Weekend Music: Two For Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell -- one of my musical goddesses -- is back with a brilliant new album called Shine. In honor of that, here's Joni doing a fab version of "Big Yellow Taxi" from the concert Painting With Words Music. At the end of the song, she playfully adds the line "why you wanna go and do that, huh?" which is a reference to the Janet Jackson and Q-Tip song "Got 'Til It's Gone," which samples "Big Yellow Taxi." One of Janet's finest moments and the video by Mark Romanek is gorgeous.
Joni Mitchell never lies...
Joni Mitchell -- one of my musical goddesses -- is back with a brilliant new album called Shine. In honor of that, here's Joni doing a fab version of "Big Yellow Taxi" from the concert Painting With Words Music. At the end of the song, she playfully adds the line "why you wanna go and do that, huh?" which is a reference to the Janet Jackson and Q-Tip song "Got 'Til It's Gone," which samples "Big Yellow Taxi." One of Janet's finest moments and the video by Mark Romanek is gorgeous.
Joni Mitchell never lies...
Comments
(remember her anthem for Bob Dylan? "Diamonds & Rust"Wow.), Carly Simon, Carole King....
Joni is red-hot!
Thanks Coll!
Did you know this song was inspired by a trip she took to Hawaii? The "pink hotel" in the song is the Royal Hawaiian (which I saw this summer).
For more on the song, check out:
http://jonimitchell.com/Library/view.cfm?id=1427