Roberta Joan " Joni " Mitchell , CC (nÃÆ' Â © e Anderson , born 7 November 1943) was a Canadian singer and songwriter. Rolling Stone calls it "one of the greatest songwriters ever", and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell can stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". Drawing from folk, pop, rock, and jazz, Mitchell's songs often reflect social and environmental ideals and his feelings about romance, confusion, disappointment, and excitement. She has received numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards.
Mitchell began singing at small nightclubs in his Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and western Canada hometowns before singing in the streets and nightclubs of Toronto, Ontario. In 1965, he moved to the United States and embarked on a tour. Some of his original songs ("Urhing for Going", "Chelsea Morning", "Both Sides, Now", "The Circle Game") were covered by other folk singers, allowing him to sign with Reprise Records and record his debut album in 1968. Southern California, Mitchell, with popular songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock", helped define the era and generation. His 1971 album Blue is often referred to as one of the best albums of all time; it was rated as the 30th best album ever made on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", the highest entry by the female artist. In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of 25 albums representing "turning points and peaks in 20th century popular music". In 2017, NPR rated Blue Number 1 in the list of Largest Albums Made by Women.
Mitchell's fifth album, For the Roses , was released in 1972. He subsequently replaced the label and began exploring more jazz-influenced melodic ideas, in a fertile pop texture, in 1974 > Court and Spark , which featured radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris" and became his best-selling album.
Around 1975, Mitchell's vocal range began to shift from mezzo-soprano to more extensive contralto. The piano's compositions and fluctuating guitar compositions also grow more harmonious and rhythmic as he explores jazz, combining it with the influence of rock and roll, R & amp; B, classical music and non-western beat. In the late 1970s, he began working with renowned jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Charles Mingus, who asked him to collaborate on his last recording. He then turned again to the pop, hugging electronic music, and engaging in political protests. In 2002, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards.
Mitchell is the only producer credited in most of his albums, including all of his work in the 1970s. As a harsh critic of the music industry, he quit the tour and released his 17th, and last, album album which was reported from original songs in 2007. With roots in the visual arts, Mitchell has designed most of his album covers. He describes himself as "painter slipping by circumstance".
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Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Myrtle Marguerite (McKee) and William Andrew Anderson. His mother's ancestors were Scottish and Irish; his father was from a Norwegian family who probably had Sami's offspring. His mother was a teacher while his father was a Canadian Air Force lieutenant instructor who instructed a new pilot at RCAF Station Fort Macleod. He then moved with his parents to various bases in western Canada. After the war, he settled with his family in Saskatchewan. He then sang about his small town education in several of his songs, including "Song for Sharon".
At school, Mitchell looked more athletic than academic, but still responded to his mother's love of his literature and his father's love of music, and he studied classical piano briefly.
At the age of nine, Mitchell had polio in the epidemic, and was hospitalized for weeks. After this incident he focuses on his creative talents, and consider his singing or dancing career for the first time. At nine o'clock, he was a smoker; he denies claims that smoking has affected his voice. At 11, he moved with his family to the city of Saskatoon, which he regarded as his hometown. He responds to formal education poorly, preferring the view of free thinking. An unusual teacher managed to make an impact on him, stimulating him to write poetry, and his first album included dedication to him. In the twelfth grade, he goes out (he takes his studies) and hangs out in the city center with the rowdy set until he decides that he's too close to the criminal world.
At this time, country music starts eclipse rock, and Mitchell wants to play the guitar. Because her mother did not approve of her hamlet association, she initially settled for ukulele. Finally he taught himself guitar from Pete Seeger's songbook, but polio has affected his fingers, and he has to compose dozens of alternate laras by himself. This improvisational approach then helped him break free from the standard approach to harmony and structure in his songwriting.
Mitchell began singing with his friends at a bonfire around Lake Waskesiu, northwest of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. His first paid appearance was on October 31, 1962, at the Saskatoon club featuring folk and jazz players. At 18, he expanded his repertoire to include his own favorite players like ÃÆ' â € ° dith Piaf and Miles Davis. Although he never played his own jazz in those days, he and his friends searched for performances by jazz musicians. Mitchell said, "My jazz background started with one of Lambert's early albums, Hendricks and Ross." The album, New Hottest Group on Jazz , is hard to find in Canada, he says. "So I saved up and bought it for a pirated price.I considered the album to be my Beatles.I learned every song from it, and I do not think there was another album anywhere - including my own album - where I know every note and word of every song. "
But art still became his main passion at this stage, and when he finished high school at Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon, he took an art class at Saskatoon Technical Collegiate with abstract expressionist painter Henry Bonli, and then left home to attend the Alberta School of Art in Calgary for academic year 1963-64. Here he is disappointed with the high priority given to his technical skills over the creativity of the free class, and also feels incompatible with the tendency of pure abstraction, and the tendency to turn to commercial art. After a year, at the age of 20, he dropped out of school, a very disappointing decision his parents, who can remember the Great Depression and very much appreciate education.
He continues to play gigs as a folk musician on weekends, on his campus and at a local hotel. Around this time he took a $ 15 a week job at a Calgary coffee shop, "singing long tragic songs in a minor key". She sings on hootenannies and makes appearances on several local TV and radio shows in Calgary. In 1964, at the age of 20, he told his mother that he intended to be a folk singer in Toronto, and he left Western Canada for the first time in his life, heading east for Ontario. On his three day trip there, Mitchell wrote his first song, "Day After Day". She stops at the Mariposa Folk Festival to see Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Saskatchewan-born Cree-born folk singer who has inspired herself. A year later, Mitchell also played Mariposa, his first show for a major audience, and years later, Sainte-Marie himself covered Mitchell's work.
