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She’s playing a mountain dulcimer. It’s an Appalachian folk instrument. Also known as a courtin dulcimer because often a young man would make one for the girl he planned to court. It’s got three or four strings. I play mine with three. Dulcimer means sweet song. And she plays it sweetly indeed. You can also find Cyndi Lauper playing a dulcimer and she in fact wrote time after time on her dulcimer.
It's almost criminal how much talent Joni Mitchell has, as a player, singer, lyricist, composer painter! It's not surprising that so many incredible musicians wanted to work with her, including the late great jazz composer Charles Mingus who became friends with Joni and commissioned her to write lyrics to his elaborate compositions, resulting in "Mingus" (1979)
Mingus is my favorite of her albums, although it’s very different from her others. Mingus is in there. My second favorite is probably The Hissing of Summer Lawns. If you like Charlie, please check out Money Jungle, his collaboration with Duke Ellington and Max Roach. You’ll dig it.
As always , The Goddess Joni ..... she takes me to heaven with every word.... and obviously does the same for you , my man... superb , heart-felt reaction to the inimitable Joni
@@melissap1575 LZ said there was a reference to Joni Mitchell in their song, I think that was the line about looking for a Queen without a King, and about her playing guitar and crying and singing.
@@NorthernRambler Was it Jimmy Page? I thought it was Robert Plant, but I don't know. Maybe it was both or just Jimmy. An early girlfriend of Page's, whom he loved, lost, and wrote the song 'Tangerine' for, was not too dissimilar in appearance to Joni.
Having been raised up as a flower child in the era of the Vietnam War, this may be my favorite line from any song; "They won't give peace a chance, it was just a dream some of us had." Thanks, again, for more of the wonder that is Joni Mitchell -
Her voice was like crystal. When I see Joni sing - she seems to transform physically & become even more beautiful, it’s amazing. I’ve never seen it quite this way with any other singer.
PLEASE do not have this be Joni's last reaction. She is to good, and people need to hear this. As you say, it's how she makes you feel. that's Joni in a nutshell. PLEASE!! Peace from NOLA
I was going to mention the same thing. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page both loved Joni. In live version of Going To California they call out her name. If Led Zeppelin inspires you enough to write a song, you are probably amazing. Which Joni Mitchell is, and then some.
Just now watching your reaction to Charlie Pride ,I worked security for one of the places he was doing a show and he invited some of us security guards to have breakfast with him. He is a great guy,I appreciate him a lot.
This California native, sitting in my apartment alone in Japan, and missing my hometown in San Diego, and I watch this and start crying... even tho I love Joni and have heard this song hundreds of times... but not being able to travel this year and visit my family and friends in the States... it all hit me as she started to sing... thanks for this one J!
Jamal. I absolutely join you in your admiration of the length, depth and beauty of Joni Mitchell's songs. I am almost 65 and I first heard her while in H.S. in early 70's in California. Needless to say I was never the same. At that time she helped me put words to my feelings. Most of our parents were born in the 30's and it was considered the "Silent Generation" The 60's and 70's changed our language, giving us all better understanding and expression. You are now my partner in crime!
In reference to her lyric: " I'll even kiss a sunset pig", it occurred to me that some of the younger generation may not be aware that back in the turbulent 60's, & especially after the '68 Grant Park (Chicago) riots, when the CPD ran amuck (I was there), & brutally injured scores of protesters, police officers were referred to by most everyone in the counter-culture community as "pigs". The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same; isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity.
I am so so glad that you are digging our Joni! She doesn't perform anymore as she has been ill for the last few years. It is important that our artists feel the energy the vibrations of our feeling for them and their work related into the atmosphere, that way as the great Abbey Lincoln said, "...they might be able to stay with us in this world a little longer!"
One of my favorite artists!! I love how honest and personal her songs are. The lady just makes great music. BTW she is actually a very good painter as well.
I'm going to start recommending Cohen (favorite male singer/songwriter),now that he's progressing through Joni (favorite female singer/ songwriter) and Talking Heads (favorite 80s band).
Joni wrote a Case of You about her relationship with Cohen. The woman she talks about in the last verse is actually his mother, who warned her about being with her son. Amazing lyrics, pure poetry.
