Coyote
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The Circle Game...of her career must be her appearance at the Band's Last Waltz Thanksgiving concert in 1976. In the video above, Mitchell performs "Coyote," a song that gives a bittersweet taste of a musician's life on the road. (Weller, incidentally,... In this article: Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game, James Taylor, Coyote, Judy Collins, Both Sides Now, Sam Shepard, and Tom Rush |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Joni Mitchell
...to her ongoing collaborations with legendary jazz virtuoso bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius on several songs including the first single, "Coyote ", the atmospheric "Hejira", the disorienting, guitar-heavy "Black Crow," and the album's last...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Blue, Billboard, Hejira, Grammy Award, Charles Mingus, Court and Spark, Clouds, Chelsea Morning, and Both Sides Now
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 05, 2009
Local Scene: Birthday party for Joni Mitchell
...a few more times and to one of her art exhibits with Don Henley." For the tribute show, Vere will play a pair of Mitchell favorites: "Coyote," which Joni played at "The Last Waltz," and the title track from "Blue." "I love those two and I...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Pittsburgh, Blue, Counting Crows, and WPTS
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Hejira (album)
...after being featured on the live album ''Shadows and Light '', alongside "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Black Crow". Though "Coyote" and "Black Crow" are fast-strummed folksy numbers, the rest of Hejira is slow and often languid,...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Hejira, Furry Lewis, Rolling Stone, Amelia Earhart, Hijra, Muhammad, and Jaco Pastorius
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Detroit News | October 15, 2009
Chris O'Dell recounts her life with Beatles and other music legends
...Mitchell vied for the attention of Sam Shepard while on the road with Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue (Mitchell referred to her in the song "Coyote" as "the woman down the hall"). As O'Dell writes in the book's foreward: "I wasn't famous.
In this article: The Beatles, Beatles, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Pattie Boyd, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton
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Coyote (song)
...(possibly meant to be Mitchell herself as there is a reference in the lyrics to her coming home from the studio) and "Coyote", a ranch worker. Coyote represents nature contrasted with the narrator's big city (presumably LA) life where "pills...
In this article: Hejira, Bob Dylan, Jaco Pastorius, Spirit of the West, The Last Waltz, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and The Band
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Kamloops Indian Band
...is one of the largest First Nations elementary schools in British Columbia (Sk'elep is the Shuswap language name for "the Trickster", Coyote ). Some of the Indian Reserves under the administration of the Kamloops Band include: Kamloops...
In this article: British Columbia, Fraser Canyon War, North West Company, Hudson's Bay Company, and James Douglas
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | June 09, 2008
Popless Week 23: Women & Men The A.V. Club
...Hejira. I wrote up Hejira for The A.V. Club's now-defunct "Permanent Records column, saying, "Opening with the sprightly, catchy 'Coyote'-with its haunting lines about the 'prisoner of the white lines on the freeway'-Hejira announces...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Hejira, Court & Spark, The A.V. Club, David Geffen, Paris, Chicken soup, and Irreducible
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Fox News Entertainment | April 01, 2008
FOXNews.com - Joni Mitchell's '70s Suicide Attempt - Celebrity Gossip Entertainment News Arts And Entertainment
...Lawns." If you're interested in more trivia, Weller picks up on a column item I reported here back on April 12, 2002: that the song "Coyote" was an ode to another of Mitchell's ex-lovers, playwright Sam Shepard. He's referred to in the...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Suicide, U2, Brett Ratner, Live Nation, and Warren Beatty
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Crooks and Liars | March 24, 2008
Late Night Music Club with Chaka Khan (and Joni Mitchell) Late Nite Music Club
...that was never released. Anyone have a favorite Joni song they'd like to hear the cover version of? Sun, 03/23/2008 - 23:05 - Space Coyote (not verified) "Fiddle and the Drum" covered by A Perfect Circle. So many faves .... Strange...
In this article: Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Hejira, Help Me, and Song to a Seagull
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"Coyote" is the opening song from Joni Mitchell's 1976 album Hejira and also the first single.
The song constituted a major departure from her previous work The Hissing of Summer Lawns, which had been quite ornate with pianos, layered vocals and percussion (although the song had been introduced in an embryonic form on the supporting tour). On "Coyote", her sound was stripped down to electric and acoustic guitars and a fretless bass guitar played by legendary virtuoso Jaco Pastorius. In a sense, this was similar to her early albums, but the sound was extremely spacious, even repetitive, with the verses made much longer and more like a long story. Thus, although this is one of the faster-tempo songs on Hejira, it still lasts for an even five minutes, whereas most songs on Mitchell's earliest albums were less than three minutes. Mitchell's guitar itself was in an unusual (low to high) C-G-D-F-C-E tuning - presumably a type of open tuning designed to play a seventh, ninth, or even eleventh chord.
Lyrically, "Coyote" is concerned with the difficulty of establishing any sort of connection with people who come from "different sets of circumstance" (as the song has it). In particular it describes an encounter (which turns into a one night stand) between the narrator (possibly meant to be Joni herself as there is a reference in the lyrics to her coming home from the studio) and "Coyote", a ranch worker. Coyote represents nature contrasted with the narrator's big city (presumably LA) life where "pills and powders" are necessary to "get them through this passion play". The aforementioned line is also a reference to Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, which Joni was a part of in the fall of 1975.
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