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Joni Mitchell Thrills Fans With Deep Cuts (and Cuts Trump Down to Size) at Hollywood Bowl in First Full L.A. Show in 24 Years: Concert Review
Joni Mitchell's first L.A. show in 24 years featured 27 deep cuts and classics... and a 'F-- Trump' dig that got one of the night's standing ovations.
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and there might not have been any in the dell tucked into the Hollywood hills that houses the Bowl, either, on Saturday night, with Mitchell returning from the nearly-dead to deliver her biggest and fullest set since she suffered an aneurysm in 2015… or, really, since she did her last tour 24 years ago, which had her last headlining in L.A. at the Greek in 2000. At MusiCares’ salute to her in Las Vegas in early 2022, she mostly watched from the side of the stage and just chimed in with a couple of lines near the end — so fans were shocked when, in July of that year, she made a surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in a Carlile-led “Joni Jam” that had her singing lead, or sharing it, on a fair amount of numbers, while others were fronted by all-star guests. It was one more incremental step on her path back to public performance, but it also felt like one giant leap for Mitchell-kind — a seemingly impossible moment in which the singer was commanding the stage for about three hours (not counting intermission) and delivering just what you might have hoped for from her at any point in her long career.
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