Ladies of the Canyon

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Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland

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Ladies of the Canyon

Average customer rating: A CLASSIC Required Joni Canyon life and the heart who lived there. Best Joni Mitchell Album Almost for free

Ladies of the Canyon Joni Mitchell Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Clouds Blue Court and Spark For the Roses Song To A Seagull ASIN: B000002KOQ Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Morning Morgantown
2. For Free
3. Conversation
4. Ladies Of The Canyon
5. Willy
6. The Arrangement
7. Rainy Night House
8. The Priest
9. Blue Boy
10. Big Yellow Taxi
11. Woodstock
12. The Circle Game

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Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

A CLASSIC.......2007-06-09

I bought this when I was in High School on vinyl. I ordered the CD just recently and really love it all over again. It has stood the test of time. Truly a classic ofrom my generation.

Required Joni.......2007-06-06

This is required listening for any Joni Mitchell fan. A classic in every sense of the word.

Canyon life and the heart who lived there. .......2006-12-15

As my first introduction to Ms. Mitchell's work, I had no idea what to expect. I was riding the wave of celebration for the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and happened to catch an interview with Graham Nash, where he mentioned her penning the ode for the event, that piqued my interest. Fourteen years old and eager to explore, I went in search of the eartheral creature described.

The tape, long ago replaced by a CD, exceeded all expectations. The " Woodstock" anthem was so well written, especially for a " Kid who couldn't make it", as Mitchell was quoted as saying a few years later. However, in typical fashion, she captured the spirit behind the event. In retrospect, this ability to create vivid pictures with her words created the hallmark for the brilliance of her emerging greatness as a song writer.

Ms. Mitchell's voice is above reproach; she easily had the most angelic, sincere delivery of all the genre combined. The songs contained here reflect the free spirited ethos of the late 60's, with some personal observations painting a lush portrait of Canyon life. The skill of distilling gender role questions, pastoral living, spiritual seeking, and the thrill of opening oneself, as well as another, to the possibility of love is amazing. Considering she was only twenty seven, at the oldest, when these songs were written, the talent assumes a new level.

This is a great intro to Joni's work; then, if you choose to work back to the first two, you will see the improvements on already exquisit work. If you proceed to the next succession of material, you can trace the gift truly taking form. For days that mellowing out seems the only option, this is a perfect soundtrack.

Best Joni Mitchell Album.......2006-11-06

I bought this album on LP when it first came out and have always liked it. This was Joni's third album and I enjoy it more than any others. Never heard her first two albums until just recently and they didn't strike me as anything that special. The next two albums (4th & 5th), Blue and For the Roses were fine albums, but had no particularly memorable songs, as this album has. In the 6th album (Court & Spark), the sound is different; some people like it the best, but it didn't do much for me. Ladies of the Canyon is still the best sounding Joni Mitchell, in my opinion. Big Yellow Taxi is my favorite, but all the songs are nice sounding. Joni has an interesting delivery and sometimes it seems that she is trying to sing a rambling poem that in some cases should not have been made into a song. A little Joni goes a long way and her delivery tends to make some of her songs sound a lot a alike. In spite of all that and in spite of the fact that she isn't my favorite singer, she is still very interesting and this album is a strong 5-star album. A great starter album for someone who has never heard Mitchell.

Almost for free.......2006-02-16

I have loved this album, and Joni, for more than thirty years now. In this and many times in the two preceding and next three albums, she is giving us, and is capable of giving us, wreckage and craziness and joy straight from her marrow. The poetry of "Blue Boy" or "The Priest", amongst others, is similar in a way to Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell, and just as unfettered by commercialism. It's funny, just how un-commercial this music sounds, now, and how uncaring Joni the artist auteur is. She is focused on other, higher things, here, and it always gives me goosebumps hearing how unabashedly un-self-conscious she is, a trait she shares in common with fellow Canucks Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot. Essential music this is, if you would know the folk and very LIBERAL bedrock from which all contemporary music, including hiphop, is builded.

