Joni: The Joni Mitchell Sessions
Joni: The Joni Mitchell Sessions

Author: Seeff Norman

Publisher: Insight Editions

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683836278

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An extraordinary collection of photographs of the legendary Joni Mitchell, captured by celebrated rock-and-roll photographer Norman Seeff. Joni: The Joni Mitchell Sessions is the ultimate celebration of a visionary musician and the artist who captured her spirit on film. It is a creative partnership that has lasted for over 40 years. Joni Mitchell, the artist behind celebrated hits “Help Me” and “Big Yellow Taxi,” and Norman Seeff, a rock-and-roll photographer with a host of legendary subjects in his portfolio, did some of their best work together. Joni was a truly authentic subject, able to surrender herself to the art and express herself freely within his lens. Through over a dozen sessions across more than a decade together, the photographer captured the many facets of her personality in some of her most famous images. Joni: The Joni Mitchell Sessions is the culmination of their partnership. Timed to release on Joni’s 75th birthday, this collection of familiar and rare imagery tracks the pair’s history together through these exclusive moments captured on film. A combination of album artwork and candid shots reveals Joni’s personality in ways few have managed to capture before or since. Featuring commentary from Seeff on the enlightenment into his art that he gained from their sessions, this compilation is a true reflection on mutual creativity between artist and muse.

Reckless Daughter
Reckless Daughter

Author: David Yaffe

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0374715602

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"She was like a storm." —Leonard Cohen Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music. Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than “a painter derailed by circumstances,” she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell’s life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. As an artist whose work deftly balances narrative and musical complexity, she has been admired by such legendary lyricists as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and beloved by such groundbreaking jazz musicians as Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Her hits—from “Big Yellow Taxi” to “Both Sides, Now” to “A Case of You”—endure as timeless favorites, and her influence on the generations of singer-songwriters who would follow her, from her devoted fan Prince to Björk, is undeniable. In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs—from Mitchell’s youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the present—and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends.

Joni Mitchell Complete So Far
Joni Mitchell Complete So Far

Author: Joni Mitchell

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1470622742

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Joni Mitchell Complete So Far contains 167 songs spanning her entire career, transcribed accurately and including the authentic tunings Joni explored throughout her artistic development. Titles: * All I Want * Amelia * The Arrangement * (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care * Bad Dreams * Banquet * Barangrill * Be Cool * The Beat of Black Wings * Big Yellow Taxi * Big Yellow Taxi (2007) * A Bird That Whistles (Corrina, Corrina) * Black Crow * Blonde in the Bleachers * Blue * Blue Boy * Blue Motel Room * The Boho Dance * Borderline * Both Sides, Now * Cactus Tree * California * Car on a Hill * Carey * A Case of You * Chelsea Morning * Cherokee Louise * Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody * The Circle Game * Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire * Come In from the Cold * Conversation * Cool Water * Court and Spark * Coyote * The Crazy Cries of Love * Dancin' Clown * The Dawntreader * Dog Eat Dog * Don Juan's Reckless Daughter * Don't Interrupt the Sorrow * Down to You * Dreamland * Edith and the Kingpin * Electricity * Ethiopia * Face Lift * Fiction * The Fiddle and the Drum * For Free * For the Roses * Free Man in Paris * Furry Sings the Blues * The Gallery * God Must Be a Boogie Man * Good Friends * Hana * Harlem in Havana * Harry's House—Centerpiece * Hejira * Help Me * The Hissing of Summer Lawns * How Do You Stop * I Don't Know Where I Stand * I Had a King * I Think I Understand * If * If I Had a Heart * Impossible Dreamer * In France They Kiss on Main Street * Jericho * Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) * The Jungle Line * Just Like This Train * Ladies' Man * Ladies of the Canyon * Lakota * Last Chance Lost * The Last Time I Saw Richard * Lead Balloon * Lesson in Survival * Let the Wind Carry Me * Little Green * Love * Love Puts on a New Face * Lucky Girl * The Magdalene Laundries * Man from Mars * Man to Man * Marcie * Michael from Mountains * Moon at the Window * Morning Morgantown * My Best to You * My Old Man * My Secret Place * Nathan la Franeer * Night in the City * Night of the Iguana * Night Ride Home * No Apologies * Not to Blame * Nothing Can Be Done * Number One * Off Night Backstreet * One Week Last Summer * The Only Joy in Town * Otis and Marlena * Overture—Cotton Avenue * Paprika Plains * Passion Play (When All the Slaves Are Free) * People's Parties * The Pirate of Penance * The Priest * Rainy Night House * Raised on Robbery * Ray's Dad's Cadillac * The Reoccurring Dream * Refuge of the Roads * River * Roses Blue * Same Situation * See You Sometime * Sex Kills * Shades of Scarlett Conquering * Shadows and Light * Shine * Shiny Toys * The Silky Veils of Ardor * The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) * Sisotowbell Lane * Slouching Towards Bethlehem * Smokin' (Empty, Try Another) * Snakes and Ladders * Solid Love * Song for Sharon * Song to a Seagull * Songs to Aging Children Come * Stay in Touch * A Strange Boy * Strong and Wrong * Sunny Sunday * Sweet Bird * Talk to Me * Taming the Tiger * Tax Free * The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) * That Song About the Midway * This Flight Tonight * This Place * The Three Great Stimulants * Tin Angel * Trouble Child * Turbulent Indigo * Twisted * Two Grey Rooms * Underneath the Streetlight * Urge for Going * Wild Things Run Fast * Willy * The Windfall (Everything for Nothing) * The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey * Woman of Heart and Mind * Woodstock * You Dream Flat Tires * You Turn Me on I'm a Radio * Yvette in English

Sessions!
Sessions!

