Now Entangled in the transition between Gabriel and Collins.
On the heels of Peter Gabriel’s departure from Genesis, Phil Collins came out from behind the drum kit to the front of the band. What did this do?
Now, Joni Mitchell’s jazz Hisses over summer lawns for you
Mitchell’s increasing fluency in jazz is all over this track, not just in her vocal phrasing but in the very bones of the arrangement. Chuck Findley’s muted trumpet and Bud Shank’s flute don’t solo so much as hover like ghosts over the composition, creating a lush and stifling atmosphere. John Guerin—drummer, co-writer, and Mitchell’s then-partner—lays down a whispering groove, a barely-there pulse that allows every other element to breathe.
The right prescriptive for now is the Cowboy Junkies 2010!
For over 25 years, siblings Margo and Michael Timmins have quietly constructed a sound that defies easy classification—something between a whisper and a wail, an ethereal drift through the undercurrents of blues, folk, and alt-country. Their chemistry is the foundation of this sonic world, an intuitive push and pull that transforms their music into intimate and boundless.