Then the idea sort of spirals, and sometimes it’s a melody that I put lyrics to. “If it’s a lyric that I think is pretty and poetic, I’m going to write it down and put a melody to it. “I typically write by myself, and it’s whatever comes first,” said Evancho, who is working on more original songs. Mitchell’s 1970 album, Ladies of the Canyon, gets attention with Evancho’s tender acoustic wrap on “For Free,” “The Circle Game,” and “Rainy Night House.” Going further back to Mitchell’s 1968 self-titled debut with “Song to a Seagull,” Carousel closed on “Urge for Going,” a track Tom Rush first recorded as a single in 1966 before Mitchell later revisited the song again in 1972 and released as a B-side for “You Turn Me On, I’m A Radio.” Slipping into Mitchell’s Blue era, Evancho takes on the title track, along with “River,” and “ A Case of You,” off her iconic album, love stories inspired by Mitchell’s relationship with James Taylor. “I wanted to get across Joni’s beautiful music with a little bit of Jackie in there. “Picking them was just basically listening to the songs and seeing which ones hit me hard in the chest and gave me chills, and made me feel deeply as I was listening to them,” ” shares Evancho. When choosing songs from Mitchell’s catalog, Evancho gravitated to songs that immersed her the most. Carousel of Time also weaves in another one of Evancho’s Clouds covers, “The Gallery.” Going back to the very beginning, Evancho pulls several tracks from Mitchell’s earlier days, opening on “Both Sides, Now,” a song first recorded by Judy Collins in 1968 before Mitchell released it on her second album Clouds a year later-Mitchell herself who re-recorded the song with an orchestral arrangement for her 2000 album Both Sides Now. And the way that she puts things is something that you really don’t hear much in music back then, and now, and I really admire that.” “I really like the honesty within her music,” says Evancho of Mitchell. “And it was kind of just one of those things where I was listening to one of those ’70s playlists in the summer and heard her music and thought ‘this would be really fun.’ The idea was born.”Ī follow-up to Evancho’s 2019 album, The Debut, covers of varied Broadway songs, Carousel of Time, produced by Fred Mollin and recorded at Sound Stage Studio in Nashville, finds Evancho exploring an artist more than five decades her senior, with the eloquence and contemplation of someone well beyond her 22 years. “I’ve heard her since as long as I can remember,” Evancho tells American Songwriter of Mitchell’s music. Named after Joni Mitchell and James Taylor’s 1970 live album, Jackie Evancho’s Carousel of Time, a rendition of 10 Mitchell classics, moves back and forth, spanning the earlier chapters within Mitchell’s songbook. In fact, the song’s universality has turned it into an almost nondenominational and humanist hymn, blessed with an equivocal outlook that can magically give succor to all forms of love.Joni Mitchell was always part of Jackie Evancho’s musical memory. Combining the fatalism of lines like ‘what good would living do me’ with the use of God in the title was risky business back in the mid-’60s. Once that miasmic mix of harpsichords and celestial brass clears, and that opening caveat is laid bare, we’re left with a heartbreakingly tender song of yearning, of devotion and of fidelity. The uncertainty of the first line (‘I may not always love you’) is a classic pop curveball, which works with the swooping transition from intro to verse. Three years later, Wilson and the Boys would surpass the master with a song that lifted the notion of the sophisticated love song clean into the heavens. In 1963, Brian Wilson was so obsessed with Phil Spector’s orchestral vision for the Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’ that he reportedly took to listening to it 100 times a day. When that happens, head to our list of the best breakup songs instead. Of course, there are days when a great love song is the last thing you want to hear. Sometimes the music says as much as the words sometimes the words are more powerful than the most beautiful of poems. They’re touching, comforting and uplifting all at the same time.
The only constant is that the best love songs express sentiments that we’d struggle to put into words in real life.
While you’ll find some great pop ballads on this list, they’re foremost here as a reflection of the glorious breadth of what constitutes a love song, a form claimed by no one genre. And yes, there have been a lot of syrupy, formulaic declarations of affection churned out for the pop charts over the years, but that’s not what we’re about here. From yearning ballads to wrenching declarations of need, from madrigals to metal, the history of music is the history of love songs, and vice versa.
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