Interesting facts
· born on November 07, 1943 in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada as “Roberta Joan Anderson”,
· She is one of the most renowned songwriters who created influential lyrics and songs across a wide variety of genres including R&B, pop, rock, jazz and folk.
· Joni Mitchell is an accomplished musician, songwriter, poet and painter.
· Joni discovered a passion for singing at age 9 and taught herself the ukulele and guitar as a teen.
· She attended high school at the Aden Bowman Collegiate, while performing at parties, coffeehouses and other Saskatoon venues
· Joni quit college to focus on her career as a folksinger.
· Joni Mitchell married folk singer Chuck Mitchell. Chuck Mitchell and Joni separated in 1966, but she took his surname in building her solo career.
· Joni Mitchell has released over 20 studio albums and several compilations, which led to several nominations and 10 wins from the Grammy Awards. Some of her notable songs include “Help Me,” "Both Sides Now," and "Big Yellow Taxi," among many others.
· Aside from her unique talent in writing songs, Joni Mitchell is also a talented guitarist so much so that Rolling Stone included her as #72 on the ‘Greatest Guitarist of All Time’ list.
· Time’ list. She has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Canada’s Walk of Fame and Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Time Line
November 7, 1943: Roberta Joan Anderson (a.k.a. Joni Mitchell) is born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.
January 21, 1967: The first recording of a Joni Mitchell song, country singer George Hamilton IV’s version of “Urge for Going,” enters Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. Mitchell’s own version would later appear as the B side of the 1972 single “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
March 9, 1968: Joni Mitchell’s untitled debut album, produced by David Crosby and sometimes referred to as ‘Song to a Seagull,’ is released.
December 1, 1968: Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash move into “Our House” on Laurel Canyon’s Lookout Mountain Road.
August 18, 1969: Joni Mitchell is slated to perform at Woodstock but is advised to honor a commitment to appear on Dick Cavett’s TV talk show. In lieu of appearing at that landmark event, she writes the anthemic tribute, “Woodstock.”
January 1, 1970: David Geffen establishes Asylum Records. The first artist he signs is Jackson Browne. The label’s roster eventually will include Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, J.D. Souther and numerous other Los Angeles musicians.
March 1, 1970: Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon, featuring “Big Yellow Taxi,” enters the Top 30 on the Billboard album chart.
December 14, 1972: For the Roses, Joni Mitchell’s first album for David Geffen’s new Asylum label, is released. It reaches #11 and “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” is a minor hit single.
February 3, 1973: Joni Mitchell hits #25 with “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
February 2, 1974: ‘Court and Spark’, a tuneful, jazz-tinged album containing some of Joni Mitchell’s most accessible work, enters the album chart. It goes on to sell four million copies and launch two Top Forty singles: “Help Me” (#7) and “Free Man in Paris” (#22).
December 14, 1974: ‘Miles of Aisles’, a live double album documenting Joni Mitchell’s tour in the wake of ‘Court and Spark’s’ commercial breakthrough, is released. It is recorded during four-night stand in August 1974 and finds her backed by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express.
February 15, 1975: Joni Mitchell hits #24 with “Big Yellow Taxi”.
July 14, 1979: Joni Mitchell’s collaboration with jazz bass player and bandleader Charles Mingus, simply titled Mingus, is released a half-year after his death.
November 14, 1982: Joni Mitchell’s first studio album of the Eighties, ‘Wild Things Run Fast’, is released. Only two more albums will be forthcoming in the decade: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ (1985) and ‘Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm’ (1988).
February 19, 1991: ‘Night Ride Home, Joni Mitchell’s 16th album, inaugurates the Nineties. It would be followed by ‘Turbulent Indigo’ (1994) and two complementary and simultaneously released compendiums, ‘Hits’ and ‘Misses’.
December 6, 1995: Joni Mitchell is presented with the Century Award at the Billboard Music Awards.
February 28, 1996: ‘Turbulent Indigo’, Joni Mitchell’s 17th album, wins a Grammy for Best Pop Album at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.
May 6, 1997: Joni Mitchell inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the twelfth annual induction dinner. Shawn Colvin is her presenter.
March 14, 2000: Both Sides Now, an album of love songs by Joni Mitchell and other songwriters, is released. She is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.
