Re: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:33 pm

Video.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:33 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It sounds more like Steely Dan than I'd expected.

This and it's famed predecessor Court and Spark were when she really got a proper band behind her.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:34 pm

Straight sample of the Drummers of Burundi.

Them lot that A&tAs based their whole sound on.

by Guest Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:34 pm

Wonder if they cleared that sample. hmm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:35 pm

This one needs to be a bit livelier.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:35 pm

Everything is right.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:36 pm

The urban jungle.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:36 pm

Not that Burundi is particularly jungle-y.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:37 pm

There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in the dressing room
Poppy poison-poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:37 pm

Track 3 - Edith and the Kingpin.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:38 pm

Edith and the Kingpin.

A masterpiece.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:39 pm

This is musical bliss.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:39 pm

Women he has taken grow old too soon
He tilts their tired faces
Gently to the spoon

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:40 pm

Her vocal skills are unprecedented.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:41 pm

Track 4 - Don't Interrupt the Sorrow.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:41 pm

Bongos.

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:42 pm

Here she sticks it some pompous chauvinist pig in a bar. box

by Guest Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:42 pm

Sorry, something came up and I had to do some emergency hair cutting.

Have I missed much?

by Nightjar Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:42 pm

The first clear example of her open tuned guitar.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:43 pm

This one sounds better. It's more in your face.

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