Joni Mitchell - Hejira
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Free Music Notes for Hejira
Free Music Review: Rolling, restless, magnificent spirit
Hit: 5 Stars
I admit I am a diehard fan but this is an album I would recommend to anyone, whether or not they were, as long as they have that lonesome, restless urge to hit the road. I seem to find each of her albums when I need them, not in sequence, not when they are released but when the songs mirror what is going on in my life. Listening to this album again and again over the last few months has allowed me to understand the road I am travelling, as Joni puts into words the reasons why some of us have to keep on moving.
I could wax eloquent about her musical genius, her ethereal chords, her astounding lyrics.....but it has all been said before and will be said again. I just consider it an amazing blessing to be able to listen to music like this.
Thank you, Joni.
Free Music Review: beautiful, beautiful album
Hit: 5 Stars
Ahhh, Hejira. What a beautiful album! There is nothing but beautiful music on this album. Joni's lyrics go so much further than just being simple words being strung together - the lyrics create such a wonderful mental and musical landscapes. The addition of Jaco Pastorius on this album is wonderful. Jaco's bass playing compliments Joni's voice in such a WONDERFUL and unimaginable way!
Musicians such as Larry Carlton, Bobbye Hall, Chuck Findley & Tom Scott make this album wonderful as well!
But to tell you the truth - I'm not a huge Neil Young fan, but I must however say that his harmonica work adds something special to "Furry Sings The Blues".
If you've never heard Joni before, I (personally) think that this a great place to start.
Free Music Review: Her Greatest
Hit: 5 Stars
I was gratified to see all the reviews here stating that this is Joni Mitchell's best album. Let me add my voice to the throng. As beautiful as her earlier works are, this is her first that really delves into the inner workings of the artist. And even though the instrumentation is stripped to the basics, she does this with a variety of moods: jocular on "Coyote," coy on "Blue Motel Room," ecstatic on "Black Crow Flying, and wistfully melancholic on the album's three greatest achievements: "Amelia," the title track, and "Refuge of the Road." The only song I don't like much is "Song for Sharon," which is about 7 minutes too long.
I was at a concert once where she said that Hejira is the album she likes to play songs from most. It's no surprise.
Free Music Review: Trying the traveling cure...
Hit: 5 Stars
This is really Joni at her most alienated from the comforts of home while she tries to seek solace from broken dreams and love affairs gone wrong. She meets Coyote, a man completly different from herself, yet attractive in his element. Hejira means journey, usually a journey of self discovery. She does not care about living on the road and it's inconveniences because she is seeking knowledge about the world and the inspiration it can bring to her work both in her music and her painting.For me, the best song on the cd is Sharon's Song. It explains the rift in lifestyles beteen her friend Sharon and herself very eloquently. Also Amelia is a wonderful thought poem which tells about her contemplation of suicide."It was just a false alarm."
Free Music Review: A Mercurial Landscape
Hit: 5 Stars
Joni Mitchell's great work about the wanderlust and insatiable thirst of the artist is a commanding,existential sojourn about the body as the spiritual being, traveling in delicious discontent. The title piece is haunting and hypnotic, as the subliminal unconcious unveils itself.Mitchell's prose and melodies here create an aching that stirs the heart and the soul.Blue hotel room is a love-lorn blues type of paen. Kayote is a colorful one night postcard of the "passer through". "Amelia" is a an homage to the great wanderer Amelia Erhardt. The pain and disollution of the self is epitomized in this great landscape recording. It is my favorite Mitchell recording, and I love most of her work!