Joni's best known song is likely "Big Yellow Taxi" but my favorite is "My Old Man." Here she is singing to a place - with the kind of love usually reserved for people.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers elicit the same kind of sentimental feelings in "Under the Bridge." Frank Sinatra feels this same way about "New York New York." I don't feel that kind of attachment to any place, so I can't identify. But what Joni sings in "My Old Man" always puts a lump in my throat. "When he's gone...the bed's too big the frying pan's too wide."
Women of Rock #5 Joni Mitchell - the only Woodstock performer on the list.
"will you take me as I am, strung out on another man?" best line from that song. Her 2000 version of Both Sides Now, always makes me teary. The same song she wrote decades before, sung now with the deep,rich voice of a seasoned veteran.
ReplyDeletetoo funny...I was just going to write the same thing about her 2000 version of Both Sides Now...now my comment seems irrelevant.
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