Joni Mitchell
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A Stick From the Tree Museum"The Joni Letters" winds up feeling more like a Herbie Hancock album than a Joni album -- it's no accident he appears on the record's cover by himself -- despite Hancock's occasionally excessive reverence toward Mitchell's catalogue. In this article: Joni Mitchell, River: The Joni Letters, Shine, Herbie Hancock, Big Yellow Taxi, A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now, Suicide, and A Case of You |
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Wikipedia | August 25, 2009
Night Ride Home
Night Ride Home Night Ride Home is an album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1991. It was the last of four albums she recorded for Geffen Records. Songs on the album include "Cherokee Louise" about a childhood friend who suffered sexual...
In this article: Night Ride Home, Geffen Records, Hawaii, and US
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Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm is an album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1988. It was her third for Geffen Records. The album features various duets with guest artists such as Peter Gabriel on "My Secret Place", Willie...
In this article: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, Grammy Award, Larry Klein, Cool Water, Don Henley, and Dog Eat Dog
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Two Grey Rooms
...well as Mitchell's final single for Geffen Records. Mitchell wrote a wordless vocal melody and instrumental accompaniment for the song in 1982 during her Wild Things Run Fast sessions. She titled it "Speechless." Lyrical inspiration escaped...
In this article: Two Grey Rooms, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Night Ride Home, Los Angeles Times, Geffen Records, Wild Things Run Fast, and Germany
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Wild Things Run Fast
Wild Things Run Fast Wild Things Run Fast is Joni Mitchell's eleventh studio and her first for Geffen Records. Released in 1982, it represents her departure from jazz to a more 80s pop sound. The resulting world tour took Mitchell through...
In this article: Wild Things Run Fast, The Police, DVD, Talking Heads, Geffen Records, Steely Dan, Asia, Europe, and Caribbean
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Reprise Records
...be the sole artist on Reprise, but Neil Young refused to leave. Mitchell returned to the label in the late 1980s after a stint on Geffen Records but now records for Hear Music. Young remains on Reprise to this day, though he also recorded for...
In this article: Frank Sinatra, Neil Young, Reprise Records, Warner Bros., Warner Bros, Jimi Hendrix, Dean Martin, Charles Manson, and Norman Granz
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Dog Eat Dog (album)
Dog Eat Dog (album) Dog Eat Dog is an album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1985. It was her second album for Geffen Records. The album was a departure for Mitchell due to its synthetic sound. Lyrically, the album dealt with prominent issues...
In this article: Dog Eat Dog, Consumerism, Geffen Records, Wild Things Run Fast, and Ethiopia
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Joni Mitchell
For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the tracks for her next album. During this period Mitchell recorded with bassist Larry Klein, eventually marrying him in 1982. While the album was being readied for release, her friend David Geffen,...
In this article: Blue, Billboard, Hejira, Grammy Award, Charles Mingus, Court and Spark, Clouds, Chelsea Morning, and Both Sides Now
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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
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- Years Active:
- 1964-present
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