#Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

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leonard cohen and joni mitchell at the newport folk festival, 1967 / joni mitchell, "wizard of is" (joni's take on leonard cohen’s “suzanne,” was rarely performed in concert; this recording is from a september 16, 1967 performance at the white swan in leicester, england) / leonard cohen, "travel" (published in the spice-box of earth) / leonard cohen, "winter lady" / joni mitchell, lyrics from "winter lady" / leonard cohen, lyrics from "winter lady" / joni mitchell interviewed by malka marom in joni mitchell: in her own words / joni mitchell, "the gallery" (live BBC performance, 1970) / joni mitchell, lyrics from "the gallery" / leonard cohen, "joan of arc" / leonard cohen, lyrics from "joan of arc" / leonard cohen interviewed by david yaffe in reckless daughter: a portrait of joni mitchell / leonard cohen and joni mitchell, 1974 / katherine monk, joni: the creative odyssey of joni mitchell / joni mitchell, "a case of you" (live performance at the hollywood bowl, 1974) / david yaffe, reckless daughter: a portrait of joni mitchell / joni mitchell, portrait of leonard cohen (watercolor on paper; according to joni, “i gave it to a friend and his house burned down”) / joni mitchell interviewed by malka marom in joni mitchell: in her own words / herbie hancock and leonard cohen, "the jungle line" (joni mitchell cover) / leonard cohen, in a tribute written for joni mitchell's seventieth birthday celebration at the 2013 luminato festival / leonard cohen and joni mitchell at the newport folk festival, 1967

#joni mitchell #leonard cohen #collage #sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them #can you tell they make me feel insane

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neil young & joni mitchell

Neil Young debut solo album (1969) artwork cover Roland Diehl / Neil Young Watercolour Portrait by Joni Mitchell, 1969 / Neil Young: The Rolling Stone Interview – Rolling Stone by Cameron Crowe, Aug 1975 / Joni Mitchell and Neil Young at the airport, 1969 / Sugar Mountain - Neil Young / Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe / The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell / Neil Young excerpt from Waging Heavy Peace (2012), photo by Rich Zimmermann, 1973 @meadow-dusk / Joni Mitchell with Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers, August 26, 1973 / Review: Neil Young’s ‘Archives II’ Is a Stunning Look Back at His Peak – Rolling Stone, Nov 2020 / Neil Young excerpt from Waging Heavy Peace (2012) / Warner Records’ launch party for Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” ca. June 1975 / Neil being soft with Joni at The Last Waltz following “Furry Sings the Blues” @meadow-dusk /Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, The Last Waltz, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California, November 25, 1976./ The Making of The Last Waltz, the Band’s Concert-Film Masterpiece | Vanity Fair /The Last Waltz "Helpless" @joelmccrea / Joni quote / Credit on Hejira album (1976) / Neil Young photo in Rolling Stone, Dec 2021 / Joni Mitchell photo by Anton Corbijn, Chalk Mark in A Rainstorm album (1988) / 'I Stand With Neil Young!' Joni Mitchell, Jan 2022 / Neil Young Interview: Crazy Horse ‘Barn,’ Archives, ‘Harvest’ – Rolling Stone, Dec 2021 / Neil Young and Joni Mitchell at the Grammys, Feb 2012

#neil young #joni mitchell #i hope you guys don't mind me just gathering posts together? let me know if you want anything removed etc

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

 Window in His Heart

Alex Gibney’s new documentary chronicles Paul Simon’s course from voice of a generation to aging performer who’s not ready to hang up his guitar

BY DAVID YAFFE

MARCH 16, 2024

A 21-year-old Queens College student wrote a song in his parents’ bathroom about how we would all be swallowed up by death. Do your best to make music, but silence will defeat you in the end. “Hello, darkness, my old friend,” he began, singing to the tiles. This was not an obvious chart-topping topic, yet “The Sound of Silence” eventually became a No. 1 hit, and Paul Simon, with his childhood pal Artie Garfunkel rocking a harmony, broke very, very big.

