Joni Mitchell - Furry Sings The Blues (Live 1979)

[@kausikghosh9968]

1979 I was 7 years old studying in Class 1 when this Song was a major hit and JM was a sensation I still remember. Those Golden Days will never Ever Come.

[@MarcoBrancalion]

A goddess on earth.

[@giacomopeters9988]

Pure talent without fireworks and acoustic trickery!

[@johnmccann8319]

She was from another world!💚

[@AttackeFanclub]

Sir, she is still alive.

[@davidhamp9297]

This is at Santa Barbara County Bowl. 1979. Became the Shadows and Light album and video. Amazing. Saw the show a couple nights later at San Francisco Civic Auditorium…changed my life

[@peterbrockhoff857]

Looks like the Greek theater, must have been a great night!

[@MrZepZep62]

Wunderschöne Version!

[@franklinrwful]

Some backing band, the Pat Metheny Group. Pat is a great jazz guitarist playing some lovely slide for a change on this one.

[@douglasdegraff8335]

I'm not 100% sure about this venue, but I think it's Alpine Valley in Southern Wisconsin. If it is, I was there with a great friend of mine who convinced to go see Joni. I fell in Love with her that night. Still listening to her. Also, got to see Pat, Jaco, and the Persuasions. What a Great memory for life!

[@michaelvalentino8633]

We were there - sat 1st row. Won tickets on radio.

[@parvatidust]

genius transcendent untouchable

[@heebiejeepie]

Always powerful and enthralling, but I prefer the studio version that includes harmonica, which, to my ears, is the time machine that gets me to Beale St back in Furry's day. My favorite imagery in this song is about the pawn shop.

[@gerhardlegeland4523]

The harmonica was played by Neil Young.

[@kashesan]

i love this song,

[@pierremaes5453]

Good Holy 'shit' ...

[@stevieG.]

That looks like the Shadow's& Light version but it's ever so slightly different so must be a different night? Joni is wearing the same clothes. Great upload though and greetings from England.!

[@pierremaes5453]

There is the ' younger' JACO getting his ACT together ... = MAGIC ! .... Thanks to .... whom ?

[@OhJonahII]

Wow, haha, I was not expecting the pimp character from the Don Juan album to make an appearance in this video, "dancing it up and making deals"! Love it. If push comes to shove and I had to pick my favourite Joni song, it may very well be this one - certainly top five anyway. The lyrics are incredibly evocative... I'm there in Memphis, flipping back in time between the 1970s and Furry's 1920s (?) heyday

[@juandominguez9167]

Que halagos sé le puede hacer a Joni Mitchell?; sí todos juntos serían apenas una nota, ante la sinfonía de Joni Mitchell mismo

[@sweetjane5033]

How many guitars do you have??

[@gerhardlegeland4523]

Boring? Your ears and mind must be filled with a lot of rubbish music. Listen to the tuning of her guitar, her intro, how cool she is performing, singing, how the drums come into being and Pat's slides, the atmosphere this music creates, only Joni with her musicality can do that. And the lyrics? Joni ones said that this part following Pawn shops... is some of the best she ever wrote. And finally the lucky audience! Is there anybody bored? They are listening to the very last note. Good that you were not there. Shadows & Light is by many critics considered as one of the best live album and this song is just sublime. Try harder to get it.

[@micheleulysse]

damn! this is one boring song! And Furry hated it, but besides it is really really boring...

[@davidespinosa1910]

If you don't understand the lyrics...

[@micheleulysse]

@@davidespinosa1910 actually I do, still boring, but to be honest it doesn't matter, if to appreciate a supposed beauty of something I need to understand it that means that beauty doesn't transpire, she tries, but fails, she's no poet regardless of her ambitions...

[@garypeatling7927]

@@micheleulysse not greatest of her largely genius work , experiment ing with different styles

[@CrystalCrook-w3g]

yeah, well the studio version is more upbeat, but can visualizing the story. The backstreets south of the Peabody Hotel gets dark and gloomy. Can imagine the heyday when you played those shanties,,,😢😮😅😊

[@micheleulysse]

@@nicstone4592 I've been appreciating Bob Dylan all around the world, and you? slippers and Joni?