Joni Mitchell
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Music on TV This Week: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame...launching into The Clash's "London Calling", that really grease the wheels. All that was missing was Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell (Eric Clapton cancelled at the last minute due to illness). The concert airs on HBO, Sunday... In this article: HBO, Bruce Springsteen, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, U2, Movie of the Week, London Calling, Les Savy Fav, The Edge, and Ray Davies |
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Metro | 20 hours ago
Disturbing brilliance from tUnE-yArDs
...hugely inventive and sophisticated. The folksier tracks sound like psychedelic nursery rhymes in the style of Vashti Bunyan or Joni Mitchell; the funkier tracks are a barrage of African hollers, discordant guitars and clanking rhythms...
In this article: Vashti Bunyan and New England
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San Diego Union-Tribune | 1 day ago
He's played the circuit
...Inn (now the Chart House) in Cardiff. His band mates included saxophonist Barry Farrar, trumpeter Don Sleet, future Thelonious Monk/Joni Mitchell drummer John Guerin and future Elvis Presley bassist Jerry Scheff. Like other young jazz...
In this article: Mike Wofford, San Diego, Shorty Rogers, Phil Spector, Diana Krall, San Antonio, Texas, Neurosciences Institute, Bela Bartok, and Ella Fitzgerald
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | 2 days ago
A new take on a standard
...culture and wind up in 2008, when the Grammy for best album went to Herbie Hancock for "River: The Joni Letters,'' his tribute to Joni Mitchell. But this book also serves as a covert primer on how to hear jazz - what to listen for, and how...
In this article: Louis Armstrong, Jazz, Albert Ayler, Gary Giddins, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Suicide, George Russell, and Ken Burns
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boston.com - Latest music news | 3 days ago
They have it covered
...together in front of an audience, also tackling material made famous by folks named Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and Neil Young. The fact that the original "Last Waltz'' concert was held...
In this article: The Last Waltz, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, The Weight, and Boston
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Houston Chronicle | 3 days ago
A bite of the Golden Apples
...is a stately recording that suggests Herring's 1970s heroes, Mississippi twang coursing through songs written or popularized by Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. Golden Apples marks the first time Herring didn't record in Austin. She left...
In this article: Cyndi Lauper, Austin, True Colors, See See Rider, Mississippi John Hurt, and Judy Collins
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Guardian | 5 days ago
The cleaner alternatives to America's asphalt jungle
...them more environmentally friendly are urgent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 November 2009 20.00 GMT In the 40 years since Joni Mitchell sang about paving paradise, putting up parking lots remains an American obsession. Scientists...
In this article: EPA, US, Nitrogen, Pollution, Hydrocarbon, Purdue University, and US Department Of Agriculture
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Pttisburgh Post-Gazette | 7 days ago
Officials dedicate Mon Wharf trail
...paradise, but a fine civic amenity," said Lisa Schroeder, executive director of Riverlife, the project developer, referencing a 1970s Joni Mitchell song. "When I thought of the Mon Wharf, I thought parking. I thought flooding," Mayor Luke...
In this article: Post-Gazette, Point Park University, Army Corps of Engineers, Dan Onorato, and Luke Ravenstahl
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boston.com - Latest music news | November 15, 2009
Kris Allen, 'Kris Allen'
...more of. Instead we get a line like, "You never know a good thing till it's gone'' on "Live Like We're Dying. '' Not only is Joni Mitchell smirking, but so is Tim McGraw. Allen can and, most likely, will do better, but he has to figure...
In this article: Kris Allen, American Idol, Heartless, Kanye West, Tim McGraw, and The Truth
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Independent.ie | November 13, 2009
The cat purrs and his devout fans rejoice
...channels, the singer found himself bewitched by a playlist featuring many of the great West Coast singer/songwriters of the 1970s: Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Neil Young. . . Yusuf -- as he has called himself since his...
In this article: Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Moonshadow, London, Tea, God, Father and Son, and Wild World
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National Post | November 10, 2009
Amchitka: The $3 Vancouver concert that launched Greenpeace
...ads in the Vancouver Sun was a small blurb for a Greenpeace Benefit Concert. Tickets were $3 at the door, for a lineup that included Joni Mitchell, Chilliwack and Phil Ochs. Ten thousand people turned out, raising $18,000 after expenses.
In this article: Greenpeace, James Taylor, Vancouver, Phil Ochs, Vancouver Sun, and Big Yellow Taxi
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Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto. In the mid-1960s she left for New York City and its rich folk music scene, recording her debut album in 1968 and achieving fame first as a songwriter ("Urge for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides Now", "Woodstock") and then as a singer in her own right. Finally settling in Southern California, Mitchell played a key part in the folk rock movement then sweeping the musical landscape. Blue, her starkly personal 1971 album, is regarded as one of the strongest and most influential records of the time. Mitchell also had pop hits such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "Free Man in Paris", and "Help Me", the last two from 1974's best-selling Court and Spark.
Mitchell's soprano vocals, distinctive harmonic guitar style, and piano arrangements all grew more complex through the 1970s as she was deeply influenced by jazz, melding it with pop, folk and rock on experimental albums like 1976's Hejira. She worked closely with jazz greats including Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, and on a 1979 record released after his death, Charles Mingus. From the 1980s on, Mitchell reduced her recording and touring schedule but turned again toward pop, making greater use of synthesizers and direct political protest in her lyrics, which often tackled social and environmental themes alongside romantic and emotional ones.
- Name At Birth:
- Roberta Joan Anderson
- Birth Date:
- November 07, 1943
- Birthplace:
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Occupation:
- Singer-songwriter, producer, musician, painter
- Instrument Played:
- Vocals, piano, guitar, dulcimer
- Record Label:
- Years Active:
- 1964-present
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