Joni is a treasure of the world. Amazing body of work over many decades. C'mon, Jamel - the one phenomenal female vocalist you have ignored so far is Sade Adu - absolutely the most sensual singer around - sorry, but Selena doesn't even come close to Sade!
The contrast between this version and the original is amazing. Here we have the middle-aged woman who has lived a life. Exactly the same words as the song from 30 years earlier, but oh how different they sound. Joni is a rare genius. A poet. An artist.
She's a genius my friend. As others have noted, she wrote this as a young woman and now you're hearing the mature person's wisdom-filled version. I was a kid when this came out. I'm 62 now and I can't help but feel the weight of it every time I hear this version. Btw Joni painted that self-portrait on the cover. As I said, genius.
I remember the music teacher playing this (the earlier version) for us in school when I was very young and we all sang along. It was my first exposure to Joni.
@@ParkerAllen2 Wow ...that is so obvious now that you have pointed that out,thanks. And I've had the album for years and never noticed that. I'm not being sarcastic,.
@@Newfie-zc7ug I know. Once you see it you wonder how you could have missed it. As the person who pointed it out to me said, It's as if she's wearing her heart on her sleeve. I don't know for sure but my guess is Joni had that phrase in mind when she painted it.
I love this guy. When he looks right into the camera i forget he's not talking to *me.* He's just so candid and real. Great music and reactions, too, always!
Makes me weep every single time. This is beautiful and genius. Her ex did the awesome production. That’s her self portrait that she painted, btw. She painted most of her album covers.
It makes me cry too,but i was in love with her in her younger days ,and still i love the hell outta this magical unicorn of a beutifully talented woman who touches my soul at its very core,.and that self portrait is ethereal and gorgeous....such incredible amazing talent.
Well, well, Joni's cigarettes, drink and age have deepened her voice and oddly enough, enriched or 'texturized' its timbre. I've always felt that she has a poet's soul that is transported, edified, by music. Joni wrote the Woodstock anthem. Her rendition will reveal that it wasn't just a music-fest, but a world event that gave voice, through music and lyric, to a world-changing, higher-conscience- inspiring movement.
A lot of Joni Mitchell's fans don't like that her vocal range is much lower/deeper now but I like it better than her earlier vocals. They are smokier, richer, & carry her years of life. The orchestration of this song is also phenomenal. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VERSION OF HER SONG. Mitchell will be 78 years old in November. May she live 78 more years.
In the movie , “Love, Actually”, this version of the song is played when Emma Thompson figures out her husband is having an affair. She has to pull herself together because the family needs to leave for the kid’s school Christmas program. Heartbreaking scene!
Life, whether on the ground or in the clouds, contains agony and ecstasy. Both Sides, Now is a vivid affirmation of Joni's identity as a painter and an idealist. Clouds are a favorite subject of landscape painters, and the images Joni describes embody their capricious nature. She first sees them with wonder and hope, and when they change shape, she begins to doubt her feelings. The idea of understanding something as mercurial as clouds, or love, or friendship seems an impossible task that would mean accepting change without feeling regret or disappointment. Her conclusion, "I really don't know life at all," is bittersweet and sincere, and appeals to anyone hurt by something that once brought them joy.
I think this is my favorite re-recording ever. The version she recorded in her 20s is ok, but THIS version with her age, wisdom, and experience behind it is sublime. You can feel that she herself understands how much more poignant it is with those extra years of living.
You asked if there was a Christmas song, and River has kind of become one. For extra credit, see Robert Downey Jr playing and singing it on an old episode of Ally McBeal.
Hearing this song now at 61 sounds so much different than it did when I was 17. Bittersweet ❤ Then there is the scene in the movie Love Actually where this song plays that chokes me up everytime.
Joni said in an interview that she did not give up her daughter for career. She said she couldn't take care of her. She said at that time there was no career. Thanks for the review
@@jensclarberg6419 i agree that it has more gravitas now, but the lyrics haven’t changed and it’s light years better than any folk, and just about any other song. You’d be hard pressed to find lyrics that are at once so deep, intellectual, amazingly descriptive and emotional. I think it’s a magnum opus for all the reasons music touches you.
To get the full effect, you've got to listen first to her initial recording of this song - when you're 13-years-old - and then listen to this one - when you're at least 55 ... !
