Joni Mitchell - All I Want

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Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett rec'd a beautiful rendition of this one......

 

One of the best ( if not the best) female voices in modern music...Heaven-like imo

 

Another fantastic female vocalist is / used to be Joan Baez....jmho

 

From masterpiece album "Blue" 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell

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Beautiful imo

 

 

 

 

 

 

About this song:

 

A youtube poster wrote:

 

She wrote this about Graham Nash from CSNY. They had an intense love affair from 1969-71. He asked her to marry him, but she thought of her grandmothers who wanted to be artists - but married and squashed down that ambition instead - and so she broke up with him. She ran away to Greece and sent him a letter ending with "If you try to hold sand too tightly, it slips through your fingers"

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As I once wrote on youtube comments....For us Europeans California used to be a myth in the 70's and I guess 80's as well...Visited a few times while bumming around the States in my younger years mostly by Greyhound ( best way to see America and meet people in the 70's...and in that period I was hooked to Kerouac books ...."On the road" etc)...Loved it.....

 

 

 

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Joni Mitchell’s Blue: my favourite song – by James Taylor, Carole King, Graham Nash, David Crosby and more

 

As the legendary album turns 50, the musicians it inspired – and those who inspired it – tell us which track means the most to them and why

 

Interviews by Dave Simpson

Tue 22 Jun 2021 06.00 BST

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/22/joni-mitchell-blue-my-favourite-song-james-taylor-carole-king-graham-nash-david-crosby-kt-tunstall-birdy