Born on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, the 80-year-old Joni Mitchell is experiencing a creative resurgence of late. The icon suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 and took several ...

After getting her start performing in coffee shops and nightclubs in her native Canada, Mitchell would go on to set a new standard marrying music and lyrics. With such songs as “Both Sides, Now,” ...

Celebrate the artist’s return to Spotify with tracks from last summer’s “Joni Jam.” By Lindsay Zoladz Last week, most of Joni Mitchell’s music returned to Spotify, the platform she had boycotted for ...

Joni Mitchell — an only child born on the Canadian prairies — reinvented herself for more than six decades, aptly singing “I’m on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, looking for ...

When it comes to Joni Mitchell’s most influential songs, you’d be hard-pressed to find a Mitchell original that has been covered more often than “Big Yellow Taxi”. It’s her biggest anthem, and it’s a ...

According to Carlile, Mitchell is a "standard" for her in that way when it comes to her songwriting. "I don't really understand the metric of how I judge those things. It just have to do with how I ...

Last year, Joni Mitchell surprised Newport Folk Festivalgoers with her first public performance in 20 years, singing a slew of her most beloved songs with notable guests. Marcus Mumford and Brandi ...

Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs. Joni Mitchell being interviewed in 1972 in ...