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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It was explicitly stated, this song is for you. You and the audience can sing it. I think that was it. I might be missing something, but I don't think I am. She did A Case of You, my night. Oh, she did do A Case of You.
But most of the songs were from these later albums, from Hijira in 76 and... Up to Shine, which is 2007.
I got the sense that this is a person who does not think that they've gotten their due. as an artist past a certain point, right? I think in the popular imagination, Blue has kind of eaten her entire body of work, which is interesting to me because, you know, the song she sang at the Grammys that night was Both Sides Now, not on Blue, it was on Clouds. And the songs that...
have all of the kind of world weariness come after that, right? It's the experience of being extremely popular and extremely famous for those two albums that kind of put her off of, I mean, what's the great line from Freeman in Paris? I'm out here stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular songs.
Right? I can't be free. I cannot be a free man in Paris if I'm out here trying to sell records. The two things are incompatible. There's making my art, and then there's toiling for money. So she gave us mostly her art songs. Yes, 100%. 27 songs, most of which are songs she wrote after 1976. Mm-hmm.
I just was so in tune with her voice. And I was really hearing these songs in a new way. I just closed my eyes and just got transported to wherever it was she was trying to take us.
Say more about that.
The Joanie jams in her living room.
Yes.
I... kept track of when i felt she was most present like when she did night ride home i mean she was back in this song she's back whatever this song is about whatever memory she's having of this dance wherever the song is came from she was back then i'm just over the man beside me with my And like a romance, right? Like no interruptions, no distractions. No phones till Friday.
I was struck by just how present she was in this music. And like when she sounded to me like this arrangement has found a great place for her singing. And it happened, you know, out of 27 songs, it happened more than half the time. Yeah. OK, let's take a break. And when we come back, I had one complaint about this show. I only had one. Oh, wait, did you have any, by the way? Zero. Zero.
Okay, I do have one complaint about this show. And I don't know how you felt about this. Okay. Brandi Carlile kept calling the music deep cuts. Deep cuts like she's singing with Cher. This is a person who has one top ten song. One top ten song in 60 years of making music. Which is You Turn Me On on radio? Well, that's a top 40 song, yes. Help me. Help me hit number seven. By the way, come on.
Perfect song.
You can do it! I will not harmonize with you because it will not sound good at all.
I will never sing on this show again. That was beautiful. It was beautiful. As a person who cannot sing.
I do enjoy trying.
But that's her only top ten song. Like, she really was following her heart and not her pocketbook.
Oh, wait. Can we listen to that part of Miles of Isles? Sure. Where she's about to do the circle game. Miles of Isles, of course, being her first live album, which came out 50 years ago this year. And there's this moment on stage that I just think is so indicative of who Joni Mitchell is as a person. And she's standing there, I guess, tinkering with her guitar. And she's just finished Blue.
And there's like 30 seconds of people just shouting at her. They're just shouting out song titles. Play this, play that!
This is what she says in response to that.
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