Wow! I have heard her so many times and can never seem to get over her. She is a Mystic that is operating at soul level. Did you notice in the audience at 6:46 the most famous outrageous mistic Blues Rocker Peter Green (originator of Fleetwood Mac) Apparently smitten as well?
At this BBC performance she tells the audience that she's struggling with a cold (and yet she can still sing like that). It's amazing to watch her at this performance, she plays guitar, then goes over and does some songs on the piano, then she does this one on the dulcimer, and then she goes back to the guitar to play "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Both Sides Now." Nobody else on stage. Amazing.
@ted ritola Yes ! I was 19 years old, rolling into Northern California on my way to an Air Force Base, the weekend Woodstock happened.. Nothing will ever, ever, ever, replace those years - nothing can... They were at once, magical, beautiful, gentle, kindness everywhere, and absolutely the Best music coming in from all directions... Incredible concerts in the Bay area every weekend.. Bill Graham's Fillmore West - oh boy, just incredible!!
Every time I hear Joni I’m overwhelmed with wonder and my eyes fill up, it’s always been the same since I first heard her in 1970. She’s ethereal, filled with a genius level of talent and ability in so many disciplines and on so many levels ❤️
@@rk41gator - No - She broke up with Nash - went to Europe with her friend Penelope to lick her wounds - ended up in Matala Greece - met the Red Rogue Carey - lived with him in a cave for three months - wrote most of the music for her album Blue - because she was blue - fell in love with Carey - to a point - and left him to come home again and she was over Graham Nash.
This, of course, is from the album Blue, one of the great records of all time. She bared her soul to the world. I look forward to your reactions to other songs from that masterpiece.
I do not normally listen to folk music, and honestly the first time I have ever heard of her. Her voice is so amazing and joyous. She lights up room by her wonderfully artistic musical performance(s). She made a new fan.
She once said she was asked by someone some years later about that line and they had concocted a whole back story of there being some sunset ritual on the beach involving a pig... and she said, “Uh, it’s about cops on Sunset Blvd.”. 😂
The cops on Sunset Blvd. were notorious for their violence against Blacks and hippies. But she misses Califas so much, she sings, "I'll even kiss a Sunset Pig."
Joni is number one and with a long musical history that took us on many adventures over the years. So glad you really get Joni Jamel. Thanks for featuring her.
Jamal, I love that you go deeper with music & lyrics, the energy behind the writing and creating. I'm new to your channel and look forward to you enjoying the heartfelt frequencies like I do! Blessed Be!
I love her so much. She is the artists artist. It’s a Dull- ci- mer she is playing. As well as a singer and songwriter and painter....she is quite a proficient musician. She was my inspiration throughout my young adult years. She is on her own level. So smart, beautiful and gifted. She hails from Canada. Thank you so much for reacting as well as appreciating this very special woman. She is highly respected in the music industry despite her being outside the commercial pop culture. This kind of music is the real deal. Thanks again!! Joni has so so many outstanding songs. Please do more when you can.
I went a Joni concert at Duke in Durham NC and it was the BEST. She talked about the songs and really made us feel like friends. Miles of Ilses is her live CD and I love it.
California born and raised, living in Wyoming now. For whatever reason this just made me cry. Miss my homeland sometimes, and fuck the world is weird right now. I love your videos dude.
@Scott Asay They just introduced 26 new gun laws in the legislature. All the major cities are liberal strongholds. That is the road CA went down. You go west from the coast, there are a lot of conservatives that are out-voted by the liberals in the cities. Big tech keeps moving into TX, (Tesla, etc.), bringing CA liberals with them. Just a matter of time.
@@BRLaue - I know what you mean.. I was born and raised in Texas, finished school in San Antonio. Got stationed in Northern California in 1969, and never left, except to visit all my family back in Texas.. SA is now so crowded ! But they still have the best Mexican food, BBQ, and WhatABurgers !!! I tried several times to move back to SA., but could never afford a house there, when the list price was always + $15K, and then people started bidding the house UP and UP !!! VA loans do not work that way... So, I have never been able to move back.. But I am still in California, some 51 years later... Love it still, nothing will ever replace it.. Yes, it's full of weirdness and all, but so is pretty much everywhere else.. SA weather - Sucks!!! :) CA weather - Heaven - :) Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours ! God Bless ! Fran Danco
@@frandanco6289 Thank you for your kind thoughts. I lived in Morgan Hill for twenty years. I was shunned by my neighbors for flying the flag on the appropriate days. I had to take extra precautions to conceal the fact I own guns. In CA, you never see a state flag outside of the occasional state building. People in TX have pride of place, are friendly, not concerned about telling others how to live, respect and revere those that serve in the military and realize we are all in this together and generally look out for one another. The first month in SA, a huge hailstorm beat the hell out of my new Jeep. I didn’t care, I’m just thankful to be here.
