Possibly one of the greatest hits of Joni’s, this song is on the album ‘Ladies Of The Canyon’, which was the first Joni Mitchell album DiElle every heard.
Mitchell said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s: “I wrote ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart… this blight on paradise. That’s when I sat down and wrote the song.“
Covered by many, from Bob Dylan in 1970 to Counting Crows in 2002, John and DiElle enjoyed playing this at The Ashcroft Arts Centre this October with an audience in full participation..
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