Author: Norman Seeff

Publisher: Whalesong

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780962709555

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Tied in with gallery exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles, this collection of celebrity photographs includes portraits of Steve Martin, the Judds, Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, Santana, and Eugene Ionesco, among others. Original. 50,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Author: Peter Kearns

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781789520811

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In her long career, Canadian songstress Joni Mitchell has been hailed as everything from 1960s folk icon to 20th century cultural figure, artistic iconoclast to musical heroine, extreme romantic confessor to outspoken commentator and lyrical painter. While some criticised what they viewed as her seeming dismissal of commercial considerations, she simply viewed her trajectory as that of any artist serious about the integrity of their work. But whatever musical position she took, she was always one step ahead of the game, making eclectic and innovative music. Albums like The Ladies Of The Canyon, Blue, Hejira and Mingus helped define each era of the 1970s, as she moved from exquisitely pitched singer songwriter material towards jazz. Her past influence was obvious in the 1980s when hoards of assuming successors (some highly respectable) gathered her exotic breadcrumbs with a view to distilling their illusive compounds, while Joni simultaneously forged ahead. This book revisits her studio albums in detail from 1968's Song to a Seagull to 2007's Shine, providing anecdote and insight into the recording sessions, an in depth analysis along with a complimentary level of lyrical and instrumental examination.

Joni on Joni
Joni on Joni

Author: Susan Whitall

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0914090445

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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.

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Author: Malka Marom

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1770905812

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A lush exploration of Joni Mitchell's career and art. When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process. In Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, Joni and Malka follow this thread through seven decades of life and art, discussing the influence of Joni's childhood, love and loss, playing dives and huge festivals, acclaim and criticism, poverty and affluence, glamorous triumphs and tragic mistakes . . . This riveting narrative, told in interviews, lyrics, paintings, and photographs, is shared in the hope of illuminating a timeless body of work and inspiring others.

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Author: Joni Mitchell

Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780609802182

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In the generation of singer-songwriters who came to fame in the '60s, none has created a more evocative, bittersweet, literate, and reflective body of work than Joni Mitchell. Today's music owes much to her innovation and inspiration.After displaying a haunting and sophisticated quality in such early albums as Joni Mitchell (1968) and Ladies of the Canyon (1970), Mitchell reached her poetic apotheosis in the surreal and mythical Hejira (1976) and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977). In more recent works like Night Ride Home (1991) and Turbulent Indigo (1994) her poetic vision continued to sharpen and grow more penetrating.Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics -- including lyrics from Joni's newest album, Taming the Tiger, newly added to this paperback edition -- gives us the first opportunity to reconsider Mitchell's written work in the broad sweep of its power, honesty, and reflective beauty.

I Would Die 4 U
I Would Die 4 U

Author: Touré

Publisher: Atria Books

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1476737401

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An expansive and insightful exploration of one of the most iconic and electrifying artists ever, this book reveals the stunning, multi-generational influence and appeal of Prince and his revered music—from celebrated journalist, author, and host of the popular podcast The Touré Show. Infused with Touré’s unique pop-culture fluency, I Would Die 4 U is as passionate and radical as its subject matter. Building on his lifelong admiration for Prince’s oeuvre and interviews with those closest to the late artist, including band members, his tour manager, and music and Bible scholars, Touré deconstructs the life and work of the enigmatic icon who has been both a reflective mirror of and inspirational force for America. By defying traditional categories of race, gender, and sexuality, but also presenting a very conventional conception of religion and God, Prince was a man of profound contradictions. He spoke in the language of 60s pop and soul to a generation fearing Cold War apocalypse and the crack and AIDS epidemic, while simultaneously being both an MTV megastar and a religious evangelist. He creatively blended his songs with images of sex and profanity to invite us into a musical conversation about the healing power of God and religion. By demystifying Prince as a man, an artist, and a cultural force, I Would Die 4 U shows us how he impacted and defined a generation.

A Natural Woman
A Natural Woman

Author: Carole King

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1455512591

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Read the New York Times Bestselling memoir that is "revealing, humble, and cool-aunt chatty" about the incredible life that inspired the hit Broadway musical Beautiful (Rolling Stone). Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. A Natural Woman chronicles King's extraordinary life, drawing readers into her musical world, including her phenomenally successful #1 album Tapestry, and into her journey as a performer, mother, wife and present-day activist. Deeply personal, King's long-awaited memoir offers readers a front-row seat to the woman behind the legend. The book will include dozens of photos from King's childhood, her own family, and behind-the-scenes images from her performances.