Artist: Joni Mitchell Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Miscellaneous
Rock: Folk-Rock
Rock: Folk
Rock
Jazz: Jazz-Rock
Discography:
Shine Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Shadows and Light (CD 2) Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Shadows and Light (CD 1) Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Travelogue (CD 2) Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Travelogue (CD 1) Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Both Sides Now Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Blue Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Hits Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Chalk Mark In A Rainstorm Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
For The Roses Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
Hejira Year: 1976
Tracks: 9
Court and Spark Year: 1974
Tracks: 11
Ladies Of The Canyon Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Clouds Year: 1969
Tracks: 10
Wild Things Run Fast Year:
Tracks: 11
Taming The Tiger Year:
Tracks: 11
Song To A Seagull Year:
Tracks: 10
Dreamland Year:
Tracks: 17
When the sprinkle settles, Joni Mitchell english hawthorn stand as the most important and influential distaff recording artist of the late twentieth one C. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell lost expectations at every turn; restlessly innovational, her music evolved from profoundly personal kinfolk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even worldly concern music, presaging the multicultural experiment of the 1980s and 1990s by over a decade. Fiercely main, her work steadfastly resisted the whims of both mainstream audiences and the male-dominated recording industry. While Mitchell's records ne'er sold in the same numbers pool enjoyed by contemporaries like Carole King, Janis Joplin, or Aretha Franklin, none experimented so recklessly with their artistic identities or so bravely explored territorial dominion outside of the recognised confines of pop music, resulting in a creative bequest which paved the direction for performers ranging from Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde to Madonna and Courtney Love.
Born Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada, on November 7, 1943, she was stricken with infantile paralysis at the age of baseball club; spell convalescent in a children's hospital, she began her performing vocation by singing to the other patients. After later teaching herself to play guitar with the assistance of a Pete Seeger instruction ledger, she went off to art college, and became a fixture on the tribe music setting about Alberta. After relocating to Toronto, she married folksinger Chuck Mitchell in 1965, and began performing under the nominate Joni Mitchell.
A year later the duo moved to Detroit, MI, merely detached presently after; Joni remained in the Motor City, however, and north Korean won significant urge hail for her burgeoning songwriting skills and smoky, classifiable vocals, in the lead to a string of high profile performances in New York City. There she became a cause célèbre among the media and other performers; after she gestural to Reprise in 1967, David Crosby offered to produce her debut criminal record, a self-titled acoustic attempt that appeared the following year. Her songs besides ground peachy success with other singers: in 1968, Judy Collins scored a major attain with the Mitchell-penned "Both Sides Now," patch Fairport Convention covered "Easterly Rain" and Tom Rush recorded "The Circle Game."
Thanks to all of the outside exposure, Mitchell began to pull in a hard cult following; her 1969 sophomore effort,
Clouds, reached the Top 40, patch 1970's
Ladies of the Canyon sold level better on the strength of the single "Handsome Yellow Taxi." It besides included her anthemic opus "Woodstock," a major strike for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Still, the commercial and critical approval awarded her landmark 1971 record
Blue was unprecedented: a luminous, starkly confessional go under written primarily during a European holiday, the album steadfastly established Mitchell as one of pop music's most noteworthy and insightful talents.
Predictably, she turned aside from
Depressed's incandescent folk with 1972's
For the Roses, the first of the many major stylistic turns she would take over the course of her daring life history. Backed by rock-jazz performing artist Tom Scott, Mitchell's music began moving into more pop-oriented territory, a change typified by the individual "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," her first significant hit. The followup, 1974's authoritative
Court and Spark, was her nigh commercially successful outing: a sparkling, jazz-accented fix, it reached the number deuce smirch on the U.S. album charts and launched trey hit singles -- "Serve Me," "Justify Man in Paris," and "Elevated on Robbery."
After the 1974 live compendium
Miles of Aisles, Mitchell emerged in 1975 with
The Hissing of Summer Lawns, a bold, near new wave record that housed her progressively complex songs in experimental, jazz-inspired settings; "The Jungle Line" introduced the rhythms of African Burundi drums, placing her far in front of the kill world's mid-'80s fascination with public music. 1976's
Hegira, recorded with Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, smoothened out the music's more difficult edges while employing minimalist techniques; Mitchell later performed the album's first base single, "Coyote," at the Band's
Final Waltz concert that Thanksgiving.
Her next travail, 1977's two-record rig
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, was some other ambitious move, a compendium of foresightful, largely improvisational pieces recorded with jazz players Larry Carlton and Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, and a stamp battery of Latin percussionists. Shortly after the record's spillage, Mitchell was contacted by the legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus, wHO invited her to make with him on a musical rendering of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Mingus, wHO was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, sketched out a series of melodies to which Mitchell added lyrics; however, Mingus died on January 5, 1979, in front the disc was completed. After Mitchell finished their collaborationism on her own, she recorded the songs under the title
Mingus, which was released the summer later on the jazz titan's pass.
Following her second live compendium, 1980's
Shadows and Light, Mitchell returned to pop district for 1982's
Godforsaken Things Run Fast; the first individual, a cover of the Elvis Presley hit "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," became her first chart single in eight age. Shortly after the album's spillage, she marital bassist/sound engine driver Larry Klein, wHO became a frequent collaborator on a great deal of her subsequent material, including 1985's synth-driven
Dog Eat Dog, co-produced by Thomas Dolby. Mitchell's displace into electronics continued with 1988's
Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, featuring guests Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and Billy Idol.
Arthur Mitchell returned to her roots with 1991's
Night Ride Home, a spare, stripped compendium spotlighting little more than her voice and acoustic guitar. Prior to recording 1994's
Roily Indigo, she and Klein spaced, although he still co-produced the disk, which was her most acclaimed work in eld. In 1996, she compiled a geminate of anthologies,
Hits and
Misses, which self-contained her chart successes as well as underappreciated favorites. A newfangled studio record album,
Taming the Tiger, followed in 1998.
Both Sides Now, a accumulation of standards, followed in early 2000.
Deuce age later, Mitchell resurfaced with the double-disc release
Travelog. She announced in October 2002 that this would be her last album e'er, for she'd fully grown tired of the industry. She told W magazine that she intended to crawl in. She too claimed she would never sign some other corporate mark deal and in Rolling Stone blamed the transcription manufacture for being "a sink." By the time
Travelog appeared a month afterward, Mitchell had simmered down and her plans to call off it quits had been axed. Numerous compilations and remasters appeared between 2002 and 2006, culminating in the button of the independent
Shine in 2007.
