Joni Mitchell has a nearly 60-year history of winning Grammys, but her first actual singing appearance on the awards show didn’t take place till Sunday night, as she sang “Both Sides Now” for her ...
The moon is shining bright over the Hollywood Bowl and Joni Mitchell lets out a laugh. Surrounded by her Joni Jam band — Brandi Carlile, Jacob Collier, Lucius, Blake Mills, Robin Pecknold, and others ...
“People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me — they’re too personal,” Joni Mitchell explained last week during a rare interview. Apparently, nobody told John Kelly not to try adapting her songs ...
The first time I heard her I didn’t hear her at all. My parents did not prepare me. (The natural thing in these situations is to blame the parents.) She was nowhere to be found on their four-foot-tall ...
When Joni Mitchell first appears in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 concert film The Last Waltz, she’s in silhouette offstage, adding vocals to Neil Young’s “Helpless.” Young stands in the spotlight with the ...
Folk music, which pushed rock and roll into the arena of the serious with protest lyrics and blendings of Dylan and the Byrds back in 1964, has re-entered the pop music cycle. Once again, with a new ...