Wesley Morris
speaker
836 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Wesley Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's a traveler.
All I want is, you know, the first line is... I'm on a lonely road and I'm traveling, yeah. Traveling, traveling, traveling.
Yep. It's sort of doing a parallel bar routine where like it goes from a low bar to the high bar, flips around a little bit, goes back down, comes up and then sticks the landing every time.
What does that look like?
Oh, my God. We just started talking and my eyes are already welling up. Okay, I first heard Joni Mitchell in the 90s because I was listening to this radio station when I was a kid that was really singer-songwriter heavy.
Night Ride Home was my first Joni Mitchell album. I bought a cassette and the voice on it was unlike any of the other people they were playing in this radio station. The voice was deeper than the leaping that you're talking about.
All of that beauty, which I would describe in some ways as young womanish, by 1991 had really solidified into something that moved less but weighed more. There's a song on that album called Passion Play When All the Slaves Are Free. And... It's essentially the sort of song that she had begun to really luxuriate in, which is a kind of moral judgment on the condition of this.
Well, I'm going to say the United States. She's Canadian, lives in Los Angeles, according to her, is her workplace and her home in Western Canada is her home. But she has a real sense of, you know, the way the world is operating and the way the world is different in 1991 from how it was in 1974 or 69 even.
In this particular case, it's just about the possession of land and this idea that men are not stewards of the land, they're proprietors. And like, what's it going to look like when the people that you have laboring for you have a revolution? There's just something about the way that she says, who are you going to get to do your dirty work?
When all the slaves are free.
and she's doubling herself. And that doubling, it just sounds different when your voice is that low. And I just was so drawn to whatever that sound was because there was wisdom in it, especially with this later music, which I would say.
Most people don't. Yeah. Most people don't. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about the Hollywood Bowl show we went to this fall.
The one in 2022? Her big comeback. Okay.
In this throne-like chair.
I felt the same thing. I mean, there's something about the chair, right? I mean, it really is a throne-like set piece. And it really gives everybody around her a kind of, not subservient role, but they're all there to facilitate the needs of this monarch, right?
There's a coyote, I think. It might be a coyote. Oh, it's a coyote. A coyote. On the actual handle of the cane. I didn't observe that. I just saw...
Right. Many different people came to play for her over several years. Herbie Hancock, Dolly Parton, Chaka Khan, Harry Styles. But not all of those people were on stage that night at the Hollywood Bowl. Definitely none of the people I just named.
Yes. And those were the people who were on stage.
I can't imagine what it would be like to go to this concert, if you're someone who has flown halfway, like, completely across the country, to hear what you think is going to be a night of her doing blue. Yes. There are ten songs on that album, and people only heard three. Mm-hmm. California.
Carrie, which the audience sung.
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