace is what I am, no dream about it, I got smart when I surrendered to Love back in 68 and am still waiting for planet earth to WAKE UP, especially America who has thrown everything good away for the opportunity to build weapons of mass destruction to share with the only planet we have to live on... that is the saddest part. LOVE IS IT, that thing your looking for in your life, for ALL Life here! :) I will continue to speak out loud for LOVE. amen
I don't know any better songs to fill my soul..Blue is my favorite album of all time. When my husband told me they gave Bob Dylan a Nobel Prize, I said they'd better give Joni one.
For us Europeans ( I'm from Italy) California used to be a myth in the 70's and I guess 80's as well...Visited a few times while bumming around the States in my younger years mostly by Greyhound ( best way to see America and meet people in the 70's...and in that period I was hooked to Kerouac books ....)...Loved it.....
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair... They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... Thanks for this Joni, I'll keep on dreaming of California!
Just about ten years ago this May, I was sitting in a park in Paris, reading USA Today with the news of the war in Iraq. This song just kept coming to me. "All the news about home your read, more about the war and the bloody changes". It just resonated.....thank you Joni for a beautiful and powerful song which is still important today!
I’m an Aussie bloke who heard this song while working with a bloke who came to Australia from California.. we landscaped together... and for whatever reason whenever I listen to this song I feel so emotional I could cry 🙃 .... favourite line is “ see the folks I dig “ 👌🤟🤟🎶❤️beautiful song 👏👏👏
saw her isle of wright concert 1970 with hendrix she stayed with me all my life her voice so beautiful love to meet her see if she the person i love her to be original hippie
No, not without you Joni...I would have never moved to LA from KY way back in 1980. California was my destiny, as was music and I have had my part in both. I pay constant tribute to me lady, Joni Mitchell...who I have followed all of my 54 years. You are my heart. May you live a long of life as you wish. You are loved by me and obviously many more...xoxoxo
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I made it to California, Joni. I did it. Got off the farm where I dreamed of being out here every day of my harsh childhood. Never goin back, baby.
My only brother died this morning. He turned 70 ten days ago. Informed he had pancreatic cancer on April 8th, he died just 20 days after being diagnosed. I'm hurting. I love him so much. We're from Virginia and we both made our way to California. Me in '72. He in '80. He loved Joni Mitchell. And I wanted to play and listen to this song for him. Goodbye Johnny. I love you. I hope I see you again.
God I’m so sorry mate, I hope you have great memories of him, he had great taste in music at least ❤️
I'm so sorry for your loss. Joni"s beautiful melancholy is indeed fitting. May God and this music comfort you.
My sister passed last Christmas from cancer at 62
Joni was her favorite artist and one of her songs was played at the Funeral.😢😢😢
Sending you Love from California & Joni I'm sure... 🧜♀️🌴🌊
❤
Joni Mitchell's voice is like a paint brush on a canvas creating all the colors life has to offer.
In a nutshell!
That’s such a perfect description
Love that!
Beautifully said.
She always thought of herself as a painter, not a musician. She’d love that description
California is a postcard song from her escape trip to Europe. She ended up living in Matala, Crete, with a bunch of cave-dwelling hippies and her dulcimer. It’s a wonderfully chatty lyric about her experiences there, good and bad. She’d left Laurel Canyon and Lookout Mountain, but was longing to return to the heartland of the counterculture and pop-making. Yet California was also a place of semi-conscious denial: the opening verse touches on the early realisation, in the 1970s, that peace and love seemed over. The song feels pregnant with those times.
Her return to LA had her falling for James Taylor. Although the relationship left her in despair, he joins her exquisitely on guitar for this difficult yet uplifting song of homesickness and her need to escape back to the garden.
