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Whistle Stopper - Hejira
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List Price: $7.98
Our Price: $5.29
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075596061421
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Summary: A drive across country
Comment: Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RB1R0H7CUK0KY My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!!
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Summary: A classic
Comment: This is one of my all-time favorite albums. All the songs are amazing and have held up well over the many years since it was released in 1976. Joni's voice is in great form, though some may say it is an acquired taste. The songs are often a little on the long side by today's standards, but you shouldn't let that deter you from listening to them. I haven't heard all of Joni Mitchell's many albums she's released during her lengthy career, but I would bet that Hejira is one of her best works -- very individualistic but also accessible.
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Summary: Hejira by Joni Mitchell
Comment: I have always loved and admired Joni Mitchell's music, her poetry and the depth of her lyrics. She is an artist who has consistently grown and changed throughout her career, always becoming stronger and more interesting, following the influences of jazz greats, while always maintaining her own unique qualities. Hejira is my new favorite album of hers, ordered while I was looking for a few of my other favorites which I only have in vinyl. I would highly recommend it both for the music and the poetry, which is wonderful.Hejira
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Summary: 'I'm like a black crow flying in a blue sky.'
Comment: "The whole Hejira album was really inspired . . . I wrote the album while traveling cross-country by myself and there is this restless feeling throughout it . . . The sweet loneliness of solitary travel."--Joni Mitchell.
Hejira ranks among my three favorite Joni Mitchell albums (the other two being Court and Spark and Blue), and it is one of Joni Mitchell's best albums, considered by many critics as the "high-water mark" of Mitchell's career. Blending folk, rock and jazz, and driven by Mitchell's riveting guitar and Jaco Pastorius's fretless bass, it was a success both critically and commercially upon its 1976 release. Mitchell wrote most of the beautiful songs on the album while driving cross country, infusing her definitive folk-rock sound with intimately poetic, confessional lyrics. Hejira features a perfect arrangement of meticulously-crafted songs and Mitchell classics ("Coyote," "Amelia," "Hejira," and "Song For Sharon"). The album also features an impressive list of backing musicians: Larry Carlton on acoustic & electric guitars, Neil Young on harmonica, Tom Scott on horns, and Jaco Pastorius on bass. The complete album tracklist includes:
1. Coyote 5:01
2. Amelia 6:01
3. Furry Sings The Blues 5:06
4. A Strange Boy 4:19
5. Hejira 6:42
6. Song For Sharon 8:37
7. Black Crow 4:22
8. Blue Motel Room 5:04
9. Refuge Of The Roads 6:42
G. Merritt
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Summary: Great music!!
Comment: There's something about the music of Joni Mitchell that is completely absorbing and mesmerizing!! After hearing the re-working by Herbie Hancock of her material, I'll still opt for the real thing!!
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After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court & Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell's distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator Jaco Pastorius. Known for his furious, sometimes rococo figures beneath the music of Weather Report, Pastorius is tamed by Mitchell's cooler, more deliberate ballads: these meditations coax a far gentler, subdued lyricism from Pastorius, whose intricate bass counterpoints Mitchell's coolly elegant singing, especially on the sublime "Amelia," which transforms the mystery of Amelia Earheart into a parable of both feminism and romantic self-discovery. This isn't Mitchell at her most obviously ambitious, yet the depth of feeling, poetic reach, and musical confidence make this among the finest works in a very fine canon. --Sam Sutherland
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