A delirious yodel celebrating a life that can never come fast enough ("Must you get ready so slow?" ", "We did get the actual songs down without a bunch of other crud on it, and that made me happy," Crosby remembered. Song to a Seagull (also known as Joni Mitchell) is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Featured peformers: Joni Mitchell (vocals, piano, guitar, writer, cover art), Stephen Stills (bass), David Crosby (producer), Art Cryst (engineer), Ed Thrasher (art direction), Mark Roth (photography). she asks herself), it is an unalloyed joy. "New York has left a big impression on me: good and bad," she told Broadside in February 1968. Also known as Song To A Seagull, Joni's David Crosby-produced debut is simpler and more stark than the meticulous tapestries of her later and more celebrated work. Might sound a bit stiff and old fashioned in places for the Hip listener, so maybe stick to the easier and emotional 'Blue' which is also superlative.This album of work is on par lyrically with anything from Dylan or Cohen, She weaves pictures in words to almost photographic reality. The disaffected Byrd had come to Florida in search of a new start, but found a different kind of break from the norm. At the time of its release, she was little known. My favourite songs are "I Had A King" & "Sistowbell Lane". The irascible Crosby, in such company, seems like a romantic hero. There’s a psychedelic peacock with colorful flowers billowing from its back, layered over a line-sketched backdrop of a beaming sun and a drifting sail boat. The black and white cover of The Beatles’ Revolver is as memorable as the hook in “Eleanor Rigby.” German-born artist Klaus Voormann hand-sketched each of the four members in ink, and then combined them into a collage featuring various photographs of the band. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2015. This is one of the most amazing debut albums I've ever heard. - observation. [10], The album was dedicated to her Grade 7 English teacher, "Mr. Kratzmann, who taught me to love words". Although I prefer some of her later albums overall I really enjoyed listening to this recently. The young Joni sometimes sounds cloyingly virginal, and the flowery mooncalf affectations grate, but her unique sense of rhythm and melody is already blooming, most beautifully on "I Had A King", "Michael From Mountains" and "The Dawntreader". Produced by David Crosby However, if the laid-back West Coast promised a radically different way to be, it was one Mitchell found equally problematic. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Raw and clear, Joni Mitchell is the sound of arguably the 1970s finest songwriter warming up, her approach, musical and lyrical, coming into focus, her vision ghosting past the boundaries of the folk form. Release. Side two begins with her rubbing shoulders with California's new smug bohemian aristocracy in "Sisotowbell Lane" (Sisotowbell a Mitchell acronym for 'somehow, in spite of troubles, ours will be ever-lasting love'). Cover Art provided by the Cover Art Archive. This album is wonderful... Joni at her absolute best -- fresh, inventive, beautiful songs with clever, sharp lyrics. This album was originally released as Joni Mitchell because the LP album covers were printed incorrectly, cutting off part of the "Song to a Seagull" title (spelled out by birds in flight). 1: The Early Years (1963–1967), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Song_to_a_Seagull&oldid=982539852, Albums recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Joni Mitchell – guitar, piano, vocals, album cover, banshee, This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 19:46. Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull (1968) Singing and songwriting aren’t the only talents of Joni Mitchell; she’s also an esteemed visual artist.
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