Joni is a painter. Many of her album covers are painted by her. Search images of her paintings. She's very good. "I'm a painter first. I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy". - Joni Mitchell
This song is about Sam Shepard who traveled with Bob Dylan during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour back in the 70s. Joni traveled with them for awhile. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert in 1975, great concert I've ever seen, longest too. 🤗🤔😎
The film of Mitchell performing "Coyote" at Gordon Lightfoot's house, with Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn participating is a classic: th-cam.com/video/zeaO5UZ5OcI/w-d-xo.html Of course the performance with The Band in The Last Waltz film is great too.
@@An_Cat_Dubh There's also the performance from the "Shadows and LIght" album / DVD with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Don Alias th-cam.com/video/DHQfIwyEVzY/w-d-xo.html
Such a brilliant track. Yes, Jaco on bass, with those amazing harmonics. The song also focuses on the difference between his outdoor lifestyle and her own very different one. This song is the first track on the masterpiece album Hejira. The next track, Amelia, is another stunning song. There’s a great video of her playing this in front of Bob Dylan and others, they’re clearly in awe.
I think Hejira is definitely one of Joni's masterpieces. I was a teenager when I first heard it and it seemed a little less accessible at first... Now there are a lot of evaluations of JM discography. Blue is almost always considered her #1... but then Court and Spark and Hejira have been the most consistent highly ranked after Blue. It does vary, with The Hissing of Summer Lawns, For the Roses, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon doing well also (usually). The debut album tends to be a bit underrated sadly and even Don Juans Reckless Daughter and Mingus are getting some love--- (at times)... It seems a few, mostly younger people, have a fondness, for the 80s and 90s albums (especially Night Ride Home or Turbulent Indigo) but this later period is not usually considered her best work.... Rollings Stones most recent (2020) top 500 albums of all time has Blue at #3, Court and Spark at #110, Hejira at #133, The Hissing of Summer Lawns at #258. That's not too shabby.
Glad you got to this track, a masterpiece from what is for me her best album. She wrote it while driving across the US, a hejira being a pilgrimage of some kind. The coyote in question is allegedly the playwright and later actor Sam Shepard, who was later married to Jessica Lange. Many great tracks on the album, the third of her fantastic trilogy that started with Court and Spark, went on to the Hissing of Summer Lawns and then arrived at Hejira. After that she got too jazzy for me, but she remained a genius songwriter and observer and musician.
"And you're up early on your ranch. You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail. While the sun is ascending." Not the most likely fit to the occupations playwright and actor.
@@keithdixon6595 : I don't that's why it would have been foolish of me to entirely rule out the possibility that in North America there exist(ed) playwright-actor-ranchers and within that presumably quite small subset of the population, a number who still have(had) the time to pick up hitchers and attend late-night road house bashes.
Joni's guitar playing is unique; I love it. Jaco Pastorius' fretless bass playing is also unique and when I first heard this track back in 1976, it was like nothing that I'd ever heard before.
Joni Mitchell works like all great poets, she pulls you toward a singular, personal reality and then while she tells the story you realize she has pulled you into the gravity of an ever growing, deeply human epic. She is so adept at this that she can do all of it in one verse.
One ofthe greatest albums ever because in its b&w portrayal it tells you everything of what the album's about. And "brush strokes" is a great way to define how the music describes what the words tell because it's bright with the experience of a longing to understand this coyote character with those beautiful bass harmonics saying stop, hold on, wait a sec.
Coyote is featured on the Band's Last Waltz, and is worthy of watching here on YT: th-cam.com/video/f7MbmXklj3Q/w-d-xo.html The lp that Coyote is from, Hejira, and Blue, are my 2 fav Joni albums... IMO, any song from either is pure gold. Thanx for featuring what I regard as the very best singer/songwriter/musican, bar none, of the past 70+ yrs!
There's also the performance from the "Shadows and LIght" album / DVD with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Don Alias th-cam.com/video/DHQfIwyEVzY/w-d-xo.html
So back in the day before they were famous, there was a little folk stage /space in Ottawa called Le Hibou (legendary in its day during the 60s). The week that he is in town to play The Capitol, none other than Jimi Hendrix shows up with a reel to reel and a mic, to capture Joni on tape, himself (they had both recently been signed to Reprise Records). Greatness knows greatness, eh? There are some of those types of “early bootleg” recordings that are included on Joni’s new anniversary edition of her album, out soon/recently. Peace from Toronto.
