Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell 1974

Joni Mitchell , CC (* 7. November 1943 as Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod , Alberta ) is a Canadian musician , composer and painter . With her folk- inspired poetic pop songs, she is one of the most important singer-songwriters of the 1970s. She accompanies herself on the guitar , less often on the piano .

Life

childhood

Joni Mitchell grew up in a small Canadian town as the only child of a shopkeeper and Air Force soldier and a village school teacher who taught her Shakespeare above all else. 1951 there was a polio epidemic, and the age of eight, she contracted polio . The result was a slight paralysis of the left hand, which is why she preferred to use open tunings when playing the guitar . She later said:

“My left hand is a little awkward because of polio. I had to simplify the chords for the left hand, but I longed for chord progressions that I couldn't achieve with the standard tuning without an extremely flexible left hand. "

- Joni Mitchell

She has been a smoker since she was nine . When she was eleven, her family moved to Saskatoon . Pete Seeger songs had a huge influence on her.

1960s

In 1962 she started in Calgary , where she attended the Alberta College of Art's graphics class after school, studied art and bought a ukulele . On Halloween 1962, she made her first paid gig in a Saskatoon cafe. She was aware of its optical effect; In 2015 she said:

“Life is difficult when you are beautiful. You're better off if you look average. And you have a better chance of finding true love. "

- Joni Mitchell

When she became pregnant, she dropped out of college. She kept the pregnancy a secret from her conservative family and gave up the child, born on February 19, 1965, for adoption . In 1997 she found her birth daughter, but in 2001 the relationship broke up.

In 1965, Mitchell met her future husband, Chuck Mitchell, a Michigan folk singer . With him she moved to Detroit , USA , where they made music together. However, the young couple did not stay together for long, and it was during the period of separation that they wrote their first songs. The marriage ended in divorce in 1968.

In October 1965 she met Neil Young in Winnipeg , with whom she became friends. His song "Sugar Mountain" soon became part of their repertoire, their "Circle Game" is considered an answer to this song. In 1973 Young dedicated his song "Sweet Joni" to her. On their later album Hejira he played the harmonica, and in 1976 there was a surprising first live performance together.

The artist went to New York and with her songs quickly became an insider tip in the local club scene, which was the center of folk music in Greenwich Village in the 1960s . Here she began an intense love affair with her compatriot Leonard Cohen , which lasted barely a year. Cohen introduced her to the works of Federico García Lorca and Albert Camus , which had an impact on her songwriting at the time. Joni Mitchell also wrote several songs about her relationship with Cohen, u. a. "Chelsea Morning", "Rainy Night House" and "A Case Of You". David Crosby , who had left the Byrds and was now a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young , volunteered to produce their first album, which was released in 1968 under the title Joni Mitchell . Her notoriety spread across the United States. In the folk scene it quickly gained cult status, which continues to this day.

In 1968 she lived in Laurel Canyon , where she met Graham Nash , who admired her as a songwriter. She had a relationship with him for two years. This is what the song My Old Man from their 1971 album Blue is about . For his part, Nash wrote the CSN & Y track “Our House” to Jonis Piano, which appeared on the album Déjà Vu .

In 1969 she was invited to perform at the legendary Woodstock Festival . However, she was unable to reach the festival site due to the enormous crowd. Shaken by the energy that this festival exuded on the entire generation, she wrote the hymn to the festival with the song "Woodstock". Matthews Southern Comfort ( # 1 on the UK Singles Chart ) and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young each had a big hit with covers of the song. Joni Mitchell also influenced other musicians. For example, the Scottish rock band Nazareth landed a single hit in 1974 with a cover version of their song "This Flight Tonight" from their album Blue . For Judy Collins , she wrote the hit Both Sides Now , which was later often covered, in 1967 , which Mitchell also sang with guitar accompaniment on her album Clouds in 1969 (in open D-tuning, chord voicings with just two fingers and capos in the fifth fret) . After Collins also interpreted Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and with a version for jazz guitar Pat Martino (1974 on Consciousness ) Mitchell's song.

1970s

Joni Mitchell during the Court and Spark Tour in Anaheim, 1974

Mitchell had great artistic and commercial success in the first half of the 1970s, first with the album Ladies of the Canyon (1970); at the time she was in a relationship with Graham Nash .