The song sang differently. She sings the song right straight to you so you understand what she is trying to tell you. Looking at the album picture, It is her sitting right across from you, And she is not sugar coating a damn thing , She is being real Chrystal clear what she has experienced and learned. Genius
This was played in part of the opening show at the Vancouver Olympics. A kid was floating on wires over fields of grain projected on the floor of the arena. Hard to explain, but very spellbinding.
To your comment about this being "deep", I'm not certain she has ever written or conceived of a frivolous moment. Remarkable poet laureate set to music.
Joni’s vocal is so wonderful on this recording from later in her career. We also must acknowledge the huge musical contributions to this track by Vince Mendoza’s orchestra arrangement, and the soprano saxophone statements by the great Wayne Shorter. Thanks for bringing more incredible music to the public, Mr. Jamel.
The orchestration is crazy amazing. What a difficult task to match the melody of her voice with a subtle yet stunning orchestra backing. It’s a bit magical in my opinion.
If you've ever seen Love, Actually, this song during the scene with Emma Thompson finding out the Christmas present she saw her husband buy, was not meant for her. And she keeps her smile, has to get the kids to the xmas play. This song plays as we watch her take a minute alone, and we see Emma's struggle to keep her composure. We see her examine her whole life, we see her fight, and we see her crumple. Then she forces herself to ignore the dagger she just took straight to her soul, she wipes her tears away, pulls herself together and emerges with a smile and cheer for the sake of her children. I've seen Love, Actually many, many times, it's brilliant, it really is, and I cry every single time I watch that scene. Emma Thompson makes us feel the hurt and loss and betrayal, and she can't have more than one minute to deal with it and put it away.
God , you have to listen to the first recording ( watch the video) , it is the other poignant bookend to a whole life of living, loving, pain, all of it - but it's at the beginning while this is at the end. Makes me cry every time with that great, wonderful, awful mystery of life. God I hope I can live as much as this woman has.
OMG...YES! I thought Sarah Mclaughlin did that song and yes, she covered it but my boyfriend at the time told me it was Joni Mitchell that wrote it and played it for me. It captures the loneliness I felt at that time of year working retail, earning crappy money and missing all my friends and family and maybe getting only one day off to be with them. Nothing kills the Christmas spirit more than working non-stop for nothing and sleeping through the best times on yer day off...I wish I had a river, I could skate away on
I have to give credit to Judy Collins version, which was a huge hit, and a version I still like. But Joni wrote the song, and she does it to the perfection of her soul, especially this older version! Thanks again Jamal!!
this version is so much better than the original which she wrote and sang as a 20 year old without much experience about many of the things in this song. here she's performing with 30+ years of failures, successes, loves lost, loves gaining and her voice now has lost "newly minted" quality of youth and thickened and gained a quality of gravitas from growing older and wiser.
Got to be one of the most amazing songs ever written. Really speaks to me after being married 21 years and now going through a divorce. The clouds look differently now. Worked really hard at a job I don't like just so she could work part time at a job she does. But I guess the grass is always greener somewhere else.
I really like this later version she has done as she is older. It is from the viewpoint of a life of experience now. You can really feel her emotions through her voice and the struggles throughout life that she has experienced and has had to endure including the heartache life can bring and the melancholy she is feeling right now looking back on it. Just beautiful. ❤🎵❤🎶
The hit single of this song was performed by Judy Collins. The song is so deep. I remember I was a teen when Judy's version came out and I immediately fell in love with it. I think you might consider hearing Judy's version. Joni is an international treasure.
When my parents passed in 2012, 6 months apart, this song played a big part in my grieving process. Beautiful song by fantastic 🇨🇦 Joni! We love here here. She’s a national treasure.,..
Joni was as much a painter and an artist of artists. I love both versions , as a young person with the brilliant high pitch voice with life and fluctuations and then the melancholy later version with that reflection of life lived!
GOD BLESS Joni Mitchell. She is also a phenomenal artist. She painted that self portrait cover. Keepin great music alive, and I thank you. 💥🥰🇺🇲😁 She and her beautiful daughter reunited many years ago. That's how it was back in those days. I know many women older than me that experienced giving up their baby & then connecting later in life.
I have only heard the younger version of this song, first time this version. It's hitting me, as the younger version was when I was a child. Her voice, like fine wine, is even better.
