" explores the career of Joni Mitchell. Henderson argues that Mitchell's presence in a male-dominated music industry in the 1960s and 1970s offers a critical site of gender relations. Henderson suggests that despite Mitchell's gender, which placed her outside of music industry norms, she never...
The woman tries to impress (I'm a good cook) amidst L.A.'s singles scene. The literal reading of "Raised on Robbery" is about a prostitute who's looking for a romantic custodian. However, "prostitution" could be Mitchell's metaphor for the bar scene - or the music scene. "Raised...
David Geffen, who would later become Joni Mitchell’s agent, also first heard her perform at theGaslight– when she and Chuck Mitchell were performing there together. Geffen was then the agent for singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose new album at the time included Joni Mitchell’s “The Circle G...