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1964-1969: People's Breakthrough
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For less than the $ 200 needed for union fees, Mitchell manages several shows at Half Beat and Village Corner in Yorkville, Toronto, but he regularly plays non-union shows "in the church basement and the YMCA meeting room." Rejected from the big clubs, he was forced to sing, while he "worked in the women's clothing section of the downtown shopping center to pay the rent." During this era, he lived in a boardinghouse, directly across the hall from the Duke Redbird poet. Without much recognition of the name, Mitchell also began to realize that each of the city's folk scenes tended to give veteran players an exclusive right to play their distinctive songs - though not writing songs - which, according to Mitchell is insular, contrary to egalitarian ideals folk music. He finds his best traditional ingredients already belonging to other singers and will no longer be accepted. He said, "You will come to town and you will be told, you can not sing it, you can not sing it." He decided to write his own songs.
My daughter
At the end of 1964, Mitchell discovered that she was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend of Calgary, Brad MacMath. He then wrote, "[he] left me three months pregnant in the attic room with no money and winter came and just a fireplace for the heat.The spindle from the banister is the toothed fuel for the inhabitants last winter." At the time, "pills" were legally unavailable in Canada, such as abortion, but there was a strong social stigma against women who gave birth outside of marriage. In Toronto, he can at least do it quietly, without worrying about his relatives at home. In February 1965 she gave birth to a baby girl. Unable to provide a baby, he put his daughter, Kelly Dale Anderson, for adoption. The experience remained personal for most of his career, but he made allusions to it in a few songs, such as "Little Green," which he did in the 1960s and recorded eventually for the album of 1971 Blue .
In the "Chinese Cafe", from 1982's Wild Things Run Fast album, Mitchell sang, "Your kids are coming straight/My son is a stranger/I gave birth to it/But I can not raise it." These lyrics did not get widespread attention at the time. The existence of Mitchell's daughter was not publicly known until 1993, when a roommate from Mitchell's art school in the 1960s sold the adoption story to a tabloid magazine. At that time, Mitchell's daughter, who changed her name to Kilauren Gibb, had started searching for her biological parents. Mitchell and his daughter met in 1997. After the reunion, Mitchell said that he lost interest in songwriting, and he later identified the birth of his daughter and his inability to care for him as a moment when his songwriting inspiration really began. When she can not express herself to the person she wants to talk to, she becomes in tune with the rest of the world and she starts writing personally.
A few weeks after the birth of his daughter in 1965, Joni Anderson was playing gigs again around Yorkville, beginning to sing original material for the first time, written with a unique open barrel. In March and April he found a job at Penny Farthing, a folk club in Toronto. There he meets Chuck Mitchell, an American folk singer from Michigan. Chuck was immediately attracted to him and was impressed with his performance, and he told him that he could get his full-time job at the coffee shop he knew in the United States. In one interview, Mitchell claimed he married Chuck only 36 hours after they met, but it is unclear whether they ever married in Toronto. One time in late April, Joni left Canada for the first time, going with Chuck to the US, where the two began playing music together. Joni, 21, married Chuck in an official ceremony in his hometown in June 1965 and took his last name. He said, "I made my dress and bridesmaid dresses We have no money... I am walking down the aisle swinging my daisies."
Michigan
While living in Verona's apartment at Cass Corridor Detroit, Chuck and Joni are regular players in the coffee shop area, including Chessmate in Livernois, near Six Mile Road; Alcove bar, near Wayne State University; Rathskeller, a restaurant on the campus of the University of Detroit; and Raven Gallery at Southfield. He began playing and composing songs in an alternative guitar tuning taught to him by fellow musician, Eric Andersen, in Detroit. Oscar Brand featured it several times on his Let's Sing Out CBC television program in 1965 and 1966. The marriage and partnership of Joni and Chuck Mitchell ended in early 1967, and Joni moved to New York City to follow him. music track as a solo artist. He plays places along the East Coast, including Philadelphia, Boston, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He often performs in coffee shops and folk clubs and, at this time creates his own material, became famous for his unique song writing and innovative guitar style.
New York
Folk singer Tom Rush meets Mitchell in Toronto and is impressed with his songwriting skills. He took "Urgent to Go" to popular folk artist Judy Collins, but he was not interested in the song at the time, so Rush taped it himself. Country singer George Hamilton IV overheard Rush doing that and recording a hit country version. Other artists who recorded Mitchell's songs in the early years were Buffy Sainte-Marie ("The Circle Game"), Dave Van Ronk ("Both Sides Now"), and finally Judy Collins ("Both Current Sides" a top ten hit for him, and "Michael from Mountains", both included in his 1967 album Wildflowers. Collins also covered "Chelsea Morning", another recording that beat Mitchell's commercial success from the start.
California
While Mitchell was playing one night at Gaslight South, a club in Coconut Grove, Florida, David Crosby entered and was immediately struck by his ability and appeal as an artist. He took him back to Los Angeles, where he began to introduce it and his music to his friends. Soon he is managed by Elliot Roberts, who has a close business relationship with David Geffen. Roberts and Geffen had an important influence in his career. Crosby convinced the record company to let Mitchell record a solo acoustic album without folk-rock overdubs in fashion at the time, and the influence earned him a producer credit in March 1968, when Reprise Records released his debut album, known as Joni Mitchell or Songs to Seagull .
