In her nearly four decades as a musician and lyricist, Joni Mitchell (born 1943) has spanned the fields of folk, pop, rock, and jazz with 23 albums. Her willingness to change direction without warning has frequently left fans upset, but her free spirit...

Generally acclaimed as the most talented female singer-songwriter of her age, Joni Mitchell's influence on later generations has been considerable. Her work has inspired such diverse musicians as Prince, Thomas Dolby, Madonna, Suzanne Vega, and...

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.[8] Mitchell's singing began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently...

A MAJOR COOL CAT--WITH FOUR FOUR-LEGGED COLLABORATORS INGRID SISCHY: Your latest album includes several standards from the 1940s and '50s. Have you always liked music from that era? JONI MITCHELL: Well, I never thought I'd get to participate in that music,...

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Joni Mitchell is following the lead of Paul McCartney in joining with the coffee giant Starbucks to release her comeback album.Hear Music, a record label formed in partnership with Starbucks Corp. and the Concord Music Group, said Wednesday that Mitchell is its second signing. "Shine,"...

A few years ago, Joni Mitchell had rejected her musical muse, refusing to write or even play music as she devoted her life to painting, watching old movies on TV and reconnecting to the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965.Now, at age...

It is the tug of war between the symbolist and the siren that makes Joni Mitchell's albums alternately alluring and forbidding. On the one hand she is the most ruthlessly analytical member of the music-as-therapy songwriting school, and often her songs seem intent only on making private sense of her own experience. On the other hand, as a public performer, Mitchell wants to be heard and even enjoyed. To that end she conducts a cool flirtation with her audience. Like a Victorian gentlewoman, she seems...

Joni Mitchell is a poet whose time has come. Because she uses the vehicle of music, her words and thoughts reach out to countless minds. With Joni, there is no restriction of reading or schooling; she sings her poetry and brings it to the people…. Joni has emerged as a major force in music. Her songs, once the exclusive property of a few, have become the catchword of many…. Her songs are reflections of a very feminine way of looking at life. All too seldom in music, and indeed in any art form,...

Truth is something [Joni Mitchell] sells as well as Ralph Nader, John Wayne, or Guru Maharaj Ji. Unlike Dylan, who sold public truths that inspired social awareness, Joni's truths are private. Most concern The Relationship…. As a result [of her intriguing relationships] her private truths have much to say about the mixed blessings of promiscuity, which may be this era's favorite obsession….