Joni Mitchell Hejira Jun 15, 1986

The best lyrics, arrangements, words and phrasing I would never think to use. I've listened to her for almost 50 years. She touches my soul!

The best of all singer/songwriters ever. She is the Shakespeare of our times.

This makes a grown man cry just from the beauty and perfection of it.

She is singing her heart out on this one. She is one of the giants of our lifetime.

This woman gave me my voice...I was born in 1960 and watched my brothers, all older than me in '69 take off for the Woodstock festival only a couple of hours from our home in Brooklyn, NY. I was 9 then and very shy. One of my bothers, who was a musician, heard me in my room singing along with my Joni Mitchell album .. (I'd eventually collected all of her LP's....and taught myself the guitar chords to each of her songs so I could sing to myself when I was blue).and he told me..."You sound just like her..". In later years, when I became a mother, I sang to my first baby, a preemie born at my 24th wk of pregnancy, while she was in the n.i.c.u for 4 months to comfort her in her struggle to live. After she'd passed away, 7 1/2 months later, Joni Mitchell's voice comforted me as I would sit alone in my grief. When my  other children were bourn to me, again I was blessed and would softly sing Joni's tunes as I'd cradled each one in the carrier every day, over my heart, on our journey to the market, nursing them or just doing my chores around the apartment, lulling them to a peaceful sleep. I, myself was adopted as a child, so parenting is nothing I take lightly.  I never knew my birth mother, but I thank heaven I was finally taken in to a permanent family. To this day, when I feel grief and  the blues coming on, I sing to myself while going about my day. My heart broke when I had heard Joni was rushed to the hospital. I cried and prayed...There is no one, absolutely no one who compares to this lovely Angel on Earth. She is radiant!

The vocal by Joni on this is heart stopping, it's pure beauty. The playing also makes the old ticker miss a few beats, amazing and so special.

My husband and I met as students in 1982. Hejira was the album of our courtship, and Amelia was my favourite song, this one, my husband’s Amelia and Amy Johnson were my heroines. Although we are no longer married, after 38 years we are still together in a manner of speaking, parents and grandparents, we raised a family together, all the things we dreamed, our hopes and plans, the first time we made love, it was this album. We were soooo young. And so in love. So, thank you Joni. This is the record that built a family xxx

Joni Mitchell is still the very best singer and songwriter. Superb.

Anyone who could write one song like this would rightfully be considered a genius. Joni Mitchell wrote tons of songs like this. Add the guitar mastery and her voice and you have a brilliance beyond this world.

She said once that she valued intuition over intellect.  Ironically, of all her peers, her intellect shines brightest.  This is most apparent here, for me her best song.

I will always be grateful for her accompaniment of my life between the forceps and the stone. Since age 15, now 63, getting closer to the stone...

The greatest songwriter ever.

It does not get any better than Joni Mitchell.

I'm sitting here listening to Joni's music all alone. Just sobbing. She as always left me speechless and teary eyed.

Just so ---------- Joni Mitchell, variable, but always just so good ! Play on Lady !

We all get old and run out of time, we don't all get the chance to leave what Joni has left us, she has been blowing me away for decades

I'm a man, a fan since my 20s...and I share your depth of feeling for her words and music..I'm constantly playing and replaying her poignant songs in my head, reading and seeking their meaning. Yeah, I'm a sensitive guy. Gifted, I feel, in that way

College, 1978 and introduced to Joni......Life hasn't been the same since! What an excellent Story teller! Joni Speaks My Language!

There has never been anyone to match Joni.

She is out of this world.😍