Mitchell toured constantly to promote LP. The tour helped create a vigorous anticipation for the second LP Mitchell, Clouds , released in April 1969. The album contains Mitchell's own version of some of his songs already recorded and displayed by other artists: "Chelsea Morning "," Both Sides, Now ", and" Tin Angel ". The covers of the two LPs, including self-portraits in Clouds, were designed and painted by Mitchell, a fusion of paintings and music that he continued throughout his career.
1970-1974: Mainstream success
In March of 1970, Clouds produced their first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The following month, Reprise released their third album, Ladies of the Canyon . Mitchell's voice has begun to expand beyond the boundaries of acoustic folk music and toward pop and rock, with more overdubs, percussion, and backing vocals, and for the first time, many songs composed on pianos, which characterize Mitchell's style in the era most popular. Its own version of "Woodstock", slower than its cover by Crosby, Stills, Nash & amp; Young, performing solo in Wurlitzer's electric piano. The album also includes the familiar song "The Circle Game" and the environmental song "Big Yellow Taxi", with a line that is now famous, "they opened heaven and installed the parking lot."
Ladies of the Canyon was an instant attack on FM radio and sold quickly, eventually becoming Mitchell's first gold album (selling over half a million copies). She made the decision to stop doing the tour for a year and only write and paint, but she was still voted the "Top Performer" for 1970 by Melody Maker, a leading British pop music magazine. In the April 1971 release of James Taylor's album Mud Slide Slim and Blue Horizon, Mitchell was credited with backup vocals on the track "You've Got a Friend". The songs he wrote for months he went for a ride and life experience appeared on his next album, Blue , released in June 1971. Comparing Joni Mitchell's talents to himself, David Crosby said, " By the time he did Blue , he passed me and rushed to the horizon â €.
Blue is a near-instant commercial and critical success, culminating in the top 20 on the Billboard Albums Album chart in September and also reaching the British Top 3. The lushly produce "Carey" was a single at the time, but musical, the other part of Blue goes further than the Ladies of the Canyon sound. A more rhythmic and rhythmic acoustic part allows focusing on Mitchell's voice and emotions ("All I Want", "A Case of You"), while others like "Blue", "River" and "The Last Time I Saw Richard" are sung. for its rolling piano accompaniment. Her most confessional album, Mitchell later said about Blue, "I, at times, sacrificed myself and my own emotional makeup,... singing 'I am selfish and I am sad', for example, we all suffering for our loneliness, but at the time of Blue, our pop star never acknowledges these things. "In the lyrics, the album is regarded as a culmination inspired by his early work, with the assessment of world depression around him serves as a counter to the joyful expression of romantic love (for example, in "California"). Mitchell then commented, "At that period in my life, I did not have personal defense, I felt like a plastic wrap on a pack of cigarettes I felt like I really had no secrets from the world and I could not pretend in my life.. "
Mitchell decided to return to the stage immediately after the great success of Blue , and he presented a new song on the tour that appeared on the next album, fifth, For the Roses . The album was released in October 1972 and soon zoomed into the charts. She followed with the single, "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio", which reached number 25 on the Billboard Charts in February 1973, becoming her first bona fide hit single.
Court and Spark , released in January 1974, saw Mitchell start a temptation with jazz and jazz fusion that marked his experimental period ahead. Court and Spark go to No. 1 on the Cashbox Album Chart. LP made Mitchell a very popular act for perhaps the only time in his career, on the power of popular tracks such as "Raised on Robbery" rocker, released just before Christmas 1973, and "Help Me", released in March of the following year, and became Mitchell's only top 10 when it peaked at No. 1. 7 in the first week of June. "Free Man in Paris" is a hit single and staples in its catalog.
While recording Court and Spark, Mitchell has tried to make a clean break with previous folk sounds, producing his own album and using the LA Express jazz/pop fusion band as what he calls his first real support group. In February 1974, the tour with L.A. Express begins, and they receive a warm notice as they travel across the United States and Canada over the next two months. A series of events at L.A. Universal Amphitheater on August 14-17 was recorded for a live album. In November, Mitchell released the album, Miles of Aisles , recording two sets including all but two songs from the LA concert (one choice each from Berkeley Community Theater, on March 2nd, and LA). Music Center, on March 4th, also included in the set). The live album slowly climbs to No. 2, corresponding to the top of the Billing Court and Spark chart on Billboard. "Big Yellow Taxi", a live version, was also released as a single and quite well (he released another version of the song in 2007).
In January 1975, Court and Spark received four nominations for the Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in which Mitchell was the only nominated woman. She just won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.
1975-1980: Jazz Exploration
Mitchell went to the studio in early 1975 to record an acoustic demo of some of the songs he had written since the Court and Spark tour. A few months later he recorded a version of the songs with his band. His musical interests now deviate from both the people and the pop scene of the era, toward the less structured and more inspired pieces of jazz, with a wider range of instruments. The new song cycle was released in November 1975 as The Hissing of Summer Lawns. On "The Jungle Line", he made an early attempt to record the recording of African musicians, something that became more common among Western rock acts in the 1980s. "In France Their Kisses on Main Street" continues the lush pop sound of Court and Spark, and efforts like title track and "Edith and the Kingpin" record the life of the suburbs in Southern California.
