A Joni Mitchell tribute album, celebrating her 75th birthday, will feature live renditions of the singer’s songs by Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, James Taylor and many others. The record, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, will come out on March 8th. It contains a recording of a tribute concert that was held in her honor in Los Angeles last November. The concert will additionally be […]
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Why Do We Remember Song Lyrics Easier Than Important Passwords? This morning in the shower, I sang Joni Mitchell’s 1974 song “People’s Parties” from start to finish from memory, a song easily I first listened to more than thirty-odd years ago. Granted, it’s a relatively short song (I say this because with the potential of another California drought looming, […]
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From The New Yorker: October 9, 2017 Issue Joni Mitchell’s Openhearted Heroism She made the best music of her generation by falling in love, over and over, while defending her sense of self. By Dan Chiasson Mitchell wanted to make a new kind of song, one in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music. Photograph by Mark Roth / Globe Photos / […]
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PLAY AUDIO SAMPLE Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon & the Journey of a Generation Written by: Sheila Weller Narrated by: Susan Ericksen Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins Unabridged Audiobook Whispersync for Voice-ready 3.60 (224 ratings)
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Where The Creatures Meet: Harmony and Discord in Laurel Canyon Written by Stephen Deusner November 18th, 2014 at 1:56 pm In April 1970 Joni Mitchell released her third record, Ladies Of The Canyon, an ode to the denizens of the neighborhood she called home, Laurel Canyon, a mountainous paradise nestled in the purgatory of Los Angeles. The gentle title track […]
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March 25, 2015 by Jon Patrick Laurel Canyon Daze The epic tales of Laurel Canyon’s heyday continues to linger like the warm smell of colitas rising up through the air… It’s here that the SoCal sound was born out of an era of relaxed morals, folks expanding their mental horizons (drugs), and a wave of eclectic misfits coming from all […]
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From left to right, Jackson Browne,Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, David Geffen, Ned Doheny, Venice, Easter Sunday 1972.
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By MessyNessy 21ST APR, 2015 In a sleepy fishing village on the island of Crete, where Joni Mitchell had found herself a nomadic home inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff, she sang her folk songs, “under a starry dome…beneath the Matala Moon.” It was the 1960s and a community of backpacking hippies had settled in Matala, a remote corner […]
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New Tracks on Laurel Canyon Radio – Week of April 23 We’ve added a bunch of delicious new music to the station this week and we can’t tell you how excited we are by a new crop of Laurel Canyon-y tunes for you to wash over you like the aural pashmina it is: Heartache – Nicki Bluhm And […]
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For those who are too jaded…here’s a brief history of the Snob Dictionary Guide To Laurel Canyon.
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