From the summer of 1970 to the spring of 1971 she was in a relationship with James Taylor ; she covered the breakup of the relationship due to Taylor's success on Blue (1971), which was less folk-oriented. This was followed by For the Roses (1972). After the breakdown of her relationship with Jackson Browne , she tried to take her own life in 1972. The songs Car On A Hill and Trouble Child deal with this phase of life. Court and Spark followed in 1974 .

From 1975 jazz influences came to folk with the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns . At the time, she had a relationship with John Guerin which led to their engagement. In 1976, she took with her song "Coyote" at the farewell concert The Last Waltz by The Band in part.

The jazz influence continued on the 1976 album Hejira with Jaco Pastorius (bass), the 1977 album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and the 1979 tribute album Mingus for Charles Mingus . The latter contained four Mingus compositions, to which Mitchell wrote texts. During this time she had a relationship with Don Alias . In 1980 she released the jazz-oriented live album Shadows and Light with Pat Metheny , Michael Brecker and Jaco Pastorius.

1980s

Joni Mitchell (1983)

In 1982 she married bassist Larry Klein ; the marriage lasted twelve years.

While Mitchell had released an album almost every year in the 1970s, this only happened every three years. There was a stronger influence of pop and rock music, promoted by David Geffen ; the album Dog Eat Dog (1985) was produced by Thomas Dolby at the suggestion of Geffen Records . Mitchell found it difficult to assert her musical ideas against Dolby:

"He may be able to do better, but the fact is, it's not really my music then."

- Joni Mitchell

1990s

Joni Mitchell (1999)

On July 21, 1990 she sang the part "Goodbye Blue Sky" at the live concert The Wall by Roger Waters in Berlin .

Since 2000

Joni Mitchell (with Jörn Weisbrodt) at the Luminato Festival, June 2013

In her later years, Mitchell devoted herself almost entirely to painting .

In 2002 the double album Travelogue was released, inspired by the attacks of September 11, 2001 . It contains a collection of songs from three decades. Joni Mitchell was accompanied during the recordings by a 70-piece orchestra and jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter . She announced that this was her last album and she was tired of the music industry . She now wants to devote herself fully to painting, which she has not lost sight of in her life.

Contrary to the announcement, Joni Mitchell recorded the album Shine at the beginning of 2007 with almost completely new material, which was released in autumn 2007 and musically means a rapprochement with one's own musical roots.

In April 2010 she made public in an interview that she suffers from Morgellon's disease .

“I am a painter who writes songs. My songs are very visual. The words create scenes - in cafes and bars - in gloomy little rooms - on shores lit by the moon - in kitchens - in hospitals and on fairgrounds. They happen in vehicles - planes and trains and cars. "

- Joni Mitchell

In 2014, at the age of 71, Joni Mitchell released a box with four CDs in which she rearranged pieces from 40 years. The collection is called "Love Has Many Faces", subtitle: "A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced". She is supposed to represent a ballet in four acts that has not yet been performed.

In late March 2015, Joni Mitchell suffered a stroke. In February 2017 she appeared at the annual Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala in Los Angeles, accompanied by Cameron Crowe .

Trivia

As a graphic artist and painter, Joni Mitchell designed the record sleeves for a large part of her albums herself. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1967 . There she bought a small property in the Laurel Canyon district , 8217 Lookout Montain Avenue, with a bungalow-style house and a garden for about $ 40,000 . Her partner Graham Nash , who wrote the song Our House about it , which he released with his band Crosby, Stills and Nash on the album Déjà Vu (1970), also lived there temporarily . Our House is often played at weddings in the USA. The alternative way of life in Laurel Canyon and some of its residents at the time inspired Joni Mitchell to write her album Ladies of the Canyon , which was also released in 1970.

In 1974 she bought a villa with a large garden in the Bel Air district . The house was built in the Spanish style in the 1920s.

In 2002 Prince released a cover version of the song A Case of You on his album One Nite Alone . In addition, the song was released in a slightly different version on the album Piano & A Microphone 1983 in 2018 after the death of the musician.