Average customer rating: So bad it's sad Forget the haters below I liked it Most of these singers are unknown for a reason Weak Point of the Numero Line-up so far

Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon Various Artists Manufacturer: Numero ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Colour Green Constant Companion In My Own Time What a Beautiful Place The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas ASIN: B000ELJAI8 Release Date: 2006-03-14

Tracks:

1. A Special Path - Becky Severson
2. Cricket - Collie Ryan
3. Sunlight Shadow - Linda Rich
4. Engram - Caroline Peyton
5. And I A Fiarytale Lady - Carla Sciaky
6. Window - Judy Kelly
7. Eternal Life - Shira Small
8. Maybe In Another Year - Jennie Pearl
9. Dedication - Mary Perrin
10. With All Hands - Priscilla Quinby
11. Rain - Marj Snyder
12. Song For Life - Barbara Sipple
13. Wildman - Ginny Reilly
14. Sister Morphine - Ellen Warshaw

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Close your eyes and you could just as well be in a hazily lit club at Bleeker & MacDougal as a sun-splashed Laurel Canyon coffeehouse. But by the 1970s, folk music was the latter, a West Coast kaleidoscope of the spaced-out and serpentine, cross-pollinating a decade of music from the Byrds to Neil Young to Linda Rondstadt's Stone Poneys. Three decades later, this long overdue package of women in song--from California and elsewhere--compiles 14 virtually anonymous artists. While each artist merits a mention, here are the most deserving: ex-gypsy and Joni Mitchell sound-alike Caroline Peyton ("Engram"), who went on to sing in Disney movies; Carla Sciaky ("And I a Fairytale Lady"), with her pin-drop vocals and Boulder, Colorado, high school folk club; the ethereal voice of the late Mary Perrin ("Dedication"); and a 1970 selection from Illinois' Jennie Pearl ("Maybe in Another Year"), one of two performers whose whereabouts are unknown. --Scott Holter

Album Description

By 1970 the folk revival was all but over. Gone were the days of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and "If I Had A Hammer." Richard Farina was dead. Dylan plugged in. The sound that began in the hills and caught fire on the lower east side of Manhattan was now being reborn in the canyons of California. The fruits of folk's second renaissance are collected here. Wedged beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing in coffee houses and at church picnics. Deeper than recent crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon takes a solid look at folk's private and obscure underbelly.

Customer Reviews:

So bad it's sad.......2007-04-13

I was hoping for some undiscovered gems, but all I found were some pretty sad songs by a bunch on Joni Mitchell-wanna-bes. Save your money -- or just buy one of Joni's early albums. Or for that matter, buy ANY of Joni's albums!!

Forget the haters below.......2006-08-14

As with all the Numero Group releases, this collection is a pock marks and all look at a weird but cool sub genre that is just now coming into light. Fans of Linda Perhacs, Joni's dark work (Last Time I Saw Richard, Blue), or Ruth Ann Friedman should take note. If you're expecting PP&M or other revival sounding folk, move on. My favorite track is "Eternal Life" by Shira Small, which sounds like nothing else ever made on this planet. Bizarre and beautiful, youthful yet not young sounding.

Private folk is another untapped musical genre that the Numero Group have resurrected, let's hope there are others waiting to be found as well.

I liked it.......2006-08-14

This collection from the Numerogroup, features a bunch of unknown female folk singers from the 60's, most of which were only recognized locally. It is put together lovingly with pictures and descriptions of each artist featured. Except for Window and Mary Perrin, the other works here aren't released on cd elsewhere. While there are a few duds in the mix overall there is a naive charm to it. This cd led me to the works of Chuck and Mary Perrin and for that I'm grateful enough. Just the other day I found a Marj Snyder record in a thrift store and I was happy. I would have past by it otherwise.

Most of these singers are unknown for a reason.......2006-08-13

In a word: AWFUL. This is a waste of time and money and music. The one star is for the excellent Caroline Peyton track and conditional kudos to Barbara Sipple's voice but lousy song. The rest of it is unlistenable. Miserable. It really doesn't get much worse than this. Find Peyton's old stuff from the 70's and forget this junk.

