20070312 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

March 12th, 2007

This post out of the clear blue sky will make more sense when ya read: “20070309 My 2nd Grade Class picture.”

At times you might think that this is the theme song for Carroll County.

This a good post for those younger folks who are only aware of the “Counting Crows” version of the song…

Except for the story it tells, it was never my favorite Joni Mitchell song… I always liked her album “Blue” which is probably more a childhood dynamic than an affection for the songs on the album…

Speaking of childhood dynamics – this video is from January 1970:

Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Qgsn0U340

The YouTube post has the following information about Joni Mitchell:

(Which I just noticed is from Wikipedia.)

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician and painter.

Initially working and busking in Western Canada and Toronto, she became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. She achieved her greatest fame in the early 1970s and was considered a key part of the Southern California folk rock scene.

Throughout the 1970s she expanded her musical horizons to include pop and jazz and became one of the most highly respected singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. Retrospective appraisals of Mitchell's work have often commented that her quality and influence render her the "female Bob Dylan", [1] [2] although Mitchell herself rejects that label.

Mitchell is also an accomplished artist. She has through photography or painting created the artwork for each of her albums and has described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance." A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell has stopped recording and now focuses mainly on her visual art.

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