But Mitchell started to pay the emotional price after Blue was released to tremendous success in 1971. It was an album filled with deeply personal songs about relationships gone wrong. "I was being told that people were horrified by the intimacy of it. People said it was shocking. It wasn'...
We've reached a milestone: a Joni Mitchell album I don't like. No, that's a cop out. It's not merely that I don't like Dog Eat Dog. It's that Dog Eat Dog is not good. It's a really bad album. All musicians, all artists, create clunkers sometimes -- especially if they...
Mitchell’s life and work is often examined through the lens of her relationships—a curse that has befallen many a female artist. With “A Case of You,” she dished out an especially potent bit of tabloid fodder. The song addresses two of her paramours: Leonard Cohen, whose Shakespeare ...
Mitchell got topical on her 15th album, singing about AIDS, global warming and the Catholic church. She once again explores relationships, though sex (and its scarring qualities) is a running theme this time. By this point, Mitchell hadn't run out of things to say; she just couldn't fin...
1. Joni Mitchell, 'Blue' (1971) Joni Mitchell pretty much redefined the singer-songwriter template with her fourth album. Inspired by a breakup, and moving on in its aftermath,Bluebrought an open-diary element to the genre, allowing singer-songwriters to get way more personal in their work ...
1. Joni Mitchell, 'Blue' (1971) Joni Mitchell pretty much redefined the singer-songwriter template with her fourth album. Inspired by a breakup, and moving on in its aftermath,Bluebrought an open-diary element to the genre, allowing singer-songwriters to get way more personal in their work ...
Mitchell got topical on her 15th album, singing about AIDS, global warming and the Catholic church. She once again explores relationships, though sex (and its scarring qualities) is a running theme this time. By this point, Mitchell hadn't run out of things to say; she just couldn't fin...
Mitchell got topical on her 15th album, singing about AIDS, global warming and the Catholic church. She once again explores relationships, though sex (and its scarring qualities) is a running theme this time. By this point, Mitchell hadn't run out of things to say; she just couldn't fin...
"In a way, she has talked about all of those personal things in her music, not so it comes across as 'there once was a little girl with polio,' " says Allen MacInnis, artistic director of the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. MacInnis created and directed Joni Mitchell: River, a...
If Neil Young has one foot firmly planted in the past, his musical colleague, Joni Mitchell, has established a firm entrenchment in the present with her latest LP, FOR THE ROSES, a hauntingly melancholy LP that is more autobiographical than any of her past hits. "She is searching, like ...