Two Flowers from the Garden of Joni Mitchell

[talktooloose]

Finishing out a crazy week where I was either under silly pressure at work or doing construction at home (10 hours of drywall yesterday). Not altogether bad. I enjoyed the construction especially, but I need some down time tomorrow. Trip to the island weather permitting?

Anyway, here are two very different Joni Mitchell performances, 33 years apart. First, billed as Joan Anderson on Alberta television in 1965, singing an unlikely folk song:

And here in 1998, at an outdoor concert, dressed like she's been working in her garden all day, but rocking hard on her setting of Yeats' "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" with a killer band:

Comments

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

LOVE the first clip. Wow.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Look how amazingly poised she is. She had that confidence right from the start -- that sense that everyone should be listening to what she had to say.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! :-D