When he sang, “Losing love is like a window in your heart,” he was singing about his divorce from Carrie Fisher, but he was really singing for anyone who had lost love and was still reeling. Simon lamented that he could not sound enigmatic like Dylan. He always sounded sincere. Maybe it was because he was part of something larger. “There is something where the music is coming through you,” he said. “You’re a part of it, but it’s not starting with you—it’s coming from somewhere.” O.K., but when he sold his catalogue, he kept the $250 million.

He had a farewell album in 2016 and a farewell tour in 2018, but then a voice came to him in a dream, telling him he would write something called Seven Psalms, even providing lyrics. Simon would transcribe like a biblical prophet. The message would have something to do with dying, right back to where he started in “The Sound of Silence.” Gibney’s In Restless Dreams follows Simon’s quest to record the album after the final album, while he was losing the feeling in his hands and his hearing in his left ear, first gradually, then suddenly.

“The artistic process is about real shit,” Gibney tells me. “Because I was around when he was doing the work, it was like Picasso painting. Paul needed an audience, particularly when it was hard for him. He was having issues with his hands. There was one day when he came in with a huge bag of Theraguns, a muscle relaxer for his hands. He had issues with his playing, his hearing, and his singing, and he let us watch him struggle through that. That was both very generous and vulnerable. But it also helped him, because he knows how to rally for an audience. The extra energy was useful to him. Watching him in the present gave me more insight into the past.”

When Brickell sings, “Heaven is beautiful. It’s almost like home,” I cannot listen without tears. We want to hear the songwriter of “The Sound of Silence.” We’re not ready for actual silence. Losing love is a window in your heart, but what about losing everything? “The big mystery about life,” Simon says in the film, “you can never solve the mystery. That’s what’s so great about it. You don’t want to solve it.”

After Seven Psalms, Simon went back to doing what he was doing before: writing songs. He’s still working out how to perform with the one good ear, and he hasn’t given up. Neither should we. We’re on our way. We don’t know where we’re going.

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon premieres on MGM+ on March 17

David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University. He writes about music and is the author, most recently, of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. You can read his Substack here

#David Yaffe #music #musicians #Paul #Simon #songs #song lyrics #my favorites

[chicken-delight]

ive read all of these before and im gonna need an escape bc im gonna be all alone with my mom and my sister hence the misunderstood part

[cactustreesmotel]

11-15 for the asks!

11. something you want to do again next year?

many many things!! book spontaneous trips around the country, go skating regularly, go plunging into the ocean in the middle of december, you name it and i will do it lol

12. talk about a new friend you made this year

my friend b is one of my favourite hockey-watching companions and makes me feel good about my knitting, but more importantly he offered to be my fake boyfriend to get a guy out of my dms, and that's true friendship <3

13. how was your birthday this year?

it was mostly like any other day, except i went for a drive with my family and we ended up in our favourite mountain town and ate ice cream. my birthday always falls around the start of the semester so it's usually kind of chaotic (at least it wasn't like last year where i started my new job on my birthday lol)

14. favourite book you read this year

already answered this, but bonus answer is reckless daughter: a portrait of joni mitchell by david yaffe! took me forever to get through but anything joni-related i'm guaranteed to love

15. what's a bad habit you picked up this year?

it's ridiculous but this is very much on my mind right now: not checking my exam dates and then MISSING THEM. yeah. anyway i'm trying to make sure i break that habit RIGHT NOW so i never end up scrambling for a concession again bc. oh my god

#thank you for the ask mickey!! #downer note to end off on lmao but it was really fun thinking back on the year #ask game

[reckonslepoisson]

Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, Joni Mitchell (1977)

Just to be contrary, I’d love to argue against consensus here; to pitch that Joni Mitchell’s Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter simply didn’t deserve such a mixed critical response – and that it should stand as one of her peak period classics. But I can’t. Not seriously, anyway. Not only was Don Juan bad; it was the record Mitchell lost her touch – and from which, in hindsight, she never came back from. 

