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Mitchell said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s:
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi
to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the
curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I
looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see,
and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down
and wrote the song.[5]
The song is known for its environmental concern – "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT
now" – and sentimental sound. The line "They took all the trees, and
put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half
just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.[6]
In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal.
Mitchell recounts the departure of her "old man" in the titular "big
yellow taxi," which may refer to the old Metro Toronto Police patrol cars, which until 1986 were painted yellow.[7]
In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a
boyfriend, a husband or a father. The literal interpretation is that he
is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed
he is being taken away by the authorities.
Mitchell's original recording was first released as a single and then, as stated above, included on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon.
A later live version was released in 1974 (1975 in France and Spain)
and reached No. 24 on the U.S. charts. Mitchell's playful closing vocals
have made the song one of the most identifiable in her repertoire,
still receiving significant airplay in Canada. In 2005, it was voted No.
9 on CBC's list of the top 50 essential Canadian tracks.
In 1983 deed Joni Mitchell een wereldtournee waar bij ze landen als Japan, Australia, Ierland, the United Kingdom, Belgie, Frankrijk en Duitsland en Scandinavie aandeed.
Deze beelden zijn uit het optreden in The Wembley Arena in Londen.Alhoewel ze begeleid werd door een uitstekende band met o.a echtgenoot Larry Klein (bass)in de gelederen heb ik toch gekozen voor haar solo optreden met haar meest bekende werk.Het elektrische gedeelte komt een volgende keer aan de beurt.
Big Yello Taxi
Joni Mitchell vertelde in een interview met de Los Angeles Times "I
wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawai'i. I took a taxi to
the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains
and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked
down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it
broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and
wrote the song."
Case of You
Dit is in mijn ogen het mooiste nummer van het album komt "Blue" met op de originele opname James Taylor op acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel op drums, en Joni op de Appalachian dulcimer.
Carrie
Nog een nummer van het album "Blue" Geschreven en geinspereerd door haar verblijf in Matala op het Griekse eiland Kreta.
Woodstock
Joni schreef de song naar aanleiding van de verhalen die ze gehoord had van Graham Nash over het festival en de reportages had gezien op TV. in een interview vertelde ze "The deprivation of not being able to go
provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock," Het nummer staat op de albums , Ladies of the Canyon uit 1970, op haar Shadows and Light album,en in 1996 op haar Hits album.
Op 18 en 19 Juni werd er ter gelegenheid Joni Mitchell 70ste verjaardag een groot concert gegeven in de Massey Hall ,Toronto ,Canada .
Woodstock Met gastoptredens van Glen Hansard, Liam Titcomb, Rufus Wainwright, Lizz Wright, Kathleen Edwards and Cold Specks’s Al Spx) De band stond onder leiding van Herbie Hancock
Veel aandacht voor Joni Mitchell op het Weblog van VanFan daarom speciaal voor Elsa,Vanfan,Herman,Moniek,en natuurlijk alle musiclovers deze mooie opname van Joni
Mitchell (from a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times): "I
wrote the album while traveling cross-country by myself and there is
this restless feeling throughout it... the sweet loneliness of solitary
travel. In this song, I was thinking of Amelia Earhart and addressing it
from one solo pilot to another, sort of reflecting on the cost of being
a woman and having something you must do."
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