Prior to your reactions I knew who she was but I didn't really know her music. Man this has been an amazing learning experience to go thru with you. Thanks for this.
The 'redneck on a Grecian Isle' referred to in this song has a whole song dedicated to him, that you might like to have a listen to sometime. It's called Carey and it's a great, fun and kind of boppy, pop song. It starts with the memorable lines: "The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep..." ...and away we go... Another story, another place, another group of characters, this time from when she was living rough with hippies in the caves above the beach at Matala on the Greek island of Crete... and still dreaming and yearning for other places...
Celestial! Her voice fills the heavens, reverberates among the stars, echoes from galaxy to galaxy, transcending time and space. She is eternal. JONI, the one and Only. They should have had Joni signing this song on that record they sent into Deep Space years ago. What better representation of humanity could there possibly be than our Joni. Sing on, sing on.
When you said this was a live performance of California I was worried that it wouldn’t be as good as the recording. But this was phenomenal! I’ve never heard it before. And the instrument that she was playing is a traditional folk instrument commonly used in folk and bluegrass, a dulcimer. Now I’m going to keep asking for All I Want off of her album Blue, and maybe A Case of You as well.
From the mid-60s to the mid-70s was the height of the singer-songwriter era. During my high school to college years was filled with great music and songwriters that wrote amazing songs that would be considered poetry in an earlier era. Joni Mitchell is one of the greats. Others are: Bob Dylan Carole King Cat Stevens Stephen Stills James Taylor Jackson Browne Dan Fogelberg Neil Young Harry Nilsson Paul Simon Jimmy Buffett John Prine Leon Russell Van Morrison.
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal when you go to pause at 3:44 but you hear where it's going and stop yourself. Yeah you got it! ...me i was waiting for you to react to that particular change, and you got it! Couldn't pause that. Like butter!
Yes, Joni does indeed sooth the soul! Seeing you experience all this great music for the first time, soothes my old soul! It's so good to know that it will survive and flourish. I would give anything to hear it all again for the first time!
Nice intro. Check out the song "Our House" by Crosby, Stills & Nash. Joni was living with Graham Nash at the time. So see what art this amazing woman inspires in a gifted man.
She has the most beautiful voice especially around this period. The album Blue which this song is from is just lovely. Such sadness in the songs but just beautiful. 🙏🏽✊🏽
Her soaring voice and lyrics, so clever, and ring so true. So lucky I saw her live more than once! She is a hypnotic performer. Please react to: All I Want, The Same Situation, Black Crow & Be Cool (studio versions), and Sex Kills (live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
Joni is in a class of her own, she has written some of the most beautiful songs ever, she plays so many instruments and very well, and that voice.......Oh heaven and her paintings she is the total package
Whenever I travel abroad for an extended period of time, this song always comes to mind when I get a little homesick. If you like the way this song makes you feel you'll love her folk-rock album Blue and her folk-rock-jazz album Court and Spark. There are so many albums to choose from, tho.
Jamel, thank you so much for this reaction. Joni Mitchell has been one of my favorite singers since in first grade I performed in a school play to her "Circle Game". I've watched this BBC concert (1970) from start/end more times than I can count. She has a voice and immense talents that transcend generations.
Joni said she doesn’t listen to her music as she always says to herself, “why did I sing it like that?” She referred to her younger days as “ The girl with the helium balloon voice.” She accepted that we all love that helium ballon voice and her lower voice as well. Jamel, Joni has mentioned that she liked her privacy and avoided people. But she has turned those feelings around as people would approach her and say “ you saved my life, you changed my life.” She loves to hear it.
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'Urge for going' is definitely worth a reaction , it is a real hidden gem and really suitable for this time of year !.
You are doing great things! Sharing Love n music .... hey man, Thanks!!!
