Joni Mitchell - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, USA 1968 | Albums That Should Exist

 Joni Mitchell - Philadelphia Folk Festival, Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA, 8-23-1968

Paul here says: Here's the second out of six albums that I'm posting from the 1968 Philadelphia Folk Festival. This one features a short acoustic set by Joni Mitchell.

Note that while I'm posting all I have from this festival in a bunch, I'm not attempting to organize the albums into "Part 1," Part 2," and so on. That's because it was a three day festival, and I only have a couple of sets from each day. I also don't know the order of the performances. 

Joni Mitchell wasn't a big name yet in 1968, at the time of this concert. She was getting a lot of acclaim for her songwriting, and some famous musicians were already covering her songs. But she'd only released one album at the time of this concert, and that one, "Song to a Seagull," didn't make the charts. So it looks like she was only allowed a pretty short set. She only played one song ("Cactus Tree") from the sole album she'd released so far. Instead, three songs would come from her album "Ladies of the Canyon," one from "Clouds," and one from "Blue." 

This album is 26 minutes long.

01 That Song about the Midway (Joni Mitchell)
02 talk (Joni Mitchell)
03 Cactus Tree (Joni Mitchell)
04 Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell)
05 talk (Joni Mitchell)
06 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
07 talk (Joni Mitchell)
08 The Circle Game - Little Green (Joni Mitchell)

 

not really that bothered about posting Mitchell works anymore but this is early and pre-Morgellons and all that Fag-ash Lil routine that so gets my goat! Gone right off her to be fair apart from the earliest more innocent work . . .so this is short enough but haven’t listened to it its only here because of the company she was in from Country and Bluegrass masters to blues master Buddy Guy who may have seemed out of place at this “Folk” festival but is worth a check!