So what went so wrong with Don Juan? A few things, I suppose. Instrumentally, Mitchell urged towards whatever she believed was jazz, growing increasingly indulgent but near-totally lacking in reward. Even without the lyrics and vocals, Don Juan was lengthy and dull in particularly uninspiring ways.

But it was in the lyrical realm that Don Juan suffered most. Having apparently lost her poetic touch – but, judging from references to her own esteemed poeticism, unaware of it – Mitchell gave off shoddy parody. The stories weren’t there, but neither were the one-liners, the deft poignance, the vivid metaphors. In short, pretty much everything I loved about her previous records was amiss, replaced by tired scenes and silly references.

Add all that together (plus the blackface cover, a dash of Islamophobia and several instances of cultural appropriation and awkward white ignorance) and one is left with a severely unflattering portrait of an artist. Unflattering enough to retroactively dismantle the air of genius of earlier Mitchell works? Perhaps not. But the very idea that this record could dare to call into question Mitchell’s prior untouchability gives you an idea of just how poor it is and remains.

Pick: ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’

#Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter #Joni Mitchell #pop #jazz pop #folk #folk pop #progressive folk #singer songwriter #jazz fusion #1977 #music #review #music review

[demoura]

19 DE DE JUNHO DE 2022: PORTUGAL COM OS PIORES NÚMEROS EUROPEUS DO COVID-19 , UMA BIOGRAFIA DE JONI MITCHELL E NO MEZZO WERTHER DE MASSENET : volto aos números da pandemia porque infelizmente Portugal continua a ser o país da União Europeia com mais casos de infecção por SARS-CoV-2 por milhão de habitantes e o segundo no mundo neste indicador.Portugal registou, entre 7 e 13 Junho, 114.410 infecções pelo coronavírus SARS-CoV-2, 256 mortes associadas à covid-19 e uma diminuição dos internamentos em enfermaria e cuidados intensivos, indicou hoje a Direcção-Geral da Saúde (DGS). Especialistas apontam surgimento de linhagem mais transmissível em Portugal como principal factor, elogiando manutenção de máscaras em transportes públicos. Comprei em e-book “RECKLESS DAUGHTER A Portrait of Joni Mitchell” por David Yaffe publicada em 2017 . Ao ler a biografia da musa do meu tempo na Universidade de Yale surpreende quantas das suas músicas ainda tenho na memória . Um tributo, ao estilo dos seus lamentos por amor condenado – melodicamente imprevisíveis , literários , complicados – que permanecem belos , inteligentes e inventivos.“Her music has aged well, partly because of the risks she’s taken and the depths she’s plumbed.” A biografia de Yaffe foi considerada “protectora” mas como outros eu direi que a pessoa que escreveu e cantou “Blue”, “Court and Spark” e “Hejira” não precisa de ser protegida de leitores que, décadas após o lançamento desses álbuns, se lembram das músicas …Finalmente ,noutro lado da música , admirador ferrenho de Massenet ( como Pierre Boulez) não podia perder o Werther de Zurich ( 2017) transmitido pela MEZZO tv com Juan Diego Flórez no papel principal . A realizadora alemã Tatjana Gürbaca, concebeu um cenário dominado pelo interior de uma casa de madeira austera, sem janelas, claustrofóbica e sufocante, representando a mentalidade estreita e opressora da sociedade pequeno-burguesa a que pertencem Albert, Charlotte e sua família. Só no final, com o suicídio de Wether, o estreito espaço se abre para um céu estrelado e nevado, como se quisesse dizer que, com a morte do poeta, para Charlotte (e para toda a comunidade) há uma esperança de salvação, de libertação. Juan Diego Flórez: requintado cantor de belcanto , de voz não transbordante, mas de timbre brilhante, o tenor peruano , foi um Werther contemplativo e sensível A Interpretação da famosa ária "Pourquoi me réveiller", foi saudada por aplausos estrondosos. Pois bem considero que está abaixo da versão do tenor francês Benjamin Bernheim que aqui deixo para vossa escuta .