She’s playing a mountain dulcimer. It’s an Appalachian folk instrument. Also known as a courtin dulcimer because often a young man would make one for the girl he planned to court. It’s got three or four strings. I play mine with three. Dulcimer means sweet song. And she plays it sweetly indeed. You can also find Cyndi Lauper playing a dulcimer and she in fact wrote time after time on her dulcimer.
Please do Janis Ian " at 17" live version and she explains the song in the beginning...
When angels want to listen to music, they put on Joni. She is brilliant.
Indeed
I would love it if you review "Shine" from her last recording.
Joni
My fav
Because the way she has made me feel
For 50 years now !!!!!
Joni was, and is, legendary. What a voice and what a storyteller...
Joni Mitchell = Incredible Story Teller, Singer, Composer, Arranger, and Accomplished Musician, Old Soul !
It's almost criminal how much talent Joni Mitchell has, as a player, singer, lyricist, composer painter!
It's not surprising that so many incredible musicians wanted to work with her, including the late great jazz composer Charles Mingus who became friends with Joni and commissioned her to write lyrics to his elaborate compositions, resulting in "Mingus" (1979)
Mingus is my favorite of her albums, although it’s very different from her others. Mingus is in there. My second favorite is probably The Hissing of Summer Lawns.
If you like Charlie, please check out Money Jungle, his collaboration with Duke Ellington and Max Roach. You’ll dig it.
You know who LOVED Joni?? PRINCE! Also, I was so fortunate to get a pristine copy of this record from my uncle who bought it back in '71.
I've loved Joni mitchell and these songs for 50 years now. She's incredible.
Utterly amazing....no words...
As always , The Goddess Joni ..... she takes me to heaven with every word.... and obviously does the same for you , my man... superb , heart-felt reaction to the inimitable Joni
Led Zeppelin has a song about Joni Mitchell called Going To California. She was so respected by other musicians.
It's a great piece of music too, I'm sure he would ejoy it.
It’s a great song but it’s not about Joni Mitchell. It’s about several women in their lives at the time.
@@melissap1575 LZ said there was a reference to Joni Mitchell in their song, I think that was the line about looking for a Queen without a King, and about her playing guitar and crying and singing.
There was a time when Jimmy Page had the biggest crush on Joni.
@@NorthernRambler Was it Jimmy Page? I thought it was Robert Plant, but I don't know. Maybe it was both or just Jimmy. An early girlfriend of Page's, whom he loved, lost, and wrote the song 'Tangerine' for, was not too dissimilar in appearance to Joni.
Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Healey... Brother they are all our fellow Canadians. Peace Brother,
You forgot Neil Young, but unlike all named above, no one is perfect, including me.
Leonard Cohen, Denny Doherty.
Joni Mitchell is definitely one of those great pioneering women of the music business.
Now you're getting there... CALIFORNIA!! ❤️🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦. MY FAVORITE SONG EVER. Been listening for 50 yrs. Thanks and welcome!! Pronounced
DULL- simmer
Having been raised up as a flower child in the era of the Vietnam War, this may be my favorite line from any song; "They won't give peace a chance, it was just a dream some of us had."
Thanks, again, for more of the wonder that is Joni Mitchell -
Her voice was like crystal. When I see Joni sing - she seems to transform physically & become even more beautiful, it’s amazing. I’ve never seen it quite this way with any other singer.
"Her voice just soothes the soul." "And this is LIVE..." Another great reaction, Jamel!
This song somehow captures the spirit of the time, as though we're all here for each other on the journey of life.
PLEASE do not have this be Joni's last reaction. She is to good, and people need to hear this. As you say, it's how she makes you feel. that's Joni in a nutshell. PLEASE!! Peace from NOLA
And peace from Jefferson Parish too
This song inspired Led Zeppelin's "Going To California," basically a love song to Joni Mitchell. Also, it's a "DULL-sim-mer."
I was going to mention the same thing. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page both loved Joni. In live version of Going To California they call out her name. If Led Zeppelin inspires you enough to write a song, you are probably amazing. Which Joni Mitchell is, and then some.
Prince called her one of his favorite musicians. When you're inspiring Led Zeppelin and Prince, that's something...
Wow! How pure is that voice!? That was angelic.
