Joni Mitchell Gets Animated for Christmas in First Music Video for 1971’s ‘River’

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Joni Mitchell Gets Animated for Christmas in First Music Video for 1971’s ‘River’
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An animated river runs through Joni Mitchell’s video oeuvre now, as a 50-year-old song that has been gradually drafted into the holiday music canon, “River,” has just gotten its f…

’s video oeuvre now, as a 50-year-old song that has been gradually drafted into the holiday music canon, “River,” has just gotten its first music video. The clip made its debut with little time to spare in this “Blue” semicentennial year, premiering two days before Christmas.

Despite lyrics set at Christmas time, “River” was little revived in a holiday context in the years and even immediate decades following its 1971 release, but it picked up momentum as a target for melancholy cover versions in the 1990s.

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