He bought her a diamond for her throat He put her in a ranch house on a hill She could see the valley barbecues From her window sill See the blue pools in the squinting sun Hear the hissing of summer lawns
"Old man sleeping on his bags Women with that teased up kind of hair Kids with the jitters in their legs And those wide wide open stares And the kids got cokes & chocolate bars There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar Jealous lovin'll make you crazy If you can't find your goodness Cause you've lost your heart What are you going to do now You've got no one to give your love to Well I've got this berth & this roll down blind I've got this fold up sink And these rocks And these cactus going by And a bottle of German wine to drink Settle down into the clickety clack With the clouds & the stars to read Dreaming of the pleasure I'm gonna have Watching your hairline recede, my vain darling"
This is from the 'Dick Cavett' show, 1969. Remember he had a late night talk show. Looks like he really cared about the music. His guest that night was Joni, The Jefferson Airplane and Crosby and Stills. If I had to pick one song by her, it would be 'For Free'. When she does 'Chelsea Morning' the guitar tuning isn't standard (it's open D) and the song just takes off...
'They Fed Me To The Beast': Joni Mitchell At The Isle Of Wight Festival "A bit of a disaster" is how Joni Mitchell described an out-of-control August afternoon in 1970, when she gave a courageous performance at England's Isle of Wight Festival. Watching Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, a new documentary by Oscar-winning director Murray Lerner, one sees how Mitchell tamed an agitated audience with a few fresh songs, a wide smile and a couple of astringent reprimands."
The Magic of Joni Mitchell’s Open Tunings At age nine (1952), Joni Mitchell contracted polio, and was hospitalised for weeks. Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook. The polio had weakened her left hand, so she devised alternative tunings to compensate; she later used these open tunings to create non-standard approaches to harmony and structure in her songwriting. According to Joni, she used no fewer than 57 different open tunings in the compositions she recorded and performed throughout her career. Open tuning simply allowed her to form the chord shapes she couldn’t have played otherwise. In Joni’s opinion, these are the simplest tunings she uses: Double drop D (DADGBD) Open G (DGDGBD) Open D (DADF#AD)
I would never have guessed this was Joni Mitchell. Answer Me, My Love - from the album, Both Sides Now, released in 2000 (Nat King Cole hit - 1954)
Johnny Cash Show: Johnny Cash & Joni Mitchell - The Long Black Veil "Joni's voice is like the wind and Johnny's is the dark night."