When I came to Canada from England in the late swinging 60's, I thought Canada had nothing to offer musically compared to England...and then I discovered Joni....absolutely brilliant musician, artist. I love this mature version...can so relate.
Her voice is full of whimsy, she’s an amazing writer, she tells stories and paints imagery (both actual art and intellectual imagery), and puts me in a trance. What a woman!!!! Her style actually reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel, also good writers and storytellers who paint mental imagery.
I love this painting, it tells such a story! The heart on the sleeve and life lessons written all over her face🫶🏻It’s a powerful picture♥️I truly admire Joni Mitchell, strips bare to her soul and shares what she finds with the world🫶🏻Genius song writer🙏🏻♥️
So much good smoke there in your voice. Thanks for your beautiful talent my beautiful friend. And thank you for saving your wonderful daughter. Please help others. Save our children.
I love both versions of this song. she first wrote and recorded this when she was in her early twenties. It interesting to hear the contrast in her voice as a young lady and her mature voice when this album was recorded. I think the meaning is deeper with mature Joni. The song Little Green is about the baby girl she gave up for adoption.
The comparison between her interpretation of the song when she was young and now is night and day, but beyond that is the change in her voice. Deeper and smoky now rather than the higher register and bell-like tones she had in the 60's and 70's.
One of the most poignant, beautiful songs. It gets to my soul ever single time I hear it. Personally not my favorite versions, but still stunning. Great night!💜
Love Joni Mitchell.....thanks for sharing....this songs gets me every time......I grew up with this during late 70s 80s even 90s. not so good childhood but dealing and healing....God Bless to all.....
This recording was when she was in her 60's and has a beauty all it's own....the artwork is her own. One of my top 3 performers, her, James Taylor and Carly Simon....
I have watched so many of your reactions, but I have never seen you react to anyone the way you have reacted to Joni. So beautiful to watch you discover her magnificent voice and poetry. ❤
Wonderful perspective to be sung by grown up Joni. Listen to the 21 year old's version. Such a wonderful song that has aged with all of us, long time fans. So happy you are discovering her!!
Whats also so cool about JM she is an accomplished artist as well. She paints her album covers. Fell in love with Joni long ago and the feeling is still here.
Genius singer songwriter. A Canadian treasure. Have had the pleasure of seeing her live 3 times over the years. Brilliant. Magnificent. Check out her incredible song... RIVER. 🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦
I enjoy both the early and later versions of this song but this later version hits me a lot deeper...it moves me to tears...in a way the early version never does.
One of my all time fav albums. Her mature voice and that amazing orchestra . . just can't be beat. On this same album - she also covers Nat Cole's - 'Answer Me' . . . that is also outstanding.
Ive loved this song since I was a very little girl, it always makes me cry every time. Judy Collins version is the first I remember but Joni's is spectacular as well.
All the Joy of Life is in her Voice , and I'm still still really in Love with her , from the buttom of my heart . Why the ' best Woman ' that you can met in your Lifetime always take the wrong ones who break their Heart .
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Joni is a treasure of the world. Amazing body of work over many decades.
C'mon, Jamel - the one phenomenal female vocalist you have ignored so far is Sade Adu - absolutely the most sensual singer around - sorry, but Selena doesn't even come close to Sade!
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Hey, Jamel here's a suggestion [not related to Joni] 5 Sting Blues-Roy Buchanan
By the way, Joni painted the album cover herself.
Josh Groban covers this song beautifully!! Listen to that version!! 🙂
The contrast between this version and the original is amazing. Here we have the middle-aged woman who has lived a life. Exactly the same words as the song from 30 years earlier, but oh how different they sound. Joni is a rare genius. A poet. An artist.
Completely!!
Joni was also a 3 pack a day smoker and began smoking at the age of 9! I came of age listening to Joni and she is an absolute legend in my opinion!!
@bean01 Or Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam releasing Father and Son as a duet with his younger self.
Yes- the tone is so different. It’s reflective, bittersweet, a little worn down... so gorgeous.
The song was written in 1965.
She's a genius my friend. As others have noted, she wrote this as a young woman and now you're hearing the mature person's wisdom-filled version. I was a kid when this came out. I'm 62 now and I can't help but feel the weight of it every time I hear this version. Btw Joni painted that self-portrait on the cover. As I said, genius.
