Chelsea Morning: Joni Mitchell
Today is I know you’ve heard these before, but I deem this my favorites day so I get to repost.
The album Clouds spent two years in Africa with me. It was played almost every night. Most times it had to be hand rewound, a victim of the heat and humidity. I came to love my Bic pen; it was just the right size to fit in the holes and catch the cogs in the cassette so I could easily rewind.
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August 2, 2011 at 11:48 am
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August 2, 2011 at 11:49 pm
as noted before
In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell explained: “I wrote that in Philadelphia after some girls who worked in this club where I was playing found all this colored slag glass in an alley. We collected a lot of it and built these glass mobiles with copper wire and coat hangers. I took mine back to New York and put them in my window on West 16th Street in the Chelsea District. The sun would hit the mobile and send these moving colors all around the room. As a young girl, I found that to be a thing of beauty. There’s even a reference to the mobile in the song. It was a very young and lovely time… before I had a record deal. I think it’s a very sweet song, but I don’t think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue.”
August 3, 2011 at 12:19 am
Well, sblake, *I* certainly think better of it than she does. Goes ta show ya what *I* know. 😉
August 3, 2011 at 10:32 am
sblake,
I love the imagery in this song. It is what makes it one of my favorite. I see all those colors and hear everything she describes. I think it is a travesty to call it, “Sweet.”