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Ladies Of The Canyon

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Track Listings

1 Morning Morgantown
2 For Free
3 Conversation
4 Ladies of the Canyon
5 Willy
6 The Arrangement
7 Rainy Night House
8 The Priest
9 Blue Boy
10 Big Yellow Taxi
11 Woodstock
12 The Circle Game

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This lady gives a sneak peak here to what we see in later albums...some sizable instrumental sections, jazz influences and piano accompaniments. Includes The Arrangement; Rainy Night House; For Free; Woodstock , and more.

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Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 5 x 0.39 inches; 3.53 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Warner Off Roster
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2016437
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Warner Off Roster
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000002KOQ
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 854 ratings

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable lady
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Remarkable lady
Joni Mitchell is one of my favorite musical artists and this release has very focused and wonderful songs that are performed flawlessly.. She actually reminds me of two very dissimilar artists: David Bowie and Gordon Bok. Her vocals often utilize layered harmonics and stilted phrasing that remind me of Bowie and then there's old Gordon Bok with his Canadian accent, his passionate, forlorn, tundra-rich ballads, not to mention the checkered flannel shirt and his friend the moose. Joni's The Priest has his native American Canadian folk thing going and everything has a pagan existential dimension. With her its a guy; with Bok its a sturgeon or a bear.There is near perfection here, especially in the less famous songs like The Arrangement, Rainy House Night, The Priest and Blue Boy, the last one having intriguing metaphors and images. I say near perfection not because, like so many other musicians in our "new age", she is musically flawed - we live in a world full of extraordinarily talented musicians. No its because she and they are spiritually flawed as all of this talent doesn't answer any transcendent questions. It actually mocks such questioning, rather in favor of I know, you don't. I can, you can't. Man (and woman) are the measure of all things. Clapton is God. Give me a break. But they're here for you as long as you have a ticket to get in. For we are one, tho I'm God and you're just some knucklehead with a ticket to get in. This is where it was all heading so that a truly great "performance" here is ultimately not much more than that. Now it's all testosterone driven, especially the girls. Jean-Paul Sartre - the godfather of fake it till you make it. The old LSD expansions were ultimately too anxiety-ridden as a result of utter relativity producing utter confusion. She doesn't know who she is. Is that good thing? Now everybody knows. Whoopee.That said, this album does capture the very heightened levels of music and poetry that characterized not knowing who you were. Awareness trumped identity, in fact replaced it. Then it went back to identity - I am Springsteen and you are not! But identity is grandiose and insecure which is why he's playing a sold out show at the Sons of Italy club next Tuesday. And these old Italians are like, who is this guy?The feel with Joni is very Irish: mist-filled nights at the bar, torn stockings, great songs with lonely lyrics. Cigarette smoke and blarney laughs. In an interview, she draws a distinction between Irish English, which sticks to simple but poetic enigmatic words and phrases and Cromwellian English, which is bulky, pretentious and opaque. Almost all of the English rock stars use Irish English mixed with the African-American grammatically flawed but inspired English. I ain't got no cigarettes. So you have some then, right? Cromwell didn't smoke, he engaged in metabolic excursions in tobacco that ultimately produced a species of cancerous exhalation much like the billowing excesses of a steaming locomotive. Can you imagine Joni trying to work this into a song?But her poetic rhythms and cadences do owe much to the English romantic poets, tho those poets bogged down in overplayeddescriptions, digressions and details, a typical Victorian malady. She gets to the point but the point is sometimes obscure. Like Rainy House Night and The Priest sound very post-modern.RHN has some very stark, eerily anecdotal TS Eliot stuff going on. Her unlikely blending of free love and post-modern alienation run throughout her work. So her loneliness is a bit of a fraud: she sounds more like a nympho than a loner. Ah there's the connection. All of this hippie rakishness later degenerates into little cat fights with her boyfriends. She loves the canyon and hates the music industry, not here but in the next release Blue and for sure on For the Roses. I'm melting!!!! So much for spirituality and free love: get out, just get out! I need to finish Ecce Homo.Still, she is the ultimate hippie poet with her widows' weeds and climbing banyons. At least for a couple of years. The only way out was jazz, but jazz was already over with pretty much. Punk? Not our Joni I don't think. New wave? Not our Canadian farm girl, no. Lounge lizard schmaltz ....yes!. Oh well, at least she didn't dye her hair green. Although I think it could have worked with a full orchestra behind her. I'm sounding very obnoxious, but none of these superstars know when to quit while they're ahead. Or they can't I guess.Remarkable lady tho
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