Joni Mitchell-OverTure-Cotton Avenue

[po3ticTreachery]

One person got no place special.

[lindacarolcafe]

Joni Michell's greate talented, original and brave. A woman playing a guitar amazing. I didn't know who she was until a music teacher at the university of Miami an acquaintance at the time heard me play my guitar at a private party in Coconut Grove on Orange street back then. He said I sounded like her. I had to know what he was talting about. I've been discovering ever sence.

[salfilms]

genius...after 'hejira' folk complained cos it was a short double not a lengthy single album!...but PLEASE-wheres 'paprika plains'??...longer uploads now! thanks for putting this up-its brilliant and as a musician a big influence on me.thanks dudes.

[Memmo011095]

I'm sixteen years old and I'm italian but i think that the song transmits the same emotions in all ordinary mortals...

[pattiwitten]

I listened to this with a friend as we drove back east from Colorado in the summer of 1980. The sun was actually rising in front of us when this song came on the cassette player in his little car, no AC and the windows rolled down the volume WAY up! So magical. I will never forget it.

[sirbuick]

My dad played this for me myriad times as I was growing up. I will forever remember his sillouhette in the record closet and this playing throughout the otherwise darkened house as my brother and sister and I played hide and seek. If you have a place like that to go, you just have to go there. If you have no place to go, well then my dear, you just go no place special... :D

[dwightmabe]

Think about this also - the trombones at the end are actually Jaco. It seems that he was given ultimate freedom to play on this album and Hejira and gave some of the most creative work he ever did.

[spikerooney011]

Possibly the best opening track to an album ever.

Or maybe BURN by Deep Purple?

Ah well, both great.

[myklmusic]

I was working at a record store in SW Washington, DC when I first heard this.

By the time Jaco's bass entered the song, I wanted to steal the Album and go Home.

I bought it later, and took a few days off... getting stoned and listening over and over.

That was in 1978, I think.

I haven't heard it since... and I still have the Album!

Thanks for the reminder.

[havetohavemusic]

I got this when it first came out in the UK (RIP John Peel, we still love you and miss you). For a good while Don Juan's Reckless Daughter was my favourite album. I haven't heard it for about 20 years. If no-one uploads Paprika Plains soon, I'll be buying it again.

[saketorasan]

JONI MITCHELL/Overture〜Cotton Avenue

ジャコとの一期一会のセッションにより、彼女の音世界は、劇的な­広がりをみせた…。

[paulw252]

Thank you so much for posting this. Did you guys know that black dude on the cover is Joni?

[Longtack55]

@paulw252 Hello and thanks Paul. I've often wondered who that was. I can now die relaxed and enlightened! Ha ha.

[alvinferguson]

perfect music for going no place special

[TheSocratease]

This, jaco and silky veils of ardor. wow. the entire thing is a masterpiece.

[mancmuso1]

She had an eye for good bassist!! : )

[adrmonteiro]

That Voice, that Bass! Perfect!!!!

[billyguns2]

This and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS are probably the two least known important Joni albums; DON JUAN is a masterpiece from beginning to end, and the last song, THE SILKY VEILS OF ARDOR, still knocks me flat. Joni Mitchell: one of a handful of the greatest creative geniuses of the 20th Century.

[myklmusic]

@billyguns2

AbsoTively, PosiLutely!

[davidoliverj]

the first song i got high too....still sounds amazing all those years later,thanks for posting

[rubyrose456]

Such a great Album, one of my all-time Faves, so THANK YOU!

[deanosky]

Hey Mr B, I feel I must join with the thanks for posting this. I lost this that long ago I forgot it existed. Stumbled upon it here and went straight back to 18 years old. Bless you

[Comfortoncall]

This is a work of sheer genius.Like nearly every album this talented artist made.Thanx.

[ingeweeda]

The best intro of all songs éver....

[SupernalOne]

1:48 - Pastorius made his bass speak, just then - sounds like a voice

[zenobiaelissa]

Joni is up there with the greatest of composers. Her music and lyrics are equally beautiful. I can't think of any other artist who has written a soundtrack to so many aspects of life and relationships. There is a perfect song for every emotion and reflection

[th1nk21]

Incredible music

[txeire]

this song takes me to a urban street corner on a muggy summer night with the smell of italian food in the wind...just does

[LoveJoyHouse]

Yes thats it :)

[txeire]

its just weird, but thats what it does to me.

[calmeria008]

Maybe, her most daring and remarkable

[redmark2007]

God, she is so very talented...along with the brilliant interpretations of Jaco Pastorious...Great...simply great.

[saltyjon42]

This is possibly my favorite song on my favorite Joni album. I think she sounds great, and Jaco is brilliant, as always.

[Jopy98]

dude, you know it. this is a great album, especially around July 4 -- a celebration of North America, the Great Plains, wide-open spaces, and freedom. this and "Hissing" are the ultimate summer evening albums. my neighbor Prince is into this stuff. dig.

[gordeux2006]

Thank you so much for posting this, Brilliant! It would be great to string this to-gether with Otis and Marlena, The Tenth World and Dreamland! I'm just looking at the original album and I've written on the back the date I bought it; 12 January 1978 30 years on, And the music still is and will always be fantastic.

[blackkendoll82]

yes it is......and your welcomed

[almadora]

i used to play this one loud, racing through the carolina countryside, taking the turns neatly, the warm late spring air rushing through the windows. sigh... wow. thanks.

[blackkendoll82]

i love your comments so muchhhhhh

[vikingbase]

I use to listen to this on cassette driving the PCH and going "no place special"

[yoorheinez]

@almadora I LOVE YOUR COMMENT

[Paulinajtking]

you saved my life. I had this album stolen. years and years I been waiting for this moment.

Thanks man.

[blackkendoll82]

im glad i saved your life...and no prob..lol

[davidquie]

or did i save yours?