8 - Joni Mitchell - Morning Morgantown (LIVE 1967)

MORNING MORGANTOWN JONI MITCHELL LIVE @ THE COURIERS FOLK CLUB LEICESTER , ENGLAND SEPTEMBER 1967

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• 1967

[suerisk]

to jackSchytt: I sang on the same stage as Joni Mitchell, but we were teens playing at a YMCA coffeehouse. Perhaps some people don't like high soprano, but her work was riveting, beautific, so enticing that not a peep could be ehard by anyone. People weren't such bitter jackasses as to jeer, waffle way over their wine or guffaw, as the people do today. Whether you like the tones or not, you've been blessed by one of the most esoteric ears (her sound research ) ever!

[VanityKillsABC]

In my book, this is the finest singer who has ever breathed.

[eyedelon]

@suerisk Agreed! But it is a tragedy that she has destroyed her upper register with chain-smoking. And the melodies of her more recent songs are less interesting due to her lack of range. Such a loss to the musical world.

[MassaJim]

I used to play this song on warm, sunny mornings in the summer while stationed in Neu Ulm, Germany in the Air Force nearly 40 years ago. This song always started the day off right for me. Despite cynical comments from the usual Youtube sociopaths, Joni was a songwriting and singing genius. Love ya, Joni!

[tonyhume100]

@marinman39

without the fags she wouldnt be joni

[marinman39]

@amphoravideo Joni has been a chain smoker since at least the 1970's, its a miracle she is alive. That is why her singing deteriorated at a relatively young age (Tony Bennett, the other extreme, is 85 and can still hit the high notes). Without the smoking, she'd probably still sound really good.

[milagromac]

joni

nice legs

art

[eibhlinb]

@pauljval Yes! She went to school at WVU in 1967 & wrote that song....



[suerisk]

to jackSchytt: I sang on the same stage as Joni Mitchell, but we were teens playing at a YMCA coffeehouse. Perhaps some people don't like high soprano, but her work was riveting, beautific, so enticing that not a peep could be ehard by anyone. People weren't such bitter jackasses as to jeer, waffle way over their wine or guffaw, as the people do today. Whether you like the toones or not, you've been blessed by one of the most esoteric ears (her sound research ) ever!

[CF77777]

@amphoravideo your an ass

[bliss4jules]

@slownoman

Read my posts carefully. That's the point I made. Piss off, "bozo."

[JackSchytt]

@amphoravideo if YOU find her painful to listen to, Why do YOU listen? YOU are assinine.

[amphoravideo]

I periodically, revisit Joni M but I continue to find her painful to listen to. I saw her play once many moons ago at an outdoor venue. She spent an unreasonable amount of time talking about how much she despised Bob Dylan. (I think maybe he dumped her?? ) She was seething with anger. When she was actually singing, I kept wondering why she wouldn't simply hold a note without warbling. Is she doing that stylistically or to mask an inability to hold a pure note? Seriously...I'm curious.

[vimana19]

What a legend, I met here once.

[pauljval]

I like to think she's singing about Morgantown, W.V. Does anyone know if she is singing of any place in particular?

[Kaitipoo]

Beautiful song. It's too bad that when they have all these beautiful songs on YouTube, people can't just enjoy them but have to go on policital rants, name calling rants, put downs etc. Don't like a song or artist? Refrain from comment and move on to something else, Don't like the policitics behind a song than move on also. Maybe all songs should just have the comments disabled.

[vaughnsalem]

I was playing old Joni 2 years ago ,,all of of a sudden she is popular again ,,I must have started a trend ,,anyway let it play

[bliss4jules]

@slownoman You're preaching to the choir. If you took the time to read the conversation carefully before engaging in childish name-calling, you'd find that my original position is exactly that. Since you can't grasp that, there's little hope you'd be able to grasp the nuanced position of @lazurm, one which I don't quite share, and one which, perhaps, you were wanting to target in the first place. Either way, comment threads can do without the likes of you and your panty-waisted outbursts.

[jcisbell]

@amphoravideo I feel sorry for you. I don't say that angrily. I really do. I wonder what else you miss.

[slownoman]

@bliss4jules No,bozo, they make her who she is- or, rather, they are part of what she has become. If she'd been born in Laurel Canyon she'd have been a different person. You can't reshuffle that deck. She'll always contain that girl from Saskatchewan. We're the better for it.

[VisiBone]

@amphoravideo Thanks, you make me less cynical. From now on I will always be skeptical of my own suspicion that someone loves a thing because they "think they are supposed to".

[markisod]

Hauntingly beautiful.  This is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs.

[stevep0508]

Given the other songs recorded at the same time, all one can say is that this must have been a GREAT gig or residency !!!

Much thanks to MusicForYourFunk !

[amphoravideo]

Joni Mitchell sounds like a wounded sheep. fine guitarist, lousy singer loved only by

pretentious hippie wannabees who think they are supposed to like her....so they do.