Joni Mitchell-The Silky Veils Of Ardor

[jackhillty]

somebody please post Paprika Plains. Please.

[KobLobs]

how can anyone be so touching, special and sensitive?

i'm just in love with her soul.

[Seasass]

She sounds so Billie Holliday in this.

[SaarduLady]

I just finished watching the biopic "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind" on Netflix Instant and learned so much about my all-time favorite artist. After Charles Mingus (jazz legend) heard this album, he called her from his deathbed to ask her to collaborate on his last project. Her management begged her not to do it, "you'll drop into obscurity" - she didn't mind that. What great music followed!!!

[canyonsofremorse]

Ahhh Scotland 1978 - what a lovely,evocative song. I'd forgotten this (sort of). Thank you for posting this. X

[ricadia]

This is one of the greatest albums of all time. Lyrically and musically this music has such amazing power and beauty. I could play this for hours and hours. What a huge pity there doesn't seem to be a complete live performance of this album on film anywhere

[dvs1572]

I rember staring at this album cover while tripping. I too saw it, but I forget today. I do remembering it blowing me and a friend of mine minds.

[dvs1572]

"I heard there was no sickness

And no toil or danger

Just mercy and plenty

Where peaceful waters flow"

"Where peaceful waters flow"

I know what she means. But that's under high secrecy, High security. where peaceful waters flow x2.Usually when Joni repeats a line like that, it has 2 meanings. The second being a life long problem. Oil spills, gas leaks.......

[shelleybobelly1]

@dvs1572 absolutely...google her chralie rose interview

[dvs1572]

I wanted to say something regarding the song, but again, I got hung on a verse I couldn't shake.

[rubyrose456]

So Beautiful..........mmmmmm.....­...

[neogen50]

beatiful...

[lesstrat01]

Blackkendoll, you have wonderful taste in music. I was a drummer in the 70's'til I heard Song to a Seagull, then I picked up guitar. She literally changed my life. Thanks for putting these great songs on here.

[bobbyb826]

this is half a great album. but cuz its a double that adds up to one great album. id keep this song, otis and marlena, dreamland on side one and paprika plains on side 2, if there were still vinyl lps. the rest i could live without. not that theyre terrible or anything.

[olytanis]

Thanks so much for posting these wonderful songs from "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter." Look for versions of the original folk song this is based on by Joan Baez and others, "Come all ye fair and tender maidens." (The Kingston Trio sang it, too.)

[Ladystardust1966]

"If Id only seen through the silky veils of ardor

What a killing crime this love can be

I would have locked up my heart

In a golden sheath of armor

And kept its crazy beating

Under strictest secrecy

High security"

Just beautiful...

[dvs1572]

@Ladystardust1966 that one get's me too.

[sensei48]

The first two verses are JM's creative re-write of two traditional songs, "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies," the former American and the latter English. 3rd verse sounds to me like JM original, but not sure. The final verse blends two more traditionals, "If I Had Wings" and "The Water Is Wide." I hadn't known that JM was still drawing from real folk songs this far along in her career. Great stuff.

[fayedunawayfan]

This is Bliss- My eyes well up with tears.

[olytanis]

yes...in my dreams we fwy...

I love this album...Otis & Marlena is another favorite but I can't find it on youtube. Thanks blackkendoll82 for your postings of my goddess of music (along with Aimee Mann)

[bizthin]

This album and Hejira with Jaco are unreal!!!

[rockdrumr429]

@bizthin on this album, Jaco brought his band's (Weather Report), percussionists, drummers, and sax player, Wayne Shorter with him, and they played on The Tenth World and Dreamland, which also included Chaka Khan...

[pm222444]

Thanks so much for the music blackkendoll82.You introduced me Joni Mitchell.

[blackkendoll82]

ohh im soo happy about that....and your welcomed

[zeldiy]

it's just in dreams we fly....

in my dreams we fly.

[philipazan]

Just Fantastic - oh I miss that time

[ulfthegoon]

I really like the way she works her way up and down the guitar on this entrancing work of art she performed for this album. Amazing that so few people have discovered this. Sheer ingenuity.....Thanks for all the great postings.

[blackkendoll82]

ohhh anytime...

[RMAchello]

@ulfthegoon

Joni is a Magician of the highest order. Her guitar playing is pure MAGIC. She knows music like few people do. There is nothing about her work that she isn't completely involved with and aware of. The depth of her is simply amazing. I have been a "High Priest" of the Joni Mitchell Fan Club since her first album!!

Thank you Joni for the many years!

[leanyears]

I have to abort listening to this -I will my heart out if i continue and i cant

[nailyoug]

this is music i listened to many years ago. I love you Joni. THANK YOU for posting all this good ....

[fulls787]

when i need my joni fix i know where to go...thanks blackkendoll82 for all your work making these great tracks available to us!

[blackkendoll82]

ohh noo prob...i feel everyone needs to hear such an amazing woman

[seattlesinger6]

This song... tears me up. Check out Silvanus Slaughter's cover of it on youtube with an electronic twist--it works

[fulls787]

What a haunting song, beautiful. pure genius

[billyguns2]

This is one of my absolute favorite Joni songs; thanks for sharing! The first time I heard it I was so stunned that I sat silent and motionless for the longest time...

[blackkendoll82]

no probb....and thats the power of joni mitchell....

[almadora]

wow... i actually wrote a term paper on joni mitchell's lyrics (as literature) and i focused on this piece as the afterword. i love it so much. thank you.

[blackkendoll82]

no prob.....