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Roberta Joan Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her personal lyrics and unconventional compositions, which grew to incorporate elements of pop, jazz, rock, and other genres. Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction in…
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“She had an aneurysm, and nobody found her for a while. And she”
“I want to do another show. I want to play again.”
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“something her grandson had said while listening to family fighting:”
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“fulfill contractual obligations”
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“At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn”
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“I have, on occasion, sacrificed myself and my own emotional makeup, ... singing”
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“My jazz background began with one of the early Lambert, Hendricks and Ross albums.”
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Far Out Magazine: The 1960s singer Joni Mitchell never cared for: “She’s not soulful”
Far Out Magazine: The “poetic” 1970 song Joni Mitchell wrote as a goodbye to Leonard Cohen
Published video “Down at the Chinese Café, dreaming on our dimes.”.
Published video “History was made at the Fourth Dimension Club in 1965.”.
Published video ““Expressing the inexpressible” in Amsterdam. Broadcast by Dutch National TV in 1988.”.
Published video “Going round and round in the circle game 🌀”.
Published video “Just Joni and her dulcimer.”.
Published video “The sound of the season, “Both Sides Now,” broadcast on the “Sounds of Summer” Program on NET TV.”.
Published video “In 1994, Joni brought “Hejira” to the Aoniyoshi Festival in Nara, Japan.”.
eCoustics: Joni Mitchell Court and Spark Rhino High Fidelity Vinyl Review: Kevin Gray’s AAA Remaster Delivers
Published video “Basking in the summer sun with “Come to the Sunshine.””.
Published video “Joni and Johnny 💙”.
Published video “Taking a look back at “Summertime.””.
People: Joni Mitchell Shares Rare Comment on Her Health Struggles, Says 2015 Aneurysm 'Changed My Life, Oddly, for the Better'
The Guardian: Meryl Streep cast as Joni Mitchell in new biopic
Wore an ICE OUT pin on her lapel to the Grammy Awards in protest of the recent actions of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as did other celebrities
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It was confirmed that Meryl Streep will be portraying the older version of Mitchell in the biopic by record executive, Clive Davis
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Springsteen, Cher, Joni Mitchell and dozens of other celebrities bought small diners where they ate when struggling and now serve free meals to 120 homeless people every day.” Factory Fakes.
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The Juno Awards announced that Mitchell would receive a lifetime achievement award at its 2026 ceremony in Hamilton
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Released album “Joni’s Jazz”.
It was announced that Cameron Crowe will direct a biographical film based on the life and with Anya Taylor-Joy rumored to be playing the younger version of Mitchell
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The Guardian: Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?
The Guardian: ‘She couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk’: music therapy helped Joni Mitchell recover from a stroke – could it ward off depression and dementia too?
The Guardian: Writer Amy Key: ‘Knowing I’d finally hear Joni Mitchell sing live left me woozily panicked’
The Guardian: Joni Mitchell review – a triumphant star-studded Hollywood show
The Guardian: Joni Mitchell lets rip at Donald Trump at rarity-laden US concert
Released album “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)”.
The Guardian: Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick
Forbes: Joni Mitchell’s Classic Album Is Up Nearly 12,000% In Sales
The Guardian: Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell
Released album “The Asylum Albums (1976–1980)”.
The Guardian: Joni Mitchell and the ‘Me’ decade | Ann Powers
The Guardian: Joni Mitchell follows Neil Young in returning her music to Spotify
Mitchell restored her music to Spotify after Neil Young did the same, ending her protest over Spotify's hosting of The Joe Rogan Experience
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Mitchell performed for the first time at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, singing "Both Sides Now" accompanied by many of the musicians who perform at her private Joni Jams
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NPR: Joni Mitchell has never performed at the Grammys — that's about to change
The album cover art on streaming services and physical reissues was changed to a photo of Mitchell's face seemingly inside the open mouth of a wolflike dog, an outtake from the 1985 photo sessions for the later album Dog
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Forbes: Joni Mitchell’s Post-Retirement Career Has Been Huge On The Charts
Released album “Court And Spark Demos”.
Released album “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972–1975)”.
Released album “1976-11-20: Save the Whales Benefit, Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA”.
Released album “Joni Mitchell at Newport”.
Awarded Gershwin Prize (2023).
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Released album “Joni Mitchell: Live at BBC, 9 October 1970”.
