crossing from folk music with a distinctive voice whose songs will stay with us for the ages,” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement on Jan. 12 when Mitchell was announced as the recipient. “Mitchell’s music has so many artists and music lovers all...
Joni Mitchell (9) Joni Mitchell’s first Grammy win came in 1969 when she took home Best Folk Performance for her sophomore album,Clouds. She’d go on to win a total of nine Grammys in her career, including Best Pop Album forTurbulent Indigoin 1995 the award for Album of the Year in ...
Joni Mitchell (9) Joni Mitchell’s first Grammy win came in 1969 when she took home Best Folk Performance for her sophomore album,Clouds. She’d go on to win a total of nine Grammys in her career, including Best Pop Album forTurbulent Indigoin 1995 the award for Album of the Year in ...
Joni Mitchell (9) Joni Mitchell’s first Grammy win came in 1969 when she took home Best Folk Performance for her sophomore album,Clouds. She’d go on to win a total of nine Grammys in her career, including Best Pop Album forTurbulent Indigoin 1995 the award for Album of the Year in ...
New York native King wrapped her earthy, soulful alto voice around lyrics extolling loyalty, love and friendship, while Canadian-born Mitchell's sometimes-stratospheric mezzo-soprano unspooled poetic narratives of exotic adventures and far-flung lovers. But embedded in both was the sound of embolden...
romantic strings. Elsewhere, Mitchell does what scorned lovers often do: She puts up a brave front--on "Don't Worry About Me." She also surrenders to the light swing of Rodgers and Hart's "I Wish I Were in Love Again," during which a laundry list of negatives ("the broken dates,...
She was never a fool for longer than her art required, though, and she could be withering, in interviews, about the lovers who misread her patient scrutiny of them for acquiescence. David Crosby, who produced Mitchell’s first record, would “trot me out” in front of his friends, she ...
October 1965: Joni Mitchell, as she appeared on a Canadian television show. Chuck and Joni Mitchell in a promotional photo for their singing act. After a year at the Alberta College of Art and Design she moved to Toronto in June 1964 to make a more determined bid as a folk singer, but...
This living legend spoke to GRAMMY.com about her old associates Joni Mitchell,Leonard Cohen, andJacques Brel; her still-developing artistry, and the road ahead in 2023. (And, yes, the kitties.) This interview has been edited for clarity. ...
OnFor the Roses,Joni Mitchell’s best lines were: “I’m looking way out at the ocean/ Love to see that green water in motion.” Here she uses water to evoke the breaking of another’s spirit: “Some are gonna knock you/Some will try to clock you/It’s really hard to talk...