Weak Point of the Numero Line-up so far.......2006-08-13

It's a good CD none the less, but compared to the Eccentric Soul releases and Numero's other offerings it is lacking a bit. I still reccomend it though. 2/5 when compared to the rest of the Numero Group series and 4/5 when compared to everything else = 3/5 overall

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Ladies of the Canyon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: For the Roses Song To A Seagull Blue Clouds Don Juan's Reckless Daughter ASIN: B000GW88W4 Release Date: 2006-10-03

Average customer rating: A CLASSIC Required Joni Canyon life and the heart who lived there. Best Joni Mitchell Album Almost for free

Ladies of the Canyon Joni Mitchell Manufacturer: Wea/Warner ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Clouds Blue Court and Spark For the Roses Song To A Seagull ASIN: B00005HGSI Release Date: 2002-06-19

Tracks:

1. Morning Morgantown
2. For Free
3. Conversation
4. Ladies of the Canyon
5. Willy
6. Arrangement
7. Rainy Night House
8. Priest
9. Blue Boy
10. Big Yellow Taxi
11. Woodstock
12. Circle Game

Amazon.com

Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

A CLASSIC.......2007-06-09

I bought this when I was in High School on vinyl. I ordered the CD just recently and really love it all over again. It has stood the test of time. Truly a classic ofrom my generation.

Required Joni.......2007-06-06

This is required listening for any Joni Mitchell fan. A classic in every sense of the word.

Canyon life and the heart who lived there. .......2006-12-15

As my first introduction to Ms. Mitchell's work, I had no idea what to expect. I was riding the wave of celebration for the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and happened to catch an interview with Graham Nash, where he mentioned her penning the ode for the event, that piqued my interest. Fourteen years old and eager to explore, I went in search of the eartheral creature described.

The tape, long ago replaced by a CD, exceeded all expectations. The " Woodstock" anthem was so well written, especially for a " Kid who couldn't make it", as Mitchell was quoted as saying a few years later. However, in typical fashion, she captured the spirit behind the event. In retrospect, this ability to create vivid pictures with her words created the hallmark for the brilliance of her emerging greatness as a song writer.

Ms. Mitchell's voice is above reproach; she easily had the most angelic, sincere delivery of all the genre combined. The songs contained here reflect the free spirited ethos of the late 60's, with some personal observations painting a lush portrait of Canyon life. The skill of distilling gender role questions, pastoral living, spiritual seeking, and the thrill of opening oneself, as well as another, to the possibility of love is amazing. Considering she was only twenty seven, at the oldest, when these songs were written, the talent assumes a new level.

This is a great intro to Joni's work; then, if you choose to work back to the first two, you will see the improvements on already exquisit work. If you proceed to the next succession of material, you can trace the gift truly taking form. For days that mellowing out seems the only option, this is a perfect soundtrack.

Best Joni Mitchell Album.......2006-11-06

I bought this album on LP when it first came out and have always liked it. This was Joni's third album and I enjoy it more than any others. Never heard her first two albums until just recently and they didn't strike me as anything that special. The next two albums (4th & 5th), Blue and For the Roses were fine albums, but had no particularly memorable songs, as this album has. In the 6th album (Court & Spark), the sound is different; some people like it the best, but it didn't do much for me. Ladies of the Canyon is still the best sounding Joni Mitchell, in my opinion. Big Yellow Taxi is my favorite, but all the songs are nice sounding. Joni has an interesting delivery and sometimes it seems that she is trying to sing a rambling poem that in some cases should not have been made into a song. A little Joni goes a long way and her delivery tends to make some of her songs sound a lot a alike. In spite of all that and in spite of the fact that she isn't my favorite singer, she is still very interesting and this album is a strong 5-star album. A great starter album for someone who has never heard Mitchell.

Almost for free.......2006-02-16

I have loved this album, and Joni, for more than thirty years now. In this and many times in the two preceding and next three albums, she is giving us, and is capable of giving us, wreckage and craziness and joy straight from her marrow. The poetry of "Blue Boy" or "The Priest", amongst others, is similar in a way to Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell, and just as unfettered by commercialism. It's funny, just how un-commercial this music sounds, now, and how uncaring Joni the artist auteur is. She is focused on other, higher things, here, and it always gives me goosebumps hearing how unabashedly un-self-conscious she is, a trait she shares in common with fellow Canucks Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot. Essential music this is, if you would know the folk and very LIBERAL bedrock from which all contemporary music, including hiphop, is builded.

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