Joni Mitchell ~ River Live

You don't get songs this good anymore these days it's all rap and pop i love this song

this song helped keep me warm last Christmas.
Terrific.

timeless Joni Mitchell ! no one does it better than you .
You make us travel far with your poetry.
 thank you for sharing this live version

oh this is lovely - she has always been so great live.

How can anyone not love this song? I listen to it over and over again, it's pure magic.

I always felt this came from living in California but growing up in Saskatoon and skating on the sloughs on the prairies every winter, or the Ottawa Canal.
Every year I take my hockey playing daughter to Ottawa to skate on the canal, and I sing this song to myself. Once the ice was real bad and when I sang "...feet to fly" I caught an edge an went airborne
landed on my head
daughter laughing
both of us laughing but I damn near brained myself
aren't little girls just perfect?

ben -- they are perfect. even when we don't brain ourselves.

A lot of covers of Joni's songs are overdone and overwrought..there is a lot to be said for restraint with this material..no one does it better than her.

I've got an 8yr old daughter who loves this song. Doesn't understand all of it but that doesn't matter. She knows the mood of the piece and it makes her want to write poetry. She scares me. She's bloody fantastic. And when I hear this I think of her.

Nurture that, Spalding. We need plenty of young women growing up poets!