Your comment has one extra word; that is, possibly.

Agreed!

Yes I remember when I discovered her in 1980s. Nothing musical was ever quite the same again.

Crosby said she is the greatest of all time especially her time & I concur

​​@@MirthMama I don't concur with the "especially her time" part. To me, she is the greatest. Someone has to hold the absolute top slot and nobody else deserves the place more than Joni Mitchell (a trillion times more than the likes of Dylan or Cohen, in my imperfect world).

Glad your on board...

River...nought said...

The psalms remastered.

I'm sorry it didn't work out with your ex-wife.

And just to add another brick, a brilliant artist. Crosby called her the alien and all the legends of their time knew that she was on another level.

And then wrote Woodstock...as she said ‘so I wrote this little song’ that became the anthem for a generation

@@barbarascott3350 I think she was dating David Crosby at the time which was a great source of information as she was composing "Woodstock".

And never will be.

Often imitated but never duplicated. There are a few recent artists who sound a bit like Joni or were influenced by her ; like Julie Byrne, Danielle Haim, Weyes Blood, Florence Welch, Maggie Rogers, etc...

Joni Mitchell is a bit like Joni Mitchell. :) I kid: she was and is a true original: no one like her, by definition.

i would nominate John Frusciante as Joni's spiritual kin.

no one like her ever, the best of all time.

Nobody ever wrote like Joan Roberta Anderson. One of a kind, although influenced by all those she met with her open senses and heart. Her curiosity's scope and granular attention to detail, often above ego as she doesn't always come off so admirably in her confessional narratives or even in her more oblique songs where she targets someone whose life resembles her own shows her commitment to using song to get at the mysteries of life on this spinning ball of mysteries... Thanks to Flushing 'hoodie and now published poet Tone Gloeggler of the jocks at the schoolyard who was brave enough to keep pushing me to get over my yootful lack of attention to Joni's lyrics and impervious to how uncool listening to Joni Mitchell records was back in them thar staring up my own arsehole 70's could be, as lost in the provinces as we were. Also much gratitude to Dave Van Ronk, Z"L (why call him late, he ain't showin' up no mo') who I often went to hear in the Greenwich Village cafes then bars of my well-spent yoot. Before Dave would stop by my Berkeley flat after Bay Area gigs and sip pear liquor locally distilled while sharing stories and politics and songs until the sun came up and we had to pile Dave and the few remaining empty eau de vie bottles as souvenirs into the cab that would drive him back to his hotel for a few hours of sleep before he'd bus on to the next stop on his Pacific Coast tours. Big Dave had a very early admiration and tender insights into Joni's unique writerly\painterly gifts and was interpreting her songs and singing her praises for decades before anybody in serious jazz or blues or chanson or theater worlds would take Joni Mitchell's stuff and tunings seriously. Eric Andersen always did and made sure the folkies knew. Eric taught Joni some of those whack tunings... Health and balance Joni Anderson Mitchell and Eric Andersen too Keep on doing Rephuah Shelemah, Joni Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee

Joey Dugan does.

@@joemarshall4226 I doubt that but I will investigate his music on your opinion. I'll get back to you after.

@@OneOfUsHere Well....I realize I am not quite correct. He doesn't right lyrics LIKE hers. But he is a great lyricist. I love Joni's best stuff. Both Sides Now is a legit candidate for Song of the Century, IMHO.

Andy Northall Well, gotta say that Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot were pretty good too, but if you put "woman" into that claim, I'd be inclined to agree with you.

Joni better than Dylan . The BEST

@@georgefowler3027 Bob Dylan lived in Woodstock at that time.

Completely agree. Once in a lifetime genius.

dont forget Carole King, Every bit just as good as Joni.

This is one of my favorites from Joni among MANY other songs. She is a true artist. Beautiful piano, and voice and on top of that she is a painter, and did the artwork on many of her albums. One of her best albums is "Blue" and the one this song (For Free) came from is "Ladies of the Canyon"

David Crosby loves this song and it's on his 2021 album..

That's why she dropped out.

You are so correct here, Elizabeth! A hard balance to find...

