A 1971 classic has just been ranked the best singer-songwriter album of all time — and the No. 1 choice won’t surprise most ...

A couple of weeks ago, I booked a summer trip to Mallorca and Menorca, two of the four main Balearic islands in Spain. Since then, I have done approximately zero things to prepare for my travels ...

Like the birth of a child, some experiences are so profound that words only cheapen them. One such experience is Blue, Joni Mitchell’s 1971 classic — an album as essential to the lexicon of rock and ...

Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell obviously are widely considered two of the all-time greatest and most influential singer/songwriters. Dylan and Mitchell also have expressed great admiration for each other ...

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Material just has a way of finding some songwriters. That can be the case even when they’re trying to get away from difficult experiences that provided their share of songwriting fodder in the first ...

Joni Mitchell’s next deep dive into her archives will focus on the singer-songwriter’s decades-long exploration into jazz music. While the majority of the songs on Joni’s Jazz are plucked from ...

Paul Lisicky’s career as a writer and a teacher of writing has spanned decades and genres, but one constant has been his love for the music of Joni Mitchell. Writing about his childhood in New Jersey, ...

On June 22, 1971, Joni Mitchell released Blue, concluding her prolific four album run for Reprise Records with an album considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time. Its stirring, ...