Joni, the singer, the composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist .... The GREATEST of the greats bar none.
I cried so many times watching this. She is the embodiment of creativity and muse. Grounded in reality like most humans never experience and has the ability to crystalize life and nature into song. She is simply singular in this regard.
as she says in her song she is lost and seeking the truth, in amazing grace she would be found in forgiveness in friendship of amazing grace. Praying the best for her and all, thanks
@@rhoobarb773 quit acting like a 5 year old having a tantrum. You obviously are incapable of having an adult discussion. Go to your room and no playtime for you!
Amazing musical sense, chordal sense, like she feels her way around the guitar telepathically, and then fingers just the right notes for her mind.... they'll never be another like her...thx.
I know everyone here knows it, but she seriously is the greatest artist ever. Nobody else can do all she has done. Sing, play, write and compose. Her talents truly blow my mind
I really don't know where to start with this artist. I have been listening to her for 50 years now and I hear something new every time. Her voice -- moving from the angelic, chirp ingenue of the '60s, to the folk-rock, rock and then deep-throated jazz of the late '70s -- is just mesmerizing. She has a tone and quality that is incomparable. She has a vibrato that has an ethereal quality about it. Then there is her guitar playing. I'm a jazz guitar guy. But Joni has had a big influence on my playing. Her voicings (she apparently has over 50 alternate tunings) are incredibly unique. Then there is her songwriting. Her ability to weave lyrics and melody are groundbreaking in every genre that she has pursued. If she had done nothing more than write the lyrics she would have been a genius. Take the lyrics to any song -- Woodstock, A Case of You, Amelia -- any song at all, and read it aloud. It's Shakespearian. How she has not been awarded a Nobel or Pulitzer for literature is baffling.
That’s a brilliant idea! She should have received the Nobel AND a Pulitzer and any other award for creative genius in the arts that exist. So, so very unique, out of nowhere(Saskatoon) and into international prominence before her 25th birthday.
what I find so intriguing about her music is, with out being formally trained, she understands the orchestration of classics and jazz. Between her voice, piano and guitar, it is the score of the masters.
When we were young we knew all the words to every song Joni Mitchell composed & sang. She was a tremendous influence in my late teens and early to mid 20's. She helped me navigate and define my sweetest loves and greatest heartbreaks. She gave a voice to many of my deepest thoughts. Love her to this day. Thank you, Joni for getting me through such tender ages! Case of You, River and Willie, For Free - some of my faves. "Ohhh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on....."
I remember when I was in my early twenties, I used to go to a bar called Courtney's in my home town, where they had a trio playing- female singer, guitarist and bassist- and she used to do a spot-on emulation of Joni Mitchell, my favorite was 'Twisted' off the Court and Spark album. Every time I hear her, I think of those days. I don't remember the name of the singer or even the band, but I remember that cover song! I also love the song 'River'..
I hope she knows how much we appreciate her brilliance, her amazing 🎁 gifts . She is certainly very admired, very loved, and we miss her. We worry about our beloved artist....🌹❤️✌️👍👏👏🙏 What an incredible openness, simply amazing.
Joni's music is not dated. It remains fresh with every hearing. Every song seems to have something new to say each time I hear it. Great talent, Great Spirit. Thank you Joni.
I thought I knew Joni and her work. I had no idea. I am overcome with tears at the beauty and honesty of her life and music. Joni, I love you, 40 years of beautiful music, and I never understood until today. Respect.
Her guitar playing was genius in that she used to have so many tunings and would bring sometimes an almost uncountable number of guitars to her shows. I unfortunately never had a chance to see her but have been a fan since the moment I heard her music. I am 64 and wish I would have seen her live.
While I agree with the sentiment she is included in at least 1 ‘top 100 guitarist of all time’ I’ve seen in Rolling stone. I don’t always agree w those lists but she’s one of a very few women on the list and it’s hard to argue with their usual Hendrix/d allman/Clapton top three.
Like so many young arrogant Rock & R&B players at the like many I thought she was just some "Folkie" chick, as I became more experienced I began her see her true genius. Originality & story telling as a player and singer/songwriter of still unmatched original talent.
I find myself overwhelmed with emotion when listening to Joni. Her music cuts deep into my soul. I’m refreshed. My spirit soars. I feel reborn. Thank you Joni.
The only album that compares is John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, with "Mother" and "Isolation" and "Look at Me" and "Working Class Hero." But whereas "Blue" is more folk/acoustic. Lennon is punk/rock. But both are amazing in their own wonderful ways.
!:21:49 "Basically the reason I am so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human juke box" Wonderful lady...years ahead of her time....
One of the greatest of all time. Her music never ever grows old. It is never dated. What is most under appreciated was her genius as arranger and composer. She did it all. So many legendary musicians wanted to play with her.
This made me cry in the end as she found her daughter after all those years without her, i was at her Isle of White performance in 1970 and my first son was born the year before but I didn't live with his mother anymore and saw him once when he was 19 and then not again till he was 40,I lived abroad for 31 years but Joni's music has been with me all that time she is an inspiration, and to see her so happy at meeting her daughter was precious.I have just been in hospital and had 3 operations which my doctor and surgeon are amazed i survived,and my son and I talk or message every day he's now 51 I am 72 and still love all of Joni Mitchell's songs and listen to her regularly and I guess she is living through this pandemic lockdown and hope she is near her daughter and grandchildren. She is unique in my humble opinion.sorry to go on but I had to write something,thank you Joni for all those wonderful songs
She doesnt have a relationship w her daughter/grandchildren anymore. For whatever reasons it didnt work out. Joni us in a wheelchair after a very long recovery after a stroke. She has people who assist her
Her performance at isle of white 70 was inspirational and that whole fest looks on the level of Woodstock/Monterey pop/atlanta pop. She kept it together and performed in a sea of madness. Hope ur health improves, sorry to hear that. Cheers
Here on Joni’s 80th for another watch - I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this doc. Every time the woman talks about I Had A King, I burst into tears. There is something about Joni… A once in a century talent. No one like her. Like a comet passing by. Bright, shining, other-worldly ❤
Those of us who TRY to write songs are simply amazed, intimidated but most important, inspired to grab the pen again!!! Thank you Joni Mitchell. Phil Redo
She was an explosion,a gushing out of expression, feelings,life,pain,darkness,light, love,words,colours, poetry,music,intelligence,beauty,soul,natural, performer,storyteller,and Irish blood!
She's done so much music since the 60s. Great music and her level of both songwriting and musicianship keeps getting higher. Thank you Joni Mitchell. God Bless you always.
My dream in the 60's was to have Joni play at my wedding, Then I wanted to name my daughter Chelsea after Chelsea Morning, Then when I die.. I want the Circle Game to play at my memorial service. Joni has meant everything to me for almost 50 years.. I still listen to her albums when I'm feeling emotional
In the 80's my girlfriend and me would listen to Shadows and light night after night. It was so important to us she went out and bought the best stereo she could afford - and surprise me. Those times are now such a distant memory, the times, the 80's, Joni.