And won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2024
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Released album “Free Man In Paris”.
Carlile announced that Mitchell would play a headline concert, billed as "Joni Jam 2", in a weekend event at Washington State's Gorge Amphitheatre, "one of the most beautiful venues in the world", on June 10, 2023
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New York Post: Joni Mitchell alive and ‘well’ after People magazine mistakenly posts obituary
Released album “The Asylum Albums (1972-1975)”.
Joni Mitchell appeared unannounced as a special guest in the closing performance of the final day of the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where she had first played in 1967, as part of a set billed as "Brandi Carli
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Released album “Blue Highlights”.
Mitchell was honoured as the 2022 MusiCares Person of the Year by the Recording Academy
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Joni Mitchell, Pearl Jam, Dolly Parton are removing their music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young.” False.
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Mitchell demanded that Spotify remove her songs from its streaming service in solidarity with her long-time friend and fellow childhood polio survivor Neil Young, who removed his tracks from the streaming platform in pro
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“had been recorded under a bowl of Jello”
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Released album “Archives, Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968–1971)”.
Released album “Live at Carnegie Hall - 1969”.
Released album “Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell Recordings”.
Released album “The Reprise Albums (1968–1971)”.
Released ep “Blue 50 (Demos & Outtakes)”.
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2021).
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Released album “Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967): Highlights”.
Released album “A Ladies Man in Holland”.
Accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor
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Released album “Early Joni - 1963”.
Released album “Live at Canterbury House - 1967”.
Released album “Archives, Volume 1: The Early Years (1963–1967)”.
Released album “1978-09-03: Bread and Roses Festival, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA”.
Released album “Carnegie Hall 1972 (The New York Broadcast)”.
In a standard hardcover edition, as well as a limited signed edition
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Mitchell attended the Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration concert in Los Angeles
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Mitchell released an 8-LP vinyl reissue of Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced
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Mitchell had been inspired by a music-making visit from an old friend, singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, to begin hosting monthly music sessions at her home in Laurel Canyon
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Released album “Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970”.
Released album “Gentle On My Mind 1970”.
Released album “The Best Of Joni Mitchell”.
Released album “Comfort In Meloncholy (Music And Conversation)”.
Released album “Night in the City Radio Broadcast 1968”.
And she began to sing in the sessions and learn to play guitar again
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Released album “Transmission Impossible (Legendary Broadcasts From 1960s - 1990s)”.
Released album “A Woman In The East (The 1983 Tokyo Broadcast)”.
Released album “Club 47”.
Led to a long period of recovery and therapy
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Released album “Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced”.
Released album “Live at the Second Fret 1966”.
As many artists chose it for their holiday albums
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Released album “The Studio Albums: 1968–1979”.
“. Taylor Swift also details Mitchell”
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Released album “The Seeding of Summer Lawns”.
Released album “Amchitka: The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace”.
Mitchell stated she had the skin condition Morgellons and that she would leave the music industry to work toward giving more credibility to people who suffer from Morgellons
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By Nick Vernier Band featuring Ian Matthews (formerly of Matthews Southern Comfort)
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Released album “Songs Chosen by Her Friends & Fellow Musicians”.
Awarded Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award (2008).
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Hancock's recording won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards
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Debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, her highest chart position in the United States since the release of Hejira in 1976, over thirty years previously, and at number 36 on the United Kingdom albums cha
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Released album “Shine”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance (2007).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters (2007).
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Released album “The Circle Game”.
Said, "I suppose a lot of people could have written a lot of my other songs, but I feel the songs on Hejira could only have come from me
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Released album “Joni Mitchell”.
Released album “Songs of a Prairie Girl”.
Mitchell said that she was using a tape recorder to get her memories "down in the oral tradition"
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Released album “Dreamland”.
Released album “The Beginning of Survival”.
Singer George Michael covered her song "Edith and the Kingpin" for a radio show
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Denied that "my terrible habits" had anything to do with her more limited range, and pointed out that singers often lose the upper register when they pass fifty
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Released album “BBC In Concert”.
Released album “The Complete Geffen Recordings”.
Her Geffen recordings were collected in a remastered four-disc box set, The Complete Geffen Recordings, including notes by Mitchell and three previously unreleased tracks
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Rolling Stone named her the 72nd-greatest guitarist of all time; she was the highest-ranked woman on the list
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Playwright Bryden MacDonald launched When All the Slaves Are Free, a musical revue based on Mitchell's music
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Released album “Travelogue”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).
