Joni Mitchell was happy about her Newport Folk Festival gig in July, enough so that it might be released as a live album, she tells Elton John.
Joni Mitchell’s surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival was just what we needed — a reminder that joy trumps despair every time.“Yeah, that I had to figure out what I did,” she answers. “And I couldn’t sing the key, I’ve become an alto. I’m not a soprano anymore, so I couldn’t sing the song. And I thought people might feel slighted that if I just played the guitar part, but I like the guitar part to that song.
“At the time ... it took a lot of flack if anything,” she says. “People thought that it was too intimate. It was almost like Dylan going electric. I think it upset the male singer-songwriters. They’d go, ‘Oh, no. Do we have to bare our souls like this now?’ ... It took to this [new] generation; they seem to be able to face those emotions more easily than my generation.”
The “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” singer also shares his “big ambition” for Mitchell: He wants her to record an album in the space where they are talking at Mitchell’s home in Los Angeles.Joni Mitchell might not have wanted to be the glamorous bard of women’s rising consciousness, but with “Blue,” she became just that.
“One day I want you to sit in this room, like we’re doing now, but with some recording equipment. I want you to make an album in this room,” he tells her. “Like Johnny Cash did with ‘Hurt,’ and he was on his deathbed. You’re not going to be on your deathbed. I think you should make an album in this room because it’s so magical.”“I’ve been to a lot of places in my life, but this room is one of the most special rooms I’ve ever been to in my whole life,” he adds.
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