Awards

Mitchell's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

• Three of Joni Mitchell's albums received a Grammy .
• In 1981 she was honored with induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame .
• In 1996 she received the Polar Music Prize .
• In 1997 Joni Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
• 2000 star on Canada's Walk of Fame
• In 2002 she received an honorary Grammy for her life's work ( Lifetime Achievement Award ) as one of the outstanding artists of the 20th century .
• In 2015 she received the SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award.
• The Rolling Stone listed Mitchell ranked 62 of the 100 greatest musicians , ranked 42 of the 100 best singers , ranked 75 of the 100 best guitarists and ninth of the 100 best songwriters of all time .
• 2018 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
1968	Song to a Seagull / Joni Mitchell	-	-	-	-	US189 (9 weeks) US	-
1969	Clouds	-	-	-	UK- gold UK	US31 gold (36 weeks)US	CA22 (... weeks) CA	awarded a Grammy in the category "Best Folk Performance"
1970	Ladies of the Canyon	-	-	-	UK8th gold (25 weeks)UK	US27 platinum (33 weeks)US	CA16 (... weeks) CA
1971	Blue	-	-	-	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (18 weeks)UK	US15th platinum (28 weeks)US	CA9 (... weeks) CA
1972	For the roses	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US11 gold (28 weeks)US	CA5 (... weeks) CA
1974	Court and Spark	-	-	-	UK14th gold (11 weeks)UK	US2 × 2 Double platinum (62 weeks)US	CA1 (... week) CA	awarded a Grammy for the song Down to you in the category "Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists"
1975	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	-	-	-	UK14th silver (10 weeks)UK	US4th gold (17 weeks)US	CA7 (... weeks) CA
1976	Hejira	-	-	-	UK11 silver (5 weeks)UK	US13 gold (18 weeks)US	CA22 (... weeks) CA
1977	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter	-	-	-	UK20th silver (7 weeks)UK	US25th gold (13 weeks)US	CA28 (... weeks) CA
1979	Mingus	-	-	-	UK24 silver (7 weeks)UK	US17 (18 weeks) US	CA37 (... weeks) CA
1982	Wild Things Run Fast	-	-	-	UK32 (8 weeks) UK	US25 (21 weeks) US	CA33 (... weeks) CA	also released as a 24-carat gold CD on the remaster label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL)
1985	Dog Eat Dog	-	-	-	UK57 (3 weeks) UK	US63 (19 weeks) US	CA44 (... weeks) CA
1988	Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm	-	-	-	UK26 (7 weeks) UK	US45 (16 weeks) US	CA23 gold (… Where.)CA
1991	Night ride home	-	-	-	UK25 (5 weeks) UK	US41 (14 weeks) US	CA29 (... weeks) CA
1994	Turbulent indigo	-	-	-	UK53 (3 weeks) UK	US47 (9 weeks) US	CA24 gold (… Where.)CA	awarded a Grammy in the category "Album of the Year"
1998	Taming the Tiger	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK57 (1 week) UK	US75 (4 weeks) US	CA86 (... weeks) CA
2000	Both sides now	DE63 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK50 gold (3 weeks)UK	US66 (11 weeks) US	CA19 (... wk.) CA	awarded a Grammy in the category "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album"
2002	Travelogue	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Shine	-	-	CH100 (1 week) CH	UK36 (3 weeks) UK	US14 (14 weeks) US	CA13 (... weeks) CA	The title One Week Last Summer was awarded a Grammy in the category “Best Instrumental Piece”.

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
1974	Miles of Aisles	-	-	-	UK34 (4 weeks) UK	US2 gold (22 weeks)US	CA13 (... weeks) CA
1980	Shadows and Light	-	-	-	UK63 (3 weeks) UK	US38 (16 weeks) US	CA73 (... weeks) CA

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Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
1996	Hits	-	-	-	UK- gold UK	US161 (2 weeks) US	-
2004	Dreamland	-	-	-	UK43 (2 weeks) UK	US177 (1 week) US	-