HEJIRA is one of the finest albums of all time. Absolutely brilliant lyrics, musicians, vocals and production. Treat yourself to Joni Mitchell at her peak.
"this flame, you put her in this Eskimo" is the key line in this song. Yes she goes into this fling with eyes wide open AND she gets off a little further up the road having enjoyed the ride but lamenting (once again) that it didn't last. "Hijera" should be next. Carry On!!
What a wonderful way to sing about a one night stand. Hejira is my favorite album of Joni's but I'm not slighting the other albums in the least because I adore them too. Joni went all in jazz with Hejira and continued the theme in several albums afterward. Joni started playing with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius on this album. There are some great live videos of them playing together. Later album she played with Jazz legend, Charles Mingus. Joni is one of my top four singer songwriters, others being Dylan, Cohen, Simon
She lives not that far away from me in up here in Beautiful British Columbia. Although she probably goes someplace warm in the Winter I think you guys have done some listens to Court and Spark?
"Prisoner of the white lines on the freeway". Addiction to touring, addiction to cocaine - a little habit she picked up on Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder tour. She's a master of metaphors and story-telling. Not surprisingly, Joni, Donald and Walter had great mutual admiration.
First track to start off this little masterpiece from 1976. For me also, the title track “Hejira” and “Song for Sharon” are highlights. Moody poetic storytelling few could or can match.
Not that I've ever been there, but in the southwestern US, a "coyote" used to mean, and may still mean, one of the guys that get refugees and those seeking a better life, across the border from Mexico into the US undetected. But in this song, that is not the reference. As others have noted Playwrite, Actor, and lucky guy for marrying Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard is the man in question.
one of my favourite albums, not a track i couldn't listen to a million times. Even the album title is about movement, Hijrah is Arabic and usually rendered as “migration” or “departure”.
Top 5 singer-songwriter ever. I’m sad tho, as she’s old and due to health problems doesn’t sing or write much now. Her albums are gems and each is unique.
The title song "Hejira", and "Amelia" are equally admired songs. But there are other fascinating story songs on Hejira like "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Song for Sharon". In interviews, Mitchell has made it clear that even though her songs reference events in her own life, she doesn't consider them to be confessional songs - she purposefully crafts the lyrics into stories that contain universal truths.
Definitely check out the live version she did with The Band in "The Last Waltz". For years this was my favorite Joni album, only nudged out by "For the Roses" the last couple of years. An amazing string of 7 must own albums ended with "Hejira". The number of artists that can make such a claim is less than 10.
Coyotes are predators and so is the protagonist, a mixture of current SO, plus previous lover from Australia and current fling with Sam Shepard during the Rolling Thunder tour that soured her relationship with the current SO. Jaco's bell tone harmonics are a signature of his playing. Joni's time as a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in late 1975, was fueled with cocaine something that took her years to break, so the white lines on the highway was probably reference to usage in addition to the view from the bus of the white lines speeding past the bus.
Brilliant album! I like the lean sound of guitars and bass. Yes, Jaco is great but so is Larry Carlton on lead guitar accompaniment. A great batch of tunes and Coyote is no exception. Amelia is another standout number. And Joni's rhythm guitar tunings give the songs an exotic flavor.
Most of her songs are word paintings, and IMO, she is the greatest lyricist in modern (1960 to the present) times. Give a reaction to Amelia live if you can, with Pat Metheny on guitar (maybe Jaco too - I forget).
The lyrics on Hejira are the best of all her albums. I don't agree that she portrays herself as the victim of 'Coyote'. It sounds like the passing relationship is all well under her control.
Some history about this artist: In despair with no job, no money, no roof over her head and unmarried at 21, Joni Anderson gives up her newborn daughter for adoption. A tragic secret that gave Joni Mitchell her voice.
Hejira is an Arab word for a journey that Muslims make to Mecca. I guess she's using the word here in a general sense to refer to any exotic journey. In this song she is a hitchhiker who gets picked up by a "coyote". Coyote is a word used to describe the people who smuggle illegal aliens from Mexico to the US across the border because it describes someone who is cunning enough to evade the law. Coyotes are considered by native Americans to be very sly animals or tricksters.