I first heard this album when I was 16 or 17 in the '70s I didn't hear much about Joni Mitchell before I heard this album but her lyrics are to the point no pun intended being a record but very strong, cleverly woven into the melody and then huntingly blues tempo on the mandolin I think? ,and the album cover, beautifully put together...
thx so much for the info, i love Joni
You have to love the Good of the 70s, I’m sorry for being a kid and listening to Disco! She’s got my love and Karen Carpenter as well! Their voices will never stop regardless of their personal experiences! 🙏❤️ California! Wouldn’t have been great to hear them both at the same time? 🤙❤️
The best part about this whole paragraph is Jemas Taylor
Wow. Thank you so much for that information, described so vividly and compellingly. ❤
"They won't give peace a chance / That was just a dream some of us had"
What a devastating line. Gets me every time, and it's just snuck in there, almost under her breath. She's resigned to her disillusionment, and at the height of the Vietnam War, I couldn't blame her.
Well put. It's like a punch in the gut every time I hear that line in this song because so many of us really did believe world peace was attainable back then.
it still is!
Inner peace is what's important, nobody can control the world.
exactly
oh no.. an ass hole.
This song makes me bawl. Born & raised in Cali, became a traveler at 19. Everytime I hear her singing about coming back home I get the chills, reminds me of all the times I drove away from my road family in whatever state to come visit my parents, the old friends.. love it
Same. I live where it's cold, old and settled in its ways. I miss sunshine and love in the Golden State. I always play this when I cross back by the Welcome to California sign. Might as well say "welcome home".🍊
Same! Moved out to Wyoming for a year at nineteen, been in Texas for a bit now, planning a big move out to Washington in a bit. Miss California every day.
Please, it's California! Calling it Cali is like calling San Francisco Frisco.
This music is timeless. It will be heard beyond the next millennium. Beautiful people will always find her beautiful music hauntingly familiar. She will live forever through her art.
listening now 💜
Even now I listen to her music and it’s so new and exciting I relive the ‘70 through her music❤
Humans are going to be extinct by the end of the century. Nice notion, though.
Listening to Joni is like sitting in a flower filled field and listening to the most beautiful birds ever!!!!!
Hello Christine..
I read once where she had tuned her guitar to the bird songs outside her window❤
I was born in 68 and I swear I can still remember hearing this lady's voice in my cot. I associate Joni Mitchell with pure happiness and she has to be the one artist that epitomises the 60's vibe.
The voice was there and so were you. ✌
I wish that I could afford to move to California, my Son lives there. I am so proud of him. He helps troubled kids. I hope that my dream comes true to live in California before my 62nd birthday. 💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I hope you're blowing out the candles on your birthday cake in California!!
Thank you Robin! The world needs more people like you!💕🕊
@@fowlerham Somehow I feel like you need to see a kitten video. Here's Ariel the first time he learned to climb up and found out he had to get back down and some of my other cats. 😻😻😻😻😻😻
I didn't know how much I love cats until we moved here and the neighborhood is full of feral cats. One more will be 50 I've spayed and neutered. 40 girls and 9 boys. No kittens since Ariel, kinda miss having a kitten, but I've got enough animals. :-)
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@Robin Potter Your birthday wish for me is beautiful Dear! I loved the kitty video! Bless you!
@@fowlerham ahh thanks 😁
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see
But I wouldn't wanna stay here
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here
[Chorus]
Oh, but California
California, I'm coming home
I'm going to see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a Sunset pig
California, I'm coming home
[Verse 2]
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle
Who did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile
But he kept my camera to sell
Oh, the rogue, the red red rogue
He cooked good omelets and stews
And I might have stayed on with him there
[Chorus]
But my heart cried out for you, California
Oh, California, I'm coming home
Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band
I'm your biggest fan
California, I'm coming home
[Bridge]
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
Just gives you the blues
Just gives you the blues
[Verse 3]
So I bought me a ticket
I got on a plane to Spain
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there
Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue
They said, "How long can you hang around?"
I said a week, maybe two
Just until my skin turns brown
[Chorus]
Then I'm going home to California
California, I'm coming home
Oh, will you take me as I am
Strung out on another man
California, I'm coming home
[Chorus]
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
More about the war
And the bloody changes
Oh, will you take me as I am?
Will you take me as I am?
Will you?