More compilations

• 1972: The World of Joni Mitchell
• 1996: Misses
• 2003: The Complete Geffen Recordings (4-CD box, tracks from 1982-91)
• 2004: The Beginning of Survival
• 2004: Starbucks Artist's Choice
• 2005: Songs of a Prairie Girl (Remastered)
• 2013: Studio Albums
• 2014: Love Has Many Faces (Remastered)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
1970	Big Yellow Taxi Ladies of the Canyon	-	-	-	UK11 silver (15 weeks)UK	US67 (6 weeks) US	CA14 (... weeks) CA
1971	Carey Blue	-	-	-	-	US93 (1 week) US	CA27 (... weeks) CA
1972	You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio For the Roses	-	-	-	-	US25 (16 weeks) US	CA10 (... wk.) CA
1973	Raised On Robbery Court and Spark	-	-	-	-	US65 (8 weeks) US	CA51 (... weeks) CA
1974	Free Man in Paris Court and Spark	-	-	-	-	US22 (14 weeks) US	CA16 (... weeks) CA
	Help Me Court and Spark	-	-	-	-	US7 (19 weeks) US	CA6 (... weeks) CA
1975	Big Yellow Taxi Miles of Aisles	-	-	-	-	US24 (10 weeks) US	CA54 (... weeks) CA	live
	In France They Kiss on Main Street The Hissing of Summer Lawns	-	-	-	-	US66 (4 weeks) US	CA19 (... wk.) CA
1976	Coyote Hejira	-	-	-	-	-	CA79 (... weeks) CA
1982	(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care Wild Things Run Fast	-	-	-	-	US47 (9 weeks) US	-
1985	Good Friends Dog Eat Dog	-	-	-	-	US85 (3 weeks) US	-
1988	My Secret Place Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm	-	-	-	-	-	CA44 (... weeks) CA
1991	Come in from the Cold Night Ride Home	-	-	-	-	-	CA27 (... weeks) CA
1994	How Do You Stop Turbulent Indigo	-	-	-	UK100 (1 week) UK	-	CA56 (... weeks) CA
	Sex Kills Turbulent Indigo	-	-	-	-	-	CA68 (... weeks) CA
1997	Got 'Til It's Gone The Velvet Rope	DE17 (11 weeks) DE	AT21 (9 weeks) AT	CH11 (17 weeks) CH	UK6th silver (11 weeks)UK	-	-	Janet feat. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell

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More singles

• 1968: Night in the City (Song to a Seagull)
• 1969: Chelsea Morning (Clouds)
• 1971: California (Blue)
• 1973: Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire (For the Roses)
• 1975: Carey (Miles of Aisles; live)
• 1977: Off Night Backstreet (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter)
• 1978: Jericho (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter)
• 1979: The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines (Mingus)
• 1980: Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Shadows and Light; live)
• 1982: Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody (Wild Things Run Fast)
• 1986: Shiny Toys (Dog Eat Dog)
• 1988: Snakes and Ladders (Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm)
• 1988: Cool Water (Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm)
• 1991: Night Ride Home (Night Ride Home)
• 1994: Sunny Sunday (Turbulent Indigo)
• 1996: Big Yellow Taxi (Remix)
• 1998: The Crazy Cries of Love (Taming the Tiger)
• 2000: Both Sides Now (Both Sides Now) (UK:silver)

Video albums

• 2001 Painting with Words and Music
• 2003 Woman of Heart and Mind: Joni Mitchell: A Life Story
• 2004 Shadows and Light
• 2005 Refuge of the Roads

literature

• Leonore Fleischer: Joni Mitchell . Flash Books, New York 1976, ISBN 0-8256-3907-7 .
• Douglas Fetherling: Some day soon: essays on Canadian songwriters, Leonard Cohen , Joni Mitchell, Neil Young , Gordon Lightfoot , Robbie Robertson . Quarry Press, Kingston, Ontario 1991, ISBN 1-55082-000-1 .
• Brian Hinton: Joni Mitchell: both sides now - the biography . Sanctuary Publ., 1996, 2nd edition. 2000, ISBN 1-86074-311-0 .
• Joni Mitchell: The complete poems and lyrics . New York, Crown Publishers, London 1997, ISBN 0-609-60008-7 .
• Paul Barrera: Joni Mitchell . 1998.
• Dieter Paul Rudolph: Joni Mitchell and some of her contemporaries . Star Cluster Verlag, Balve 1999, ISBN 3-925005-47-1 .
• Stacey Luftig: The Joni Mitchell companion: four decades of commentary . Schirmer Books, New York 2000.
• Karen O'Brian: Joni Mitchell, Shadows and Light . The definitive biography. Virgin Books, 2002, ISBN 0-7535-0708-0 .
• Christian Graf: Lexicon of Singer & Songwriters. From protest song to neo-folk - Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley , Neil Young , Tom Waits , Shawn Colvin , Phil Ochs , Sheryl Crow , Judy Collins, Stephen Stills , Alanis Morissette . Lexikon-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-239-3 .
• Larry David Smith: Elvis Costello , Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song tradition . Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2004, ISBN 0-275-97392-1 .
• Barney Hoskins: Hotel California: the true-life adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles , and their many friends. John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2006
• Michael Walker: Laurel Canyon : the inside story of rock-and-roll's legendary neighborhood . Faber and Faber, New York 2006.
  • German edition: Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8077-1033-4 .
• Mark Bego: Joni Mitchell. Taylor Trade Pub., Lanham 2005, ISBN 1-58979-134-7 .
• Sheila Weller: Girls like us: Carole King , Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon - and the journey of a generation . Atria Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-7434-9147-1 .
• Michelle Mercer: Blue. Joni Mitchell's autobiographical phase . Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8077-1062-4 .
• David Yaffe: Reckless daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell . Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-374-24813-0 .
  • German edition: Joni Mitchell. A portrait. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-848-8 .

