If you want to play a game of "Where's Joni" with the novel, you can always pick up David Yaffe's 2017 biography, "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell." But "Songs in Ursa Major" deserves to be enjoyed as is, without connecting the dots. Fiction, after all, is fiction...
The song, a tribute to the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption when she was in her early twenties, didn't just change Carlile's mind, it changed her life. "So you sign all the papers in the family name," sings Mitchell, her gently ascending melody somehow tinged with sorrow. "You...
Two years after she pretty much abandoned her folk past for jazz on the rudderless 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter,' Mitchell returned with maybe her purest jazz record, a collaboration with the great Charles Mingus (who died shortly after the album was recorded). Once again, Mitchell worked wi...
Two years after she pretty much abandoned her folk past for jazz on the rudderless 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter,' Mitchell returned with maybe her purest jazz record, a collaboration with the great Charles Mingus (who died shortly after the album was recorded). Once again, Mitchell worked wi...
13. 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' (1977) Once again working with the jazz musicians who helped craft the excellent 'Hejira' from the previous year, Mitchell goes even deeper this time, winding her way through many unguided moments on this two-LP set. One of the songs clocks in at more...
13. 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' (1977) Once again working with the jazz musicians who helped craft the excellent 'Hejira' from the previous year, Mitchell goes even deeper this time, winding her way through many unguided moments on this two-LP set. One of the songs clocks in at more...
Joni Mitchell. Soundtrack: Two Weeks Notice. Joni Mitchell is one of the most highly regarded and influential songwriters of the 20th century. Her melodious tunes support her poetic and often very personal lyrics to make her one of the most authentic art
The Silky Veils Of Ardor (LP版) Joni Mitchell 专辑简介 A lot of overdubbed voicings by Mitchell sneak in here and there. This had not been typical of her earlier albums, and is one of the elements which lends to the somewhat richer atmosphere than its precursors have. Another strength is...
Chaka Kahn, who provided backing vocals on Mitchell's 1977 albumDon Juan's Reckless Daughter, found comfort in Mitchell's music. In 2023, she explained toHitsthat her life on the road with the band Rufus wasn't always the most enjoyable. "I'd get on the bus after a gig, and I'd ...
"He's a strange little duck," Mitchell added, "but I like him." Mitchell "had difficulty hearing her influence on him," according to biographer David Yaffe, who interviewed her extensively for his book "Reckless Daughter." In a 1988 appearance on a Dutch TV program, Mitchell recalled a...