Neil Young's Love Letter to Joni Mitchell - "Sweet Joni" - 1973 (unreleased) скачать видео бесплатно

Neil Young's ode to his fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchell, recorded live

at Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA, 3.11.73

Sweet Joni from saskatoon

There's a ring for your finger

It looks like the sun

But it feels like the moon

Sweet joni from saskatoon

Don't go, don't go too soon.

Who lives in an old hotel,

Near the ancient ruins.

Only time can tell,

Time can tell.

Go easy, the doorman said

The floor is slippery,

So watch your head.

This message read.

Sweet joni from saskatoon

There's a ring for your finger

It shines like the sun

But it feels like the moon.

Sweet joni from saskatoon

Don't go, don't go too soon.

From Thrasher's Wheat:

Joni Mitchell and Neil Young both hail from Canada, grew up musically in Toronto and later went on to become celebrated singer-songwriters around the world. Their musical intersections over the years have been both productive and fascinating.

From Joni Mitchell's introduction to the song "Circle Game" at the Royal Albert

Hall on 8/28/70 where she was playing a duet with James Taylor (on the album "You Can Close Your Eyes") as being inspired by Young's "Sugar Mountain":

Mitchell:

In 1965 I was up in Canada and there was a friend of mine up there who, uh, had just left a rock 'n roll band in Winnipeg, Manitoba near where I come from on the prairies to become a folk singer a la Bob Dylan who was his hero at that time and uh at the same time that there were breaks in his life and he was going in a new and exciting direction, he had just newly turned 21 and that meant that in Winnipeg, he was no longer allowed into his favorite haunt which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get back in there anymore, so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends, everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know.

So, one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore, 'cause he was over the hill. That was about the same time that Esquire magazine was doing pictures of girls in trash bins, like once you're over 21 you'd had it and everything, you know? There was strange philosophy going on at that time, so he wrote this song.

It was called, "Oh to live on Sugar Mountain" and it was a lament for his lost youth. And it went, "Oh to live on Sugar Mountain with the barkers and the colored balloons. You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon, you're leaving there too soon." And I thought, you know, God if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, it's a pretty bleak future and so I wrote a song for him and for myself, to just sort of give me some hope. It's called "The Circle Game.

On Joni Mitchell's album HEJIRA, Neil Young played on the harmonica on a couple of songs.

In The Band's final performance "Last Waltz" concert at the Winterland in San Francisco, Mitchell and Young sang together on the song "Helpless" making for one of the film's many highlights.