I’ve been a professional musician for 50 years. When I was a teenager I wanted to be the male Joni Mitchell. And I’m dead serious about that! She is a tremendous force of nature and a contradiction in every meaning of the word. She chain smokes incessantly, often having more than one cigarette going at a time. Friends of mine have spent time in her house and have said that every square inch of her home is painted by Joni. Every doorway, every window frame, everything A glorious adornment of color and all of it six or seven shades darker as it’s covered in tobacco smoke stain. Passionate and loving and intelligent and articulate, seriously independent, and fierce in the best meaning of the word, and yet extraordinarily bitter and hateful towards the music industry. And who can blame her? The music industry is formalized rape and pillage and they should all be swallowed up into one of Dante‘s circles of hell. But then she straps on the guitar. And she steps up to the microphone. And even now, wizened and old and bitter and somewhat hateful at more than a little crazy she sings our dreams back to us with a voice not like angels but more like God. And now she has MS and she can no longer really play all those guitars with all those different tunings. For a time she played a Parker Fly guitar that Ken custom made for her. And she ran it through, I believe it was a Korg product, that changed the tuning of the guitar. Because she used to go out on the road with three guitar techs and 20 guitars and she was just too weak to do that anymore. I hope she lives to be 500 years old, but most of all my wish for Joni Mitchell is for her to feel at peace and know that she is respected and deeply loved by regular working men and women all over the world. Because after all, we are all on that lonely road, traveling, traveling, traveling….
I loved hearing about her turning her home into an extraordinary work of art in every nook and cranny. I can see it in my mind. It’s a delicious thought. Thank you for sharing that.
This girl was so talented, so brilliant, so beautiful. But that's what it's like with a flippin' genius of this calibre. Everything about her shawn with exuberance. How wonderful it is so much information about her is documented forever and ever. Love to the great Joni .
I appreciate this documentary, I played her music on my piano thinking I wanted to become a musician, but went on to design clothing. Drugs in that in the industry drove me out and into nursing and now I'm into watercolor painting. Wonderful how life flows on... I respect Joni and her music, original and fun!
I admire this woman so much . A genius musician , the alternative tuning melodies that come from who knows where? ... just genius I suppose. Changing from genre to genre to genre with such amazing artistry. She's possibly the greatest artist of the 20th Century, of any medium.
The beauty & authenticity of her catalogue is unparalleled. Forever grateful. She is both loth lotus flower & chameleon. Thanks to Joni, and to the makers of this film.
Searching for musicians of my youth like Crosby, Stills and Nash or Carly Simon I came across this documentary. It was four o'clock in the morning but I was so fascinated, that I could not stop watching. Thank you, Joni, for being a small part of me... Steffen from South West Germany
A universal voice. She speaks for every woman of heart and mind, and every man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams, and that surely is all of us. No other artist does that like Joni.
I’m fascinated by the rhythm built into her lyrics and the artful intonation of her voice. No ploddy-ploddy from her. Always on a different plane of consciousness from anyone else.
I'm crying. I love this amazing woman so much. She's a genius, she deserve the Nobel price. I don't care what everyone thinks, she deserves it, she's unique.
I'm nearly exhausted from emotions. This is a beautiful film about a ground-breaking and talented Artist . Whether or not you already Love Joni, watch this documentary.
Uh yeah she cuts right to your soul in her music and man those paintings make me want to start painting. Geez are they good. My brother loved Joni Mitchell and he got me listening to her .
Joni Mitchell is first and foremost an ARTIST, and it expresses itself through every medium she engages with - her voice, her vocal line, guitar chords and string patterns, texts, imagery, nuances of rhyme and metre, her paints, abstraction and texture. She is the ear, eye, heart and voice that feels so deeply beyond all thought of anything external or material - it is all internal and intuitive with the boundless courage and fearlessness to turn her inside world outside and share it with whomever would listen. She is a gift to our generation.
Missing from the description: *Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind* _An Emmy Award winning profile of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and how her music evolved from personal folk into pop, jazz and avant-garde._ Written and directed by Susan Lacy. From Season 17, Episode 5 of American Masters on PBS. Originally broadcast 3rd April 2003. (It's really worth checking the other American Masters documentaries. They showcase many artists from all types of creative backgrounds). Released on DVD in 2003 with bonus interview and performance footage. #AmericanMastersPBS #jonimitchell #documentary
Oh thank you, I wondered where this came from! I remember watching American Masters on PBS, how I missed this IDK. My late ex-husband was part of the "counterculture", I was a bit late but caught up very fast as the art and music suited my tastes more than Boston, Foreigner, Styx etc - no soul!! Anyway I appreciate hearing the origins of this beautifully-done piece. Again, thank you! ☮❤
After watching this YT video I have a new understanding and respect for the path that Joni chose and why. I'm thankful that at age 69 I still can learn and enrich my soul. Thankfully there have been others who can light our path forward even though I'm rather late to this revelation.
I saw Joni in 1976 At the Music Hall in Boston.when she was with the Rolling Thunder Review that had Dylan, Baez, and an all star cast of RR musians. I forgot them all, but Joni absolutely stole the show. What a performance! Joni was part of the soundtrack of my youth. I love her dearly.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful and heartrending documentary, about a truly brilliant and sensitive artist. A child-like honesty in an openhearted adult. Joni was blessed with so much talent, what exquisite gifts she gave us. She could have been a painter too. The music and the language is so personal and so enthralling. This artistry has deep resonance, honouring our core most personal vulnerabilities in life's journey. She succeeded in maintaining her artistic and spiritual integrity. She embodied a renaissance of the spirit, one of the great qualities of the 1960's culture.
@@nadiazayman779 True, she even incorporated many great works (paintings) into the album cover designs for " Turbulent Indigo " and many of her last most recent .
I was blessed by the music GODS when I saw her live in concert!!! Thank u Joni for being on this planet for u to share your artistry! You are the real deal...
Joni Mitchell was just apart of my life. It was like driving down the same streets and doing the dishes, she was just just apart of everything. I adored her. She sure got me through a lot of bad moments.
What a complex woman. She developed a unique style that she carried from folk to jazz, a poet and a naked soul. Where some might sing a single syllable word with a note, Joni has six notes for that one word, and makes you savor every single one of them. She is a modern treasure. I hope that Graham is right, and that she will be strong enough to share with us again soon. So many contemporary women could learn from Joni what it means to sing.
This was one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. The summing up at the end was emotional. I did not realize what a very good painter she is. I also want to say that whoever wrote the string arrangement for the end version of 'Both Sides Now' wrote s gorgeous score.
I agree with all your points. FYI: the orchestra arrangement that you referenced was written by Vince Mendoza, who is a top level orchestrator/arranger/composer with many interesting project credits.
@@MusicLiberates Vince Mendoza? Nice! Vince Mendoza is LEGEND with Metropole Orkest. He has arranged and released recordings with my idols Elvis Costello, John Scofield, and João Bosco, just to name a few. AMAZING! And Joni's Both Sides Now version from her retirement show lives on my iPhones. The arrangement is pure magic, transposed down to meet her current vocal range, and with her performance, it communicates the deep gravitas of her life. Goosebumps...
