Counting Crows → Joni Mitchell

Counting Crows had a radio hit with "Big Yellow Taxi". Who wrote it and put out the original recording decades before the Crows got to it?Joni Mitchellknew

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970 · via Counting Crows

Joni Mitchell wrote it and released it herself in 1970, more than thirty years before the Crows' version came out. Play hers first; you'll hear the song as its author meant it, and the rest of her catalog is right behind it.