Songs Called Songs: Song to a Seagull
Jul 17, 2009, 3:35pm
Star Maker Machine
Star Maker Machine
Joni Mitchell : Song to a Seagull [ purchase ] It's hard to imagine, after all these years, how bizarre Joni Mitchell's debut must have sounded at that time. Ostensibly a new folk singer, Mitchell played folk music from an alternate universe. Early fans tore their hair out trying to play her guitar parts, not realizing that Mitchell used her own tunings. Her vocal lines used interval jumps that had never been heard on the folk circuit before. And the production on Song to a Seagull, the album, emphasized this sense [...]
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