03.18.2021
ELVIS COSTELLO’S MESMERISING COVER OF JONI MITCHELL’S SONG ‘EDITH AND THE KINGPIN’
Far Out Magazine: Atreyi Banerji: March 2021
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell was a star-studded album that witnessed multiple artists from a variety of musical genres come together to record an album as a tribute to one of the most influential female artists in the music industry, the woman who changed the course of Western music forever – the one and only, Joni Mitchell.
Mitchell’s cerebral imagery of the world around her, combined with the representation of emotional and introspective inputs, struck a chord, not only with her fans but music enthusiasts regardless of their temporal or spatial boundaries. What is essential to notice is how relevant Mitchell remains, not only in her own time but also to this day, where even today’s young generation hold Mitchell in the highest regards.
A tribute to Joni Mitchell brings forward some of Mitchell’s best songs, re-interpreted and re-designed by some of the most well-known artists, including Bjork, Sufjan Stevens, Prince, Annie Lennox, James Taylor and so on. Among them was another musician quite different in terms of Mitchell’s musical sound yet quite similar in terms of the uniqueness of their individual lyrical prowess. This man was none other than Elvis Costello.