Clouds
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Tin Angel
Chelsea Morning
Clouds is the 1969 second album by Joni Mitchell. It is sparsely arranged, with little more than Mitchell's voice and solo acoustic guitar for accompaniment. All Music describes "Songs to Aging Children Come" as featuring "perhaps the most remarkably sophisticated chord sequence in all of pop music", employing chords chromatically related by tritone or thirds.
Particularly well known are the songs "Both Sides Now", which Mitchell had written for others but sung herself for the first time on this record, and "Chelsea Morning".
The cover art depicts Mitchell's home town of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, showing the South Saskatchewan River that flows through the city, and the Bessborough Hotel, an historic railway hotel built in the days before asphalt-surface highways. In the self-portrait, Mitchell holds the floral emblem of the Province of Saskatchewan: the "western red lily" (aka prairie lily or Lilium philadelphicum var. andinum).
In 1970 Clouds won the Grammy for best folk album of 1969.
Love Joni
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She's a good 'un..one of the finest to come outta this continent.
fo sho! no argument from these quarters
I have a few of Joni's releases in my collection but this isn't among them. The first in my collection was Court & Spark. There are a few that I have been wanting to add but just have never gotten around to adding most notably The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Wonderful selection as any of her work would have been.
You aren't a big arguer anyway rummy. I probably should've said I can't stand her and her voice is grating and some other mean stuff. But you probably would've dismissed that as the ravings of a lunatic..and rightfully so. Plus I don't believe that anyway.
I still remember sneaking into my big sisters room and borrowing her JM albums (among others ... LOL!). Good memories! :)
Good stuff!
I remember Tom Rush performing at Club 47 across the street from Harvard in the mid-Sixties, and every once in a while he would introduce a song by saying, "This next one was also written by Joni Mitchell," or words to that effect, and I think this was before her first record. She forged a new sound, with new chord changes, new harmonies, new relationships between the melody and the chord changes, and new poetic approaches to writing lyrics.