During 1975, Mitchell also participated in several concerts on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour featuring Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and in 1976 he appeared as part of the band's
In early 1976, Mitchell traveled with friends who were driving cross-country to Maine. After that, he returned to California alone and made several songs during his journey shown on his next album, 1976 Hejira . He stated that "The album was written mostly when I was traveling in the car, which is why there are no piano songs..." Hejira is Mitchell's most experimental album so far, because of the ongoing collaboration. with jaco virtuoso bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius on several songs, the first single, "Coyote", Hejira's heavy "Black Crow" atmosphere, heavy guitar, and the last song of the album "Refuge of the Roads". This album goes up to No. 13 on the Billboard Charts, achieved gold status three weeks after release, and received airplay from an album-oriented FM rock station. But "Coyote", backed by "Blue Motel Room", failed to map on Hot 100. Hejira "did not sell as fresh as Mitchell's previous albums, was more" radio-friendly ", [but] the catalog has grown over the years ". Mitchell himself believes the album is unique. In 2006 he said, "I think many people can write many of my other songs, but I feel the songs in Hejira can only come from me."
In mid-1977, Mitchell began working on a new recording that became his first double studio album. Close to completing his contract with Asylum Records, Mitchell feels that this album can be more pronounced than any album he did in the past. He invited Pastorius back, and he brought along fellow jazz fame japan Weather Report members, including drummer Don Alias ​​and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Laminated atmospheric compositions such as "Overture/Cotton Avenue" feature more improvisational collaborations, while "Paprika Plains" is a 16-minute epic that stretches pop boundaries, more so than Mitchell's childhood memories in Canada and his study of classical music. "Dreamland" and "The Tenth World", featuring Chaka Khan on backing vocals, are percussion-dominated tracks. The other songs continued the jazz-rock-folk collision of Hejira . Mitchell also revived "Jericho", written many years before (a version was found on his 1974 live album) but was never recorded in studio settings. Don Juan's Reckless Daughter was released in December 1977. The album received mixed reviews but still sold relatively well, peaking at No. 1. 25 in the US and gone gold within three months. The album cover creates its own controversy: Mitchell is featured in several photographs, including one in which he disguises himself as a black man, wearing curly afro wigs, a white shirt and a vest, and dark sunglasses. The character, which he calls Art Nouveau, is based on a pimp who, he says, once complimented him while walking on the LA road - and is a turn symbol to jazz and street lyrics.
A few months after the release of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell was contacted by a prominent jazz composer, bandleader and bassist Charles Mingus, who had heard the orchestra "Paprika Plains", and wanted him to work with him. He started a collaboration with Mingus, who died before the project was completed in 1979. He completed the track, and the resulting album, Mingus , was released in June 1979, though it was not well received in the media.. Fans bewildered over the major changes in the overall sound of Mitchell, and although the album was ranked 17th on the Billboard album charts - a higher placement than Daughter Reckless Don Juan - Mingus is still not achieved gold status, making it his first album since the 1960s to not sell at least half a million copies.
Mitchell's tour to promote Mingus began in August 1979 in Oklahoma City and ended six weeks later with five shows at the Los Angeles Greek Theater and one in the Santa Barbara County Bowl, where he recorded and filmed the concert. This was his first tour in years, and with Pastorius, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, and other band members, Mitchell also performed songs from other jazz albums. When the tour ended, he started a year of work, playing cassettes from the Santa Barbara County Bowl show to two albums and a concert film, both called Shadows and Light. His last release on Asylum Records and his second second live album, was released in September 1980, and made it to No. 1. 38 on the Billboard Charts. A single from LP, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?", Duet Mitchell with The Persuasions (opening action for the tour), bubbled down on Billboard, only losing Hot 100.
1981-1993: Pop, electronically, and protest
For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the track for the next album. During this period he recorded with bassist Larry Klein, whom he married in 1982. While the album was prepared for release, his friend David Geffen, founder of Asylum Records, decided to start a new label, Geffen Records. Still distributed by Warner Bros (who controls Asylum Records), Geffen negates the remaining contractual obligations that Mitchell had with Asylum and signed it to his new label. Wild Things Run Fast (1982) marks the return of pop songwriting, including "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody", which combines the chorus and melodic parts of The Righteous Brothers hit, and "(You So Square) Baby I Do not Care ", a remake of Elvis chestnut, which charted higher than the single Mitchell since the 1970s sales peak when it climbed to No. 1. 47 on the charts. The album peaked on Billboard Charts in the fifth week at No. 25.
In early 1983, Mitchell embarked on a world tour, visiting Japan, Australia, Ireland, England, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia and then returning to the United States. A show from the tour was recorded and then released on home video (and then DVD) as Refuge of the Roads . When 1984 ended, Mitchell was writing new songs, when he received advice from Geffen that perhaps an outside producer with experience in the modern technical arena they wanted to explore might be a worthwhile addition. British synthpop player and producer Thomas Dolby was taken to the plane. The role of Dolby, Mitchell later commented: "I am reluctant when Thomas suggested that he was asked to make a recording [by Geffen], and whether he would consider entering as a programmer and a player? So at that level we did have some problems... He may can do it faster.He might be able to do it better, but the truth is that it will not really be my music. "
The producing album, Dog Eat Dog , released in October 1985, turned out to be just a moderate seller, peaking at No. 1. 63 on Billboard's Top Albums Chart, Mitchell's lowest chart position since his first album peaked. at No. 189 nearly eighteen years earlier. One of the tracks on the album, "Tax Free", created controversy by the "televangelists" who railed and what he saw as a deviation to the right of religion in American politics. "The churches came after me," he wrote, "they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I saw depicted as the only church in America that actually used its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation."