Will you take me as I am?
Hmmm mmmmm
Take me as I am
"Joni is an angel,she can do whatever she wants..." james taylor, 1969
You'd think so from her songs... but she's a bitch in interviews
I agree .
@@finnjones2028 why she's a bitch? Do you have a link from one of these interviews?
💞💕🎸💞💕🎸🎵🎶🎼🎶🎵Such a sweet voice and one of Rolling Stone Magazine's best guitarists of all time 💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞🎸🎼🎶🎵🎶🎼🎸💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💓💗💖💝💖💗💜💕💞
Igor Brum not a bitch, she’s just straight up, and doesn’t suffer fools.
By far, one of the greatest singer/songwriters and album of ALL time.
As a Calfornia girl who is living on the east coast for college, this song has become stuck my head constantly and gives me a much needed boost. Joni is wonderful . . .
Heya! Ten years later, another cali girl in the east for college... hope youre doing well
Holy hell how can someone's voice be so perfect
Its a god given gift.
It really is amazing.
I love you Joni…been living in Utah for 30+ years, listened to this and sobbed. Tell the ocean how much I miss her…I lived in Culver City and was born in Santa Monica…happy long life to you…I too would kiss a Sunset pig if I could too, I used to hang out on Sunset Blvd., God I miss California, in my heart I never left
Makes me so nostalgic for my high school days in San Francisco, 1972.
And Santa Cruz 1971, beautiful times.. :)
Laurie Mann And DesPlaines Illinois 1973
Ken Riley And in philadelphia pa
That made me smile, thanks for sharing guys
I miss Joni Mitchell we were also so young and idealistic. Those were the days of innocence.
As a proud Californian, this is her best song by far; the lyrics and music are perfect.
I love "Help Me" & "Woodstock " 50 years Wow I was 16 💞✌🌼💙📻
I'm from SF 😂❤
we love you joni thank you so much
Born, raised, and still living in California. My favorite song.
blue the complete masterpiece still getting better with each passing moment
Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
Still a lot of lands to see
But I wouldn't wanna stay here
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here
Oh, but California
California, I'm coming home
I'm gonna see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a sunset pig
California, I'm coming home
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle
Who did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile
But he kept my camera to sell
Oh, the rogue, the red, red rogue
He cooked good omelets and stews
And I might have stayed on with him thereBut my heart cried out for you, California
Oh, California, I'm coming home
Oh, make me feel good rock 'n roll band
I'm your biggest fan
California, I'm coming home
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
Just give you the blues
Just give you the blues
So I bought me a ticket
I got on a plane to Spain
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there
Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue
They said, "How long can you hang around?"
I said a week, maybe two
Just until my skin turns brown
Then I'm going home to California
California, I'm coming home
Oh, will you take me as I am?
Strung out on another man
California, I'm coming home
Oh, it gets so lonely
When you're walking
And the streets are full of strangers
All the news of home you read
More about the war
And the bloody changes
Oh, will you take me as I am?
Will you take me as I am?
Will you?
Will you take me as I am?
Mmm, mmm
Take me as I am, mmm
Like an infusion of a 70s summer day for me. Lovely.
This whole album is superb.
Masterpiece
one of the greatest albums of all time
Being a California native, and having lived in many places, I remember this song when I was stationed in Spain with my beautiful wife Susan. We listened to this all the time till we came back in 76. Since that time...we left...not the same place. Love visiting however...
im 58 and have been listening to Joni faithfully since I was 14; one of my daughters even listen to her now.
im 68 and listning now she my dream when i was 20 isle of wright festival 1970 with Hendrix and the rest she made me feel good
44 years is a long time.
Me too . Isn't it sweet.
That is awesome, keep it going. I started listening to JM when Court and Spark was released. I had a great gym teacher who would bring in great albums for us to listen to. I was 13, been a fan ever since, I'm 59 yrs young
Wow
This takes me back to Berkeley in the 1970s helping my friend organize portions for the food conspiracy. Eating fresh backed bread, drinking wine, listening to Joni.
