Blue? Nah, THIS is why Joni Mitchell is a GENIUS

Support me on Patreon, if ya like:   / mickybeatz   It's Prince's favourite album....so... Chapters: 1. Introduction 00:00 2. Elephants in the room 04:15 3. About Joni 12:55 4. Themes 25:31 5. In France They Kiss on Main Street 32:57 6. The Jungle Line 36:35 7. Edith and the Kingpin 39:23 8. Don't Interrupt the Sorrow 41:49 9. Shades of Scarlett Conquering 43:47 10. The Hissing of Summer Lawns 45:31 11. The Boho Dance 48:00 12. Harry's House/Centerpiece 49:09 13. Sweet Bird 52:35 14. Shadows and Light 54:19 15. Final thoughts 56:12 Names dropped/discussed: Joni Mitchell John Coltrane CSNY David Crosby Bob Dylan Paul McCartney Frank Zappa The Beatles Joan Baez Aretha Franklin Nancy Sinatra Janis Joplin Grace Slick Jimmy Page Robert Plant Leonard Cohen Jann Wenner Jerry Garcia Bono Bruce Springsteen Nina Simone Stevie Wonder Neil Young Chuck Mitchell Dave Van Ronk Judy Collins The Manson Family David Bowie Graham Nash James Taylor John Lennon David Lynch Tom Scott L.A. Express John Guerin The Crusaders Miles Davis Jaco Pastorius John Martyn Henri Rousseau Paul Simon Wilton Felder Scarlett O'Hara Clark Gable Dale Oehler Don Draper Betty Draper Jon Hendricks Harry Edison Ray Davies Brian Wilson Roberta Joan Mitchell CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop, jazz, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Rolling Stone, in 2002, named her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic, in a 2011 biography, stated "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century." Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto. She moved to the United States and began touring in 1965. Some of her original songs ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were first recorded by other singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" (both 1970). Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" and became her best-selling album. Mitchell's vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to that of a wide-ranging contralto around 1975. Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she melded jazz with rock and roll, R&B, classical music and non-Western beats. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. She later turned to pop and electronic music and engaged in political protest. Mitchell produced or co-produced most of her albums and designed most of her own album covers, describing herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A critic of the music industry, she quit touring and released her 19th and last album of original songs in 2007. She gave occasional interviews and made appearances to speak on various causes over the next two decades, though the rupture of a brain aneurysm in 2015 led to a long period of recovery and therapy. A series of retrospective compilations were released over this time period, culminating in the Joni Mitchell Archives, a project to publish much of the unreleased material from her long career. She returned to public appearances in 2021, accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor. Mitchell returned to live performance with an unannounced show at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival and has made several other appearances since, including headlining shows in 2023 and 2024. The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the seventh studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in November 1975 on Asylum Records. It continues the jazz-influenced sound of Mitchell's previous album, Court and Spark, with more unconventional and experimental material. It features synthesizers such as the Moog and ARP, sampling, backing from the jazz-rock groups the L.A. Express and the Jazz Crusaders, and contributions from James Taylor, David Crosby, and Graham Nash.