Mitchell continued to experiment with synthesizers, drum machines, and sequencers for the next album recording, 1988 Chalk Mark in Rain Storm . He also collaborated with artists including Willie Nelson, Billy Idol, Wendy & amp; Lisa, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, and Benjamin Orr of the Cars. The first official single album, "My Secret Place", is actually a duet with Gabriel, and only misses the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song "Lakota" is one of many songs on the album to take on a larger political theme, in this case the Wounded incident Knee, a deadly battle between Native American activists and the FBI at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the previous decade. Musically, some songs match the world music trends popularized by Gabriel during that era. Reviews are largely favorable towards the album, and the brilliant acting by famous musicians brings great attention. Chalk Mark finally improved on the performance of the Dog Eat Dog chart, culminating in No. 45.
In 1990, Mitchell, who at that time rarely appeared alive again, participated in Roger Waters' The Wall Concert in Berlin . She performed "Goodbye Blue Sky" and was also one of the performers on the last song of "The Tide Is Turning" concert with Waters, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Paul Carrack.
Throughout the first half of 1990, Mitchell recorded the songs that appeared on the next album. He sent the final mix for the new album to Geffen just before Christmas, after trying almost a hundred different sequences for the songs. The Night Ride Home album was released in March 1991. In the United States, the album premiered on Billboard's Top Album charts in No. 1. 68, up to No. 48 in the second week, and peaked at No. 41 in its sixth week. In the United Kingdom, the debut album at No. 25 on the album charts. Critically, it is better accepted than the 1980s work and seems to show a step closer to the start of its acoustics, along with some references to the Hejira style . The album was also Mitchell's first since Geffen Records was sold to MCA Inc., meaning that Night Ride Home was his first album originally distributed by WEA (now Warner Music Group).
1994-2001: Awakening and vocal development
For a wider audience, the real "return to form" for Mitchell came with a 1994 Grammy-winner of Turbulent Indigo. While the recording period also sees Mitchell's divorce and bassist Larry Klein, their marriage has lasted nearly 12 years, Indigo is considered Mitchell's most accessible song in years. Songs such as "Sex Kills", "Sunny Sunday", "Borderline" and "The Magdalene Laundries" mix social commentary and melodies that focus on the guitar for a "surprising comeback". The album won two Grammy awards, including Best Pop Album, and coincided with a much publicized revival in interest in Mitchell's work by a young generation of singer-songwriters.
In 1996, Mitchell agreed to release the largest collection of Hits when the Reprise label also allowed her second album, named Misses , to include some lesser known songs from her career. Hits mapped in No. 161 in the US, but made No. 6 in the UK. Mitchell also included on Hits , for the first time on the album, his first recording, the "Urge for Going" version that preceded Song to a Seagull but was previously released only as a B-side.
Two years later, Mitchell released the final set of "original" new jobs before nearly another decade of chase, 1998's Taming the Tiger. He promoted Tiger by returning to regular concert appearances, including a co-headlining tour with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.
On the album, Mitchell has played a custom guitar equipped with a hexaphonic Roland pickup that connects to the Roland VG-8 modeling processor. The device allows Mitchell to play one of his alternate tunings without having to realign his guitar. The guitar output, via VG-8, is routed to one of its tunings in real-time. This improves the performance instantly because Mitchell does not need to replace the guitar among the songs.
It was then that critics also began to notice the real change in Mitchell's voice, especially in his older songs; the singer later admitted feeling the same, explaining that "I will go to hit the record and there is nothing there". While his more limited range and huskier vocals are sometimes attributed to his smoking habit (he has been described as "one of the last major smokers in the world"), Mitchell believes that the change in his voice that became apparent in the 1990s was due to other problems, including vocal nodules, compressed larynx, and lingering effects due to having polio. In an interview in 2004, he denied that my "bad habits" had anything to do with his more limited reach and showed that singers often lost top lists as they passed fifty. In addition, he argues that he thinks his voice becomes a more interesting and expressive alto when he can no longer touch the high notes, let alone hold him as he did in his youth.
The next two singers' albums did not feature new songs and, Mitchell said, were recorded to "fulfill contractual obligations," but in both he tried to use his new vocal range in interpreting familiar material. Both Sides Now (2000) is an album consisting mostly of jazz standard cover, performed with an orchestra, featuring orchestra arrangements by Vince Mendoza. The album also contains a remake of "A Case of You" and the title song "Both Sides Now", two initial clicks being diverted to Mitchell's now dark, soulful alto range. It received very strong reviews and gave birth to a short national tour, with Mitchell accompanied by a core band featuring Larry Klein on bass plus a local orchestra on each stop tour. Its success led to Travelogue in 2002, a collection of re-workings from previous songs with a lush orchestral accompaniment.
2002-2005: Retirement and retrospective
Mitchell said at the time Travelogue would be his last album. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, he voiced dissatisfaction with the current state of the music industry, describing it as a "septic tank". Mitchell expressed his displeasure with the dominance of the recording industry and his desire to control his own fate, perhaps by releasing his own music through the Internet.
Over the next few years, the only album that Mitchell released was a compilation of his earlier work. In 2003, his Geffen recordings were collected in a set of four-remastered boxes, The Complete Geffen Recordings, including notes by Mitchell and three previously unreleased songs. A series of song-themed compilations from previous albums were also released: The Beginning of Survival (2004), Dreamland (2004), and Prairie Girls' Songs (2005), the latter collecting the threads of Canadian care and which he released after receiving an invitation to the Saskatchewan Centennial concert in Saskatoon. The concert, which featured the award for Mitchell, was also attended by Queen Elizabeth II. In Prairie Girl's liner notes, he writes that the collection is "my contribution to Centennial Saskatchewan celebration".
