9 Comments on “The Circle Game: Joni Mitchell”

1. katry Says:

   
   November 7, 2015 at 1:13 pm

   https://app.box.com/s/41y1hobgxd6j316qeek1jmbxoqf7n5ez
2. Birgit Says:

   
   November 7, 2015 at 3:15 pm

   Happy Birthday, Joni!
   And thanks for Joni day on KTCC, Kat!

   Found this about Joni’s Circle Game on the web some time ago:

   Joni heard Neil’s Sugar Mountain and found it to be too despairing for a twenty-year old. She answered with The Circle Game. She once said:
   “In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock’n’roll band (…) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favourite haunt, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you’re over 21 you couldn’t get back in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it’s one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn’t play in this club anymore. ‘Cause he was over the hill. (…) So he wrote this song that was called “Oh to live on sugar mountain” which was a lament for his lost youth. (…) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there’s nothing after that, that’s a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It’s called The Circle Game.”
   • katry Says:

     
     November 7, 2015 at 7:17 pm

     Birgit,
     I wouldn’t have known except for you so I thank you for making Joni Day possible.

     This is among my five top Joni songs. Don’t ask which the five are as I’d be hard-pressed to choose them, but I know this would be among them as is Chelsea Morning.

     Thanks for this background as I didn’t know any of it.

     I listened to this when I posted it and had to listen again. It’s that great a song.
3. Jay Bird Says:

   
   November 8, 2015 at 12:07 am

   Beautiful song… her best (IMO). Nice to hear it again. I also listened to it twice.

   Word is that Joni is improving; getting up and even doing some painting again. That’s good to hear.
   • katry Says:

     
     November 8, 2015 at 10:57 am

     Jay,
     The songs I played for her birthday are among my favorites so I’m with you in thinking this beautiful.

     I’m glad to hear that news. Everything I had read was dire. I’m glad she painting again though I do miss having new music to hear. I wonder what the 72 year old Joni would sound like. Look at Judy-she still sounds great.
     • Jay Bird Says:

       
       November 8, 2015 at 10:21 pm

       The news about Joni’s modest recovery came from a post by Judy Collins! A friend of mine re-posted it on Facebook. Still sounds like she’s in the early stages of recovery, with an unknown prognosis for future progress, but at least she’s up and about a little.
     • katry Says:

       
       November 8, 2015 at 10:41 pm

       Jay Brod,
       That she is up and about was far more optimistic than their original prognosis. Progress comes slowly but at least it is coming.
4. Cuidado Says:

   
   November 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm

   I am happy to celebrate Joni’s birthday with you. She has brought us such beauty and I would somehow like to return the love. Happy Birthday, Joni!
   • katry Says:

     
     November 8, 2015 at 5:08 pm

     Cuidado,
     I never tire listening to Joni. I listened to Clouds more times than I can remember when I was in Africa. It was a huge piece of home.

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