We are proud of her here in Canada but we know that she belongs to the world like all the great artists .
Much love from the fro-zen north.
One of Joni’s purest songs from her purest voice. Just beautiful poetry.
Just now watching your reaction to Charlie Pride ,I worked security for one of the places he was doing a show and he invited some of us security guards to have breakfast with him. He is a great guy,I appreciate him a lot.
This California native, sitting in my apartment alone in Japan, and missing my hometown in San Diego, and I watch this and start crying... even tho I love Joni and have heard this song hundreds of times... but not being able to travel this year and visit my family and friends in the States... it all hit me as she started to sing... thanks for this one J!
Jamal. I absolutely join you in your admiration of the length, depth and beauty of Joni Mitchell's songs. I am almost 65 and I first heard her while in H.S. in early 70's in California. Needless to say I was never the same. At that time she helped me put words to my feelings. Most of our parents were born in the 30's and it was considered the "Silent Generation" The 60's and 70's changed our language, giving us all better understanding and expression. You are now my partner in crime!
So glad you found Joni. I've been listening to her for 40 years. The BEST!
Dude I fell so in love with her music in the early 90s and got all her albums so I get it. There's nobody like Joni Mitchell
Ah, you too!
This is from the BBC concert, from London, 1970. Check out the whole concert to see her at the top of her game, performing solo.
The BBC lucked out here. I remember watching this at the time. The concert softened this rock fan up for "Blue" ;0)
WOW 🤩
@@sharonsnail2954 we all lucked out that the bbc employed such top quality workers that we have this high quality momento
“Coyote” from the Hejira album! Jaco Pastorius on the bass 😌
That's John Francis Pastorius III, The Greatest Bass Player In The World.
And Larry Carlton on Guitar. The Shadows and Light version of "Coyote" has Jaco and Pat Matheny. Both versions are amazing.
Gets a thumbs up from me!
And black crow
Thats what I'm waiting for haha
Yes, it was the late Jeff Healy... a Canadian... he played "While my guitar Gently Weeps" , and "Angel Eyes"
In reference to her lyric: " I'll even kiss a sunset pig", it occurred to me that some of the younger generation may not be aware that back in the turbulent 60's, & especially after the '68 Grant Park (Chicago) riots, when the CPD ran amuck (I was there), & brutally injured scores of protesters, police officers were referred to by most everyone in the counter-culture community as "pigs". The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same; isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity.
thanks. i had no idea she said pig, thought she said sunset peak and wondered what that was!
For What Its Worth is about Sunset pigs
Like how you tucked the George Harrison reference in there...😉✌
I don't know what suburban cup de sac you come from, but where I live people still call cops pigs.
They're still "pigs" more so now actually!?
Joni taught so much more to men about women than she ever taught women about themselves.
Her genius is omnipresent throughout every single album.
I would agree with that 💯
Perfectly stated. Thank you.
🙏🏼
But not every man can get a joni
Well said
I am so so glad that you are digging our Joni! She doesn't perform anymore as she has been ill for the last few years. It is important that our artists feel the energy the vibrations of our feeling for them and their work related into the atmosphere, that way as the great Abbey Lincoln said, "...they might be able to stay with us in this world a little longer!"
I love Joni Mitchell music so much!!! Thanks for this.
One of my favorite artists!! I love how honest and personal her songs are. The lady just makes great music. BTW she is actually a very good painter as well.
A real treat is her on stage with the Band in the Last Waltz. The song is called Coyote
I second this!!
I third this!!!!
Joni also provides the best backing vocals I have ever heard for Neil Young on ‘Helpless’ before her own set, it’ll give you goosebumps
Basically the entirety of The Last Waltz is a treat to be fair.
Leonard Cohen is a great singer songwriter story teller... Hallelujah, Suzanne, Everybody Knows, Famous Blue Raincoat.
I'm going to start recommending Cohen (favorite male singer/songwriter),now that he's progressing through Joni (favorite female singer/ songwriter) and Talking Heads (favorite 80s band).
Joni wrote a Case of You about her relationship with Cohen. The woman she talks about in the last verse is actually his mother, who warned her about being with her son. Amazing lyrics, pure poetry.
