Some 50 years after its debut, Joni Mitchell’s melancholy song River finally has it own video. River first appeared on Mitchell’s 1971 album, Blue.
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Joni Mitchell addressed her ongoing health issues in a rare speech at the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors last night (December 5).The singer-songwriter suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 that left her temporarily unable to walk or talk.
Later that year she was said to be “making good progress”.And last year she spoke out again about the incident in a rare interview saying at the time: “I got my speech back quickly, but the walking I’m still struggling with”.Now, the singer has addressed her health
.Some 50 years after its debut, Joni Mitchell’s melancholy song River finally has it own video. River first appeared on Mitchell’s 1971 album, Blue.
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Chris Willman Music WriterAn animated river runs through Joni Mitchell’s video oeuvre now, as a 50-year-old song that has been gradually drafted into the holiday music canon, “River,” has just gotten its first music video. The clip made its debut with little time to spare in this “Blue” semicentennial year, premiering two days before Christmas.The video is stylized as a series of moving black-and-white water-colors, as it were, only opening up into actual color at the end.
Joni Mitchell has shared the first official music video for her classic track ‘River’, which was released in 1971.The song featured on the singer-songwriter’s seminal album ‘Blue’ and over the years has become a melancholy Christmas staple.For its first-ever video, ‘River’ has been given the animation treatment by director Matvey Rezanov and Skazka Studios.
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