Joni could "feel" life...there is a resonant heartbeat in her lyrics and music. She could describe people, human scenes and arrays of individuals like some God given muse...yes I think she was an angel, a gift from God to humanity..

Even though her way of singing I think is very unique and some people would say that it's natural and not technical. I still think that her breath management is incredible, she can sing in a very long head voice phrase effortlessly, sounding real loud and smooth, with a beautiful vibrato. And that definitely took a lot of training, I think she did trained her voice herself, really.

@@leanhquoc3109 & smoked

I had the privilege of hearing her sing on tour in the mid-70's, and it was the most memorable concert I attended--and I went to a lot of concerts that decade. My throat was aching from wanting to sing with her and just being physically unable, like most people, to hit those notes.

Hi I wanted to marry her in 1983.

@@pomcourier6352 well, with a name that almost reads 'porncourier', you never stood a chance....

Of course you did, understandable!

She's partially descended from Sami Indigenous people of Norway; partly on her dad's side.

yes.

Yeah, who were those guys? The camera panned too fast to make them out. 1910 Fruitgum Company?

@@gwyllem The Chapin Brothers were Tom Chapin (schoolteacher and terrific recording artist best known for kids' songs), Harry Chapin who passed away so young in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway after he made it big beyond the folk club and taxi cab driving life (ironic!) with his FM hit song "Taxi" and a bigger AM hit song with "Cat's In the Cradle" and some wondrous albums. Harry Chapin was also a ranconteur of the first order who could take the few minutes between commercials on the Johnny Carson show or the hours between early and late sets at a Greenwich Village or North Beach cafe or bar and make every eye and ear in the neighborhood hang on his every storytelling word, accent and syllable. He also did the most for the least once he made a living in music by founding and sustaining these: www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/harry-chapin Harry Chapin was always getting celebrities and stars from every style and sphere to participate in benefit shows that put a dent in the unnecessary food insecurity in this the wealthiest nation on this wealth concentrating planet and in solidarity with other just causes around the globe. The third Chapin brother, Steve, I do not know much about. Also, Crosby, Stills and Nash with Buffalo Springfield's Richie Furay and Neil Young.... Keep on listening and doing Health and Balance Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee

Oh, that was Harry Chapin? Have to look more closely next time. Thanks Ulpana!

@@gwyllem Dear Gwyllem, I may have screwed up by switching between this clip of Joni on Cavett Show with earlier clips of her as Joanie Anderson on Canadian TV show called Let's Sing Out. She was on the show being televised from University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, a coupla years before she married Chuck Mitchell and became Joni Mitchell. The Chapins (all 3 brothers Tom, Harry, Steve) were on this show with Dave Van Ronk's fellow Greenwich Village outspoken outcast Patrick Sky. They got Dave his first gigs in Canada doing this television show that filmed from different Canadian college campuses weekly on blessed CBC. Here is one such clip: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9KKpqZhvKzbhnk.html Sorry if I thought I saw Harry Chapin in the crowd in the live studio audience for Cavett's show. I grew up not far from where Harry died driving home on the Long Island Expressway and something about the way Harry lived his life has haunted me ever since. Another song of Harry's that got onto some hipper FM radio stations was W-O-L-D about a community radio station with those call letters: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7yYacSA3L-UaJs.html Health and balance keep on doing! Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee

@@ulpana I saw Dave Von Ronk in Newport in 1968

She'd just literally finished Chelsea Morning - seconds before. That's what the standing ovation from Grace Slick etc. was for.

yep

Sweet, yes, but in my opinion not sappy.

OF COURSE not sappy; much too cold and Canadian (in the best way) for that. Besides, sap in pop music is too often a product of overwrought production (too many backup singers hamming it up; syrupy soaring strings, honking horns, et. cetera) and the spare piano-and-vocal treatment here neatly circumvents that. Beautiful, just plain beautiful.

Elizabeth Hann I agree totally.

Well, thank you.

Come on now, sweet human sounds are perpetual in this world, woven into the fabric of life, if you'll allow me the elitist sounding claptrap of that lst bit.

some folks are tone deaf..ha!

