
Album · 1975
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is an album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1975, with 10 tracks.
- 10
- Tracks
- 43 min
- Runtime
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10 tracks · 43 min
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The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The first track, "In France They Kiss on Main Street", is a jazz-rock song about coming of age in a small town in the 1950s rock & roll era. (The song was released as the single from the album and reached number 66 on the Billboard charts.) "The Jungle Line" uses a field recording from Africa of the Drummers of Burundi (mistakenly called 'warrior drums' in the credits), onto which are dubbed guitar, Moog synthesizer and the vocal line. The lyrics pay homage to the works of the French Post-Impressionist painter Henri Rousseau. Mitchell blends details of his works with imagery of modern city life, the music industry and the underground drug culture. "Edith and the Kingpin" marks a return to jazz in a story of a gangster's new moll arriving in his home town. "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" is an acoustic guitar-based song with stream-of-consciousness lyrics, focused on women standing up to male dominance and proclaiming their own existence as individuals. "Shades of Scarlett Conquering" is an orchestral based piece about a southern belle, implying though not exactly stating, the Scarlett O'Hara cha…