Awesome memory.
What's astounding about Mitchell's songs is how relevant and timeless they will always be. Praying for peace in Paris
+Sarina Siegel Wow, good point
Gracias por tus palabras Sarina.
la plus ca change....
The song that keeps me in California
Merino valley is beautiful big bear lake is stunning keep safe love from the uk ✌🕊🙏
I was born in California and i’ve had to move around quite a few times across the U.S. because of my dads job but we finally get to move back and i’ve been listening to Joni since i was a small child, my granny played her for my mom and my mom always plays her for me and I just love Joni her voice is absolutely angelic and this song has always been my favorite and i’m so excited to fly back home and see my family 😁😁
Joni doesn't need awards -- we all know she was the real deal. California is a killer track. Timeless.
I don't know any better songs to fill my soul..Blue is my favorite album of all time.
doesn't get better than this, in my opinion. : )
Mine too!
Hello Margaret..
I love this! Joni says she wishes she wasn't so "whiny" in some of her earlier songs but I see it as the evolution of her voice. It was splendid the whole way through. I love the lyrics!
not whiny, more like a bird
i like it more here than in her moody "jazzy" more recent tone
so much clarity in that voice
Not to say she could'nt manage try a different style voice if she'd doubted herself back then to compete with Janice or Grace Slick... (did'nt need to, a silly thought I just had)
Born and raised in the Bay Area. Always love a good California song.
One of the finest albums ever.
I actually think I could listen to this song forever probably.
Somewhere around 40 years now of listening to it for me and I still love it!
Let us know when you conclude.
I have been living in another country for two years now.. and in two weeks I am finally flying back home to California... this song brought me to tears with feels... Joni Mitchell, you are speaking to my soul!
awesome
💜
the blue album has been with me since high school. A very long time ago. I still love. Many memories.
Melanie-Belle Ullrich I miss my beautiful home so much and I barely left :(
I have been living 2 years in a strange place. Ditto
MY STATE !!! Thank You Joni !!!
Her voice in that last 30 seconds gives me chills
Throughout all her songs she gives me chills.....
I'm play this at 60% voiume (not Loud)+ High Freq Max Volume to scare mice 24/7 365 ...there's a tiny twinge sound as if something not for mere humans that makes these poor old speakers yelp there 😵💫
I'm a California girl. And funny truth. I love California like she is family. This song epitomizes that for me.
I actually forgot just how much I loved Joni's Mitchell's music until earlier today when I heard her sing River from the Blue album. I bought everything she ever released and listened to her sing and play those chords constantly, day and night, for years and years. I think I put her aside because her music reminded me too much of my ex who I wanted to forget, but shame on me for forgetting Joni too.
Hearing her sing again (and somehow remembering all her beautiful lyrics) made me fall in love with her all over again! How incredibly wonderful is that!!!
Going home to California tomorrow.. needed this song more then ever.. ty Joni
The California song by Joni (aside from the tears that fall from my eyes on hearing it) reminds me of my favorite part of CA. / that's Ventura Coastline to Santa Barbara and those calico hills that roll down to the Sea . I would be honored if my resting place could be among the Chumash Indians there overlooking lines of Waves off the Point Conception area. Yah Joni that song really makes us feel...
You ever have a song bring you to tears and you have absolutely no reason why?
When my husband told me they gave Bob Dylan a Nobel Prize, I said they'd better give Joni one.
Well said. :)
Hell YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!
Byrd Lover ...and Joan Baez, and Stevie Nicks, and Aretha, and...
Byrd Lover At least we had the brilliant show Patti Smith put on for Bob's Nobel Spectacular as an invited musical guest artist... and can still watch it via yOUtUBE
Byrd Lover, The illuminati captured Dylan with money and gigs for a lifetime Joni said fuck off and went home
Sublime ! Man, this girl can weave the structures of a tune & weave them like a Rainbow of Sound. Fulfillness in Simplicity.
Love her voice and, as you rightly say, the structure, simple and efficient. I can only regret I didn't hear it earlier in my life.