Seriously now, ever since I heard Joni it was love at first hearing… completely hypnotized by the singular outstanding beauty of her voice and composition. Later I could pay attention to her poetry. It was all too much to take at once. She is definitively the best singer songwriter in history. Number one by far. In my taste of music it’s Joni, Crosby Stills & Nash, King Crimson and Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays. Of course, so many other contemporary artists with incredible talent and beautiful songs. But these I keep on listening all the time, never get tired of them.
I grew up listening, and learning to play all of Joni’s music... one of the greatest days of my life, was getting to meet her. She was so friendly and gracious. Love you Joni... you will always be a part of me. ~V~
I can remember the very first time I heard Joni, I was at summer camp in Michigan, Camp Henry. I have listened to her ever since. Her music still stirs my soul to this day. Her music is my treasure
"All I Want" Such a GREAT SONG!!! Few artists can convey happiness like this. I'm singing my way, after an ER therapy phone session, through a BAD breakup (breaking up **at least** for now). At least I have my voice. Very warm, with great range, today. A blessing. Nothing improves your range like singing with this amazing, impassioned singer-songwriter. No one like her. I don't know if she found happiness, but she made art.
I grew up in the 60s. I heard Joni's singles on the radio and you know, they were pretty good and I thought she was okay. Then one night around 1976, I listened to the album Blue, from beginning to end. I was transfixed. It absolutely ripped my heart out. I suddenly understood her genius and the power of her art. She is unique, sui generis, alone in her ability to convey emotion and feelings through song.
What a great person! I listened to her songs since the beginning in the late sixties and she accompanied me for over 6 decades and she really influenced my life here in Cologne/Germany with every song she ever recorded.
Na dann Grüße aus dem Agnesviertel. Bei mir sind’s mittlerweile auch 45 Jahre; und auf die sprichwörtliche einsame Insel würde ich mindestens eine ihrer Platten mitnehmen.
@@ruben1956 Schön, dass es in meiner Nähe noch eine verwandte Seele gab/gibt - zumindest was Joni betrifft. Und schade natürlich, dass sie nach ihrem Schlaganfall nun verstummt ist.
Both Sides Now was one song I learned to sing and play from my father, who taught me to play guitar when I in about 9th grade. We used to sing and play together. Miss those days......🎵🎸🎵🎸
I remember, when an old buddy of mine met his soon-to-be wife ( and now have two brilliant children ! ). We were up at Mheagre Creek hot-springs, just rockin' his van and playin'' Joni's album, Blue, all night. Match made in Heaven, I think.
Joni is a genius who was overlooked for many years. She is the only who writes her own songs/poems, sings them, plays them (with her ONW INVENTED TUNINGS),, and is a FABULOUS painter/artist. She is PURE genius.
So much, joy, sadness, anger, humour, angst and self-exposure expressed through incredible music, voice and lyrics. She reminds me of Eric Clapton, in that they describe the seasons of their lives for themselves as well as for those willing to listen and respond with enjoyment and honesty. An amazing artist and performer who expresses her inner beauty and soul like no one else in the contemporary music world. Thank you Joni
More than anything I'd heard from my parents, or teachers, or even friends, it was her song, Down to You, that woke me to my own personal responsibility in everything I do. That song signaled the very moment I grew up. So . . . thanks for that, Joni.
I love what she says about chords, that they're "depictions of emotions". I read somewhere that Django, although mostly thought of as a "lead guitarist", actually was most intrigued by chords. "Chords of inquiry", Joni calls them. I so get that.
One, if not the one, -greatest contemporary female singer song-writers and instrumentalists of three decades at least.1967-1997! Thank you, Joni Mitchell!
Thank you ... I'm left feeling so disconnected from my Heart and Mind ... at the same time deeply moved by all the insight the people in this contributed ... and Joni herself.
I'm ashamed to say it has taken all of 44 years of life for me to finally wake up and appreciate the calming sound that is Joni Mitchell. In my life, I put her up there with Helen Reddy as the women whose singing voices never fail to calm the nerves for me. What a legend!
That was a very quick hour and a half, thanks to the upper and the creators of the documentary, and of course, most of all to our lovely Joni and her pure soulful artistry.
A great documentary on Joni's influences on us and the world, with her unique music, like no other. I discovered her music at about the time that the Court and Spark album was released, near my 20th birthday, and I couldn't help then to just buying up every prior album of hers, and then every next album that released after it. I soon met my wife to be, and eventually found that she too had also purchased the Court and Spark album. I became even more interested at the time of Joni's next album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, showing her sudden heavy increase in a sophisticated Jazz influence, as my wife and I eventually attended her 1979 tour concert, where she featured many numbers from that album and the Hejira album in the concert. Her next album Hejira, I realized with the first tracks I heard on local FM radio in Portland Oregon where I still reside in my hometown today, especially the title track to that album, nearly knocked me to the ground, and brought me to tears. Who could not relate to what she's talking about on a solo road trip by oneself in such loneliness. The expression of existentialism in that albums title song still today, I now identify with the famous line by an ancient philosopher, I think it's Socrates - the unexamined life is not worth living. When I hear that title track to that album still today I have the same reaction as it personally hits me hard about my solo West Coast Pacific thousand plus miles road trips every winter to California. I was pleasantly surprised to see a music writer from NPR radio appear at 1:07:14 on the time bar, Tom Manoff. I accidentally, and ironically, ran into him almost 20 years ago, as he was travelling through the east side of Portland Oregon one night and had stopped at a 24-hour coffee house near my home where I had a large telescope set up allowing the public to observe celestial objects through it, which I've provided this public service for thousands of hours ever since taking a 10,000 mile cross country road trip, with a solar research grade telescope in 2000. I later spoke about this on National Public Radio on their Talk of the Nation discussion on March 14th of 2005, I believe this was a few years after I spoke to Tom Manoff. Manoff was writing a story about Johannes Kepler, the famous astronomer, and he had told me he wanted to make me famous about what I was doing for the public. I think I explained to him that I'd already been in the newspapers across the nation, spoke on television news, and had a brush with fame being over-publicized about my self-initiated sidewalk astronomy for the past several years. So I was pleasantly surprised in this documentary on Joni Mitchell when she admitted that she didn't like being put up on a pedestal and others trying to over publicize her into excessive fame. As I spoke that first time on NPR's Talk of the Nation on March 14th 2005, they were discussing the famous Andy Warhol line, that everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. I was the second caller to call in. I told the story about the 10,000 mile road trip I made across the nation, and into Eastern Canada, borrowing my local astronomy clubs hydrogen-alpha solar research grade telescope to allow thousands to observe the sun safely through it, but that my own local club rather persecuted me when I returned home, as some people in the club claimed I was just doing this to become famous in the news. This NPR Talk of the Nation discussions can be accessed through their archives to review it, by date and title - The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame, is a book title and the author they interviewed about it. What is shocking is toward the end of this 35 minute discussion at about the 20 minute point on the time bar, they bring on a Doctor of psychology that describes a condition of what fame can do to some people. I was quite sorrowed to hear when Joni had suffered her brain aneurysm in about 2015, and hospitalized for so long. I see where she eventually appeared to receive the Les Paul guitar award about a year ago and she was escorted by Herbie Hancock to the stage to receive it, as she struggled to speak briefly, to express her thanks. I hope she is still improving and doing better. There's talk that she wants to try to perform again if she's eventually able to. I think now more than ever for the public to see her perform again, could save the world.
