Both Sides Now (2000 version - Orchestral) - Joni Mitchell - MP3 instrumental karaoke

"Both Sides Now" is an iconic song by acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. While Judy Collins first brought it to public notice in the fall of 1968, making ripples on the US singles chart, the song's true home was Joni Mitchell's 1969 album, Clouds. Drawing inspiration from Saul Bellow's 1959 novel, Henderson the Rain King, Joni Mitchell paints a poignant tableau of life's elusive nature and our inability to truly grasp its meaning. In 2000, the Canadian folk legend revisited the song, draping it in a lavish orchestral arrangement for her concept album titled Both Sides Now. This rendition earned arranger Vince Mendoza a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). Shortly after that, Joni Mitchell, accompanied by a 70-piece orchestra, performed it at a tribute event in New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. Over the following years, "Both Sides Now" made its way into popular culture, appearing in the film Love Actually (2003) and during the finale of Ricky Gervais' Netflix series, After Life.