I remember the music teacher playing this (the earlier version) for us in school when I was very young and we all sang along. It was my first exposure to Joni.
@@scottgelb2650 Same here.☁️💕
Well said, summed it up perfectly. And genius doesn't even go close to fully describing this wonderful lady and her body of work.
Agree.
Did you notice in her self-portrait that she's wearing her heart on her sleeve? She's amazing in SO many ways!
The album cover is her own painting, an incredibly talented woman.
wow...surely a supremely talented wman
Somebody else pointed out to me that she appears to have painted a heart in the folds of her sleeve.
@@ParkerAllen2 Wow ...that is so obvious now that you have pointed that out,thanks. And I've had the album for years and never noticed that. I'm not being sarcastic,.
@@Newfie-zc7ug I know. Once you see it you wonder how you could have missed it. As the person who pointed it out to me said, It's as if she's wearing her heart on her sleeve. I don't know for sure but my guess is Joni had that phrase in mind when she painted it.
wow
I love this guy. When he looks right into the camera i forget he's not talking to *me.* He's just so candid and real. Great music and reactions, too, always!
Same
She is an artist. Painting is her passion. She painted that self portrait.
Joni wrote this song when she was 21, and here she is 60 years old singing her song, it has more weight from this voice, I love this and thanks Jamel.
Makes me weep every single time. This is beautiful and genius. Her ex did the awesome production. That’s her self portrait that she painted, btw. She painted most of her album covers.
I'm the same :-)
It makes me cry too,but i was in love with her in her younger days ,and still i love the hell outta this magical unicorn of a beutifully talented woman who touches my soul at its very core,.and that self portrait is ethereal and gorgeous....such incredible amazing talent.
@@hansbass5028 we were all in love with her.
@@TheDivayenta really,i mean how could one not be?but its still nice to hear about ones idol.
That’s a self portrait she painted. Amazing all round artist. ❤️
Well, well, Joni's cigarettes, drink and age have deepened her voice and oddly enough, enriched or 'texturized' its timbre.
I've always felt that she has a poet's soul that is transported, edified, by music.
Joni wrote the Woodstock anthem. Her rendition will reveal that it wasn't just a music-fest, but a world event that gave voice, through music and lyric, to a world-changing, higher-conscience- inspiring movement.
A lot of Joni Mitchell's fans don't like that her vocal range is much lower/deeper now but I like it better than her earlier vocals. They are smokier, richer, & carry her years of life. The orchestration of this song is also phenomenal. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VERSION OF HER SONG. Mitchell will be 78 years old in November. May she live 78 more years.
Her true fans LOVE the way her voice has changed over the years. We understand that great musicians mature over the course of their careers.
In the movie , “Love, Actually”, this version of the song is played when Emma Thompson figures out her husband is having an affair. She has to pull herself together because the family needs to leave for the kid’s school Christmas program. Heartbreaking scene!
Yep. So heartbreaking!
most powerful scene in the movie. She knocked it out of the ball park.
Cry EVERY time.
I bawl every time I watch it. 😭
The song is so apt to the situation. Emma Thompson plays it to perfection. It’s heartbreaking!
Life, whether on the ground or in the clouds, contains agony and ecstasy. Both Sides, Now is a vivid affirmation of Joni's identity as a painter and an idealist. Clouds are a favorite subject of landscape painters, and the images Joni describes embody their capricious nature. She first sees them with wonder and hope, and when they change shape, she begins to doubt her feelings. The idea of understanding something as mercurial as clouds, or love, or friendship seems an impossible task that would mean accepting change without feeling regret or disappointment. Her conclusion, "I really don't know life at all," is bittersweet and sincere, and appeals to anyone hurt by something that once brought them joy.
Beautifully explained! And, so many of us can relate.
Brilliant assessment. You nailed it @itsmeValdo!
Joni's been a gift to the world for fifty years and counting.
The great Wayne Shorter on those haunting soprano sax flurishes on this version.
RIP Wayne. 😢😢😢
One of Canada’s best!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 How I long for artists like those of this bygone era.
From here in Saskatchewan! She's a national treasure.
Another great is Anne Murray. I still listen to her cds, 'cause I'm old, lol, and have added her to my Spotify list. 🤗🇦🇺
I think this is my favorite re-recording ever. The version she recorded in her 20s is ok, but THIS version with her age, wisdom, and experience behind it is sublime. You can feel that she herself understands how much more poignant it is with those extra years of living.
