Interview, May 1st, 2000
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, but it is the music I grew up on. So I chose songs from that era.
IS: How did you ensure that the album wasn't merely an exercise in nostalgia?
JM: I wanted to make a record that was a kind of synopsis of what I like best in twentieth-century music, but I also wanted it to have an element of the modern. I wanted it to have a classical ...
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