[DoodleBob]

Joni Mitchell gave up her daughter for adoption in 1965, which was kept secret for decades but an act which supposedly ignighted her songwriting fire. After she met her daughter in 1997, Mitchell said she lost interest in songwriting. She suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015.

I wonder if the lousy AB5 law will get any attention, since most of the freelancers/contractors are basically unemployable under the law.

[olesigh]

Bm

[Captain Peter Blood]

I always liked Joni. I was happy she survived her brain aneurysm.

[Drew68]

Mitchell's then and soon-to-be-fired manager famously told her to skip Woodstock and instead appear on the Dick Cavett Show.

Made for a pretty good song though. She gave it to Crosby, Stills, and Nash to sing. They were at Woodstock.

[llevrok]

To me, she is the definition of an artist - Singer. Songwriter. Musician. Poet. Painter. Maestra. And a bit of an eccentric.

[wastedyears]

How about they honor Neil Peart?

[lee martell]

Great songwriter, musician and singer.
I don’t like each and everything she’s done, but I do like quite a lot of her work. Some of her early work slides from one octave into another so effortlessly, I can’t think of anyone else who could sing them in the original manner.

That song “The Arrangement” is one
The choral arrangements of “Car on a Hill” (middle bridge) is another.

[Fido969]

Blue was one of the best albums ever made.

[mumblypeg]

Her song Little Green is about giving up her daughter for adoption.

https://youtu.be/wBT4MYbX4io

[dfwgator]

‘Yeah, Jaco Pastorius was my bass player’ is more than deserving.”

Heck, she had a young Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays on that tour as well.