I saw Jaco in 1978..Big personality onstage..brightly dressed with Weather report..i remember that more then Bob Marley which is like a picture postcard in my mind. Coyote like crow is spirit guide to the locals indigenous so it has two connotations.Coyote is a scavenger that will ravage and leave..eats roots and leaves as we say in australia...root being sexual. Isn't the image she first paints amazing how they are from two different worlds where he is up early on the ranch when she is coming home at the same time he is rises...and he is the darkness..he is a predator...fine white lines..chop a line,,and hunting hitchhikers,,
Voice yes, but also instantly really interesting chords. In this era and before, Joni sang a lot (entirely too much for me) about what were explicitly super-rich people's problems. But this song (and to be fair, many of her songs) cuts acroos all of that.
Somehow there’s a steady beat in this song. She’s weaving around it while getting out in front or lagging behind the chord changes. That’s what it sounds like to me, anyway. She is a master of phrasing as it is…but this song is even better than usual for that.
Wonderful Joni probably the best singer songwriter for generations. For something totally new to you, you need to take a serious listen to "The Defamation of Strickland Banks" from 2010, one of the best white soul albums for years. A reaction video would be good, you should also read about Plan B's (Ben Drew) back story and also the story contained in "The Defamation of Strickland Banks".
Another excellent reaction! And the album has really stood the test of time - sounds as good or better today as it ever did. As a little side note - The coyote as a metaphor can also be seen as it is in some First Nation narratives, as a trickster, a ne'redowell or a troublemaker who, while not malicious, loves to stir the shit and play around. And Shepard was a notorious ladies man so it fits. The coyote of the desert/ranch as opposed to Joni the singer from the city and the road. Or not, lol.
Is this Jaco on bass..I heard harmonics to begin...she had to suffer folk musicians who laid ugly black fence posts for basslines.Then Jaco Pastorious painted fluidity or water colours with the basslines.Poor Jaco ,so beautiful and he needed to go fast and needed hi octane to get there and ended up with a money addiction that broke his relationships..Then I heard he passed killed by a bouncer..He was a shooting star but sadly so short. Great song,
As great as Jaco was, I still prefer the live version from The Last Waltz with The Band backing her up. Lots of double meanings in this song, and considering it was the 70’s the “white lines” certainly has more than one meaning.
Great track. The entire "Hejira" album is another one of Joni's masterpieces. Yeah, it's def about Sam Shepard. I like that you both listen to the song in it's entirety before commenting. Some of these idiots posting reaction vids could take a lesson from you two.
My pleasure and and I will always watch when you react to any of my favorites. And I have to give you both credit for your thoughtful reactions (vs. most others who have no value or interest to convey). I will probably subscribe soon, although I've been unsubscribing lately because of what I just mentioned. If you get a chance, please give a listen & react to my 2 favorite contemporary singers, the young ladies from Norway, Angelina Jordan and Aurora. I'd be surprised if you don't find something in each to appreciate. I could go on about them but have rattled on too long already. Keep up the good work and take care.
Is Coyote a real person or just a composite collection of players? Coyote = Opportunist (Spanish pronunciation?) kai-ow-tee She: 'to run away to wrestle with my eee-go'
This exposed a lot of people to Jaco Pastorius' chiming bass harmonics, which filled in the spaces.
Jaco Pastorius on bass. ✌❤
Joni is a painter. Many of her album covers are painted by her. Search images of her paintings. She's very good.
"I'm a painter first. I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy". - Joni Mitchell
How great!!
This song is about Sam Shepard who traveled with Bob Dylan during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour back in the 70s. Joni traveled with them for awhile. I was fortunate enough to see them in concert in 1975, great concert I've ever seen, longest too. 🤗🤔😎
The film of Mitchell performing "Coyote" at Gordon Lightfoot's house, with Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn participating is a classic: th-cam.com/video/zeaO5UZ5OcI/w-d-xo.html
Of course the performance with The Band in The Last Waltz film is great too.