Philharmonia Zürich

Cornelius Meister (Conductor)

Tatjana Gürbaca (Stage Direction)

Juan Diego Flórez (Tenor) : Werther

Anna Stéphany (Mezzo-soprano) : Charlotte

Audun Iversen (Baritone) : Albert

Mélissa Petit (Soprano) : Sophie

Cheyne Davidson (Baritone) : Le Bailli

Martin Zysset (Tenor) : Schmidt

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joel Bernstein gave me a tape of it [Blood on the Tracks] and it was really good, really good. But people said, 'Oh, it's like a Joni Mitchell album,' so he went and recut it with his brother in Minnesota. They butchered it all up. They stomped all over it. But originally, the writing was different, it was more vulnerable, and the orchestration was subtle, very like when I was using just a little of that stuff to my performances. It had Al Kooper on it, but he was mixed kind of under, y'know, like some of his early players. It was beautiful. And one night, I had a party here, and it was so star-studded, you wouldn't believe it. It made the newspaper. It said, 'If a bomb hit Joni Mitchell's house, it would have wiped out the music industry and the acting industry.' And you wouldn't believe the crashers. Robert De Niro crashed it, David Bowie crashed it, Robin Williams crashed it, and Bob [Dylan] crashed it. And the bootleg of that first Blood on the Tracks was playing. They were out in the garden, and somebody said that Bob wanted to see me. And the bootleg was still playing, and I said, 'Why didn't you put that out?' And he said, 'Somebody stole the tape.' Which was not true. He chickened out. People said it was like a Joni Mitchell album. There was some stylistic production to it, but not the material. It was more honest. He'd already cracked by the next one. He took the vulnerability out of it, and in the process took the depth out. The New York sessions were touching. The Minnesota sessions were not touching at all. He asserted himself again as a man.

Joni Mitchell on the New York vs the Minnesota sessions for Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”---Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, 2017.

#Bob Dylan n Joni Mitchell #Joni Mitchell #Blood On The Tracks #Bob Dylan #Interview #Quote #Reckless Daughter #Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell #David Yaffe #2017 #2010s #New York Sessions #Al Kooper #Robert De Niro #David Bowie #Robin Williams #Joel Bernstein #1970s #📚

[booksivereadandwanttoremember]

"Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell,” by David Yaffe, October 10, 2017.

#Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell #David Yaffe #2017 #Biography #Music Biography #Music #2/5 #Joni Mitchell

[krispyweiss]

Book Review: “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell” by David Yaffe

One thing is immediately clear in reading David Yaffe’s “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell:”

David loves Joni.

In fact, Yaffe loves Mitchell too much to be a clear-eyed biographer. He loves her music. He loves her attitude. He loves her outlook. And he loves her look.

Flip through the book’s 376 pages and you’ll see signs of it everywhere.

“Such beauty emanating from such beauty” (54); “Joni posed, a sort of wood nymph overlooking the sea” (160); “This was the Joni Mitchell of our dreams” (299); and “Looking like a Norse goddess in a stadium full of thugs” (323).

Barf.

Yaffe - who as an assistant professor of humanities at Syracuse University and a professional journalist should know better - makes no attempt to conceal his fan-boy status. And the resulting sycophancy takes away from his telling of story.

From her early days playing folk music in coffee houses in her adopted home in America to Rolling Thunder and the Last Waltz to her final tour in 2000 on a co-bill with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, and from 1968’s Song to a Seagull to 2007’s Shine, Yaffe goes in-depth to Mitchell’s music and demonstrates he has the knowledge to write this book.

Everything else is less interesting; not because Mitchell’s lived an uninteresting life - quite the opposite - but because the starry-eyed Yaffe can’t quite remove himself from his fascination with his subject. He interviews Mitchell’s ex-husbands, Chuck Mitchell and Larry Klein, and ex-lovers and musical collaborators including David Crosby, Leonard Cohen, Graham Nash, Don Alias and John Guerin among others, and seems slightly jealous of all of them.

