Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC ( born November 7, 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta / Canada, as Roberta Joan Anderson ) is a Canadian musician and painter. It is one of the most important female singer- songwriters of the first generation, in addition to Carole King and Laura Nyro. She accompanies himself on guitar or piano, in the seventies and occasionally on the dulcimer.

  • 3.1 Studio albums
  • 3.2 Live albums
  • 3.3 Compilations
  • 3.4 Singles

Life

Childhood

Joni Mitchell grew up in a Canadian small town. 1951 there was a polio epidemic, and at age eight, she contracted polio, as well as the five -year-old Neil Young. The result was a slight paralysis of the left hand, she moved to the study of non-standard tunings later while playing the guitar. She later said this:

"My left hand is somewhat clumsy Because of polio. I had to simplify the shapes of the left hand, but I craved chordal movement did I could not get out of standard tuning without at extremely articulate left hand " ( " My left hand is a bit awkward because of polio. I had the chords for the left hand is easier, but I longed for chord progressions that I could not reach without extremely articulated left hand with the standard tuning. " )

Since the age of nine she smokes. When she was eleven, her family moved to Saskatoon. Songs of Pete Seeger had a great influence on them.

1960s

After high school she began studying art in Toronto, which she broke off, however, after she had become pregnant. Prior to her conservative family, she hid the pregnancy and gave the child up for adoption. 1965 Mitchell met her future husband Chuck Mitchell know, a folk singer from Michigan. She moved with him to Detroit in the USA, where they made music together. However, the young couple stayed together long, and in the time of separation, she wrote her first songs. In 1968, the marriage ended in divorce.

The artist moved to New York and was with her songs quickly became a insider tip in the local club scene in Greenwich Village was the center of folk music in the 1960s. David Crosby, who had left the Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young should be a member, offered to produce their first album, which was released in 1968. Now, its reputation began to expand to the entire United States, and in the folk scene, she won quickly a cult status that continues today.

In 1969 she was invited to perform at the legendary Woodstock festival, but the festival site could not reach because of the enormous Andrangs. Agitated by the energy that emanated from this festival to the entire generation, they wrote the song Woodstock anthem on the festival, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young had with this song a big hit. Joni Mitchell influenced even other musicians: So landed the Scottish rock band Nazareth in 1974 a hit single with a cover version of their song This Flight Tonight from the album Blue. For Judy Collins wrote the 1967 hit Both Sides Now, she later (1968 ) in-house with guitar accompaniment sang ( album Clouds ).

1970s

Had the first half of the seventies Mitchell great artistic and commercial success with the albums Ladies of the Canyon ( 1970), Blue ( 1971), For the Roses (1972) and Court and Spark (1974).

Since 1975 have been added to the album The Hissing of Summer Lawns ' for Folk Music Jazz influences, which continued on the 1976 album Hejira with Jaco Pastorius, the the 1977 album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and the 1979 tribute album Mingus ( Charles Mingus ).

In 1976 she was at The Last Waltz, the farewell concert of The Band, with her song Coyote there.

1980s

Had Mitchell published in the 1970s, almost every year an album, so this happened since 1980 only every three years. In the 1980s, there was a stronger influence of rock music, sponsored by David Geffen.

In 1982 she married the bassist Larry Klein, with whom she had been married twelve years.

The album Dog Eat Dog ( 1985) was produced at the suggestion of Geffen Records by Thomas Dolby, Mitchell, however, always found it difficult to enforce their musical ideas:

" He 'may be able to do it better, but the fact is did it then would not really be my music. " ( He may be able to do better, but the fact is that it will not really my music is ).

Late work

In 2002 he released the double album Travelogue, inspired by the events of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. It contained a collection of songs from three decades. Joni Mitchell was accompanied in the recording of a 70 - piece orchestra and jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Joni Mitchell announced that this was their last album and she was tired of the music industry. You wanted to concentrate fully on the painting, which she had not lost her life from her eyes.

Contrary to these announcements Joni Mitchell took in early 2007 on the album Shine with almost entirely new material, which was released in the fall of 2007 and musically meant a rapprochement with their own musical roots.

Awards

Three of Joni Mitchell's albums have been awarded a Grammy.

In 1996 she was awarded the Polar Music Prize.

1997 Joni Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

2002 she was awarded as one of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century a Ehrengrammy for their lifetime ( Lifetime Achievement Award).

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Singles

  • 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 "
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