A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
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Free Music Review: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell?
Hit: 1 Stars
What was I thinking? They saved the best two songs for last, James Taylor & kd Lang. Free Music Review: Uneven but interesting tribute
Hit: 3 Stars
Some of the atists' verisons of Joni's songs are wonderful; some are merely curious or interesting. Prince"s and Bjork's are interesting, for example, but not something that I want to listen to over and over again.Free Music Review: a tribute to joni mitchell
Hit: 2 Stars
i was disappointed
too many of the performers over interpreted joni mitchell
a few imitated her style
but joni mitchell sings joni mitchell songs better than all of them
Free Music Review: Artists pay little to no respect to original work
Hit: 1 Stars
I was horribly disappointed in this CD. Only 1 or 2 tracks were worth listening to - the rest were trash, as the "artists" (and I'll use that term losely here) failed to come close to contributing any kind of respect and tribute to Mitchell's original releases. Don't buy this CD if you like Joni Mitchell.Free Music Review: Lush, low-key tribute to Ms. Mitchell
Hit: 5 Stars
[...]Putting all that aside, it's important to recall that (as many of my friends told me at the time) many of Mitchell's songs are "downers." Moreover, her output made a remarkable transition from early folky crooners to the jazz-inspired work of her middle albums, and the more straight-forward pop of later discs. She was also one of the first pop stars to make a free-verse lyric actually work in a song. Nowadays, when we take unrhymed, self-referential lyrics for granted, it's easy to forget how genuinely different these songs seemed 30 years ago. The artists included here are apt by virtue of being quirks (and sometimes downers) in their own rights. Sufan Stevens, who owes Mitchell a huge debt, daringly turns one of her most popular songs into his own. Bjork's adorably twisted take on "Bojo Dance" finally made that song tolerable for me (I never liked Mitchell's version). Brad Mehldau often includes Mitchell songs in his sets, and Casandra Wilson's understated cover of "For the Roses" is haunting. Prince turns a folk song into electric gospel, and Annie Lennox finds the psychedelia lurking in "Ladies of the Canyon." Emmylou Harris could have written "The Magdelene Laundries," and Elvis Costello's take on "Edith and the Kingpin" makes it seem like it was written for him. k.d. lang's note-perfect cover of "Help Me" must ride home on some deep, Canadian connection. And somehow Sarah McLachlan and James Taylor almost don't need comment, do they? Taylor sang backups on the original "Blue" album, and McLachlan seems to have absorbed it into her DNA. And who else but Caetano Veloso could pull off the bizarre "Dreamland," from what is arguably Mitchell's most weird-ass album. This is a CD that I am finding it easy to live with, reminding me of how rich and varied Ms. Mitchell's "downers" really are (and always have been).