In the early 1990s, Mitchell signed an agreement with Random House to publish an autobiography. In 1998 he told The New York Times that his memoirs were "in the works", that they would be published in four volumes, and that the first line would be "I'm the only black man in the party." In 2005, Mitchell said that he used a tape recorder to get his memory "down in oral tradition". To date, Mitchell's autobiography remains unpublished.
Although Mitchell stated that he will no longer tour or give concerts, he has occasionally appeared in public to talk about environmental issues. Mitchell split his time between his old home in Los Angeles, and the 80 acres (32 hectares) property in Sechelt, British Columbia, which he had since the early 1970s. "L.A. is my place of work", he said in 2006, "B.C. is my heartbeat". According to the interview, today he focuses primarily on his visual arts, which he does not sell and is only shown on rare occasions.
2006-2015: Late recording
In an interview with Ottawa Citizen in October 2006, Mitchell "revealed that he was recording his first new collection of songs in nearly a decade," but gave some other details. Four months later, in an interview with New York Times, Mitchell said that the upcoming album, titled Shine , was inspired by the war in Iraq and "something his grandson has said while listening family fights: 'Nightmares are good - in big plans.' "The initial media report characterizes this album as having" minimal feelings... that are reminiscent of early work [Mitchell] "and focus on political and environmental issues.
In February 2007, Mitchell returned to Calgary and served as an advisor to the Alberta Company Ballet premiere of "The Fiddle and the Drum", a choreographed dance by Jean Grand-MaÃÆ'®tre for new and old songs. He works with French-Canadian TV director Mario Rouleau, who is famous for working in the arts and dance for television, such as Cirque du Soleil. He also filmed sections of the exercises for the documentary he was working on. From his recent bustle, he said, "I have never worked hard in my life."
In mid-2007, Mitchell's official fan website confirmed the speculation that he had signed two record contracts with the Hear Music Starbucks label. Shine was released by label on September 25, 2007, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, the highest charting position in the United States since the release of Hejira in 1976, more than thirty years earlier, and at number 36 on the UK album chart.
On the same day, Herbie Hancock, an old friend and friend of Mitchell's, released River: The Joni Letters , an album that paid homage to Mitchell's work. Among the album's contributors were Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen, and Mitchell themselves, contributing vocals to the re-recording of "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" (originally on his album Chalk Mark in the Rain Storm ). On February 10, 2008, recording Hancock won an Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. This is the first time in 43 years a jazz artist takes the grand prize at the annual awards ceremony. In accepting the award, Hancock paid tribute to Mitchell and Miles Davis and John Coltrane. At the same ceremony Mitchell won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Pop Performance for the opening song, "One Week Last Summer", from his album Shine.
In a 2010 interview with Los Angeles Times, Mitchell was quoted as saying that singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, with whom he worked closely in the past, was a fake and a plagiarist. The controversial statement was widely reported by other media. Mitchell did not clarify the dispute further, but some media speculated that it might be related to the alleged plagiarism that surrounded some of the lyrics on Dylan's 2006 album Modern Times . In a 2013 interview with Jian Ghomeshi, he was asked about the comment and replied by denying that he had made a statement while mentioning the plagiarism allegations that appeared on the lyric of Dylan's 2001 album Love and Theft in the general context of flow and tide ebb the creative process of artists.
Health
Morgellons
In 2009, Mitchell said that he had Morgellons syndrome, the informal name given for self-diagnosed skin conditions better described as a delusional infestation in most cases, according to a study conducted by the CDC as well as a consensus in the medical community. Mitchell spoke to Los Angeles Times in 2010 about Morgellons, saying, "I have an incurable, incurable disease that seems to come from outer space, but my health is the best ever since." He said at the time that he planned to leave the music industry to work giving more credibility to the people who were diagnosed with Morgellons.
Brain aneurysms
On March 31, 2015, Mitchell was found unconscious in his home in Los Angeles. He was aware in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but was taken to intensive care for the test. Since then, there have been conflicting reports about his condition. On April 28, 2015, an official statement was made through JoniMitchell.com:
Contrary to the rumors circulating on the internet today, Joni is not a coma. Joni is still in the hospital - but she understands, she is alert, and she has full awareness. Full recovery is expected. Documents obtained by certain media outlets only give old friends, Leslie Morris, the authorities - without any 24 hour doctor's care - to make treatment decisions for Joni as soon as he leaves the hospital. As we all know, Joni is a strong-willed woman and will not give up in a fight at all. Please keep Joni in your mind.
His old friend, Leslie Morris, invited congratulations on a website called "We Love You, Joni!" In early May, Mitchell's lawyer issued a statement during a court hearing about a request for a conservator from Morris, stating that Mitchell would be released from the hospital and return home; but that did not happen soon.
On May 29, 2015, it was confirmed that Mitchell had suffered from a brain aneurysm and that when the speech was difficult, he had communicated with others. Until May 2015 Mitchell is expected to be transferred to a rehabilitation facility, as his condition is still considered "very serious". About a month later a close friend David Crosby said "nobody found him for a while" and "as far as I know, he has not spoken yet." But Mitchell's conservator Leslie Morris then released a statement saying that "the detail that has emerged in the last few days is largely speculative, the truth is that Joni speaks, and he speaks well, he has not walked..."
In July 2015, Mitchell returned home, undergoing physical therapy and "making progress", according to his lawyer, Rebecca J. Thyne. In October 2015, Mitchell's friend, singer Judy Collins, reported that she took part in rehabilitation every day and walked, talked and painted.