I love this documentary. Something that didn't occur to me until the third time I watched it - there's commentary by David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, and others, but nothing from the women who were Joni's contemporaries. Some commentary by Joan Baez, Judy Collins, etc. would have been interesting. Mama Cass Elliott also lived in Laurel Canyon, so some commentary from her perhaps. Judy Collins in particular, since she recorded "Clouds" before Joni had a recording contract, and her hit with that song helped launch Joni's career from the Greenwich Village coffeehouses to national and international fame. Funny that isn't mentioned in the documentary.
@@andrewhope3525 Doesn’t matter if she has died. There are lots of recorded commentaries from her. Your points are excellent ones. There’s just too much Joni to fit into a film of her. At least for those with typical little spans of attention. I could drink a case of her and still be on my feet.
You have seen an interesting corner not seen by others 👌 Perhaps Joni’s ‘public persona’ was so much associated with hetero ‘love’ the producers felt they would ‘distort’ the narrative ? But your point is well seen. Thank you for sharing.
Her work is a miracle in my life, and it never stops giving. There are songs here I haven't heard in a long, long time and had almost forgotten. And some insights into Joni as a person that I wasn't aware of before, after so many years of being a fan. Great documentary.
Joni Mitchel lived and wrote and sang in the moment. Her moment was relevant then and relevant now for those of us who are able to listen. It's because some things never change. A steadfast voice in times that seemed to change a lot but really, only underscored and maybe exaggerated the eternal.
Joni was a large part of the soundtrack of my life, the vulnerability of youth, the love, the loss, disappointment.. all of it. Thank you for this beautiful documentary. She is among the greatest artists of my generation. I will always love you, Joni ❤️
She is so cute, no matter what age you see her at. And her music is amazing, it hits you in your soul, and never stops seeping into your heart! LOVE YOU JONI!!!
thank God for Joni she's amazing ..a true Artist and a great influence over me I grew up in a Musical Family all I knew was the Organ Piano Violin Clarinet and 2 rusty Guitars I was writing songs before I met her records at 15 ..but I was like hanging on for dear life when I heard her for the first time ....
So glad my life has had her soundtrack of creativity woven into it. Always admired her stark honesty and self examination. A hard thing to do but its outcome is her unique, wonderful, poetic repertoire. Thanks for this film.
stuarm2002 Prince did a wonderful version of Joni's song, A Case of You. she also gets a mention in one of his songs. the Ballad of Dorothy Parker. He was a huge admirer of Joni.
I love this woman and always have. I first heard her voice c.1982 with the album Chinese Cafe in a friend's cottage in Ireland. It resonated profoundly on a level beyond my understanding. I didn't know why then, but I knew it was a voice of truth and this documentary certainly reinforces that truth. May you continue in good health Joni.
This is truly one of the best films I've ever seen. Our culture seldom takes the efficiency to truly look t women as we are instead of us as stereotypes.independence is very hard as we long for connection too
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Joni, the singer, the composer, the lyricist, the poet, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist .... The GREATEST of the greats bar none.
She deserves a Nobel Prize, how can we make that happen?
Try Judee Sill- transcendent genius
I cried so many times watching this. She is the embodiment of creativity and muse. Grounded in reality like most humans never experience and has the ability to crystalize life and nature into song. She is simply singular in this regard.
Same… straight chills and sobs when she shares about Woodstock and then they cut to her singing the song.
❤❤❤🌻
Yes! Absolutely!
This brought tears to my eyes. Joni’s music was the background of my 20s. I’m in my 70s now and her songs are still the background of my life.
as she says in her song she is lost and seeking the truth, in amazing grace she would be found in forgiveness in friendship of amazing grace. Praying the best for her and all, thanks
and mine at 65.
I cried too...
*I wonder if any of those 'Songs' are a 'background' for her ABANDONED DISCARDED DAUGHTER?*
She was he background to my life from age 14+
I've been a musician my whole life. Joni is a genius like no one else. No one.
@ Digging your heels in only hurts your feet.
@ Fnck off. You know nothing.
So do I. I didn't want my post blocked. You still know nothing.
@@rhoobarb773 quit acting like a 5 year old having a tantrum. You obviously are incapable of having an adult discussion. Go to your room and no playtime for you!
Amazing musical sense, chordal sense, like she feels her way around the guitar telepathically, and then fingers just the right notes for her mind.... they'll never be another like her...thx.
I know everyone here knows it, but she seriously is the greatest artist ever. Nobody else can do all she has done. Sing, play, write and compose. Her talents truly blow my mind
and paint!! biggest love
and NEVER sell out, thats the kingpin.
@@maggiejones7076 I was about to add that comment. A multitalented artist on such a high level.
Apa
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What I see is a woman who has stayed true to herself and her art.
PS holds away not away
Darn I wrote holds sway NOT away
Pity you can’t have that and marriage. But I’ve rarely seen it.
Nobel Prize?
I really don't know where to start with this artist. I have been listening to her for 50 years now and I hear something new every time. Her voice -- moving from the angelic, chirp ingenue of the '60s, to the folk-rock, rock and then deep-throated jazz of the late '70s -- is just mesmerizing. She has a tone and quality that is incomparable. She has a vibrato that has an ethereal quality about it. Then there is her guitar playing. I'm a jazz guitar guy. But Joni has had a big influence on my playing. Her voicings (she apparently has over 50 alternate tunings) are incredibly unique. Then there is her songwriting. Her ability to weave lyrics and melody are groundbreaking in every genre that she has pursued. If she had done nothing more than write the lyrics she would have been a genius. Take the lyrics to any song -- Woodstock, A Case of You, Amelia -- any song at all, and read it aloud. It's Shakespearian. How she has not been awarded a Nobel or Pulitzer for literature is baffling.
Maybe my favorite songwriter/singer/musician of all time. Most special lady of all times.
That’s a brilliant idea! She should have received the Nobel AND a Pulitzer and any other award for creative genius in the arts that exist. So, so very unique, out of nowhere(Saskatoon) and into international prominence before her 25th birthday.
I totally agree. Joni is beyond comparison.Such penetrating and poetic vision of all that Life offers, put into music that is timeless and exquisite.
what I find so intriguing about her music is, with out being formally trained, she understands the orchestration of classics and jazz. Between her voice, piano and guitar, it is the score of the masters.
SHE IS SIMPLY...AN ANGEL.
