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A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
by Various Artists
from Nonesuch

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Long Time Waiting for this
  This album is the result of a tribute to Joni hosted by TNT Network almost 5 years ago. While some find this missing a few cuts or some of her most popular songs, it is nonetheless a wonderful album. What's unfortunate is that many who buy may not have seen the actual broadcast that was touching and very well produced. It's a shame that TNT didn't release the video of the broadcast. I've been listening to kd Langs version of help me for almost five years from my saved tape; it was the most memorable... more info

• Joni tribute just so so
  I just got "Shine" and absolutely love it. Joni is coming into her own again. This tribute album is just so so. Lots of different interpretations, but it doesn't work for me. Kind of boring, like the Leonard Cohen tribute album "Tower of Song." The originals are better, why bother with this one.

• Why you are making a huge mistake to pass this up....
  I was comparing this album and Herbie Hancocks new release "River The Joni Letters". Both are uniformly excellent but the difference is that in the Hancock album you have Herbie unifying the entire experience. This album is very uneven in the listening. There is a vast textural disparity from the smoothness of James Taylor's version of "River" to Bjork's "Boho Dance" cover. So I think the first impulse of many listeners would be to dismiss this album. What a huge mistake that is. The common thread in this... more info

• VERY few can accurately portray the mood and emotion of Joni's songs
  These 'new' interpretations of Joni's songs just don't do it for me. Sorry, but I felt embarrassed for Joni as I listened to these modern renditions of some of her truly unique masterpieces. The artists either perform the songs with phony, over dramatic emotion; or lifeless, out of tune phrasing. Some of the artists performed songs that their singing style is CLEARLY not suited for (Bjork, Costello, etc.) The only tunes I felt were worth listening to again were the ones performed by artists
  who knew... more info

Tracks:

1. FREE MAN IN PARIS - Sufjan Stevens
2. THE BOHO DANCE - Bjork
3. DREAMLAND - Caetano Veloso
4. DON'T INTERRUPT THE SORROW - Brad Mehldau
5. FOR THE ROSES - Cassandra Wilson
6. A CASE OF YOU - Prince
7. BLUE - Sarah McLachlan
8. LADIES OF THE CANYON - Annie Lennox
9. MAGDALENA LAUNDRIES - Emmylou Harris
10. EDITH AND THE KINGPIN - Elvis Costello
11. HELP ME - k.d. lang
12. RIVER - James Taylor

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