@@An_Cat_Dubh Thank you, I have seen this before, but I'd forgotten about it. Thank you so much again, I just got to enjoy it again. 🤗🤗😎🤔
@@An_Cat_Dubh There's also the performance from the "Shadows and LIght" album / DVD with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Don Alias th-cam.com/video/DHQfIwyEVzY/w-d-xo.html
Such a brilliant track. Yes, Jaco on bass, with those amazing harmonics. The song also focuses on the difference between his outdoor lifestyle and her own very different one. This song is the first track on the masterpiece album Hejira. The next track, Amelia, is another stunning song. There’s a great video of her playing this in front of Bob Dylan and others, they’re clearly in awe.
Some fantastic tunes and stories though a somewhat uneven album!
I think Hejira is definitely one of Joni's masterpieces. I was a teenager when I first heard it and it seemed a little less accessible at first... Now there are a lot of evaluations of JM discography. Blue is almost always considered her #1... but then Court and Spark and Hejira have been the most consistent highly ranked after Blue. It does vary, with The Hissing of Summer Lawns, For the Roses, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon doing well also (usually). The debut album tends to be a bit underrated sadly and even Don Juans Reckless Daughter and Mingus are getting some love--- (at times)... It seems a few, mostly younger people, have a fondness, for the 80s and 90s albums (especially Night Ride Home or Turbulent Indigo) but this later period is not usually considered her best work.... Rollings Stones most recent (2020) top 500 albums of all time has Blue at #3, Court and Spark at #110, Hejira at #133, The Hissing of Summer Lawns at #258. That's not too shabby.
This woman is an absolute treasure. She was way ahead of most with her many many alternate tunings. And that voice...!!! Great pick you guys!
I'm so proud that she is Canadian...what a TREASURE .
Glad you got to this track, a masterpiece from what is for me her best album. She wrote it while driving across the US, a hejira being a pilgrimage of some kind. The coyote in question is allegedly the playwright and later actor Sam Shepard, who was later married to Jessica Lange. Many great tracks on the album, the third of her fantastic trilogy that started with Court and Spark, went on to the Hissing of Summer Lawns and then arrived at Hejira. After that she got too jazzy for me, but she remained a genius songwriter and observer and musician.
Everything you said. Exactly!
"And you're up early on your ranch. You'll be brushing out a brood mare's tail.
While the sun is ascending." Not the most likely fit to the occupations playwright and actor.
@@indricotherium4802 You perhaps don't know too much about Sam Shepard...😉
@@keithdixon6595 : I don't that's why it would have been foolish of me to entirely rule out the possibility that in North America there exist(ed) playwright-actor-ranchers and within that presumably quite small subset of the population, a number who still have(had) the time to pick up hitchers and attend late-night road house bashes.
@@indricotherium4802 Good reply! 🙂
Joni's guitar playing is unique; I love it.
Jaco Pastorius' fretless bass playing is also unique and when I first heard this track back in 1976, it was like nothing that I'd ever heard before.
Even when she was a folk singer, she was bound to sing Jazz. Her phrasing was always something unique.
She learned a lot from Dylan on that too but she has no equal.
Joni Mitchell works like all great poets, she pulls you toward a singular, personal reality and then while she tells the story you realize she has pulled you into the gravity of an ever growing, deeply human epic. She is so adept at this that she can do all of it in one verse.
Mitchell's lyrics are pure poetry. Song for Sharon, Woodstock, Both sides now,,...
Steely Dan, Pat Metheny Group, EWF, Yellow Jackets, Joni Mitchell and Michael Franks are my favourites of all time 😉
Can we take a moment to recognize the brilliant bass work from Jaco Pastorius.
Yes we can!
RIP Jaco. You were unique. You brought beauty into this world.
@@nicholasmartin297 .... He did Nicholas, he did. Him and Chris Squire were the two biggest influences in my own playing.
One ofthe greatest albums ever because in its b&w portrayal it tells you everything of what the album's about. And "brush strokes" is a great way to define how the music describes what the words tell because it's bright with the experience of a longing to understand this coyote character with those beautiful bass harmonics saying stop, hold on, wait a sec.
Best album.. BLUE.! Straight up. 🇨🇦❤️
Got to see Joni do this with Bobby Hall on congas & the great Jaco Pastorious on bass . Man that was transcendental overdrive .
Wow what a song. Great story.
Bass mastery and Jonie's amazing phrasing. Take moment to feel humbled.
I first saw Joni in 1974 and fell in love with all her music. What a beautiful person.