Hardly a great singer
Everything that Joni did came from her soul!👍🏻❤️☮️
Wow! I have heard her so many times and can never seem to get over her. She is a Mystic that is operating at soul level. Did you notice in the audience at 6:46 the most famous outrageous mistic Blues Rocker Peter Green (originator of Fleetwood Mac) Apparently smitten as well?
God bless you and your Joni Journey love love love love you
One of the best albums every made Blue. Song writing is the best.
At this BBC performance she tells the audience that she's struggling with a cold (and yet she can still sing like that). It's amazing to watch her at this performance, she plays guitar, then goes over and does some songs on the piano, then she does this one on the dulcimer, and then she goes back to the guitar to play "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Both Sides Now." Nobody else on stage. Amazing.
I know!! She’s amazing. There’s no one like Joni Mitchell. Her voice is so beautiful & soothing, I just feel it in my bones.
She’s truly one of a kind. Few can do what she does on guitar. The Hissing of Summer Lawns is one of my favorites from her
Fabulous album. All her stuff is legendary.
Hissing is the best.
Or dulcimer in this case
That’s my favorite Joni album! Shades of Scarlett Conquering, Edith and the Kingpin and the title track are her three best songs.
@ted ritola Yes ! I was 19 years old, rolling into Northern California on my way to an Air Force Base, the weekend Woodstock happened..
Nothing will ever, ever, ever, replace those years - nothing can... They were at once, magical, beautiful, gentle, kindness everywhere, and absolutely the Best music coming in from all directions... Incredible concerts in the Bay area every weekend.. Bill Graham's Fillmore West - oh boy, just incredible!!
LOVE Joni Mitchell! A Canadian treasure. ♥️♥️♥️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I've never heard this before and its stunning!
She's a musical genius and an a once in a lifetime talent
"Will you take as I am?" YES, JONI, we will take you just as you are!
Joni is a planet unto her own. No one comes close. She just dips into that wellspring if creativity and out it comes. Thanks for this reaction.
Every time I hear Joni I’m overwhelmed with wonder and my eyes fill up, it’s always been the same since I first heard her in 1970. She’s ethereal, filled with a genius level of talent and ability in so many disciplines and on so many levels ❤️
The music laughs and cries through her, sunshine behind the clouds. Talent at a whole different level!
She’s blessed with such a broad talent.
Yup, still shaking my head after 50 years 😎 ... and I’ve never seen this video 🤔 ... the audio is identical to the LP 🤩
True. And amazing.
This was before she met and fell in love with Graham Nash? Still innocent?
@@rk41gator - No - She broke up with Nash - went to Europe with her friend Penelope to lick her wounds - ended up in Matala Greece - met the Red Rogue Carey - lived with him in a cave for three months - wrote most of the music for her album Blue - because she was blue - fell in love with Carey - to a point - and left him to come home again and she was over Graham Nash.
@@murraywestenskow2896 Thanks. I was not up on the timeline. She just looks so young in this video. Guess they ALL were!
This, of course, is from the album Blue, one of the great records of all time. She bared her soul to the world. I look forward to your reactions to other songs from that masterpiece.
So happy this generation
Is loving our Joni!!!
I do not normally listen to folk music, and honestly the first time I have ever heard of her. Her voice is so amazing and joyous. She lights up room by her wonderfully artistic musical performance(s). She made a new fan.
When she says “sunset pig,” she’s actually referring to the cops that used to patrol Sunset Blvd 😂
That line went past Jamel.
She once said she was asked by someone some years later about that line and they had concocted a whole back story of there being some sunset ritual on the beach involving a pig... and she said, “Uh, it’s about cops on Sunset Blvd.”. 😂
@@brotherrabbit8539 Had to be there. (very 'california')
Yes you see correct
The cops on Sunset Blvd. were notorious for their violence against Blacks and hippies. But she misses Califas so much, she sings, "I'll even kiss a Sunset Pig."
This song had some of my favorite lyrics of all time. "He gave me back my smile....but he kept my camera to sell..." lol Dead
Joni is number one and with a long musical history that took us on many adventures over the years. So glad you really get Joni Jamel. Thanks for featuring her.
Joni and Willie Nelson, singing Cool Water....always puts a smile in my memory...
I kinda got teary seeing you react to this. I hope you dive into her whole catalog.
The range and depth of her musical output is breathtaking. You will have a lifetime of discovery listening to her timeless, rich catalog.
