Los Angeles Music Center
Even though she was handicapped slightly by an approaching cold that took some of the edge off her vocal volume and range, Joni Mitchell proved to her youthful sold-out audience that at this stage of her career she is a far more vibrant and outgoing performer than ever. She also plays her accompaniment instruments, guitar, piano and dulcimer more fluently than ever.
Garbed in a gray '30s pantsuit with Joan Crawford padded shoulders, she perked up her familiar songs by genuinely funny intros about the odd circumstances of her life which inspired them. And she brought in much new material which displayed her at top form. An added encore of Circle Game featuring the Geffen-Roberts male choir provided additional comic relief.
Jackson Browne, the songwriting legend from Orange County now finally emerging as an artist, didn't act nervous as he began his set, but somehow the more he sang, the more his voice opened up. The Browne songs are outstanding and he is a highly likeable if somewhat undisciplined performer, given to excessive tuning and idle rapping between songs. Promising is the apt descriptive word.
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