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*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*
Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.
“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life…
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This book by music critic Ann Powers is more than a biography of Joni Mitchell. It is also a biography of her albums, including musical influences at the time, collaborators, the instruments she played, and the special tunings she developed. My favorite part is that it also includes the personal things going on in her life while she wrote specific songs -- the lovers, the breakups, the child she gave away and later reunited with, and her love/hate relationship with fame. All these things are spelled out in the same relentless honesty as Joni Mitchell's confessional-style music. This makes the…
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