When we were young we knew all the words to every song Joni Mitchell composed & sang. She was a tremendous influence in my late teens and early to mid 20's. She helped me navigate and define my sweetest loves and greatest heartbreaks. She gave a voice to many of my deepest thoughts. Love her to this day. Thank you, Joni for getting me through such tender ages! Case of You, River and Willie, For Free - some of my faves. "Ohhh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on....."
I remember when I was in my early twenties, I used to go to a bar called Courtney's in my home town, where they had a trio playing- female singer, guitarist and bassist- and she used to do a spot-on emulation of Joni Mitchell, my favorite was 'Twisted' off the Court and Spark album. Every time I hear her, I think of those days. I don't remember the name of the singer or even the band, but I remember that cover song! I also love the song 'River'..
I also do a cover of 'The Circle Game'
I hope she knows how much we appreciate her brilliance, her amazing 🎁 gifts .
She is certainly very admired, very loved, and we miss her.
We worry about our beloved artist....🌹❤️✌️👍👏👏🙏 What an incredible openness, simply amazing.
Me too
Her writing in those 70s/commune days is so good
Joni's music is not dated. It remains fresh with every hearing. Every song seems to have something new to say each time I hear it. Great talent, Great Spirit. Thank you Joni.
I thought I knew Joni and her work. I had no idea. I am overcome with tears at the beauty and honesty of her life and music. Joni, I love you, 40 years of beautiful music, and I never understood until today. Respect.
Why does noone ever talk about her guitar playing - tunings and picking - her ear is impeccable and so precise.
Her guitar playing was genius in that she used to have so many tunings and would bring sometimes an almost uncountable number of guitars to her shows. I unfortunately never had a chance to see her but have been a fan since the moment I heard her music. I am 64 and wish I would have seen her live.
While I agree with the sentiment she is included in at least 1 ‘top 100 guitarist of all time’ I’ve seen in Rolling stone. I don’t always agree w those lists but she’s one of a very few women on the list and it’s hard to argue with their usual Hendrix/d allman/Clapton top three.
@@josephdurbin8736 Part of her genius I guess. No one can play her songs without retuning between them.
@@josephdurbin8736 she was honoured this year for the Les Paul Innovation award th-cam.com/video/bi42pKrQ20c/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
Like so many young arrogant Rock & R&B players at the like many I thought she was just some "Folkie" chick, as I became more experienced I began her see her true genius. Originality & story telling as a player and singer/songwriter of still unmatched original talent.
I find myself overwhelmed with emotion when listening to Joni.
Her music cuts deep into my soul. I’m refreshed. My spirit soars. I feel reborn.
Thank you Joni.
she is a feast
@@gigidayz6936, Michael, please read my comment.
You read my heart mind and soul
True genius Joni Mitchell
Yes. That's it exactly.
When I first heard "Blue" I was gut-shot, I NEVER had heard and even now never hear such brutal heart wrenching honesty in an album by ANYBODY !
absolutely the same with me, Stig. I was also struck by how "A Case Of Me" is the best dulcimer tune ever.........
The only album that compares is John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, with "Mother" and "Isolation" and "Look at Me" and "Working Class Hero." But whereas "Blue" is more folk/acoustic. Lennon is punk/rock. But both are amazing in their own wonderful ways.
Leonard Cohen pretty good at hammering out your real self
Yeah if you're an artist and you're not honest then just don't even bother.
Will never forget the first time I heard that album! Very special memory
Graham Nash's description of falling for Joni - so beautiful! He still loves her...
TheDaddyO44 so do I.
I feel for Graham. How do you ever get over a woman like that?
He was her muse in that, the best of all times.
The photos of her and all her partners are so intimate one almost feels a voyeur to their love.
@@johnsullivan305 And vice versa : "I Used to Be a King" , "Our House"
!:21:49 "Basically the reason I am so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human juke box" Wonderful lady...years ahead of her time....
A singular artist. There's really no one you can compare her to, female or male.
One of the greatest of all time. Her music never ever grows old. It is never dated. What is most under appreciated was her genius as arranger and composer. She did it all. So many legendary musicians wanted to play with her.
And she didn't need anyone to play with her.
falsetto er whatever,she had 'IT.'
This made me cry in the end as she found her daughter after all those years without her, i was at her Isle of White performance in 1970 and my first son was born the year before but I didn't live with his mother anymore and saw him once when he was 19 and then not again till he was 40,I lived abroad for 31 years but Joni's music has been with me all that time she is an inspiration, and to see her so happy at meeting her daughter was precious.I have just been in hospital and had 3 operations which my doctor and surgeon are amazed i survived,and my son and I talk or message every day he's now 51 I am 72 and still love all of Joni Mitchell's songs and listen to her regularly and I guess she is living through this pandemic lockdown and hope she is near her daughter and grandchildren. She is unique in my humble opinion.sorry to go on but I had to write something,thank you Joni for all those wonderful songs
She doesnt have a relationship w her daughter/grandchildren anymore. For whatever reasons it didnt work out. Joni us in a wheelchair after a very long recovery after a stroke. She has people who assist her
Her performance at isle of white 70 was inspirational and that whole fest looks on the level of Woodstock/Monterey pop/atlanta pop. She kept it together and performed in a sea of madness. Hope ur health improves, sorry to hear that. Cheers
*** Wight
I think her daughter found her, not the other way round.
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Joni Mitchell for me was and is strength and beauty and she is otherworldly. . Her art and life are stellar. I’ve loved her my whole life.
It's high time that they made a biographical documentary worthy of 'our' Joni, and this is it!
Here on Joni’s 80th for another watch - I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this doc. Every time the woman talks about I Had A King, I burst into tears. There is something about Joni… A once in a century talent. No one like her. Like a comet passing by. Bright, shining, other-worldly ❤
Those of us who TRY to write songs are simply amazed, intimidated but most important, inspired to grab the pen again!!! Thank you Joni Mitchell. Phil Redo
She was an explosion,a gushing out of expression, feelings,life,pain,darkness,light, love,words,colours, poetry,music,intelligence,beauty,soul,natural, performer,storyteller,and Irish blood!
Was? Still is and will always be...
No one better than Joni Mitchell.... Unbelievably wonderful! I've looked at life from BOTH SIDES NOW! thanks to Joni...
Hello how are you doing today...
I think Joan Baez was on par with her
She's done so much music since the 60s. Great music and her level of both songwriting and musicianship keeps getting higher. Thank you Joni Mitchell. God Bless you always.
How FORTUNATE was I to grow up with this...our music is a true representation of our society...I'll say no more.
A sick, shallow society creates anemic, shallow music.
My dream in the 60's was to have Joni play at my wedding, Then I wanted to name my daughter Chelsea after Chelsea Morning, Then when I die.. I want the Circle Game to play at my memorial service. Joni has meant everything to me for almost 50 years.. I still listen to her albums when I'm feeling emotional
In the 80's my girlfriend and me would listen to Shadows and light night after night. It was so important to us she went out and bought the best stereo she could afford - and surprise me. Those times are now such a distant memory, the times, the 80's, Joni.
