Great story on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday about the origin of the song “Carey” on Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” album (and now on the recently released “Love Has Many Faces” released last week.
From The New Yorker: October 9, 2017 Issue Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self. By Dan Chiasson Mitchell wanted to make a new kind of song, one in which conversation could flower,…
By MessyNessy 21ST APR, 2015 In a sleepy fishing village on the island of Crete, where Joni Mitchell had found herself a nomadic home inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff, she sang her folk songs, “under a starry dome…beneath the Matala Moon.” It was the 1960s and a community…
Portrait of Canadian musician Joni Mitchell wearing a loose-fitting white cotton dress, New York, November 1968. This image was from a photo shoot for the fashion magazine Vogue. Mitchell wears two rings on her hand and is in a white loose-fitting white cotton dress. (Photo by Jack Robinson/Getty Images) http://www.laurelcanyonradio.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3120&action=edit…