Danish Joni Mitchell Cover Group Unearth Three Unknown Joni Songs For New Album

 DANISH JONI MITCHELL COVER GROUP UNEARTH THREE UNKNOWN JONI SONGS FOR NEW ALBUM One of the world's leading Joni Mitchell cover groups, 'Big Yellow Taxi.dk', are set to release a new album of Joni's songs, including three unknown tracks. The album, titled "Unknown and Famous Songs of Joni Mitchell" will be their second, after 2002's "A Tribute to Joni Mitchell". Inspired by the reactions on the 3 songs that Joni never released herself, the group has started to record a new album including 11 more and one big hit.

The artists, singer Christina Friis and guitarist Henning Olsen, have been together for four years, re-establishing the status for the 21st Century of a 60s icon with fresh and innovative interpretations of her songs. The group have already won rave reviews from Denmark to the United States and are considering a future tour of the latter in the absence of their inspirational mentor Joni. Both Henning and Christina were heavily influenced by the incomparable creativity of the 60s, from the world dominating Beatles (particularly, for Henning, the song "Rain", which inspired him at first to pick up the bass guitar) to the folk revolution in America led by Bob Dylan, James Taylor and of course, Joni Mitchell. They say it was Mitchell's "special tunings and magical harmonies" that inspired a career in performing her music, and it was her that originally brought them together.
Henning Olsen had played bass and guitar in a number of Scandinavian groups before a chance hearing of a friend singing the Mitchell composition "Carey" in a café inspired him to create a covers band with the friend, comprising of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor songs.
But it was Mitchell's material that they mostly played. By 2002 Olsen needed a new singer, and teamed up with Christina Friis after she responded to his advert in a newspaper. Friis had grown up singing in Sunday masses and a variety of musical activities at school, as well as classical piano lessons. Her interest in her parents' old records – like Olsen – inspired her to be a singer-songwriter in the folk vein.

A must for all Joni Mitchell fans

By summer 2002 they were playing in cafes, before a demo recording got them invited from the Joni Mitchell Fanclub to Jonifest in Woodstock, New York – a celebration of Joni's music in an iconic 60s venue. Encouraged by their demo and the invitation, they recorded a full-length album for the festival. Both the CD and their subsequent performance were enthusiastically reviewed on the Joni Mitchell website with comments such as "they blew us away" and "highly recommended." Now they are set to release "Unknown and Famous Songs of Joni Mitchell", including three songs of a young Joni, which they uncovered on an old live recording when they were in America. These songs – "Come To the Sunshine", "Carnival in Kenora" and "The Way It Is" - have never previously been released by Joni Mitchell, making 'Big Yellow Taxi.dk's album a must for all Joni Mitchell fans. The duo is accompanied on this album with a five-piece band.

They have had encouraging support from Danish national radio station P4, who recently gave them a half-hour interview and played four songs.


One Internet reviewer from South Carolina wrote: "It's always a bit daunting to attempt an entire album full of her challenging songs, but Big Yellow Taxi certainly prove themselves up for the challenge. Christina's vocals glide through these melodies, some of which require a strong vocal range and are not tried by too many, and of course the REAL thrill here is the inclusion of three Joni-penned songs that Joni never released herself."

The duo declares that they have a "personal fingerprint on Joni's songs" and account this for their popularity.

Big Yellow Taxi.dk
Unknown and Famous Songs of Joni Mitchell

Come To The Sunshine

The Way It Is

The full track listing

"UNKNOWN AND FAMOUS SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL"

1. Come To The Sunshine (never released by J.M.) 3:04
2. The Way It Is (never released by J.M.) 3:55
3. Carnival In Kenora (never released by J.M.) 3:08
4. Conversation 4:20
5. A Case Of You 4:17
6. Carey 3:07
7. California 3:31
8. The Gallery 4:07
9. All I Want 3:34
10. Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire 3:49
11. I'm A Radio 2:45
12. People's Parties 2:10
13. Little Green 3:26

All songs written by Joni Mitchell
1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 © (Crazy Crow Music) Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia
4, 5, 6, 7, 9 © (Joni Mitchell Publishing) Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia

Christina Friis: Vocals
Henning Olsen: Acoustic and electric guitars, bass, electric slide dobro, ac. and Rickenbacker 12-string guitar, percussion Frede Ewert: Piano, Hammond organ, Synthesizer.
Finn Gustafsson: Electric guitar, wah wah (4, 7, 10) T. Skovgaard: Electric + sitarguitar, dobro, ac.12-string guitar,(1, 2, 3)
Michael Klinke: Mouth organ (11) Rune Olesen: Percussion. Congas

The CD's are distributed by www.cdbaby.com/cd/bigyellowtaxi3 and will be available on all major download-companies.


Big Yellow Taxi

For more information contact:
homusik@mail.tele.dk or www.bigyellowtaxi.dk
Henning Olsen Mosevej 8 DK-2860 Søborg Denmark
Tlf: +45 39 690166 E-mail: homusik@mail.tele.dk