Joni Mitchell-Song To A Seagull (1968)


 

Artist: Joni Mitchell


Label: Reprise

Format: LP

Catalog Number: RS 6293

Year of Release: 1968

Country and Year of Edition: US 1970 PItman Pressing gatefold cover

Sell Price: $9.48

Sell Date: 4/19/24

Condition: VG/VG+ 

Discogs Last Sold  3/19/24 VG/VG+ $7.97

Low: $3.00 VG/no cover

Median: $9.98

Average: $10.68

High: $24.50 NM/VG+

Current low price: $2.25 G+/generic, no cover; $3.00 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 29

Have/Want:  661/162

Where Sold: Ben Lomond, CA

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years

Where and When Bought: internet $4 lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Joni was tough from the start.  Mr. Kratzman, her English teacher at age 11 or 12 gets a dedication on her debut for teaching her a love of words.  The words are indeed good.  You have to read them or listen to the album in headphones otherwise they are just lost to background and Joni's patented vibrato.  There's a soft loud thing going on where either Joni's voice either pierces walls or is inaudible.

Why would you want to miss out on a character like cabdriver Nathan La Franeer that curses Joni out simply for being in his space while she blows out of town at the end of side one?  She came to the city and left to the seaside by the time side two comes around.  She gets some peace of mind on side two's opener  "Sistowbell Lane."  The only rocking there is a chair and it's rhythms.

This primarily acoustic record is produced by David Crosby.  The closest the record gets to musical rocking is "Night In The City" in the middle of the first side.  Crosby cohort Stephen Stills is on bass. Otherwise maybe some vocal arrangements were the only obvious contribution to his production.  Joni had written some hits for other writers before this came out.  None of them are here.

She was busy being free.


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