Just trolls

Answer = see Americans who voted for runner up in last presidential election. Explain that!

@@stanleyklein524 We don't like senile socialists. Proud of that Biden vote are ya?

Mistakes do happen sometimes. No conspiracy is alleged. LOL

There are a lot of satan possessed people who hate music.

Any idea why she changed the lyric from ,”2 gentlemen “ to ,”two white men”?I think for this performance only.

​@@Dougdenslowe714 No idea; I can only make a few guesses. But she also sang "if it's wrong or real" instead of "if it's wrong or if it's real" in Willy.

yep, she sure did

well. jeff air is sitting next to dick and THEY played woodstock

woodstock started the 15th. she had plenty of time to drive 35 miles south!

@@michaelbaker3920 Many of those who made the Dick Cavett show played in the earlier days of the festival. Joni didn't arrive in NY until the eve of the last day. The worry was she would have great difficulty getting out of Woodstock amidst the great departure of attendees.

@@michaelbaker3920 as did Crosby & Stills who were there later.

Ogron Cholmondeley no easy feat.

Thé piano is out of tune?

@@carolmares8215 It sounds like they borrowed it from the local school.

@@carolmares8215 No it isn't out of tune.

It sounds warm

Yes, your stupid pretend *Sky Daddy* definitely should get all the credit-fucking insanity.

Are you an American.? I know with the Joni videos I go on, most Americans don't like it when you mention that Joni is Canadian. She was living half the year in British Columbia, ready to build a house there, when she had her stroke. The landscape and weather of the Prairies informs a lot of her songs. And she will come back to the Prairies when she shuffles off this mortal coil.

@@apocalypseplough8089 yes I'm an American.. I was conceived in Detroit the same time she lived and married in Detroit.. She lived at the Verona Apartments on Cass Ave.

I think we all adore the Bush , but Joni has so much genius work kick in side being a close album to blue all wonderful stuff

no competition really. i wouldn't put bush anywhere near joni

Kick inside ground braking strange vocals now accepted to make strange tones

He kept her from Woodstock.

@@gwyllem I feel like she was always bummed that she didn’t go or that was like her biggest regret

@@gwyllem No. He didn't. She wasn't a slave, she chose to do the show.

+Mark Douglas Oh, i thought it was Moondog

Do you have any photos of him???

Noel Anderson probably never! She lives on a higher plane than we ordinary mortals do.

Today we have such luminaries as Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Arianna Grande. They stink! Nobody can compare to Joni!

@@maureenmaher2371 Gaga is a good singer who chooses to act like a prat to attract attention, when she should just shut up and sing, if you get what I mean.

Noel Anderson lana del rey

@@34hedgehog I don't think Gaga's voice is that great but she's a show person.

Let that little guy go.

Agree. I think they're joking something like " Wow, Joni put us to shame, made us sound like crap" ;-)

I really don't think so. I think she's too cheesy for them. I still love her songs.

that makes sense.

@@shreemhreemkleem that could be, we will never know for sure..But laughing like that was a bit rude.

@forgetittwb Who are those guys?

Yes! And she also dedicated this song to the moon. 0:27 The conquered moon.

I love Joni but they filmed that hoax in Roswell, New Mexico. 👽

The day after Woodstock as I recall

Maybe you finished it before you started it, or finished it before you finished it, or started it before you started it. Did you get there?

@@josephinebennington7247 I finished it 3 months before I started way back in 2096. Unfortunately I forgot to de-activate the single century restrictor. Fortunately, however, I landed here two years before I was due to leave on my first trip. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr5ygc9y1d3MYJc.html

@@Broonzied You were still late for the original. (If, indeed, it was the original! Who knows?). Or early for the replay. Just stay there in the parallel holding stack for an eon, we’ll call you when you can cross over.

@@josephinebennington7247 Just got back to where I didn't start from, so will stay here while I move on. I hope you enjoyed good fortune tomorrow.

@@Broonzied Thank you, I did have good fortune while waiting for it. Right, I’m off to go and warp some space time. Tara.