Linda Ronstadt sings Joni Mitchell’s “River.”
It’s a funny thing about this song. It’s on Mitchell’s “Blue” album, which I’ve owned since its release in 1971. I’d forgotten it entirely until a year or so ago, and now I think it’s fantastic.
Ronstadt covers Mitchell
It’s a funny thing about this song. It’s on Mitchell’s “Blue” album, which I’ve owned since its release in 1971. I’d forgotten it entirely until a year or so ago, and now I think it’s fantastic.
I love this song and I like LR’s version very much. I think my favorite cover of it is the one by Robert Downey Jr. I’ll go put it up on my site.
I love Linda (16-18 albums worth!), but it was a tossup between her version and Sarah McLachlan’s. Linda’s YouTube version was embeddable; Sarah’s is not. It’s here.
I love this, the saddest Xmas song ever.
Melancholy is under-represented in Christmas music.
This song was resurrected for me as I watched an episode of “Alias” a few years ago.
I just love Joni Mitchell.
James Taylor sings this song also. It is one of the slowest songs I have ever heard. I swear I think I could travel around the world and Taylor would still be singing “Handy Man”….