Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period, by Michelle Mercer
After enjoying Girls Like Us so much, I began looking around for other books about the most interesting of its three subjects, Joni Mitchell. Lucky for me, bios of Joni seem to be on the way to becoming a cottage industry. Will [...]
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation
By Sheila Weller
“When woven together, the strands of their three separate lives, identities and songs tell the rich composite story of a whole generation of women born middle class in the early to middle 1940s and coming of age in the [...]
My Woodstock
(with apologies to Joni Mitchell)
I fell in with a fugitive
who was running from his family.
And I asked him where are you going
and this he told me:
He said I’m going to the country
I’m going to hide out on the land
I won’t pay child support
or alimony.
We were outlaws.
We were mothers.
We were writers, we were hippies
and musicians.
Then [...]
Shine
Joni Mitchell
Hear Music, 2007
River: The Joni Letters
Herbie Hancock
Verve, 2007
Starting with Night Ride Home in 1991, the PR for Joni Mitchell’s new CDs has been pure hype. NRH was touted as a collection of “middle-aged love songs” (they weren’t), and Shine, just out, sports a sticker proclaiming it “The Radiant Return of One of the [...]
