Canadian singer/songwriter icons Joni Michell (80)
and Neil Young (78) are lifetime friends who know
each other since their early 20s
Mitchell not only wrote/sung songs. She also painted and drew.
This is a painting of Neil from 1975. Weird, I never saw it before.
Monday 22 July 2024
Title track from her classic 19971 LP.
23 May 2024
A new box set, titled The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) brings, on 6 LPS, Joni Mitchell‘s great albums Hejira (1976), Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and
live LP Shadows And Light (1980) back with all sorts of rare stuff.
Out on June 21. All info & pre-order details right HERE.
For the occasion MOJO talked with friends and collaborators, and admirers such
as The Weather Station, Weyes Blood, Allison Russell and Courtney Marie Andrews.
Also features of Paul Weller, Kraftwerk, Stevie Nicks, Steve Albini, Grateful Dead, Arooj Aftab, John Cale, Warren Ellis, Bonny Light Horseman, Mark E Smith and Inspiral Carpets, Josef K, Beach Boys, The Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young with Crazy Horse and more
All print copies come with a free CD – Coast To Coast – with 15 tracks of the month’s best new music by John Cale, The Dirty Three, Linda Thompson, The Folk Implosion, John Grant, Cassandra Jenkins, Eiko Ishibashi, Bill MacKay and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
Sunday
14 April 2024
From her 1994 album Turbulent Indigo .
6 February 2024
Clouds LP, 1969
The 66th annual GRAMMY AWARDS 2 days ago in Los Angeles attracted millions
of viewers. Not me, too showy, too glossy, too sugary and too many big egos. As all music websites/blogs covered the festivities, it was hard to escape the features. One moment caught my eyes. 80-year-old folk heroine JONI MITCHELL was obviously a special guest.
She performed BOTH SIDES NOW, the timeless classic from her 1969 Clouds LP.
The quality is poor, but the moment is magnifico.
She performed the song also at the world-famous Newport Folk Festival in 2022.
The quality of the footage here is splendid. Mitchell is just wonderful.
And she’s not done yet.
Joni Mitchell: Instagram – Website
8 September 2023
Living singer/songwriter legend JONI MITCHELL‘s record label releases Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) on October 6th. More info here.
Today a previously unreleased off the upcoming collection, titled LIKE VEILS SAID LORRAINE, went online. Mitchell wrote this song and recorded it as a demo in late 1971/early 1972 at A&M Studios in Hollywood, CA. She explains that this song was
a piece of dialogue that happened with the real-estate woman who showed her
properties in British Columbia.
It’s a charming piano ballad.
Listen here.
JONI MITCHELL: All Albums – Instagram
8 July 2023
Oops.
Boops.
From Madonna’s SEX photo book – 1992
JM image: cover of her ‘Heyira’ LP
13 May 2023
In its new issue Mojo looks forward to the 50th birthday of JONI MITCHELL‘s
sixth longplayer, titled COURT AND SPARK released in January 1974.
Mojo #356 also features, Nick Drake, Generation Sex, a piratical supergroup; Paul Simon’s stunning new album; Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom; the truth about Love, Queen, The Zombies, Harry Belafonte, Willy DeVille, WITCH, Prince, The Teardrop Explodes, Sparks, Gang Of Four, Calexico, Keith Jarrett and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
The Covermount CD named Ramblers & Gamblers, is a compilation of 15 ace artists of 2023. Stars Sunny War, Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, Jim Ghedi, Meg Baird, Angeline Morrison, Julie Byrne, Angel Bat Dawid and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
18 August 2022
New Uncut Magazine Issue – September 2022 – with JONI MITCHELL as the cover star.
“When you’ve released a generation-defining masterpiece, as JONI MITCHELL did with BLUE,
what exactly do you do for an encore? In Mitchell’s case, embark upon an extraordinary run
of albums – FOR THE ROSES, COURT AND SPARK and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS –
which pulled her far away from her folk roots and expanded her confessional writing into something tougher and more expansive. In the latest issue of Uncut magazine talks to friends and collaborators to discover fresh insights into these canonical records and the powerful and complex creative processes of their creator. “They’re all classics in my book,” says Neil Young.
Also features about Suede, Bonny Light Horseman,
Small Faces, Khruangbin, Deniece Williams, and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info here.
JONI MITCHELL: Bio – Discography
4 August 2022
Iconic songstress JONI MITCHELL was at a turning point 50 years ago.
After making four acclaimed albums with Reprise Records, including her
1971 masterpiece Blue, she left the label to join the brand-new
Asylum Records in 1972.
Over the next seven years, Mitchell would record some of the most acclaimed music
of her career while changing her musical direction by adding more jazz elements into
her songwriting. The evolution culminated in 1979 with Mingus, her collaboration with
jazz titan Charles Mingus, and her last studio album for Asylum.
Explore the beginning of that prolific era with THE ASYLUM ALBUMS (1972-1975),
the next part in the Joni Mitchell Archives series.
The collection features newly remastered versions of For The Roses (1972), Court And Spark (1974), the double live album Miles Of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975). All four were recently remastered by Bernie Grundman.
Reissue content: 5LPs/4 CDs and a digital download
Date: 23 September 2022
More info here.
JONI MITCHELL: Website