“Opened up this world”: It took David Byrne decades to understand Joni Mitchell
The penny dropped.
Joni Mitchell Archives: 03/2026
Joni Mitchell says Canada is “so fortunate” to have Mark Carney and performs ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ at Juno Awards
The star was accepting her ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
The two singers who were out of Linda Ronstadt’s league: ‘I tried the best that I could’
The greatest vocal technicians.
Joni Mitchell didn’t want to be remembered for folk: “They want to pigeonhole me and they can’t”
Not wanting to be typecast.
The city Joni Mitchell believes produced the greatest musicians: “The hotbed of all musical activity”
Where all souls come to rest.
“Better than all the rest”: David Crosby and the songwriter with no equal
In the late 1960s, David Crosby collided with some of his generation’s finest songwriters.
The one musician Joni Mitchell said resented her: “That’s my personal opinion”
Not as ready to put his guard down.
