Joni Mitchell - All I Want (Live)

Joni Mitchell In Concert (Final Cut)
BBC
1970

[RobRileyGuitar]

There's something really special about the fact that she's playing the song before it's even finished.

[williampotter]

Can you imagine living in a old shack house is Laurel Canyon in the 60s and having Joni and David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young and Cass Elliot and Frank Zappa ... on and on, so many more musical greats ... geniuses and they were just people who hung out together and met in their yards and sang and played their new songs. The song Joni is singing here is in transition. It is very different than the song we are used to hearing. It was just a hotbed of ideas and musical invention. No one person making music like the next person. It must have been amazing.

[evascharfe]

This was the first Joni Mitchell song that I ever heard. The unusual thing about it was that when I heard it, I was in the music room in my high school and it was casually being sung by a girl who was a student singing in the spur of the moment. I decided to ask her about the song and who had recorded it. She briefly answered Joni Mitchell, but later I could not recall if she said Joni Mitchell or perhaps Joan Baez who were the only artists that had a J first name intitial in the neighborhood Rolling Stone Store. I was only 15 years old and had only listened to main stream music on the charts and was not familiar with artists like Joni. I took a guess when I bought a Joni Mitchell album and luckily guessed correctly. Once I heard Joni Mitchell s music I was so in awe that I have listened to her music for almost 50 years. (had to reveal my age) I would love to thank that high school girl who introduced me to Joni Mitchell and often think it was just meant to be. I cannot explain it but Joni Mitchell and her music have empowered me and in some mysterious way I became a different person and she has been my inspiration.

[ariafalco]

I WANNA HAVE FUN, I WANNA SHINE LIKE THE SUN. OH, JONI. U GOT ME THROUGH DARKNESS. THANK YOU.

[sheilaewall]

I am glad I am listening to this song. Joni .Mitchell is six months younger than I am age 81.

[Thundergod-]

Just Joni and an Appalachian Dulcimer. Pure magic....

[chantalpadora]

no singers in bathrobe or half naked, no big led Screen to distract People that the singer cant sing, no annoying dancers in the Background. JUST PURE SIMPLE TALENT IN ONE SPOTLIGHT. PERFECT....those were the times.

[Achilles]

There needs to be celestial constellation named after this Goddess. Love you girl.

[truthjustice]

One of the most earnest and inspiring solo performances of all time

[jamesmonahanmusic]

Holy-smoke, what a beautiful performance. 😊

[rknrlgrl]

Joni's songs got me through some hard times and healed me. Thank you Joni.

[BPMMusic]

I love this! You can tell this version is way more raw than the one on Blue. She really honed it by the time it was recorded. You can tell she stepped back a little in the final version. Here it makes it more clear the relationship is over, whereas in Blue, there's a sense that maybe the two people in the song are still together. 

[oooomingmak]

even her speaking voice in the beginning is beautiful. what a lovely gift to the world 💖

[bmm]

Even an unfinished song by Joni Mitchell sounds like a beautiful finished song ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[doorstepcult]

There are 50 years between us, but I swear to god I am in love with Joni Mitchell.

[robertgillespie]

Holy cow, what an amazing difference in this and the final version. She was definitely more irritated by the man she's singing about. There's some pretty heavy words she decided not to keep. I believe this may be the most honest and raw thing I've ever heard from her. Thank You for this gem!

[benjaminbott]

I love how she doesn't even get her instrument in tune, but still manages to adapt her voice to the instrument and sing so perfectly.

[TAndrackeH]

She❤ gave me some of the most perfect music to get me through some rough years, and this lucky life since.

[gravemo]

Driving to Canada in a few days. Joni is queued up for the entire drive💖

[edenroc]

I just imagine myself listening to this live in a cathedral. Gosh, I love Joni.