I’ve been a professional musician for 50 years. When I was a teenager I wanted to be the male Joni Mitchell. And I’m dead serious about that! She is a tremendous force of nature and a contradiction in every meaning of the word. She chain smokes incessantly, often having more than one cigarette going at a time. Friends of mine have spent time in her house and have said that every square inch of her home is painted by Joni. Every doorway, every window frame, everything A glorious adornment of color and all of it six or seven shades darker as it’s covered in tobacco smoke stain. Passionate and loving and intelligent and articulate, seriously independent, and fierce in the best meaning of the word, and yet extraordinarily bitter and hateful towards the music industry. And who can blame her? The music industry is formalized rape and pillage and they should all be swallowed up into one of Dante‘s circles of hell. But then she straps on the guitar. And she steps up to the microphone. And even now, wizened and old and bitter and somewhat hateful at more than a little crazy she sings our dreams back to us with a voice not like angels but more like God. And now she has MS and she can no longer really play all those guitars with all those different tunings. For a time she played a Parker Fly guitar that Ken custom made for her. And she ran it through, I believe it was a Korg product, that changed the tuning of the guitar. Because she used to go out on the road with three guitar techs and 20 guitars and she was just too weak to do that anymore. I hope she lives to be 500 years old, but most of all my wish for Joni Mitchell is for her to feel at peace and know that she is respected and deeply loved by regular working men and women all over the world. Because after all, we are all on that lonely road, traveling, traveling, traveling….
I loved hearing about her turning her home into an extraordinary work of art in every nook and cranny. I can see it in my mind. It’s a delicious thought. Thank you for sharing that.
This girl was so talented, so brilliant, so beautiful. But that's what it's like with a flippin' genius of this calibre. Everything about her shawn with exuberance. How wonderful it is so much information about her is documented forever and ever. Love to the great Joni .
Well done. I've loved her music for practically all my life. There's been no performer with such honesty and integrity.
Guitarists, pianist, composer,poet,songwriter,lyricist and painter. No one like her.
I appreciate this documentary, I played her music on my piano thinking I wanted to become a musician, but went on to design clothing. Drugs in that in the industry drove me out and into nursing and now I'm into watercolor painting. Wonderful how life flows on... I respect Joni and her music, original and fun!
I admire this woman so much . A genius musician , the alternative tuning melodies that come from who knows where? ... just genius I suppose. Changing from genre to genre to genre with such amazing artistry. She's possibly the greatest artist of the 20th Century, of any medium.
Breathtakingly brilliant and beautiful
She's incomparable.
The beauty & authenticity of her catalogue is unparalleled. Forever grateful. She is both loth lotus flower & chameleon. Thanks to Joni, and to the makers of this film.
Searching for musicians of my youth like Crosby, Stills and Nash or Carly Simon I came across this documentary. It was four o'clock in the morning but I was so fascinated, that I could not stop watching.
Thank you, Joni, for being a small part of me...
Steffen from South West Germany
I went to college for photography in 1977. Hejira and Court & Spark were my Darkroom Soundtrack.
I can envision that, glad for you and hope you are staying creative whether with life in general or still a dedicated photographer. Best Wishes 🙏
A universal voice. She speaks for every woman of heart and mind, and every man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams, and that surely is all of us. No other artist does that like Joni.
I’m fascinated by the rhythm built into her lyrics and the artful intonation of her voice. No ploddy-ploddy from her. Always on a different plane of consciousness from anyone else.
I'm crying. I love this amazing woman so much. She's a genius, she deserve the Nobel price. I don't care what everyone thinks, she deserves it, she's unique.
Agree, we should all write or somehow make a Nobel Prize 🏆 happen for her as our gratitude for her life's work.
I'm nearly exhausted from emotions. This is a beautiful film about a ground-breaking and talented Artist . Whether or not you already Love Joni, watch this documentary.
Life's always been heartfelt with Joni. You embraced Detroit. What a gift.
she’s a genius of music, fortunate enough to hear and love her music since the 60’s, I am blessed.
This is a brilliantly conceived and executed documentary. Thanks
I AGREE !
Yes it is
Yes,wonderful.
This is so beautiful, so instructive, so inspiring. I loved every bit of this story of her life !
Uh yeah she cuts right to your soul in her music and man those paintings make me want to start painting. Geez are they good. My brother loved Joni Mitchell and he got me listening to her .
Joni Mitchell is first and foremost an ARTIST, and it expresses itself through
every medium she engages with - her voice, her vocal line, guitar chords and string patterns, texts, imagery, nuances of rhyme and metre, her paints, abstraction and texture. She is the ear, eye, heart and voice that feels so deeply beyond all thought of anything external or material - it is all internal and intuitive with the boundless courage and fearlessness to turn her inside world outside and share it with whomever would listen. She is a gift to our generation.
Missing from the description:
*Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind*
_An Emmy Award winning profile of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and how her music evolved from personal folk into pop, jazz and avant-garde._
Written and directed by Susan Lacy.
From Season 17, Episode 5 of American Masters on PBS.
Originally broadcast 3rd April 2003.
(It's really worth checking the other American Masters documentaries. They showcase many artists from all types of creative backgrounds).
Released on DVD in 2003 with bonus interview and performance footage.
#AmericanMastersPBS #jonimitchell #documentary
Oh thank you, I wondered where this came from! I remember watching American Masters on PBS, how I missed this IDK. My late ex-husband was part of the "counterculture", I was a bit late but caught up very fast as the art and music suited my tastes more than Boston, Foreigner, Styx etc - no soul!! Anyway I appreciate hearing the origins of this beautifully-done piece. Again, thank you! ☮❤
Thank You Amos for this info.
Thank you so much for that information. I just might have to break down and purchase a copy if they're still selling it.
After watching this YT video I have a new understanding and respect for the path that Joni chose and why. I'm thankful that at age 69 I still can learn and enrich my soul. Thankfully there have been others who can light our path forward even though I'm rather late to this revelation.
What a gift! A gift to the world. I cannot think of a more talented artist of our time... of any time.
She is a true poet and explorer. Her beauty if pervasive. Her music will live forever and be relevant.
I saw Joni in 1976 At the Music Hall in Boston.when
she was with the Rolling Thunder Review that had Dylan, Baez, and an all star cast of RR musians.
I forgot them all, but Joni absolutely stole the show. What a performance!
Joni was part of the soundtrack of my youth. I love her dearly.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful and heartrending documentary, about a truly brilliant and sensitive artist. A child-like honesty in an openhearted adult. Joni was blessed with so much talent, what exquisite gifts she gave us. She could have been a painter too. The music and the language is so personal and so enthralling. This artistry has deep resonance, honouring our core most personal vulnerabilities in life's journey. She succeeded in maintaining her artistic and spiritual integrity. She embodied a renaissance of the spirit, one of the great qualities of the 1960's culture.
MichaelK MC She is a painter. Has commercial and popular success as such.
@@nadiazayman779 True, she even incorporated many great works (paintings) into the album cover designs for " Turbulent Indigo " and many of her last most recent .