Judy Collins, who had a hit with “Both Sides Now” before Mitchell recorded it, Rickie Lee Jones, who questions Mitchell’s jazz bonafides, and other musicians are also quoted and subsequently criticized.

As a result, “Reckless Daughter” is less a portrait and more a defense of Mitchell. When Yaffe cites critical reviews Mitchell received over the years, he follows up by telling readers why that particular writer was wrong. If a friend deigns to call Mitchell out on her sometimes-wacky behavior, the author dismisses their memories as flawed or simply sour grapes.

And Yaffe fails in two key areas of Mitchell’s life beyond music.

After spending much of the book analyzing how much Mitchell’s decision to put her daughter up for adoption impacted her, he drops the ball when writing about their reunion and subsequent falling out. What happened - and why - is something readers must learn from other sources.

He also devotes only a couple of pages to the brain hemorrhage Mitchell suffered in 2015 and provides no insight into how her health is now.

But for all his fawning, and lack of details on key events in the singer’s life, Yaffe has a encyclopedic knowledge of Mitchell’s musical output and his descriptions of her music quite literally make it play in readers’ minds. Sound Bites has been listening back to Mitchell’s albums while reading the book and getting reacquainted these songs has been a revelation.

That in itself makes “Reckless Daughter” highly recommended, despite its many shortcomings.

Grade card: “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell” by David Yaffe - C+

1/24/18

#reckless daughter: a portrait of joni mitchell #david yaffe #joni mitchell #judy collins #rickie lee jones #bob dylan #van morrison #rolling thunder revue #the last waltz #the band #leonard cohen #david crosby #graham nash #chuck mitchell #larry klein #john guerin #don alias

[projazznet]

Today is Joni Mitchell's birthday! Here's an excerpt from "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell" about her relationship with Charles Mingus.

#joni mitchell #CharlesMingus

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joni mitchell & stephen stills

Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills at Monterey Folk Festival (1969) by Jim Marshall / Stephen's hair @6x8-6 / Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, and Stephen Stills, Celebration at Big Sur (1969) / Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe / guitar drawing / Stephen Stills on Joni Mitchell's Carey @elicash / Joni on Bass Players / Stephen Stills playing bass on 'A Song To A Seagull' at Sunset Sound (1967) by Sulfiati Magnuson / CSN origins / Ellen Sander / Crosby, Stills and Nash with felt tip by Joni Mitchell (1969) / Wild Tales by Graham Nash / Stephen Stills Twitter (2022) / The Dick Cavett Show (8/19/1969) / Joni Mitchell's CSNY logo / Stephen Stills and Joni Mitchell at Wembley (1974) by Gijsbert Hanekroot / Joni Mitchell with Mimi Fariña, Stephen Stills, and Tim Hardin, Bread & Roses Festival (1978) / Joni Mitchell and Stephen Stills in 2022

#joni mitchell #stephen stills #laurel canyon #woodstock #csn #60s #this took so long !! but here :)

[portersqbooks]

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe is out in paperback on 10/2

#October 2018 #Biography #Joni Mitchell #Paperback #David Yaffe #Reckless Daughter

[readingwritingandme]

A new review is live on the blog! I’m posting about the last book I finished in January called Reckless Daughter about Joni Mitchell. It’s one of the books I got from my library as part of my goal to get a stack of books from there every month. Also, you might have noticed, but I’m using stories more. It’s one of my goals for the month, and I’ve been using them to give a glimpse into what I’m currently reading and what I’m thinking of it. I’m not sure what else you want to see on the stories or if you want recommendations. Let me know what you want to see in the comments. Click the link in bio to read both my review and my January wrap up! Or copy it from below here: http://www.readingwritingandme.com/2020/02/reckless-daughter-portrait-of-joni.html #musicbook #bookstagram #bookreview #jonimitchell #recklessdaughter #biography https://www.instagram.com/p/B8H0h7-ggHb/?igshid=dlx6dvcemo7s

#musicbook #bookstagram #bookreview #jonimitchell #recklessdaughter #biography