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The Village Voice named this cover the worst song of the 2000s, [37] and the Village Voice's scathing review of the cover is archived on Joni Mitchell's website. [38] The review derided the cover as having paved paradise (Mitchell's original song) and put up a parking lot.
The album also included the already-familiar song "The Circle Game" and the environmental anthem "Big Yellow Taxi", with its famous line, "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Ladies of the Canyon was an instant smash on FM radio and sold briskly, eventually becoming Mitchell's first gold album (selling over a half million copies).
"Woodstock" is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. At least four versions of the song were released in 1970. Mitchell's own version was first performed live in 1969 and appeared in April 1970 on her album Ladies of the Canyon and as the B-side to her single "Big Yellow Taxi".
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It is apparently an urban legend that the bulldozing of the Garden of Allah in 1959 inspired the line in Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi", "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot". Indeed, Mitchell later lived in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood in the hills north of the site.
Joni Mitchell is on California time.. The "Big Yellow Taxi" singer was photographed during a stroll with a companion in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Mitchell, 81, wore a black ...
Joni Mitchell delivered a rare performance to benefit those affected by the Los Angeles fires. On Thursday, Jan. 30, the legendary folk singer-songwriter, 81, took the stage at the Kia Forum for ...
Of all of Mitchell's work, this album is the most related to her long-standing friendships and relationships with Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young (whose rock arrangement of "Woodstock" was one of their four radio hits in 1970). Mitchell was living with Graham Nash at the time much of the album was written. [13]