Joni Mitchell - Hejira
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Free Music Notes for Hejira
Free Music Review: Joni must be a god.
Hit: 5 Stars
Beginning in my teen years in the 1970s, I was so absorbed by each treasure of Joni's work. Now, my 86 year old Mom laughs about how I played Joni several times a day reading lyrics while listening. Once I heard Joni, I could not pursue any other Folk or Rock music to a great depth, except for Laura Nyro's. Each play fresh with a newly heard poetic or musical nuance despite the limitation of the old record player.
Lonely, only a few others I knew, appreciated her; they would become best friends.
Now at 54, I received from sweet husband all new Joni CDs. WOW! I weep happily in reunion with continual replays. Now have better stereo equipment, astonished by the sound of Art. Also checked out her videos on Netflix.
Joni Mitchell: Thank You!!!! for me your body of work is the "Gospels according to Joni"!!!!
Free Music Review: My favorite Joni album, this is in the pantheon of greats
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a long time Joni fan and first heard Hejira in the early 80's. I found it hauntingly beautiful, intoxicating. 20 years later I am listening to it again and am convinced it is one of the great rock/jazz albums of all time. Its lush, open chords. Melodies that imprint themselves on your memory like riverbeds. Joni's exquisite voice that makes a marriage of folk with jazz/rock seem like the most natural thing in the world. Each song a layered poem that you can turn over in your mind for years. And of course the brilliant fretless electric bass of virtuoso Jaco Pastorius that gives the music its singular jazz fusion character. Joni has produced many "greats" - Court and Spark, Blue, Wild Things Run Fast, and others - but I think Hejira will go down in history as the pinnacle of her musical expression.Free Music Review: There's Comfort in Melancholy
Hit: 5 Stars
With the exception of her 1968 debut release, HEJIRA is arguably the only Joni Mitchell album to create and sustain a singular, haunting mood throughout. One of the finest musical moments of 1976, this recording has lost none of its hypnotic power and contains perhaps Joni's best vocals ever. It's a timeless piece of work, not to mention very difficult to shut off before it's over. While the experience might leave some listeners with a feeling of sad resignation, there is, as Joni sings in the title song, comfort in melancholy. Albums such as BLUE and COURT & SPARK may well be the ones Joni is ultimately remembered for, but to overlook this one is a true crime. If you want a refreshing change from the assembly line drivel being dished out by today's so-called divas, you can't do better than HEJIRA.Free Music Review: One of the great albums of the last 50 years
Hit: 5 Stars
I was reading a book in my bedroom, the year the album was released, with the radio on when 2 JJ in Sydney played Coyote. The book was really good and I really wasn't listening to the radio at all. But the song grabbed hold of my attention and when it finished I got my bike, went into town and bought the record. Now I own literally thousands of albums but I manage to play at least one track a month off Hejira.
Hejira, Song for Sharon, Coyote and Refuge of the Road are the standouts.
I love this record so much, for me it manages to be very personal and like most great art has a comment about what it means to be a human being.
If it is on in the car I get a thrill when one of my daughters sings "the next thing you know, that Coyote's at my door."
Buy it.
Free Music Review: The starting point.
Hit: 5 Stars
All that you read from the reviewers here assembled is true. This is the masterpiece that sums up the reason why Joni is for me and many others the person who's music has been the backdrop to their lives thus far. I first heard this in 1976 when Punk ruled in the UK and it took me away from all that to the point where I fought at school with my fellow students who thought that there was no place for 'that type of sh-t'.It still unsettles me to hear it today. From the intimate beginnings of 'Coyote' it just builds in scope through 'Furry' ( urban renewal?) until it reaches the big stuff with 'refuge of the roads' refering to the earth as 'this great big marbled bowling ball' with 'me here least of all'. If only 90's society would realise that this is all we really are.