1969) inspired the songs “My Old Man” and “River” on “Blue.” Getty Images Graham Nash (with Joni Mitchell at the Big Sur Folk Festival in Sept. “I distinctly picture in my head her writing at her piano in our house in Laurel Canyon that we shared for a couple of years there,” he said. While Nash and Mitchell were living together in Los Angeles, he saw her genius at work writing some of the songs, including “A Case of You.” Our love was very warm, very tender and very deep, and it’s one of the reasons why listening to ‘Blue’ still tugs at my heartstrings.” (Mitchell, who rarely does interviews, declined a request.) “People said that we literally lit up the room when we both were in it. “When I first heard the album, I realized that our love affair had come to an end, and that’s a very sad feeling for anyone who’s in love with anybody, but particularly ’cause it’s Joni and me,” Nash told The Post. “People keep going back to it.”įor Nash, hearing “Blue” for the first time made him feel just that. “I think because it is so honest, it’s so timeless,” said Milligan. The collection is previewed by an EP, “Blue 50 (Demos & Outtakes),” which was released on Monday. “It was such a hugely influential record and remains a real touchstone for everybody,” said Patrick Milligan, producer of the Joni Mitchell “Archives” series, whose upcoming second volume (due in October) will include material from her “Blue” period. Drummer Russ Kunkel (here in 1979) recalls “listening to greatness” when Mitchell was recording “Blue.” Ebet Roberts/Getty Images In fact, on “Blue,” Mitchell was getting intimate about her relationships with the likes of Graham Nash and James Taylor long before Swift was dishing about John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal. Joel BernsteinĪnd that “Blue” bravery has inspired everyone from Prince - who, after once writing Mitchell a fan letter before he became “Purple Rain” royalty, would go on to cover “A Case of You” - to today’s artists including Brandi Carlile, Lana Del Rey and, of course, Taylor Swift. Joni Mitchell at her home in Laurel Canyon, Calif., in 1970, a year prior to the release of her seminal album “Blue,” which came out 50 years ago on June 22. When you go inward, there’s a bravery - and Joni did that with a magnifying glass.” “I think that the men, they were singing about the times, they were singing about the moment, but they were looking outward. “It made a lot of singer-songwriters - especially male singer-songwriters - very nervous that they were going to have to lay it all out on the table the way Joni had,” said Majewski. 3 on last year’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - upped the gut-spilling ante for both female and male singer-songwriters. Indeed, Mitchell’s fourth studio LP - which Rolling Stone ranked at No. It was such a groundbreaking thing to be this confessional.” “The confessional nature of ‘Blue’ is such that I think Joni Mitchell herself actually likened it to Dylan plugging in, to Dylan going electric. “A lot of people think she bares her soul, but I think she scrapes her soul,” said Lori Majewski, co-host of “Feedback” on SiriusXM’s Volume channel. With the confessional honesty that Joni Mitchell displayed on her classic “Blue” album - which was released 50 years ago on Jperhaps a more apt title would have been “True.” Joni Mitchell alive and ‘well’ after People magazine mistakenly posts obituary Joni Mitchell to perform first headline show in 23 years How David Crosby quit drugs - but never got over Joni Mitchell How much are tickets to see Joni Mitchell live in 2023?
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