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Joni Mitchell

American Folk Song of the Week

"Oh Susana"

Monday

Listening Example:  "Big Yellow Taxi"
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Folk music is defined as music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation.  Basically, folk music is the music of the folks.  The music that they pass down to their children.  Joni Mitchell is a folk singer and songwriter.  This week we will learn about her and how she changed folk music.

Roberta Joan Anderson was born on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. Her father, Bill, was a grocer and her mother, Myrtle, was a school teacher.  Shortly after World War II, Joni and her parents moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the "city of bridges," which Joni has since referred to as her hometown. It was there that she fell in love with music.  

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Her best friend, at the time, was a piano prodigy.  He introduced her to classical composers, such as Schubert and Mozart.  She begged her parents to let her learn piano, so at the age of 7, Joni started piano lessons.  Her teachers were very stern, and strict.  When she mentioned that she wanted to write her own songs to play on the piano, one of them said, “why would you want to make up your own songs when you can have the masters under your fingers?".  Although Joni heard melodies in her head that she wanted to get out, she felt stifled, so after a year and half of piano lessons, she quit.

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Today’s Listening Example, “Big Yellow Taxi”, is Mitchell's biggest radio hit - and her only top 40 single in the UK, reaching number 11 in 1970.  She wrote it after a trip to Hawaii, where she arrived at her hotel in the dead of night.  Joni had this to say about writing this song.  "When I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."


Tuesday

Listening Example:  "River"
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Yesterday, we learned that, even though Joni Mitchell had music in her head, waiting to get out, she quit taking piano lessons.  That wasn’t the end of her story.  Joni kept on fighting to become a "painter who writes songs" .
In Grade 7, Joni met a teacher who would have a great effect on her direction. Mr. Kratzman was an Australian who taught English at Queen Elizabeth school.  Joni was a very good artist.  She met Mr. Kratzman at the end of the school year while he was hanging her paintings at school.  He once told her "If you can paint with a brush, you can paint with words." He was hard on her, but only because he knew she could be better.
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The next year in his class she wrote a poem about stallions.  Mr. Kratzman used his red ink pen and  circled the paper over and over  commenting "cliche" with ever circle. He told her to write about things she knew, and thus helped to mold her remarkable ability for imagery and description. In the credits for her first album, Joni wrote: "This album is dedicated to Mr. Kratzman, who taught me to love words."
Today’s Listening Example, “River”, has been covered  more than 200 times by the likes of Tori Amos, Herbie Hancock, Linda Ronstadt and Aimee Mann.  River is one of Mitchell's most enduring songs. Featured on 1971's Blue album, it's piano-driven arrangement paints a vivid picture of loss and loneliness, with Mitchell facing Christmas with no-one to kiss under the mistletoe.

Wednesday

Listening Example:  "Chelsea Morning"
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​Before Joni Mitchell came along, singer-songwriters concentrated on love and politics. After her, they sang about themselves - their fears, their pain, and how the loss of  someone can leave you feeling like “the frying pan's too wide."  (which was her way of saying, lonely).  
When Joni was 9 years old, she got a horrible disease called polio.  She was hospitalized for weeks, and loss the use of her legs for a long time.  Since she could no longer play sports, she started thinking of having a career as an artist or musician.  This is where the words started to form in her head that would eventually become songs.
When she was about 17 years old, Joni decided she wanted to play the guitar.  Her mother thought a guitar was too hillbilly for a young girl to play.  So, Joni bought herself a ukulele and taught herself to play it.  Eventually she taught herself guitar from a Pete Seeger songbook, but the polio had affected her fingers, and she had to devise dozens of alternative tunings of her own. This improvised approach later helped her break free of standard approaches to harmony and structure in her songwriting.
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​Today’s Listening Example is “Chelsea Morning”.  The cheerful, bright guitar accompaniment and Mitchell’s youthful, lilting voice personify a sunny morning in Chelsea, her New York neighborhood at the time. It’s the perfect vignette of a seemingly unimportant moment, a snapshot of Mitchell’s ability to freeze time and paint with sound. Mitchell, who went to art school, considers herself a painter first and a musician second. This song is the perfect blending of the two skills—a still life set to sound.

Thursday

Listening Example:  "Day After Day"
Joni Mitchell  was not just another longhaired folky girl from the ‘60s. Though Mitchell did write some very influential songs during the folk revival, she pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be a female singer-songwriter—blending rock, world, jazz, and more with her folk sensibilities over the course of her four-decade career.
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Even though Joni was a truly talented musician, she still considered herself an artist first.  In fact, she went to art school in Alberta, Canada for a year before her musical career took off.  Let’s take a look at some of her paintings.
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Joni didn’t stay in art school very long because she didn’t like being told how to paint by the teachers.  She was a free thinker and only wanted to follow her own rules and ideas of how art should look and be done.
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She very much liked to paint pictures of herself.  Kind of like a Selfie!



In 1964, at the age of 20, Joni told her mother that she intended to be a folk singer in Toronto, and she left western Canada for the first time in her life, heading east for Ontario. On the three-day train ride there, Mitchell wrote her first song, "Day After Day". That is today’s Listening Example.

Friday

Listening Example:  "Both Sides Now"
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Joni Mitchell always uses lots of descriptive words when she is explaining something.  In fact, she was diagnosed with something called Morgellons disease.  Even in the face of this incurable disease, she uses vivid language to describe the disease as "fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral."

Today we are going to learn some interesting facts about Joni Mitchell.  Many of Mitchell’s songs were sold to other artists before she ever had the chance to record them herself. Artists who have had first dibs on her songs include Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dave Von Ronk, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Joni Mitchell’s Grammy-winning second album, Clouds, released in 1969, featured a handful of these songs.
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Joni Mitchell wrote a hit song about the infamous music festival, Woodstock.  The song was a major hit, and some say it perfectly described the event.  The catch?  Joni never attended.  She was supposed to actually perform at Woodstock but was advised not to by her manager due to traffic and her scheduled performance on The Dick Cavett Show.
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In an off-the-cuff meeting with painter Georgia O’Keefe, O’Keefe told Mitchell that she couldn’t be a good painter and a good musician at the same time. Mitchell proved her wrong, as her art has been featured in books, as well as art galleries.

Joni Mitchell has won 7 Grammy Awards.  In 1981, she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, receiving the award from then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 by Shawn Colvin.
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Today’s Listening Example, "Both Sides, Now", is a song by Joni Mitchell.  It is one of her best-known songs. It was first recorded by Judy Collins in 1967; Collins' version was a top-ten hit on the U.S. singles chart during the fall of 1968. It subsequently appeared on Mitchell's 1969 album Clouds (which was named after a lyric from the song). It has since been covered by dozens of artists in various languages, including Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson and Herbie Hancock. Mitchell herself re-rerecorded the song, with an orchestral arrangement, on her 2000 album Both Sides Now.  In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Both Sides, Now" at #171 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

References

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32143868
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell
https://www.biography.com/people/joni-mitchell-9410294
http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2042
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/the-16-best-joni-mitchell-songs.html
https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/02/us/joni-mitchell-fast-facts/index.html
http://ppcorn.com/us/joni-mitchell-15-facts-you-didnt-know-part-1/
http://ppcorn.com/us/joni-mitchell-15-facts-you-didnt-know-part-2/
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