Margo Price has released a new video in which she plays a stripped-down cover of Joni Mitchell’s Christmas but not that Christmassy classic ‘River’. Price is a longtime fan of Joni Mitchell’s work, and originally performed her version of the song during a Planned Parenthood benefit in the autumn. Last night Price was the host for Tennessee’s Stardust Drive-In Theatre’s A Perfectly Imperfect Night at the Movies, a double feature of the 2019 documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as well as the premiere of Price’s Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman concert film, which was recorded in Nashville in 2018.
Hmmm, yes. But why gild the lily?