I was blessed by the music GODS when I saw her live in concert!!! Thank u Joni for being on this planet for u to share your artistry! You are the real deal...
Joni Mitchell was just apart of my life. It was like driving down the same streets and doing the dishes, she was just just apart of everything. I adored her. She sure got me through a lot of bad moments.
What a complex woman. She developed a unique style that she carried from folk to jazz, a poet and a naked soul. Where some might sing a single syllable word with a note, Joni has six notes for that one word, and makes you savor every single one of them. She is a modern treasure. I hope that Graham is right, and that she will be strong enough to share with us again soon. So many contemporary women could learn from Joni what it means to sing.
she is a genius writer, poet, guitar player with her open tunnings, singer and painter...
Best documentary I have seen to date on Joni.
No ear pieces here, just flawless music and inspired words. Amazing metaphors, jumping off the page and smoothly forming such beautiful images....
This was one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. The summing up at the end was emotional. I did not realize what a very good painter she is. I also want to say that whoever wrote the string arrangement for the end version of 'Both Sides Now' wrote s gorgeous score.
I agree with all your points. FYI: the orchestra arrangement that you referenced was written by Vince Mendoza, who is a top level orchestrator/arranger/composer with many interesting project credits.
@@MusicLiberates Vince Mendoza? Nice! Vince Mendoza is LEGEND with Metropole Orkest. He has arranged and released recordings with my idols Elvis Costello, John Scofield, and João Bosco, just to name a few. AMAZING! And Joni's Both Sides Now version from her retirement show lives on my iPhones. The arrangement is pure magic, transposed down to meet her current vocal range, and with her performance, it communicates the deep gravitas of her life. Goosebumps...
Seriously now, ever since I heard Joni it was love at first hearing… completely hypnotized by the singular outstanding beauty of her voice and composition. Later I could pay attention to her poetry. It was all too much to take at once. She is definitively the best singer songwriter in history. Number one by far. In my taste of music it’s Joni, Crosby Stills & Nash, King Crimson and Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays. Of course, so many other contemporary artists with incredible talent and beautiful songs. But these I keep on listening all the time, never get tired of them.
I grew up listening, and learning to play all of Joni’s music... one of the greatest days of my life, was getting to meet her. She was so friendly and gracious. Love you Joni... you will always be a part of me. ~V~
I can remember the very first time I heard Joni, I was at summer camp in Michigan, Camp Henry. I have listened to her ever since. Her music still stirs my soul to this day. Her music is my treasure
"All I Want"
Such a GREAT SONG!!!
Few artists can convey happiness like this.
I'm singing my way, after an ER therapy phone session, through a BAD breakup (breaking up **at least** for now).
At least I have my voice.
Very warm, with great range, today. A blessing.
Nothing improves your range like singing with this amazing, impassioned singer-songwriter.
No one like her.
I don't know if she found happiness, but she made art.
Hello how are you doing today..
I just saw her a week ago and I am still not over it. So powerful & wonderful. ❤
Me too, it will stay with me forever I think
I grew up in the 60s. I heard Joni's singles on the radio and you know, they were pretty good and I thought she was okay. Then one night around 1976, I listened to the album Blue, from beginning to end. I was transfixed. It absolutely ripped my heart out. I suddenly understood her genius and the power of her art. She is unique, sui generis, alone in her ability to convey emotion and feelings through song.
What a great person! I listened to her songs since the beginning in the late sixties and she accompanied me for over 6 decades and she really influenced my life here in Cologne/Germany with every song she ever recorded.
Na dann Grüße aus dem Agnesviertel. Bei mir sind’s mittlerweile auch 45 Jahre; und auf die sprichwörtliche einsame Insel würde ich mindestens eine ihrer Platten mitnehmen.
@@ruben1956 Schön, dass es in meiner Nähe noch eine verwandte Seele gab/gibt - zumindest was Joni betrifft. Und schade natürlich, dass sie nach ihrem Schlaganfall nun verstummt ist.
A wonderful Documentary. And at my age I truly can appreciate everything said.
Both Sides Now was one song I learned to sing and play from my father, who taught me to play guitar when I in about 9th grade. We used to sing and play together. Miss those days......🎵🎸🎵🎸
A beautiful, adorable woman, called by God out of the cold woods of Canada
to show us our own dreams.
I remember, when an old buddy of mine met his soon-to-be wife ( and now have two brilliant children ! ). We were up at Mheagre Creek hot-springs, just rockin' his van and playin'' Joni's album, Blue, all night. Match made in Heaven, I think.
Joni is a genius who was overlooked for many years. She is the only who writes her own songs/poems, sings them, plays them (with her ONW INVENTED TUNINGS),, and is a FABULOUS painter/artist. She is PURE genius.
So much, joy, sadness, anger, humour, angst and self-exposure expressed through incredible music, voice and lyrics. She reminds me of Eric Clapton, in that they describe the seasons of their lives for themselves as well as for those willing to listen and respond with enjoyment and honesty. An amazing artist and performer who expresses her inner beauty and soul like no one else in the contemporary music world. Thank you Joni
Joni is an amazing artist who for years created such great songs.
More than anything I'd heard from my parents, or teachers, or even friends, it was her song, Down to You, that woke me to my own personal responsibility in everything I do. That song signaled the very moment I grew up. So . . . thanks for that, Joni.
Glad to have grown up with Joni, beginning with hearing her original version of Woodstock while communally camping on Mill Creek, Big Sur, 1970.
I love what she says about chords, that they're "depictions of emotions". I read somewhere that Django, although mostly thought of as a "lead guitarist", actually was most intrigued by chords. "Chords of inquiry", Joni calls them. I so get that.
One, if not the one, -greatest contemporary female singer song-writers and instrumentalists of three decades at least.1967-1997! Thank you, Joni Mitchell!
Thank you ... I'm left feeling so disconnected from my Heart and Mind ... at the same time deeply moved by all the insight the people in this contributed ... and Joni herself.
Wow...double WOW! what a woman and what a genius ! Love her...and hope she is well!
I'm ashamed to say it has taken all of 44 years of life for me to finally wake up and appreciate the calming sound that is Joni Mitchell. In my life, I put her up there with Helen Reddy as the women whose singing voices never fail to calm the nerves for me. What a legend!
That was a very quick hour and a half, thanks to the upper and the creators of the documentary, and of course, most of all to our lovely Joni and her pure soulful artistry.
nicely put!
A great documentary on Joni's influences on us and the world, with her unique music, like no other.
I discovered her music at about the time that the Court and Spark album was released, near my 20th birthday, and I couldn't help then to just buying up every prior album of hers, and then every next album that released after it. I soon met my wife to be, and eventually found that she too had also purchased the Court and Spark album.
I became even more interested at the time of Joni's next album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, showing her sudden heavy increase in a sophisticated Jazz influence, as my wife and I eventually attended her 1979 tour concert, where she featured many numbers from that album and the Hejira album in the concert.