Web links

Commons : Joni Mitchell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Literature by and about Joni Mitchell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joni Mitchell at laut.de

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1. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , pp. 13-16 ( Both Sides, Now. Joni Mitchell ), here: p. 13.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} rollingstone.de: Joni Mitchell in the ROLLING STONE interview: Life in the Director's Cut
3. ↑ Polio epidemic (PDF; 942 kB)
4. ↑ rollingstone.de: Interview 1995
5. ^ Salon.com: Joni Mitchell
6. ↑ Joni Mitchell: still smoking . Article 4 October 2007 by Neil McCormick in the daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph (English)
7. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. P. 13.
8. ^ Joni Mitchell opens up to the Star after years away from spotlight. June 11, 2013, accessed July 19, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Songs about Joni at jonimitchell.com, accessed November 4, 2016
10. ↑ Children playing: Neil Young, Joni Mitchell & the Stellas at rusted-moon.com, accessed November 4, 2016
11. ^ Sylvie Simmons: I'm Your Man. The life of Leonard Cohen , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-74289-9 , pp. 241–243
12. ↑ Interview with Graham Nash: “I have to live, I have to burn!” At tagesspiegel.de from July 1, 2016, accessed on November 3, 2016
13. ↑ Joni Mitchell on the Muse Behind 'Carey' at wsj.com, accessed November 3, 2016
14. ^ All Time Classics at jonimitchell.com, accessed November 4, 2016
15. ↑ Graham Nash "Our House" at performingsongwriter.com, accessed November 4, 2016
16. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Pp. 13-16 ( Both Sides, Now. Joni Mitchell ).
17. ↑ ^{a b c d e} link text ( Memento from May 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) girlslikeusthemusic.com: Carole 1969-1970, Joni 1970, Carole & Joni 1971-1972
18. ^ Sergej: John Guerin Discography: Joni Mitchell And John Guerin Romance. In: John Guerin Discography. April 13, 2012, accessed July 19, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Review: Non-fiction book: The fearless . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 20, 2020]).
20. ↑ jonimitchell.com: Biography: 1985-1989 Experimental 80's
21. ↑ Confirmed: Joni Mitchell suffered a stroke. June 29, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2020 (German). 
22. ^ AOL Staff: Joni Mitchell makes rare public appearance at pre-Grammys party. Retrieved July 19, 2020 . 
23. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. P. 13.
24. ↑ David Yaffe, Joni Mitchell. A portrait , Berlin 2020, pp. 153 and 158
25. ↑ Leslie Stojšić, Among the canvases: Behind the scenes at Joni Mitchell's home , CBS News, 1 June 2013
26. ^ Canadian Music Hall of Fame - Inductees. Canadian Music Hall of Fame , accessed August 6, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Joni Mitchell in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
28. ↑ SFJAZZ Honors Joni Mitchell with Lifetime Achievement Award ( Memento June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), DownBeat June 8, 2015
29. ↑ 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
30. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
31. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
32. ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Joni Mitchell honored in hometown Saskatoon. June 4, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 . 
34. ↑ ^{a b c d} chart sources:
    • Joni Mitchell in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de, accessed on March 3, 2019
    • Joni Mitchell in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at, accessed on March 3, 2019
    • Joni Mitchell in the Swiss charts on hitparade.ch , accessed on March 3, 2019
    • Joni Mitchell in the Canadian charts. October 1, 2004, archived from the original ; accessed on March 3, 2019 . 
    • Joni Mitchell on the Official UK Charts , accessed March 3, 2019.
    • Joni Mitchell on the Billboard 200 US Chart , accessed March 3, 2019
35. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales:
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36. ↑ Joni Mitchell - from prairie girl to folk legend. MDR Kultur , April 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 . 
37. ↑ This perverse need for originality. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 28, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 .