Even now, all of the lyrics make sense, or at least could be put into motion by younger people. I only wish ...
+Papa Momotte
listening to a lot of Sarah Mclachlan recently and realized she covered a bit of Joni's work. amazing to hear the influence and the pure artistry of her vocal talent. amazed and greatfull to be exposed to simple, elegant and amazing vocalists even 40 years late. I know my parent both knew Joni's work and with them both passed and gone it feels like a little piece of them still lives on in great music.
+Joshua LaFontaine What a great tribute to the depth of love you have for your folks ! You have made them proud ! And me rejoice !
+Papa Momotte Always enough time to check out her music now !
I am 62, and Joni has always been my goddess
“They won’t give peace a chance, it was just a dream son of us had” Listening to this while watching the news about Russia and Ukraine :(
Happy 50th today to this album. Thank you Joni. 🙏🏻
Once you are decided as a Californian, this is the song.
this is a song that goes out to anybody who wants to go out and experience what the world has to offer
This album brings me back 48 yrs as a 21 yr old U S Navy Storekeeper sitting in my storeroom stoned defending America and waiting to get out. Thanks Joni
Her voice in the final 30 or so seconds of this song is something to behold. Wow.
Yes this is Joni finally letting go. The rest of the song was interesting but the last bit is crucial
If I ever moved away from California I think I'd play this song on repeat. Cry a while too. Ups to Joni Mitchell. Killer song.
I have been in Montana for 28 years and still get a tear when I hear this. There's no place like home.
Found this album at my local record store about a week ago. I knew of Joni Mitchell before but never really listened to her. This album blew me away this first time I heard it, I fell in love with it immediately! I listen to this album 2-3 times a day now because I can’t go without it.
I was in college back in the 1970’s and I felt the same way when I first heard this song and this album! Listened to it over and over…moved to California in 1980.
You should have been there with us when it was first released. Better late than never...
Get court and spark as well
I am home in California for the first time in years. This song is too much. ♥️
Makes me so nostalgic for my high school days in San Francisco, 1972.
Joni Mitchell's voice is like a paint brush on a canvas creating all the colors life has to offer.
Just saw the tribute to Joni on The Kennedy Center Honors... she is so deserving - her music just cuts me to the core- wonderful wonderful artist!!!
The last 30secs of this beautiful song, always get me so emotional
I'm a JawJa boy but lived in So Cal in the mid 90's. Seventy four and sunny. Back home now and still in love with Joni...
Better late than never. Had never heard of this song until I watched The Seventies on Netflix. Amazing song.
same
Really.......wow. This should be our state song.
We are working on it.
Written by a Canadian
SAME !!
I've listened to this LP so many times since it came out. Never gets old. Feels fresh every time. If everyone could have just a nano once of poetic songwriting ability as Joni, what a wonder it would be. Will forever be in my top 10 lp's
I have listen to her since the beginning of her career. Everytime I listen to her brings me back to when I was in my 20's..just finish playing both sides now..Love her voice God bless her
Currently watching Colin Farrell and Jamie Lee Curtis, Actors on Actor interview; she mentioned this song, and, I’d thought I was familiar with all of her music. I wasn’t..🫢. So that why I’m here. Another great tune of hers❤❤
Joni Mitchell was always getting played in the car on our way up to Massachusetts to my grandmas. definitely didn't appreciate it at the time, now, 20 years later is always a sweet mellow trip into the past. then I read my post and I realize 20 years has passed. holy shit... the beauty of music
This music make me ( a boy 16 years old) very happy, her voice is so freakin good!!!!
Loving Peace is what I am, no dream about it, I got smart when I surrendered to Love back in 68 and am still waiting for planet earth to WAKE UP, especially America who has thrown everything good away for the opportunity to build weapons of mass destruction to share with the only planet we have to live on... that is the saddest part.
LOVE IS IT, that thing your looking for in your life, for ALL Life here! :)
I will continue to speak out loud for LOVE. amen
+Stuart Walker yES!!!!