She is great!
love her voice, always so interesting. Turns an average tune into a great song on many occasions, although all of this is good.
Coyote is featured on the Band's Last Waltz, and is worthy of watching here on YT: th-cam.com/video/f7MbmXklj3Q/w-d-xo.html
The lp that Coyote is from, Hejira, and Blue, are my 2 fav Joni albums... IMO, any song from either is pure gold.
Thanx for featuring what I regard as the very best singer/songwriter/musican, bar none, of the past 70+ yrs!
There's also the performance from the "Shadows and LIght" album / DVD with Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, and Don Alias th-cam.com/video/DHQfIwyEVzY/w-d-xo.html
So back in the day before they were famous, there was a little folk stage /space in Ottawa called Le Hibou (legendary in its day during the 60s). The week that he is in town to play The Capitol, none other than Jimi Hendrix shows up with a reel to reel and a mic, to capture Joni on tape, himself (they had both recently been signed to Reprise Records). Greatness knows greatness, eh? There are some of those types of “early bootleg” recordings that are included on Joni’s new anniversary edition of her album, out soon/recently. Peace from Toronto.
HEJIRA is one of the finest albums of all time. Absolutely brilliant lyrics, musicians, vocals and production. Treat yourself to Joni Mitchell at her peak.
Joni was raised in Canada and she began to imput mental dreams of being through Canada back roads.
"this flame, you put her in this Eskimo" is the key line in this song. Yes she goes into this fling with eyes wide open AND she gets off a little further up the road having enjoyed the ride but lamenting (once again) that it didn't last. "Hijera" should be next.
Carry On!!
Thanks Jeff!
Oops, I ment Amelia should be next.
What a wonderful way to sing about a one night stand.
Hejira is my favorite album of Joni's but I'm not slighting the other albums in the least because I adore them too. Joni went all in jazz with Hejira and continued the theme in several albums afterward.
Joni started playing with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius on this album. There are some great live videos of them playing together. Later album she played with Jazz legend, Charles Mingus.
Joni is one of my top four singer songwriters, others being Dylan, Cohen, Simon
Thanks for watching Hong!
Keep diving into Joni. SO many colors, genres, feels, modes, eras, and portraits!
Thanks Peter!
She lives not that far away from me in up here in Beautiful British Columbia. Although she probably goes someplace warm in the Winter I think you guys have done some listens to Court and Spark?
"Prisoner of the white lines on the freeway". Addiction to touring, addiction to cocaine - a little habit she picked up on Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder tour. She's a master of metaphors and story-telling. Not surprisingly, Joni, Donald and Walter had great mutual admiration.
First track to start off this little masterpiece from 1976. For me also, the title track “Hejira” and “Song for Sharon” are highlights. Moody poetic storytelling few could or can match.
Thanks for watching!
Same here
I agree about Hejira and Song For Sharon, which are first among equals. Hejira, the album, is the greatest record ever made.
Not that I've ever been there, but in the southwestern US, a "coyote" used to mean, and may still mean, one of the guys that get refugees and those seeking a better life, across the border from Mexico into the US undetected. But in this song, that is not the reference. As others have noted Playwrite, Actor, and lucky guy for marrying Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard is the man in question.
Oh Joni! Invoking such Beautiful memories.
Great song from Hejira.
ANYTHING by JONI is STELLAR!!
Beautiful phrasing and melody, my favorite album by Joni.
Check out her live performance on The Last Waltz. So good!
OMG. JACO!
This is also from one of my favorite Joni albums. FANTASTIC track.
one of my favourite albums, not a track i couldn't listen to a million times. Even the album title is about movement, Hijrah is Arabic and usually rendered as “migration” or “departure”.
Joni Mitchell fan, now a fan of yours. You picked a wonderful and evocative song. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for watching!
Top 5 singer-songwriter ever. I’m sad tho, as she’s old and due to health problems doesn’t sing or write much now. Her albums are gems and each is unique.
There’s always the music!
The title song "Hejira", and "Amelia" are equally admired songs. But there are other fascinating story songs on Hejira like "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Song for Sharon". In interviews, Mitchell has made it clear that even though her songs reference events in her own life, she doesn't consider them to be confessional songs - she purposefully crafts the lyrics into stories that contain universal truths.