"I'll even kiss a Sunset pig" Great line. For those don't know , Sunset Blvd. L.A. and a pig is what we called the cops.
Jamal, I love that you go deeper with music & lyrics, the energy behind the writing and creating. I'm new to your channel and look forward to you enjoying the heartfelt frequencies like I do! Blessed Be!
I love her so much. She is the artists artist. It’s a Dull- ci- mer she is playing. As well as a singer and songwriter and painter....she is quite a proficient musician. She was my inspiration throughout my young adult years. She is on her own level. So smart, beautiful and gifted. She hails from Canada. Thank you so much for reacting as well as appreciating this very special woman. She is highly respected in the music industry despite her being outside the commercial pop culture. This kind of music is the real deal. Thanks again!!
Joni has so so many outstanding songs. Please do more when you can.
I went a Joni concert at Duke in Durham NC and it was the BEST. She talked about the songs and really made us feel like friends. Miles of Ilses is her live CD and I love it.
Her music is so beautiful. She feels her lyrics, which makes me feel her lyrics too. More Joni Mitchell reactions please! Thanks Jamel!
California born and raised, living in Wyoming now. For whatever reason this just made me cry. Miss my homeland sometimes, and fuck the world is weird right now.
I love your videos dude.
Probably the same way I felt living out west and hearing Alabama's "Christmas In Dixie." Homesickness HURTS.
Born in Wyoming, lived in CA for thirty years, had to get out and now live in San Antonio. If TX gets any bluer, I’m moving home.
@Scott Asay They just introduced 26 new gun laws in the legislature. All the major cities are liberal strongholds. That is the road CA went down. You go west from the coast, there are a lot of conservatives that are out-voted by the liberals in the cities. Big tech keeps moving into TX, (Tesla, etc.), bringing CA liberals with them. Just a matter of time.
@@BRLaue - I know what you mean.. I was born and raised in Texas, finished school in San Antonio. Got stationed in Northern California in 1969, and never left, except to visit all my family back in Texas..
SA is now so crowded ! But they still have the best Mexican food, BBQ, and WhatABurgers !!!
I tried several times to move back to SA., but could never afford a house there, when the list price was always + $15K, and then people started bidding the house UP and UP !!! VA loans do not work that way... So, I have never been able to move back..
But I am still in California, some 51 years later... Love it still, nothing will ever replace it..
Yes, it's full of weirdness and all, but so is pretty much everywhere else..
SA weather - Sucks!!! :) CA weather - Heaven - :)
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours ! God Bless !
Fran Danco
@@frandanco6289 Thank you for your kind thoughts. I lived in Morgan Hill for twenty years. I was shunned by my neighbors for flying the flag on the appropriate days. I had to take extra precautions to conceal the fact I own guns. In CA, you never see a state flag outside of the occasional state building. People in TX have pride of place, are friendly, not concerned about telling others how to live, respect and revere those that serve in the military and realize we are all in this together and generally look out for one another. The first month in SA, a huge hailstorm beat the hell out of my new Jeep. I didn’t care, I’m just thankful to be here.
It is such a pleasure to see our joy in her singing. For a prairie girl she sure taught us all about looking for happiness. Seven octave range.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but a piano has seven octaves. Joni is pretty great, though.
never heard that one before either. thank you again, Music Teacher.
You have to react to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 'Our House' is about Joni and Graham.
He did.
Her music is ageless and she is a true genius and beautiful soul ❤️
Prior to your reactions I knew who she was but I didn't really know her music. Man this has been an amazing learning experience to go thru with you. Thanks for this.
I haven't listened to Joni for many many years. Thanks for reconnecting me.
The 'redneck on a Grecian Isle' referred to in this song has a whole song dedicated to him, that you might like to have a listen to sometime. It's called Carey and it's a great, fun and kind of boppy, pop song. It starts with the memorable lines:
"The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn't sleep..."
...and away we go... Another story, another place, another group of characters, this time from when she was living rough with hippies in the caves above the beach at Matala on the Greek island of Crete... and still dreaming and yearning for other places...
Joni’s voice breaks your heart in the most beautiful of ways.
You mentioned Jeff Healy, he is also Canadian! 🇨🇦
Healey died in 2008 and was prominently featured in the 1989 Patrick Swayze film, 'Road House'.
