A fevered new release programme is making early 2007 seem like a re-run of the 1970s, with all the big beasts in the rock jungle stirring again:
* Dylan – Don’t Look Back de luxe DVD
* Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall; Archive series due to start
* Van Morrison – At The Movies compilation CD
* Joni Mitchell – new album, Shine, already being touted; remastered de luxe versions of the cream of her mid-‘70s albums set for release
* Leonard Cohen – de luxe versions of early albums imminent.
Music for Grown-Ups doesn’t go in for nostalgia, but even nostalgia has its moments.
Gerry Smith
Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Monday, March 26, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Joni Mitchell radio profile starts tonight
Joni Mitchell continues her English media campaign with the first of a two-part documentary on BBC Radio 2 at 2030 tonight. She’s promoting her forthcoming album, Shine.
Mitchell’s music, especially the later work she thinks is undervalued, is inspirational. More than can be said for dispiriting recent interviews in The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Word mag, after Elvis Costello’s extensive Mitchell interview in Vanity Fair three years ago.
Roberta Joan: your magnificent music – especially the post-Hejira albums - speaks for itself. Let it.
Gerry Smith
Mitchell’s music, especially the later work she thinks is undervalued, is inspirational. More than can be said for dispiriting recent interviews in The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Word mag, after Elvis Costello’s extensive Mitchell interview in Vanity Fair three years ago.
Roberta Joan: your magnificent music – especially the post-Hejira albums - speaks for itself. Let it.
Gerry Smith
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Joni Mitchell cover graces new issue of The Word
The new (“April”) issue of The Word, the London-based Uncle-rockpop monthly, has a cover feature announcing the return of Joni Mitchell. (As did The Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago.)
Remember Joni Mitchell? The Canadian pop soprano? She retired, in high dudgeon, in 2002, after promoting her masterpiece, Travelogue!
Presumably Ms M’s promoting the new album, with the working title Shine, or maybe the re-mastered, expanded 2CD reissues of Court And Spark, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, and Hejira - rumoured a couple of months ago, though there’s no sign of them yet where I shop.
Any of the four releases will be warmly welcomed by Music for Grown-Ups: Ms Mitchell is revered in these parts – particularly in her grown-up, post-Hejira mode.
And kudos to The Word magazine – this is their second Mitchell cover in two years. I can’t remember competitors MOJO and Uncut using a single cover featuring Saskatoon’s finest chanteuse. Ever.
The Word is the youngest/smallest circulation of the three London Dadrockpop monthlies – MOJO, the first, has the biggest circulation; Uncut sits in the middle.
Gerry Smith
Remember Joni Mitchell? The Canadian pop soprano? She retired, in high dudgeon, in 2002, after promoting her masterpiece, Travelogue!
Presumably Ms M’s promoting the new album, with the working title Shine, or maybe the re-mastered, expanded 2CD reissues of Court And Spark, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, and Hejira - rumoured a couple of months ago, though there’s no sign of them yet where I shop.
Any of the four releases will be warmly welcomed by Music for Grown-Ups: Ms Mitchell is revered in these parts – particularly in her grown-up, post-Hejira mode.
And kudos to The Word magazine – this is their second Mitchell cover in two years. I can’t remember competitors MOJO and Uncut using a single cover featuring Saskatoon’s finest chanteuse. Ever.
The Word is the youngest/smallest circulation of the three London Dadrockpop monthlies – MOJO, the first, has the biggest circulation; Uncut sits in the middle.
Gerry Smith
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