Beautiful!
I'd love to hear what you could do with this tune. Joni was a tuning wizard. Good luck.
She had to be a tuning wizard due to residual weakness in her left hand from polio when she was young.
Wow. Thanks for doing this. Another tremendous album of hers.
We loved everything about this song! So glad you enjoyed Rob!
Joni Mitchell is an Icon!
Definitely!
Definitely check out the live version she did with The Band in "The Last Waltz". For years this was my favorite Joni album, only nudged out by "For the Roses" the last couple of years. An amazing string of 7 must own albums ended with "Hejira". The number of artists that can make such a claim is less than 10.
Awesome! Thanks!
Go get the live concert version which is a photographic documentary which includes a coyote "toying" with a mouse in the snow . . . metaphoric !
Jaco! And a beautiful song.
Check out Joni here on TH-cam playing this tune. Jamming with Bob Dylan & Roger McGuinn in Gordon Lightfoots living room.
Amazing
My Fav Joni with Jaco
You two are special
Coyotes are predators and so is the protagonist, a mixture of current SO, plus previous lover from Australia and current fling with Sam Shepard during the Rolling Thunder tour that soured her relationship with the current SO. Jaco's bell tone harmonics are a signature of his playing. Joni's time as a member of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in late 1975, was fueled with cocaine something that took her years to break, so the white lines on the highway was probably reference to usage in addition to the view from the bus of the white lines speeding past the bus.
Thanks for the info Larry!
Brilliant Joni and brilliant Jaco!
You know it!
Brilliant album! I like the lean sound of guitars and bass. Yes, Jaco is great but so is Larry Carlton on lead guitar accompaniment. A great batch of tunes and Coyote is no exception. Amelia is another standout number. And Joni's rhythm guitar tunings give the songs an exotic flavor.
Thanks for watching Reid!
Most of her songs are word paintings, and IMO, she is the greatest lyricist in modern (1960 to the present) times. Give a reaction to Amelia live if you can, with Pat Metheny on guitar (maybe Jaco too - I forget).
Thanks for watching Judley!
The lyrics on Hejira are the best of all her albums. I don't agree that she portrays herself as the victim of 'Coyote'. It sounds like the passing relationship is all well under her control.
Sight After Dark: Coyote in Southwestern US Native American lore is the Trickster. Kind of like Bugs Bunny I suppose. ;)
Thanks!
Some history about this artist: In despair with no job, no money, no roof over her head and unmarried at 21, Joni Anderson gives up her newborn daughter for adoption. A tragic secret that gave Joni Mitchell her voice.
😮 wow!
Great stuff (as usual) from Joni! Check out 'Free Man in Paris' live with Jaco, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Randy Brecker and Don Alias.
Thanks Lester!
The Bay of FUNNNDAYYYYYY
Check out Amelia & Song for Sharon. Coyote was supposedly the playwright/actor Sam Shepard.
Cool thanks!
Hejira is an Arab word for a journey that Muslims make to Mecca. I guess she's using the word here in a general sense to refer to any exotic journey. In this song she is a hitchhiker who gets picked up by a "coyote". Coyote is a word used to describe the people who smuggle illegal aliens from Mexico to the US across the border because it describes someone who is cunning enough to evade the law. Coyotes are considered by native Americans to be very sly animals or tricksters.
Probably the best singer songwriter ever. The live version at The Last Waltz was even better.
*The Last Waltz:)
FYI she is also a painter.
Is she? Nice!
See link to article about album Hissing of Summer Lawns . She did her own art work.
Coyote is the Trickster, and Trickster makes this world.
Ok!
the baseline by Jaco Pastorius 😄
Well put Dan. I live around Coyotes. You nailed it Sifa. They're like a Fox. Both sly. Both hit and run
🦊!
🦊!
You should listen to Amelia next. Beautiful song and story!
I saw Jaco in 1978..Big personality onstage..brightly dressed with Weather report..i remember that more then Bob Marley which is like a picture postcard in my mind. Coyote like crow is spirit guide to the locals indigenous so it has two connotations.Coyote is a scavenger that will ravage and leave..eats roots and leaves as we say in australia...root being sexual.