Her next album Hejira, I realized with the first tracks I heard on local FM radio in Portland Oregon where I still reside in my hometown today, especially the title track to that album, nearly knocked me to the ground, and brought me to tears. Who could not relate to what she's talking about on a solo road trip by oneself in such loneliness. The expression of existentialism in that albums title song still today, I now identify with the famous line by an ancient philosopher, I think it's Socrates - the unexamined life is not worth living.
When I hear that title track to that album still today I have the same reaction as it personally hits me hard about my solo West Coast Pacific thousand plus miles road trips every winter to California.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a music writer from NPR radio appear at 1:07:14 on the time bar, Tom Manoff.
I accidentally, and ironically, ran into him almost 20 years ago, as he was travelling through the east side of Portland Oregon one night and had stopped at a 24-hour coffee house near my home where I had a large telescope set up allowing the public to observe celestial objects through it, which I've provided this public service for thousands of hours ever since taking a 10,000 mile cross country road trip, with a solar research grade telescope in 2000. I later spoke about this on National Public Radio on their Talk of the Nation discussion on March 14th of 2005, I believe this was a few years after I spoke to Tom Manoff.
Manoff was writing a story about Johannes Kepler, the famous astronomer, and he had told me he wanted to make me famous about what I was doing for the public.
I think I explained to him that I'd already been in the newspapers across the nation, spoke on television news, and had a brush with fame being over-publicized about my self-initiated sidewalk astronomy for the past several years.
So I was pleasantly surprised in this documentary on Joni Mitchell when she admitted that she didn't like being put up on a pedestal and others trying to over publicize her into excessive fame.
As I spoke that first time on NPR's Talk of the Nation on March 14th 2005, they were discussing the famous Andy Warhol line, that everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. I was the second caller to call in. I told the story about the 10,000 mile road trip I made across the nation, and into Eastern Canada, borrowing my local astronomy clubs hydrogen-alpha solar research grade telescope to allow thousands to observe the sun safely through it, but that my own local club rather persecuted me when I returned home, as some people in the club claimed I was just doing this to become famous in the news.
This NPR Talk of the Nation discussions can be accessed through their archives to review it, by date and title - The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame, is a book title and the author they interviewed about it. What is shocking is toward the end of this 35 minute discussion at about the 20 minute point on the time bar, they bring on a Doctor of psychology that describes a condition of what fame can do to some people.
I was quite sorrowed to hear when Joni had suffered her brain aneurysm in about 2015, and hospitalized for so long. I see where she eventually appeared to receive the Les Paul guitar award about a year ago and she was escorted by Herbie Hancock to the stage to receive it, as she struggled to speak briefly, to express her thanks. I hope she is still improving and doing better.
There's talk that she wants to try to perform again if she's eventually able to.
I think now more than ever for the public to see her perform again, could save the world.
I love this documentary. Something that didn't occur to me until the third time I watched it - there's commentary by David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, and others, but nothing from the women who were Joni's contemporaries. Some commentary by Joan Baez, Judy Collins, etc. would have been interesting. Mama Cass Elliott also lived in Laurel Canyon, so some commentary from her perhaps. Judy Collins in particular, since she recorded "Clouds" before Joni had a recording contract, and her hit with that song helped launch Joni's career from the Greenwich Village coffeehouses to national and international fame. Funny that isn't mentioned in the documentary.
Silly me. Mama Cass Elliott passed away many years ago.
@@andrewhope3525
Doesn’t matter if she has died. There are lots of recorded commentaries from her. Your points are excellent ones. There’s just too much Joni to fit into a film of her. At least for those with typical little spans of attention. I could drink a case of her and still be on my feet.
@@andrewhope3525 But this is very old. She was around.
all her ex boyfriends.
You have seen an interesting corner not seen by others 👌 Perhaps Joni’s ‘public persona’ was so much associated with hetero ‘love’ the producers felt they would ‘distort’ the narrative ? But your point is well seen. Thank you for sharing.
The voice of an angel!!! Fortunate enough to have seen her in person in the 70's.
Saw her play at Cornell when I was at Ithaca College.
Wow you two !!!
Her work is a miracle in my life, and it never stops giving. There are songs here I haven't heard in a long, long time and had almost forgotten. And some insights into Joni as a person that I wasn't aware of before, after so many years of being a fan. Great documentary.
Bless you Joni, You stood when all others fell for ir....sold out for it....sold their soul for it....God Love you.
Joni Mitchel lived and wrote and sang in the moment. Her moment was relevant then and relevant now for those of us who are able to listen. It's because some things never change. A steadfast voice in times that seemed to change a lot but really, only underscored and maybe exaggerated the eternal.
Joni was a large part of the soundtrack of my life, the vulnerability of youth, the love, the loss, disappointment.. all of it. Thank you for this beautiful documentary. She is among the greatest artists of my generation. I will always love you, Joni ❤️
me2
She is so cute, no matter what age you see her at. And her music is amazing, it hits you in your soul, and never stops seeping into your heart! LOVE YOU JONI!!!
Being compared to Joni,singing & guitar playing my whole life- I KNOW That I only hope in my next life I could express my heart as well
Wow! My heart! Such a gift, naming our whole generation, every curve and flow into now!! Infinite gratitude🙏
thank God for Joni she's amazing ..a true Artist and a great influence over me I grew up in a Musical Family all I knew was the Organ Piano Violin Clarinet and 2 rusty Guitars I was writing songs before I met her records at 15 ..but I was like hanging on for dear life when I heard her for the first time ....
there is no one like her in this era no one
So glad my life has had her soundtrack of creativity woven into it. Always admired her stark honesty and self examination. A hard thing to do but its outcome is her unique, wonderful, poetic repertoire. Thanks for this film.
What love and inspiration! My deepest Respect! A self-made woman that remained true to herself - with heart and Soul!
Incredibly talented, noone else like her. I miss the music of those days...what I grew up with singing and playing..
"How to go through life with a good heart." Thank you for this video.
And still not be trampled on the grass
Prince put her alongside James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Sly Stone in his lexicon of inspirations.
stuarm2002 Prince did a wonderful version of Joni's song, A Case of You. she also gets a mention in one of his songs. the Ballad of Dorothy Parker. He was a huge admirer of Joni.
Though he himself isn't to be mentioned in the same breath as any of them.
@@Dr170 well, not by you obviously, and you would be correct in expressing your opinion, as an opinion.
Where was princes part in the documentary?
Perhaps they could be put alongside Her ...
I love this woman and always have. I first heard her voice c.1982 with the album Chinese Cafe in a friend's cottage in Ireland. It resonated profoundly on a level beyond my understanding. I didn't know why then, but I knew it was a voice of truth and this documentary certainly reinforces that truth. May you continue in good health Joni.
Best documentary about Joni. Captures the tension between love and the creative muse.
Her music touches my soul, since I was a young teen. Now I’m decades older and still the same touch.
This is truly one of the best films I've ever seen. Our culture seldom takes the efficiency to truly look t women as we are instead of us as stereotypes.independence is very hard as we long for connection too