Performance was part of singer’s ‘Kellyoke’ segment on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’
Kelly Clarkson reached deep within herself for a moving rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You” on today’s edition of the “Kellyoke” segment of her Kelly Clarkson Show. Jaco Caraco accompanied her on the Appalachian dulcimer as her voice rose and dropped around Mitchell’s lyrics about being “as constant as a Northern Star” and the song’s famous refrain, “I could drink a case of you, ooh darling/Still, I’d be on my feet.”
The solitude of the performance only heightens the emotion she poured into singing the song. The only drawback to the clip was that it was only two minutes, about half the length of Mitchell’s recording of the song on Blue.
In 1979, Mitchell described…