Mitchell made his first public appearance after an aneurysm when he attended the Chick Corea concert in Los Angeles in August 2016. In February 2017 he was escorted to Clive Davis, the annual Pre-Grammy Gala in Los Angeles by old friend Cameron Crowe. On June 1, 2018, he attended a concert by James Taylor at the Hollywood Bowl.
Disclaimer of Counter-booming Baby Boom
Although he was famous among young musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, and his writings on "Woodstock" (where he was banned because his manager thought it was more profitable to perform at The Dick Cavett Show) he did not conform to the protest movement of the era or its cultural manifestations. He has said that the parents of the boomers are not happy, and "beyond that comes this free, spoiled, selfish generation into a ball of free love costumes, free sex, free music, free, free, free, free, we are absolutely free And Woodstock is the peak. "But" I'm not part of it, "he explained in an interview. "I'm also not part of the anti-war movement.I played at Fort Bragg.I went to Bob Hope's route because I had an uncle killed in the war, and I thought it was a shame to blame the children who were composed." Even Bob Dylan, one of the most iconic musicians of the Baby Boom generation, did not escape the criticism of Mitchell's generation: "I like Bob's many songs, he's not so talented in music."
Legacy
Guitar Style
While some of Mitchell's most popular songs are written on the piano, almost every song he composes on the guitar uses open, or non-standard tuning; he has written songs in about 50 barrel, playing what he calls "weird Joni chords". The use of an alternative barrel allows the guitarist to produce assistance with a more varied and broad texture. His right picking/strumming technique has evolved over the years from an initially elaborate picking style, marked by a guitar song on his first album, in a looser and more rhythmic style, sometimes combining "speech" perkusifan.
In 1995, Mitchell's friend Fred Walecki, owner of Westwood Music in Los Angeles, developed a solution to reduce his continuing frustration by using several alternatives in direct settings. Walecki designed Stratocaster-style guitars to work with the Roland VG-8 virtual guitar, a system capable of configuring many of its runs electronically. While the guitar itself remains in the standard tuning, VG-8 encodes the pickup signal to a digital signal which is then translated into the altered tuning. This allows Mitchell to use a single guitar on stage, while off-stage technology enters a preprogrammed tuning for each song on its set.
Mitchell was also very innovatively harmonious in his early work (1966-72) using techniques including modalities, chromaticism, and pedal points. On his debut album 1968 Song to a Seagull , Mitchell uses quartal and quintal harmony in "Dawntreader", and he uses quintal harmony in Seagull.
In 2003 Rolling Stone named him the seventh largest guitarist of all time; she is the highest ranked woman in the list.
Influence
Mitchell's approach to music touches the chord with many female listeners. In an era dominated by stereotypical male rock stars, he presents himself as "multidimensional and conflict... allowing him to build strong identification among his female fans". Mitchell reiterated his desire for artistic control throughout his career, and still holds the publishing rights for his music. Although he has rejected the idea that he is a "feminist", David Shumway notes that "he became the first woman in popular music to be recognized as an artist in the full sense of the term." In a 2013 interview he firmly rejected feminism, stating: "I am not a feminist, I do not want to get a posse against men, I would rather go to toe, do it." Whatever Mitchell's view of feminism, what he represents more than any other player of his day is a new advantage from a women's perspective on cultural and political life. "
Mitchell's work has influences on many other artists, including Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Corinne Bailey Rae, Gabrielle Aplin, Mikael ÃÆ'... kerfeldt of Opeth, Marilyn Steve Hogarth and Steve Rothery, former Fish lyricist and lyricist Paul Carrack, Haim, and Taylor Swift. Madonna also mentions Mitchell as the first female artist to really speak to her as a teenager; "I really, really became Joni Mitchell, I know every word for Court and Spark I adore it when I was in high school. Blue having to say about all the women I've ever heard, he has the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view. "
Several artists have successfully covered Mitchell's songs. Judy Collins's 1967 tape of "The Two Current Sides" reached No. 1. 8 on the Billboard charts and was a breakthrough in the careers of both artists (Mitchell's own recording did not see the release until two years later, on his second album Cloud i>). This is Mitchell's most covered song so far, with over 1,200 versions recorded on the latest count. Hole also covered "Both Sides Now" in 1991 on their debut album, Pretty on the Inside, repeating "Clouds", with lyrics modified by frontwoman Courtney Love. The Pop Neighborhood group in 1970 and Amy Grant in 1995 scored hits with the cover of "Big Yellow Taxi", the third most covered song in Mitchell's repertoire (with over 300 covers). The latest release of this song has been made by Counting Crows in 2002 and Nena in 2007. Janet Jackson used a sample of the "Big Yellow Taxi" choir as the centerpiece of his first hit song "Got 'Til It's Gone", which also featured the rapper Q- Tip says "Joni Mitchell never lies". "River", from the album Mitchell Blue became the second most-visited song in Mitchell in 2013 because many artists chose it for their holiday album. Rap artists Kanye West and Mac Dre have also sampled Mitchell's vocals in their music. In addition, Annie Lennox has covered "Ladies of the Canyon" for her 1995 B-side hit "No More I Love You's". Mandy Moore covered "Help Me" in 2003. In 2004 singer George Michael covered his song "Edith and the Kingpin" for a radio show. "River" has become one of the most popular songs covered in recent years, with versions by Dianne Reeves (1999), James Taylor (recorded for television in 2000, and for CD releases in 2004), Allison Crowe (2004) , Rachael Yamagata (2004), Aimee Mann (2005), and Sarah McLachlan (2006). McLachlan also performed a "Blue" version in 1996, and Cat Power recorded the cover of "Blue" in 2008. Others include Mitchell including the famous "Woodstock" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Matthews Southern Comfort, "It's Flight Tonight" by Nazareth, and the famous version of "Woodstock" by Eva Cassidy and "A Case of You" by Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, Jane Monheit, Prince, Diana Krall, James Blake and Ana Moura. The 40th anniversary version of "Woodstock" was released in 2009 by Nick Vernier Band featuring Ian Matthews (formerly of Matthews Southern Comfort). Canadian fellow singer k.d. lang recorded two Mitchell songs ("A Case of You" and "Jericho") for his 2004 Hymns of the 49th Parallel album composed entirely of songs written by Canadian artists.
