Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780914090359)

Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet.

She often said she would be criticized for staying the same or changing, so why not take the less boring option? Her earthy, poetic lyrics ("the geese in chevron flight" in "Urge for Going"), the phrases that are now part of the culture ("They paved paradise, put up a parking lot"), and the unusual melodic intervals traced by that lissome voice earned her the status of a pop legend. Fearless experimentation ensured that she will also be seen as one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century.

Joni on Joni is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of some of Mitchell's most illuminating interviews, spanning the years 1966 to 2014. It includes revealing pieces from her early years in Canada and Detroit along with influential articles such as Cameron Crowe's never-before-anthologized Rolling Stone piece. Interspersed throughout the book are key quotes from dozens of additional Q&As. Together, this material paints a revealing picture of the artist-- bragging and scornful, philosophical and deep, but also a beguiling flirt.

Author: Susan Whitall
ISBN-10: 0914090356
ISBN-13: 9780914090359
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2018
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 60