Joni Mitchell’s 1st Full Set In 22 Years 7/24/2022 Newport Folk Festival

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With a big assist from Brandi Carlile and other assorted friends, Joni found her way back to the garden yesterday with a generous set at Newport.  Sounds like it was a rapturous testament to the healing power of music.  Between this and Paul Simon's appearance on Saturday, it was a momentous weekend in Newport.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/1113351769/joni-mitchell-brandi-carlile-n...

 

 


 

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Here's a link to the Rolling Stone review.  It's got a paywall, but you can still access the video for A Case Of You:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joni-mitchell-newport-surp...

A little lagniappe, an electric guitar solo, which the kids are calling a never released performance, but sounds pretty familiar to me.  I can't exactly place it, but it sounds like something from her 1974-1976 Court & Spark, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira run:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G7wOdpxGctc

Sounds like a loose jam of Just Like This Train from Court and Spark. heart

Thanks for all the work, HD. A treat! 

Both Sides Now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqGjaFDTxQ   Link above is a repeat of Summertime. 

Wow.  I have heard interviews with Joni from the last few years and thought, man she is never going to sing those songs again.   But there she was back on the stage, with a little help from her friends, in a gold throne no less.  Thanks for sharing.

Wow, that's a really great surprise. Good for her. She's got a bit of a Nina Simone voice now. Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic!!!

Wow. Something is in my eye. If I'd been at that show I would have been a blubbering mess.

Hopefully a pro-shot video shows up, but thanks for the effort putting together the clips Dave.

She is one of a kind. A true artist, a true superstar, a true legend.

She is truly brilliant.

I love seeing/hearing her in these videos. And playing the lone guitar. We are so lucky.

Thanks for the links, Dave. I've seen a couple of articles today, mostly saying the same things, but all having good things to say.

Me, I'm in awe.

Thanks very much for posting the videos.  A national treasure. 

And a shout out for her box sets. Two the last two years with the last one being most of the Blue material. Fantastic stuff

 

> in a gold throne no less

I think she'd still look regal if she was sitting on a three-legged stool. Quite a comeback from where she was at just a few years ago.