Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP smooth basslines and shuffling beats

smooth basslines and shuffling beats

New Zealand and built her foundations of classical piano

Waitress Song finds them fantasising about alternative professions ("I could move to a small town and become a waitress/ Say my name was Stacy and figure things out") and they reluctantly turn their back on a love "that could have been" on A Long Time Ago

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Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP smooth basslines and shuffling beatsJoni Mitchell evolved from the smooth jazz pop of Court and Spark to the radical Hissing of Summer Lawns, an adventurous work that marked her deeper foray into jazz and experimental sounds. After opening with the graceful "In France They Kiss on Main Street," the album veers sharply into "The Jungle Line," an odd, Moog driven piece backed by the rhythms of the warrior drums of Burundi a move into multiculturalism that beat the likes of Paul Simon,