Sublime and poignant,explains her style andcabilities here exacly,thank you.She stirs the deepest parts of my very soul...i adore her!
This was recorded later in her career. The original when she was younger is worth it too.
Do RIVVVVVER!!!!!!
River take me away!
That's become a Christmas song.
Sooo much more than a holiday tune!
He’s already done river. He thought it was a Christmas song but we all corrected him :)
You asked if there was a Christmas song, and River has kind of become one.
For extra credit, see Robert Downey Jr playing and singing it on an old episode of Ally McBeal.
Hearing this song now at 61 sounds so much different than it did when I was 17. Bittersweet ❤ Then there is the scene in the movie Love Actually where this song plays that chokes me up everytime.
or was it judy collins version of this song that you remembered like i do?
Joni said in an interview that she did not give up her daughter for career. She said she couldn't take care of her. She said at that time there was no career. Thanks for the review
To me the most amazing thing is that she was only 20 years old when she wrote this song
This is Joni transcendent.
This is the older Joni and you feel the song from the older perspective as her voice has aged. The original has a much higher voice and larger range.
Yep. 1969 Joni Mitchell was more interesting: czcams.com/video/Pbn6a0AFfnM/video.html
@@Otokichi786 Agree.
it happens as the years roll by ...
@@Otokichi786 Disagree. It's gone from an ok folk song to a masterpiece.
@@jensclarberg6419 i agree that it has more gravitas now, but the lyrics haven’t changed and it’s light years better than any folk, and just about any other song. You’d be hard pressed to find lyrics that are at once so deep, intellectual, amazingly descriptive and emotional. I think it’s a magnum opus for all the reasons music touches you.
To get the full effect, you've got to listen first to her initial recording of this song - when you're 13-years-old - and then listen to this one - when you're at least 55 ... !
yes!
Yes! Originally 18 and now 68. This song is reality.
The song sang differently. She sings the song right straight to you so you understand what she is trying to tell you. Looking at the album picture, It is her sitting right across from you, And she is not sugar coating a damn thing , She is being real Chrystal clear what she has experienced and learned. Genius
I’m always lost for words when I hear this version of the song, it’s like hearing Johnny Cash singing Hurt it just takes your ears music heaven
This was played in part of the opening show at the Vancouver Olympics. A kid was floating on wires over fields of grain projected on the floor of the arena. Hard to explain, but very spellbinding.
To your comment about this being "deep", I'm not certain she has ever written or conceived of a frivolous moment. Remarkable poet laureate set to music.
Joni’s vocal is so wonderful on this recording from later in her career. We also must acknowledge the huge musical contributions to this track by Vince Mendoza’s orchestra arrangement, and the soprano saxophone statements by the great Wayne Shorter. Thanks for bringing more incredible music to the public, Mr. Jamel.
The orchestration is crazy amazing. What a difficult task to match the melody of her voice with a subtle yet stunning orchestra backing. It’s a bit magical in my opinion.
If you've ever seen Love, Actually, this song during the scene with Emma Thompson finding out the Christmas present she saw her husband buy, was not meant for her. And she keeps her smile, has to get the kids to the xmas play. This song plays as we watch her take a minute alone, and we see Emma's struggle to keep her composure. We see her examine her whole life, we see her fight, and we see her crumple. Then she forces herself to ignore the dagger she just took straight to her soul, she wipes her tears away, pulls herself together and emerges with a smile and cheer for the sake of her children. I've seen Love, Actually many, many times, it's brilliant, it really is, and I cry every single time I watch that scene. Emma Thompson makes us feel the hurt and loss and betrayal, and she can't have more than one minute to deal with it and put it away.
Also the afterlife finale
My favourite scene ever ❤
"Something's lost, and something's gained in living every day"
God , you have to listen to the first recording ( watch the video) , it is the other poignant bookend to a whole life of living, loving, pain, all of it - but it's at the beginning while this is at the end. Makes me cry every time with that great, wonderful, awful mystery of life. God I hope I can live as much as this woman has.
You know her Christmas song. River. You can't not remember.
James Taylor does a great cover of her River song. It has become my favorite Christmas song. And it is one you can listen any time of the year too.
