In mid-August 1969, hundreds of thousands of people swarmed Max Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but Joni Mitchell sadly wasn’t one of them. Despite being ...

Under different circumstances, Joni Mitchell probably would’ve been at Woodstock. However, as fate would have it, the rising Canadian star was making her Dick Cavett Show debut right after the ...

The nth playing of Jimi Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner" and Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." The nth repetition of the once head-snapping facts that Joni Mitchell herself wasn't at Woodstock and that ...

I’m going to join in a rock ‘n’ roll band I’m going to get back to the land And get my soul free … —Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock” On July 20, 1969, a man walked on the moon. Three weekends later, about a ...

In the end, no one does Joni Mitchell better than Joni. But The Songs of Joni Mitchell at Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, this was a good attempt ...

Joni Mitchell‘s vault will get an even deeper dig this fall with the release of a 6-CD boxed set that will bring together about a hundred previously unreleased recordings from the fruitful late ’70s ...

Last year someone I was talking to snorted that an older, lefty, white woman we both know seemed “like the kind of person who goes to Joni Mitchell concerts.” I had just gotten back from a “Joni Jam” ...

In “Traveling,” Ann Powers explores the romantic ennui, class consciousness, spiritual striving and occasional narcissism that characterize the music legend’s work. When the legendary singer and ...