Lost somewhere between the mud of Woodstock and the tragedy of Altamont, came the much more intimate Big Sur Folk Festival - which took place in mid-September of that mythic year. The ‘69 version of the fest, which ran annually from ‘64 through ‘71, attracted a powerhouse line up that featured the likes of Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, John Sebastian, country rockers The Flying Burrito Brothers
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Amazon's current MP3 special is Blue by Joni Mitchell, the classic 1971 featuring songs like Carey, River and A Case of You. All Amazon MP3s are 256 kbps and are free of copy protection (DRM).
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Over at DWT I've been doing some writing about Florida congressional candidate Alan Grayson in the last few weeks-- here, here, and here. Tomorrow (Saturday) he'll be the Blue America guest at Firedoglake at 11am, PT (2pm in Florida). We'll be talking with him about his experiences prosecuting war profiteers and about his campaign for Congress in the Orlando area. But there's a lot more to Alan...
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Who would have ever thought that tall skim vanilla lattes would be fueling the neo-music world? Following in the footsteps of Paul McCartney Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell has signed to Starbuck's music label Hear Music for the release of her next album, Shine.Shine is due at Starbucks locations on September 25th and will be Mitchell's first album of new compositions since 1998's Taming The...
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From the "Guardian":http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2134368,00.htmlHear Music, the record label launched this year by coffee chain Starbucks, has announced that Joni Mitchell has come out of singer-songwriter retirement and signed to the label.Mitchell is to release Shine - her first album of original material in nearly a decade - in September through Starbucks stores. It's likely to ...
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As a long time Joni Mitchell fan, ( I enhereted all of my mother's LP when I was teenager ) I've always been a great fan of all of her classic LP's, Court and Spark, Blue and Clouds. Even lesser known ones like Hejira and the Hissing of Summer Lawns have always been among my favourites.Not until recently have I discovered "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter". At first listen, I thought it was just on...
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Joni Mitchell rode to popularity during the folk music revival of the 1960s, but her music grew far beyond the confines of that genre in the ensuing decades. Even today, in a song like “If I Had a Heart” from Shine, her music retains roots in the strophic structure that characterizes folk music: instead of “verse / chorus,” there is a series of verses ending with the same lyric. A good exa
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Over at DWT I've been doing some writing about Florida congressional candidate Alan Grayson in the last few weeks-- here, here, and here. Tomorrow (Saturday) he'll be the Blue America guest at Firedoglake at 11am, PT (2pm in Florida). We'll be talking with him about his experiences prosecuting war profiteers and about his campaign for Congress in the Orlando area. But there's a lot more to Alan...
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...singer/songwriters aren't for everybody...hell, even when I get those press packs in the mail with that title suspiciously tucked somewhere in the verbiage I blanch involuntarily...but such was not always the case...and you know I like the old stuff...which brings me to the Knife's post of that "*Akon; Gerry Rafferty mash-up*":http://mog.com/Mike_the_Knife/blog_post/91348 which, in turn, m...
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I have in my hand right now a letter from my great-grandfather, Nathaniel Moon, to his son (my grandfather, Oscar), dated Sept 22, 1945. I thought it was interesting that he writes, "No news here to write --- everybody has the blues."It's a perpetual human condition, isn't it? And that's okay, as long as we get happy somewhere in between our blues. My great-grandfather went on to write about...
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Feeling a little blue today. There's something in my past that the turning of the season, this springtime uplift, sun and pollen in the trees, never lets me forget. I spent much of the day listening to Patrick Wolf's "The Wind in the Wires" (thanks, Dale, for the EMCD), and now I'm craving Joni Mitchell, most of which is at home and on vinyl. Maybe "Song to a Seagull," maybe "Blue." Until then:
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Tin AngelChelsea MorningClouds 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.Particularl...
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...singer/songwriters aren't for everybody...hell, even when I get those press packs in the mail with that title suspiciously tucked somewhere in the verbiage I blanch involuntarily...but such was not always the case...and you know I like the old stuff...which brings me to the Knife's post of that "*Akon; Gerry Rafferty mash-up*":http://mog.com/Mike_the_Knife/blog_post/91348 which, in turn, m...
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Amchitka: The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace - Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Phil OchsThis 1970 benefit concert, held in Vancouver, raised money to send eleven peace activists to the Aleutian Island of Amchitka to protest nuclear testing. It was the first major step and fundraiser towards the forming of Greenpeace.While the mono sound on the album is a bit soft on both the high and low en...
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From one of the true greats in any genre and always worth a listen on a rainy day or other wiseThis from the re-mastered edition
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