Jazz singer Kurt Elling has done a superb cover of "River".
OMG...YES! I thought Sarah Mclaughlin did that song and yes, she covered it but my boyfriend at the time told me it was Joni Mitchell that wrote it and played it for me. It captures the loneliness I felt at that time of year working retail, earning crappy money and missing all my friends and family and maybe getting only one day off to be with them. Nothing kills the Christmas spirit more than working non-stop for nothing and sleeping through the best times on yer day off...I wish I had a river, I could skate away on
One of the few songs that makes me cry instantly just by thinking about it.
Absolutely incredible-Joni- one of a kind❤ This should have millions of views-what a better place the world would be
Queen of jazz for me. Her voice gets inside any touches the deep places.
I have to give credit to Judy Collins version, which was a huge hit, and a version I still like. But Joni wrote the song, and she does it to the perfection of her soul, especially this older version!
Thanks again Jamal!!
Simply beautiful and appreciated......
this version is so much better than the original which she wrote and sang as a 20 year old without much experience about many of the things in this song. here she's performing with 30+ years of failures, successes, loves lost, loves gaining and her voice now has lost "newly minted" quality of youth and thickened and gained a quality of gravitas from growing older and wiser.
Got to be one of the most amazing songs ever written. Really speaks to me after being married 21 years and now going through a divorce. The clouds look differently now. Worked really hard at a job I don't like just so she could work part time at a job she does. But I guess the grass is always greener somewhere else.
Hang in there. The scorched earth of divorce will grow better grass.
Just remember to be kind to yourself, especially now. Hang around people that make you feel good. It will get better. Trust me. ✌️
My Mama used to sing this to me. ❤ It holds such a sentimental place in my heart.
Your comment made me cry. 😥
She painted both the front and back covers of this album, as she did with many of her albums. She is a genius... I was lucky to hear her live once...
I really like this later version she has done as she is older. It is from the viewpoint of a life of experience now. You can really feel her emotions through her voice and the struggles throughout life that she has experienced and has had to endure including the heartache life can bring and the melancholy she is feeling right now looking back on it. Just beautiful. ❤🎵❤🎶
She painted that album cover!
Wow, it's beautiful 💕
The hit single of this song was performed by Judy Collins. The song is so deep. I remember I was a teen when Judy's version came out and I immediately fell in love with it. I think you might consider hearing Judy's version. Joni is an international treasure.
When my parents passed in 2012, 6 months apart, this song played a big part in my grieving process. Beautiful song by fantastic 🇨🇦 Joni! We love here here. She’s a national treasure.,..
Joni was as much a painter and an artist of artists. I love both versions , as a young person with the brilliant high pitch voice with life and fluctuations and then the melancholy later version with that reflection of life lived!
GOD BLESS Joni Mitchell. She is also a phenomenal artist. She painted that self portrait cover. Keepin great music alive, and I thank you. 💥🥰🇺🇲😁 She and her beautiful daughter reunited many years ago. That's how it was back in those days. I know many women older than me that experienced giving up their baby & then connecting later in life.
I have only heard the younger version of this song, first time this version. It's hitting me, as the younger version was when I was a child. Her voice, like fine wine, is even better.
Ironically she does have a Christmas song that's called " River" and its great!!! My favorite Christmas song by far. 😊
That was haunting. First time listening to that. Amazing
When I came to Canada from England in the late swinging 60's, I thought Canada had nothing to offer musically compared to England...and then I discovered Joni....absolutely brilliant musician, artist. I love this mature version...can so relate.
“Does she make christmas music?” My mind went straight to river lol
Her voice is full of whimsy, she’s an amazing writer, she tells stories and paints imagery (both actual art and intellectual imagery), and puts me in a trance. What a woman!!!! Her style actually reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel, also good writers and storytellers who paint mental imagery.
This version. Just hits so hard. So amazing.
I love this painting, it tells such a story! The heart on the sleeve and life lessons written all over her face🫶🏻It’s a powerful picture♥️I truly admire Joni Mitchell, strips bare to her soul and shares what she finds with the world🫶🏻Genius song writer🙏🏻♥️
joni painted that self portrait, she is as wonderful a painter as she is a singer, writer, poet. top class all the way.
