Joni Mitchell’s Melancholy Christmas Song Gets The Exquisite Video It Deserves

Joni Mitchell’s “River,” a 50-year-old Christmastime song of lost love, finally has an official video to go with it. (Watch it below.) And the folk-pop legend sounds like she couldn’t be happier. Advertisement “River expresses regret at the end of a relationship… but it’s also about being lonely at Christmas time,” Mitchell said in a statement at the end of the animated work, which was posted to her YouTube channel on Thursday. “A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that.” Mitchell sings plaintively of wanting a river she “could skate away on”… Read Full Article