Celestial! Her voice fills the heavens, reverberates among the stars, echoes from galaxy to galaxy, transcending time and space. She is eternal. JONI, the one and Only. They should have had Joni signing this song on that record they sent into Deep Space years ago. What better representation of humanity could there possibly be than our Joni. Sing on, sing on.
When you said this was a live performance of California I was worried that it wouldn’t be as good as the recording. But this was phenomenal! I’ve never heard it before. And the instrument that she was playing is a traditional folk instrument commonly used in folk and bluegrass, a dulcimer.
Now I’m going to keep asking for All I Want off of her album Blue, and maybe A Case of You as well.
A Case of You!!! So good.
I thought it was the LP recording 😎
From the mid-60s to the mid-70s was the height of the singer-songwriter era. During my high school to college years was filled with great music and songwriters that wrote amazing songs that would be considered poetry in an earlier era. Joni Mitchell is one of the greats. Others are:
Bob Dylan
Carole King
Cat Stevens
Stephen Stills
James Taylor
Jackson Browne
Dan Fogelberg
Neil Young
Harry Nilsson
Paul Simon
Jimmy Buffett
John Prine
Leon Russell
Van Morrison.
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal when you go to pause at 3:44 but you hear where it's going and stop yourself. Yeah you got it! ...me i was waiting for you to react to that particular change, and you got it! Couldn't pause that. Like butter!
Yes, Joni does indeed sooth the soul! Seeing you experience all this great music for the first time, soothes my old soul! It's so good to know that it will survive and flourish. I would give anything to hear it all again for the first time!
Nice intro. Check out the song "Our House" by Crosby, Stills & Nash. Joni was living with Graham Nash at the time. So see what art this amazing woman inspires in a gifted man.
Joni is the GOAT!
She been making me feel for 50 years. Check out some of her later jazz stuff.
Yes like Court and Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns, and Hejira
She uses her voice like an instrument more than anyone I've ever listened to. I've loved watching your reactions to Joni. My all time favorite.
The confidence and self-possession to sit alone on a darkened stage with nothing but a dulcimer and that do that. It’s crazy good.
She has the most beautiful voice especially around this period. The album Blue which this song is from is just lovely. Such sadness in the songs but just beautiful. 🙏🏽✊🏽
She is playing a traditional instrument called a "Mountain Dulcimer."
Yep used a lot in Blue Grass music.
@@christelheadington1136 um, no
Pronounced dull simmer
@@jazzluver9749 kind of
more like "dulcimer". Accent on the "dul"
It’s an Appalachian dulcimer to be precise.
I've listened to her my whole life and still get goosebumps
Her soaring voice and lyrics, so clever, and ring so true. So lucky I saw her live more than once! She is a hypnotic performer. Please react to: All I Want, The Same Situation, Black Crow & Be Cool (studio versions), and Sex Kills (live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
Joni is in a class of her own, she has written some of the most beautiful songs ever, she plays so many instruments and very well, and that voice.......Oh heaven and her paintings she is the total package
Whenever I travel abroad for an extended period of time, this song always comes to mind when I get a little homesick. If you like the way this song makes you feel you'll love her folk-rock album Blue and her folk-rock-jazz album Court and Spark. There are so many albums to choose from, tho.
Her voice is so pure 😍👌
Isn't this a beautiful song!?!
beautiful being 😄
Jamel, thank you so much for this reaction. Joni Mitchell has been one of my favorite singers since in first grade I performed in a school play to her "Circle Game". I've watched this BBC concert (1970) from start/end more times than I can count. She has a voice and immense talents that transcend generations.
The voice of an Angel
Poet, painter, singer, musician, she has it all wrapped up in a beautiful package.
The fun just rolls off her when she is onstage, in her element completely.
She's a musical angel. Ethereal. Trippy. 🙏😌❤
Joni said she doesn’t listen to her music as she always says to herself, “why did I sing it like that?” She referred to her younger days as “ The girl with the helium balloon voice.” She accepted that we all love that helium ballon voice and her lower voice as well.
Jamel, Joni has mentioned that she liked her privacy and avoided people. But she has turned those feelings around as people would approach her and say “ you saved my life, you changed my life.” She loves to hear it.