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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Joni Mitchell

http://www.jonimitchell.com/

Joni Mitchell is a songwriter, singer, musician, poet and painter. Her output of 21 albums over 30 years is widely regarded as one of the most significant and consistent collections of work by any artist of her generation. Her unique interpretation of divergent styles creates an intriguing, often unclassifiable musical landscape, captivating music lovers and keeping pundits guessing.

Joan Anderson took piano lessons as a child in Saskatoon, and during her teenage years she taught herself to play the baritone ukelele, and later the guitar, so that she could entertain at parties. In 1964 she began her professional musical career by playing clubs and festivals around Canada. Her repertoire consisted mostly of standard folk songs, many recorded by her idol, Judy Collins, until she began writing her own songs, starting with "Day After Day", which she wrote while on her way to the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1965.

"Day after day Miles and miles of railroad track Night after night The humming of the wheels..." Day After Day- JONI MITCHELL 1966 Wild Indigo Music (BMI)

After leaving art-college in June 1964, Joni moved and settled in Toronto. She struggled to get into the music business but couldn't afford the money to join the musician's union, and was unable to find many jobs without that membership. She worked at Simpsons-Sears, and other department stores throughout the second half of 1964.

Joni also found out that she was pregnant by her college ex-boyfriend, and in February 1965 she gave birth to a baby girl. Joni was now alone with a newborn baby and unable to find work. Joni kept this a secret for many years but she finally told "Vogue" magazine in 1994: "I had had a child, and I was broke, literally penniless. And I met Chuck Mitchell, and he said he would take us on. I was kind of railroaded...we were never suitable. I went down the aisle saying 'I can get out of this.'"

A few weeks after the birth, Joni married folk-singer Chuck Mitchell. He promised to help take responsibility for the child but something changed, and a few weeks later Joni gave up her daughter for adoption.

In the summer of 1965, Chuck Mitchell took Joni with him to the U.S. to live and work in Detroit.

"I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley Lately he's taken to saying I'm crazy and blind He lives in another time Ladies in gingham still blush While he sings them of wars and wine But I in my leather and lace I can never become that kind..." I Had A King- JONI MITCHELL 1967 Siquomb Publishing Co. (BMI)

In Rhode Island during the summer of 1966, Joni played a short set at the famed

NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL.

The marriage and partnership of Joan & Chuck Mitchell dissolved in a year and a half, and in early 1967 Joni Mitchell moved to New York City to pursue her musical dreams as a solo artist. She played venues up and down the East Coast, including Philadelphia, Boston, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and she built up a strong following as a live performer and a burgeoning reputation as a songwriter.

Folk singer Tom Rush had met Joni in Toronto and was impressed with her songwriting ability. He took "The Urge For Going" to Judy Collins but she was not sufficiently interested in the song at the time, so Tom recorded it himself. Then country singer George Hamilton IV heard Tom performing it and recorded a hit country version. Other artists who recorded Mitchell songs in the early years were Buffy Saint-Marie, Dave Von Ronk and eventually Judy Collins.

Due to the recording of her songs by others, she began to get more bookings in cities like Chicago and various towns in Florida. But New York was a harder nut to crack.

More Bio Info: http://www.jonimitchell.com/Frames1.html

Discography

http://www.jonimitchell.com/Frames1.html




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