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With the citation describing her as "one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era" and "a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity, imagination and integrity"
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Was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour
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Named her "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic, in a 2011 biography, stated "Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century
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Awarded Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year for Both Sides Now (2001).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2000).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Both Sides Now (2000).
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Released album “Both Sides Now”.
The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music"
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And for CD release in 2004), Allison Crowe (2004), Rachael Yamagata (2004), Aimee Mann (2005), and Sarah McLachlan (2006)
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Released album “Painting With Words and Music”.
Released album “Big Yellow Taxi”.
Released album “Taming the Tiger”.
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Blue (1998).
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Told The New York Times that her memoirs were "in the works", that they would be published in as many as four volumes, and that the first line would be "I was the only black man at the party
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1997).
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“s birth and her inability to take care of her as the moment when her songwriting inspiration had begun. A few weeks after the birth of her daughter, Mitchell was playing gigs again around Yorkville, often with a friend, Vicky Taylor, and was beginning to sing original material for the first time, written with her unique open tunings. In March and April she found work at the Penny Farthing, a folk club in Toronto. There she met New York City-born American folk singer Charles Scott”
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Released album “Hits”.
Released album “Misses”.
And Cat Power recorded a cover of "Blue" in 2008
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Mitchell agreed to release a greatest Hits collection, despite initial concerns that such a release would damage sales of her catalogue
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Recording Package for Turbulent Indigo (1995).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Turbulent Indigo (1995).
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Released album “Live at the Fez 1995”.
Mitchell's friend Fred Walecki, proprietor of Westwood Music in Los Angeles, developed a solution to alleviate her continuing frustration with using multiple alternative tunings in live settings
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Released album “Turbulent Indigo”.
Released album “1994-09-12 Santa Monica (KCRW-FM)”.
Released album “Night Ride Home”.
On their debut album, Pretty on the Inside, retitling it "Clouds", with the lyrics altered by frontwoman Courtney Love
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Released album “Close Your Eyes”.
Released album “1970-10-28: Royal Albert Hall, London, UK”.
Mitchell, who by then rarely performed live, participated in Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin
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Released album “The World of Joni Mitchell”.
Released album “Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm”.
Released album “Dog Eat Dog”.
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Twenty Two”.
Released album “Live at Red Rocks”.
“(Do you ever make yourself cry when you write?) No, never. I’m not a weeper. I’m a snarler. I just put all the weeping in the words. The words are the weeping.”
Released album “Live at Wembley Arena, 4/24/83”.
“Truth and beauty. That’s what I hope to deliver.”
Released album “Wild Things Run Fast”.
Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1981).
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And received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 1996
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Released album “Shadows and Light”.
Released album “Mingus”.
Released album “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter”.
Released album “Hejira”.
Performed as part of The Last Waltz by the Band
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Released album “The Hissing of Summer Lawns”.
Released album “Joni Mitchell Live: Bread & Roses Festival, 1975”.
Released album “Miles of Aisles”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals (1974).
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Released album “Court and Spark”.
Released album “Live in Hawaii 1973”.
Released album “For the Roses”.
Released album “1972-02-23: New York, NY, USA”.
Released album “(Kept On) By Her Own Devices”.
Released album “Blue”.
Released ep “4”.
Released album “Ladies of the Canyon”.
And Amy Grant in 1995 scored hits with covers of "Big Yellow Taxi", the third-most covered song in Mitchell's repertoire (with over 300 covers)
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Released album “1969-07-19: Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, USA”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for Clouds (1969).
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Released album “Clouds”.
And the most recent in 2024 for Best Folk Album
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Released album “Song to a Seagull”.
Released album “''Germany 1968'' - WONDERFUL SBD (remaster)”.
Released album “Live at Club 47”.
In the Gaslight South, a club in Coconut Grove, Florida, David Crosby walked in and was immediately struck by her ability and her appeal as an artist
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At the age of 20, she told her mother that she intended to be a folk singer in Toronto
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At a Saskatoon club that featured folk and jazz performers
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Born 1943-11-07.
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In Fort Macleod, Alberta to Myrtle Marguerite (née McKee) and William Andrew Anderson
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