Joni Mitchell Song For Sharon

Song For Sharon from Joni Mitchell's 1976 album Hejira.

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• Mitchell
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• Sharon
• Hejira

[Frottagecub]

I can keep my cool at poker but I'm a fool when love's at stake... cuz I can't conceal my emotions .. what I'm feeling is always written on my face....

[tonto4848]

@drachirzim

Whilst I too love Hissing of Summer Lawns,and most of her albums ( I have them all), I still think Hejira is in a class of its own. Every song is brilliant, the music is of such high quality and unique in tone ( Thanks to the chemistry with bass man Jaco Pastorious), and the album just oozes fantastic Mitchell imagery and storytelling. A true classic !

[SomethingReal1119]

@alanparsonsfan Great comment. Another thing I love so much about this is the "winter" atmosphere...I feel the grayness and the frigid temperatures of a bleak snowy day in these songs. The cold blending perfectly with the sadness of an ending love affair. And Jaco's mysterious bass lines. Perfection. I tried to capture all of this in my own homemade video/slideshow of Hejira. This album is a true work of art.

[alanparsonsfan]

A great deal of popular music sounds dated over time. That is to say, it does not age well.

Joni blew past all of that with Hejira. The great classics of literature are so named because they deal with the universal problems and themes that all mankind struggles with. On this album, Joni shares what she has dealt with based on her unique background. Some are drawn in by the spare, haunting, elegant musical atmosphere of this album. Others are pulled in by the austere pain of the lyrics.

[OlymPigs2010]

...the way she says I've got "a diamond sssnake around my arm"....like a hiss!

[378agra]

@tonto4848

I agree with you is a classic Joni Mitchell. I always followed joni on their websites, to know what she

how big is still a songwriter and artist that she is

[billjhyt]

Beethoven and Joni. She appreciated him enough to write a song about him. Beethoven took small phrases and fashioned them miraculously into symphonies. Joni, is an exquisite lyrical storyteller. I'm convinced that Beethoven would have reciprocated and approved of Joni's musical reflections that speak, as his music also did, to life in all its mystery, depth, and ironies (one irony being that humans can choose to be both noble and cruel, and every shade between).

[GalaxyHorse]

1976, wow time unfolds so fast, I recall listening to this and thinking "How Brilliant is this..." when I was an 18 year old. Now I listen at 53 and think, "Still Brilliant, timeless...Time you elegant thief, sad, but Beautiful.

[Capitol149]

Ditto @drachirzim!

[brianjondavey]

This is my favorite Joni album, but is also her saddest.

[bigblonde26]

This song really reflects my life; I am lucky in so many aspects of my life, but never love. I guess thats why there are the greats like Joni, they remind us we're not alone<3

[timages]

Some of her best music on this album with some of her greatest collaborators. Jaco Pastorious's bass guitar, (especially on Black Crow), and Larry Carlton's guitar are both brilliant. But it's her, those amazing lyrics, the arrangements, that beautiful open tuned acoustic guitar...they'll never be another like Joni Mithcell.