The Prince's version of "A Case of U" appears in A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, a 2007 compilation released by Nonesuch Records, which also features BjÃÆ'¶rk ("The Boho Dance"), Caetano Veloso (" Dreamland "), Emmylou Harris (" The Magdalene Laundries "), Sufjan Stevens (" Free Man in Paris ") and Cassandra Wilson (" For Roses "), among others.
Some other track references are Joni Mitchell. The song "Our House" by Graham Nash refers to Nash's two year relationship with Mitchell when Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young recorded the album DÃÆ' Â © jÃÆ' Vu. Led Zeppelin's "Going to California" is said to be written about Robert Plant and Jimmy Page crazy with Mitchell, a claim apparently proved by the fact that, in live performances, Plant often says "Joni" after the line "To find the king without a king, they say he plays guitar and cries and sings ". Jimmy Page uses D double drop guitar tuning similar to the alternate barrel that Mitchell uses. Sonic Youth song "Hey Joni" is named for Mitchell. Alanis Morissette also mentions Mitchell in one of his songs, "Your House". British folk singer Frank Turner called Mitchell the song "Sunshine State". Prince's song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" contains the lyrics - "'Oh, my favorite song' he says - and that is Joni's song 'Help me, I think I'm falling'". "Lavender" by Marillion was partially influenced by "through the garden listening to Joni Mitchell", according to the vocalist and lyricist, and he was later mentioned in the lyrics of their song "Montreal" from Sounds That Can not Be Made . John Mayer made a reference to Mitchell and his album Blue in his song "Queen of California", from his 2012 album Born and Raised. The song contains the lyrics "Joni wrote Blue in a house by the sea".
In 2003, playwright Bryden MacDonald launched When All the Slaves Are Free , a musical performance based on Mitchell's music.
Mitchell's music and poetry has profoundly influenced the work of French painter Jacques Benoit. Between 1979 and 1989 Benoit produced sixty paintings, according to a selection of fifty Mitchell songs.
Maynard James Keenan of American progressive rock band Tool argues Mitchell as an influence, claiming that his influence is what enabled him to "soften the staccato, rhythmic, mad math path" and bring [them] back to the center, so you can hear it painlessly eye. "A Perfect Circle, another band featuring Keenan as lead vocalist, recorded Mitchell's" The Fiddle and the Drum "on their 2004 album eMOTIVe, a collection of cover songs of anti-war.
Awards and honor
The country of origin of Mitchell in Canada has awarded him several awards. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and received the Governor-General Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest award in performing arts, in 1996. Mitchell received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2000. In the year 2002 he became the only popular Canadian singer-songwriter (Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen to be the other two), to be appointed as a Canadian Order Partner, Canada's highest civilian honor. He received his honorary doctorate in music from McGill University in 2004. In January 2007 he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriting Hall of Fame. In June 2007, Canada Post featured Mitchell with stamps.
Mitchell has received nine Grammy Awards during his career (eight competitions, one honor), the first in 1969 and the most recent in 2016. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, with a quote that describes it as "one of the most important artists recording women from the rock era "and" a powerful influence on all artists embracing diversity, imagination and integrity ".
In 1995, Mitchell received the Billboard Century Award. In 1996, he was awarded the Polar Music Award. In 1997, Mitchell was appointed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did not attend the ceremony.
As a tribute to Mitchell, TNT's network presents the celebration of all the stars at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on April 6, 2000. Mitchell's songs are sung by many artists, including James Taylor, Elton John, Wynonna Judd, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Krall, and Richard Thompson. Mitchell himself ended the evening by bringing the song "Both Sides Now" with a 70-piece orchestra. This version is featured on the soundtrack for the Love Actually movie.
On February 12, 2010, "Both Sides, Now" was performed at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
To celebrate Mitchell's 70th anniversary, the Luminato Festival 2013 in Toronto held a series of honorary concerts titled Joni: A Portrait in Song at A Massey Hall on 18 and 19 June. Perpetrators include Rufus Wainwright, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, and a rare show by Mitchell himself.
Due to health problems he can not attend the San Francisco gala in May 2015 to receive SFJAZZ Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2008, Mitchell ranked 42th in Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 singers and in 2015 he was ranked ninth in the list of 100 Top Ten Songwriters. Time.
Grammy Awards
* Despite officially releasing Herbie Hancock, Mitchell also received a Grammy due to his vocal contributions for this album.
Juno Awards
Discography
- Studio albums
Note
Source
- Monk, Katherine (2012). Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell . Greystone's book. ISBN: 978-1-55365-838-2.
- Whitesell, Lloyd (2008). Joni Mitchell's Music . Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-530757-3.
Further reading
- Mercer, Michelle (April 7, 2009). Will You Take Me Like Me: Blue Joni Mitchell's Period . Media freedom. ISBN: 978-1-4165-5929-0.
- Smith, Larry David (January 1, 2004). Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and Torch Song Traditions . Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97392-6. Source of the article : Wikipedia
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