After a long night of tribute, Joni Mitchell takes the stage at Musicares
Clutching a cane with a handle in the shape of a wolf’s head, Joni Mitchell made her way slowly to the stage at Friday night’s MusiCares Person of the Year gala — it was nearing midnight, but the Person of the Year was her, so people could wait — then peered out at the ballroom full of admirers before her.
“I don’t want to say I was honored — I mean, that’s obvious,” she told the black-tie-ish crowd at the MGM Grand with a little laugh. “But I was very impressed with the quality of the talent that appeared here.” She asked if we’d enjoyed it, and the response seemed to please her. “OK, I’m going to go and sit down now.
Billy Porter chewed his way through “Both Sides Now” in a showy cabaret-style performance that was as much about acting as singing; Beck mystified all the high-rollers in a throbbing punk-jazz take on “The Jungle Line.” Weirdly, nobody talked about Mitchell’s singing in the little testimonies they gave before their songs; people kept repeating the same cliches about Mitchell’s incisive lyrics and her complicated melodies, as though her phrasing were somehow less radical than her writing.
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