Joni Mitchell - Hejira
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Coyote
- Amelia
- Furry Sings the Blues
- Strange Boy
- Hejira
- Song for Sharon
- Black Crow
- Blue Motel Room
- Refuge of the Roads
Free Music Notes for Hejira
Free Music Review: This is THE Joni album
Hit: 5 Stars
You love/are in love with Joni. Check. You already have this album. Check. Oh, you don't have it? I bought this vinyl LP when it first came out years ago and it was a shocking experience. Joni never released an album like this. I had every Mitchell album before I bought this one. It was instantly my favorite. This is the all-time "roadtrip" album. The guitar on the title cut alone gives you the feeling of rolling down the road. The final song "Refuge of the Road" says it all. My personal favorite is the album opener "Coyote" (also check out this song on The Last Waltz - amazing). "Coyote" features the immortal Jaco Pastorius on electric bass. His bass is the second or harmony vocal to Joni's voice. At the end of each verse she sings "a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway" and Jaco hits a high note that is basically unreachable by any other bassist. At the end of the song he hits the note repeatedly and it is mesmerizing. Suddenly it is realized that this is her best album both musically and lyrically. And it's the first song!!!!! This is the album that you start with in your journey with Joni and the one where it literally ends. If she only made this one album she would still be Hall of Fame bound. The only album that even comes close to this is Grace by Jeff Buckley. This album and Grace are two profound and moving musical experiences. I highly recommend that you own both of them and wear them out. Such beauty in musical form cannot be found elsewhere. Enjoy.....
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After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court & Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell's distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator Jaco Pastorius. Known for his furious, sometimes rococo figures beneath the music of Weather Report, Pastorius is tamed by Mitchell's cooler, more deliberate ballads: these meditations coax a far gentler, subdued lyricism from Pastorius, whose intricate bass counterpoints Mitchell's coolly elegant singing, especially on the sublime "Amelia," which transforms the mystery of Amelia Earheart into a parable of both feminism and romantic self-discovery. This isn't Mitchell at her most obviously ambitious, yet the depth of feeling, poetic reach, and musical confidence make this among the finest works in a very fine canon. --Sam SutherlandFolk Music CDs
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