+Stuart Walker I'll love you right back from Holland =)
Where have all my fellow hippies gone?
I was lucky, I feel in love with her music over 40 years ago. What a great talent, what a good human. Thank you Joni!!
having to come here bc she still isn’t on spotify 🫤
Led Zeppelin got me here.
I'm glad they did
Bonzo?
So glad I have the luck to find this song.
That first line was prophetic....wow. Beautiful song! 👌😊
My heart cried out for you....Troy I miss you....One year this month you were too beautiful for this place. I will see you again, my love.
Hello Diane..
I don't know any better songs to fill my soul..Blue is my favorite album of all time.
When my husband told me they gave Bob Dylan a Nobel Prize, I said they'd better give Joni one.
Ive cried for 50yrs to this Sublime Album by Joni !!! Some muscian are just TOO GOOD !!! GENIUS !!!
Prayers for this awesomely talented dear lady.....
I have always loved this song and all the songs from Blue. It takes me back to 1971 and my junior year of college in Denmark.
Hello Kim..
Her voice is that of an angel
Simply one of the GREATEST singer/songwriters of the 20th Century.
I left California two and a half years ago with no regrets. However this is the one song will bring tears to my eyes.
One if the best concerts out of the many I attended in the 70's...i still get goosebumps listening to her voice..
Loving Joni till the day I die, relate to her words and her music with a passion that makes her my best friend.....always!
For us Europeans ( I'm from Italy) California used to be a myth in the 70's and I guess 80's as well...Visited a few times while bumming around the States in my younger years mostly by Greyhound ( best way to see America and meet people in the 70's...and in that period I was hooked to Kerouac books ....)...Loved it.....
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair...
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings...
Thanks for this Joni, I'll keep on dreaming of California!
BaileyTess going with an aching in my heart
Made up my mind to make a new start
Uou, that's certain!
Led Zeppelin
Looking for a woman that's never- never, ever-ever been born...
Just about ten years ago this May, I was sitting in a park in Paris, reading USA Today with the news of the war in Iraq. This song just kept coming to me. "All the news about home your read, more about the war and the bloody changes". It just resonated.....thank you Joni for a beautiful and powerful song which is still important today!
i was doing the same last week and this song went through my head.
blue album is a timeless classic
I’m an Aussie bloke who heard this song while working with a bloke who came to Australia from California.. we landscaped together... and for whatever reason whenever I listen to this song I feel so emotional I could cry 🙃 .... favourite line is “ see the folks I dig “ 👌🤟🤟🎶❤️beautiful song 👏👏👏
I LOVE JONI MITCHELL SOOOOOOOOO MUCH........her songs are so heartfelt, personal, relateable.......can't say enough of this angel
I remember listening to this on a dark wet night, October '73.. 💕
.. we had the best music my friends..
Just a dream some of us had............................
I am so happy I discovered Joni Mitchell. This might be my new favorite song about the place I live.
This song feels like breathing the best breath of your life!
The song that made me buy a dulcimer when I was 14 and move to California when I was 20.
One of Joni's best
+Peter Greenhill you bet.
Peter Greenhill the
The way Joni says “but he kept my camera to sell” in the second verse just STICKS with me.
Yes, one gets the feeling that that actually happened to her...
Joni is before my time but my mom and I love her. She is such a big part of my childhood. Hearing Joni growing up was a gift.
saw her isle of wright concert 1970 with hendrix she stayed with me all my life her voice so beautiful love to meet her see if she the person i love her to be original hippie
I was there, too!
My favorite Joni Mitchell song.
No, not without you Joni...I would have never moved to LA from KY way back in 1980. California was my destiny, as was music and I have had my part in both. I pay constant tribute to me lady, Joni Mitchell...who I have followed all of my 54 years. You are my heart. May you live a long of life as you wish. You are loved by me and obviously many more...xoxoxo
Hello Betsy..
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@@Pureheart_gentlesoul Very well today, thank you!
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Will always remember this ode of my mother, who played it for me throughout my childhood.