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The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the seventh studio album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in November 1975 on Asylum Records. It continues the jazz-influenced sound of Mitchell's previous album, Court and Spark, with more unconventional and experimental material.
Rarely does popular music witness one of its biggest artists turn their back on the machine and chose artistry over financial success and popularity, but with The Hissing of Summer Lawns that is exactly what Mitchell did, shocking some of her less adventurous fans and critics.
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Mitchell's motif of the summer lawn was both impressionistic and sociocultural. The incongruous elements of the cover art combined in a visual pun. The hissing sound was made by sprinklers, but a serpent can thrive in a suburban dream-home, coiling itself around a marriage.
Nov 1, 2020 · The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a sizzling hand slap to listeners following Mitchell’s artistry just to get emotional jollies from a pop song. She didn’t include a “Help Me” to lament to, or another “A Case of You” that one can run out a box of Kleenex on.
May 24, 2022 · There she met Graham Nash and they fell madly in love; 'Our House' on CSN&Y's LP “Déjà vu” is about their relationship. But at a certain point, that became too stuffy for Joni Mitchell. She was still fighting her snake in the grass.
Jan 14, 2018 · The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the seventh studio album by Canadian singer–songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1975 on Asylum. The album continues the jazz-folk fusion of her prior album (Court and Spark) and retains L.A. Express as her backing band along with eight additional guests.
Robben Ford and Jeff Baxter spice things up with electric guitars. What never changes is the ethereal vocals (including David Crosby, Graham Nash and James Taylor) and the unique accelerated phrasing of Mitchell.