So much good smoke there in your voice. Thanks for your beautiful talent my beautiful friend. And thank you for saving your wonderful daughter. Please help others. Save our children.
I love both versions of this song. she first wrote and recorded this when she was in her early twenties. It interesting to hear the contrast in her voice as a young lady and her mature voice when this album was recorded. I think the meaning is deeper with mature Joni. The song Little Green is about the baby girl she gave up for adoption.
This song was an instant classic.
This song makes my heart hurt .. man ! It is so goooood
Her live version of this is angelic! You should definitely check it out, Jamel. 😇
The comparison between her interpretation of the song when she was young and now is night and day, but beyond that is the change in her voice. Deeper and smoky now rather than the higher register and bell-like tones she had in the 60's and 70's.
One of the most poignant, beautiful songs. It gets to my soul ever single time I hear it. Personally not my favorite versions, but still stunning. Great night!💜
I met Ms. Mitchell, joined her for lunch in the dining tent, and was in the audience in 1994 at the Edmonton Folk Fest. A highlight in my life!
Beautiful. Pure.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
The Wall Live in Berlin Goodbye Blue Sky says everything about Joni she is so beautiful ...
One of the most beautifully meaningful songs ever written. Both versions are incredible.
she painted the album cover and she is a goddess every song is a poem beyond compare
The orchestra in this version is sublime….as is Joni, of course. 🙌🏻
Musical heaven, alright!!! 😍
Love Joni Mitchell.....thanks for sharing....this songs gets me every time......I grew up with this during late 70s 80s even 90s. not so good childhood but dealing and healing....God Bless to all.....
the Goddess that is Joni... enjoy my man ...this is a life of experience - right there in the song
This recording was when she was in her 60's and has a beauty all it's own....the artwork is her own. One of my top 3 performers, her, James Taylor and Carly Simon....
Her song "River" is considered to be her Christmas song.
This lady is a treasure and a gift to all humanity. I hope you listen to her older version of this song.
This "mature" version of this song is so beautiful. Anything by Joni is good for a listen.
I have watched so many of your reactions, but I have never seen you react to anyone the way you have reacted to Joni. So beautiful to watch you discover her magnificent voice and poetry. ❤
Makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME
Wonderful perspective to be sung by grown up Joni. Listen to the 21 year old's version. Such a wonderful song that has aged with all of us, long time fans. So happy you are discovering her!!
So excited to watch this!! Please do more Joan Baez too! Love song to a stranger part II or To Bobby, about Bob Dylan!!
My first time hearing this was during the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony. I was hooked immediately, its worth a watch.
Simply put: Joni Mitchell is a genius...and a treasure!
Stunning. Such a Poet. My tears are flowing. Peace
Whats also so cool about JM she is an accomplished artist as well. She paints her album covers. Fell in love with Joni long ago and the feeling is still here.
I remember this song from my teenage years. Its amazing the difference my years make in how I hear it now.
I’m sitting in a smokey jazz bar at 3 o’clock in the morning..... that’s where she transports me too. One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
This version is incredible.
For a Christmas song from her, there's "River," which is just beautiful.
Genius singer songwriter. A Canadian treasure. Have had the pleasure of seeing her live 3 times over the years. Brilliant. Magnificent. Check out her incredible song... RIVER. 🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦
I enjoy both the early and later versions of this song but this later version hits me a lot deeper...it moves me to tears...in a way the early version never does.
An Icon amongst Icon's. Her greatness will shine forever.
She's got that smokers voice now and still sounds amazing.
I saw her in concert in Seattle. I believe Joni and CSNY was on the bill. One of the greatest songwriter musician ever.
Another iconic JM masterpiece. Such a lush arrangement and performance.
One of my all time fav albums. Her mature voice and that amazing orchestra . . just can't be beat. On this same album - she also covers Nat Cole's - 'Answer Me' . . . that is also outstanding.
Ive loved this song since I was a very little girl, it always makes me cry every time. Judy Collins version is the first I remember but Joni's is spectacular as well.
All the Joy of Life is in her Voice ,
and I'm still still really in Love with her , from the buttom of my heart .
Why the ' best Woman ' that you can met in your Lifetime always take the wrong ones who break their Heart .
Joni painted that self portrait herself, she is a fantastic artist in every way.
Absolutely beautiful, and oh so wisened
She wears her heart on her sleeve - literally.