Isn't the image she first paints amazing how they are from two different worlds where he is up early on the ranch when she is coming home at the same time he is rises...and he is the darkness..he is a predator...fine white lines..chop a line,,and hunting hitchhikers,,
Nice
Have y’all listened to her collaboration with Charlie Mingus? It’s called Mingus.
We haven’t. Thanks for the info!
Joni and Dylan....singers or poets......?...maybe both !
🇨🇦❤️👌Our treasure, genius!!
For sure!
Voice yes, but also instantly really interesting chords. In this era and before, Joni sang a lot (entirely too much for me) about what were explicitly super-rich people's problems. But this song (and to be fair, many of her songs) cuts acroos all of that.
Somehow there’s a steady beat in this song. She’s weaving around it while getting out in front or lagging behind the chord changes. That’s what it sounds like to me, anyway. She is a master of phrasing as it is…but this song is even better than usual for that.
In native American lore, Coyote is the trickster god
Ahh!
Coyotes are total players.
❤
Wonderful Joni probably the best singer songwriter for generations.
For something totally new to you, you need to take a serious listen to "The Defamation of Strickland Banks" from 2010, one of the best white soul albums for years. A reaction video would be good, you should also read about Plan B's (Ben Drew) back story and also the story contained in "The Defamation of Strickland Banks".
Another excellent reaction! And the album has really stood the test of time - sounds as good or better today as it ever did.
As a little side note - The coyote as a metaphor can also be seen as it is in some First Nation narratives, as a trickster, a ne'redowell or a troublemaker who, while not malicious, loves to stir the shit and play around. And Shepard was a notorious ladies man so it fits. The coyote of the desert/ranch as opposed to Joni the singer from the city and the road. Or not, lol.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the info!
Is this Jaco on bass..I heard harmonics to begin...she had to suffer folk musicians who laid ugly black fence posts for basslines.Then Jaco Pastorious painted fluidity or water colours with the basslines.Poor Jaco ,so beautiful and he needed to go fast and needed hi octane to get there and ended up with a money addiction that broke his relationships..Then I heard he passed killed by a bouncer..He was a shooting star but sadly so short.
Great song,
As great as Jaco was, I still prefer the live version from The Last Waltz with The Band backing her up.
Lots of double meanings in this song, and considering it was the 70’s the “white lines” certainly has more than one meaning.
Those fine white lines may not be made of paint on the pavement, it was the late '70s.
Lol fair
Joni is a lyricall maverick tho !!!
Now I'm pondering guys' break-up or simply "so long" songs. Nothing definitive as yet, lmfao. 😂
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Sounds like Pat Metheny on guitar also.
Larry Carlton played the lead guitar. Joni on rhythm guitar.
Great track. The entire "Hejira" album is another one of Joni's masterpieces. Yeah, it's def about Sam Shepard. I like that you both listen to the song in it's entirety before commenting. Some of these idiots posting reaction vids could take a lesson from you two.
Thanks for watching Skeeter!
The "Coyote" is Sam Shepherd of whom she had an affair while out on a concert road trip.
Joanie wad FZ's neighbor in Laurel Canyon
Cool!
Coyotes are known as tricksters.
Ahh!
My pleasure and and I will always watch when you react to any of my favorites. And I have to give you both credit for your thoughtful reactions (vs. most others who have no value or interest to convey). I will probably subscribe soon, although I've been unsubscribing lately because of what I just mentioned.
If you get a chance, please give a listen & react to my 2 favorite contemporary singers, the young ladies from Norway, Angelina Jordan and Aurora. I'd be surprised if you don't find something in each to appreciate. I could go on about them but have rattled on too long already.
Keep up the good work and take care.
Thanks so much!
Is Coyote a real person or just a composite collection of players? Coyote = Opportunist (Spanish pronunciation?) kai-ow-tee She: 'to run away to wrestle with my eee-go'
Ubethchya it was a real person from in her past times of the 70`s ....but not the dude playin the smokin arse bass Jaco,me favorite of those days....
poetry man poetry...yes Jaco...just sayin':)
Coyotes are elusive and opportunistic.
We think we know some human ones!
What you missed was the fact that she used him as well.
Thanks Gregg!
Coyote = predator
Jaco ... gone too young
OK. Very talented - but her phrasing just not my thing. Nor the subject, nor the melody. Sigh. Very talented.
We respect your opinion!