Joni got pregnant in 1964 after falling in love with a local Canadian boy named Brad McGrath, who later ran off to California upon learning of the baby. Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer and songwriter who is best known for releasing various tracks, EPs, and albums. Always And Forever. She has disclaimed the notion that she is a "feminist"; in a 2013 interview she rejected the label, stating, "I'm not a feminist. She is one of the best folk singers of all time according to critics and has won countless Grammy Awards and nominations for her outstanding work. A Creative Spark. [15], On January 1, 2023, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Mitchell as number 50 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time". ET on CBS (and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+) boasts one of its most luminous lineups ever: Joni Mitchell (age 78), Lorne Michaels (77), Berry Gordy (92), Bette . Joni Mitchell Emma McIntyre /VF20/WireImage. Her final release on Asylum Records and her second live double album, it was released in September 1980, and made it up to No. [160], On January 12, 2023, it was announced by the Library of Congress that Mitchell would be that year's recipient of the Gershwin Prize with a concert set to be delivered in March in Washington D.C. in honor of the award. On "The Jungle Line", she made an early effort at sampling a recording of African musicians, something that became more commonplace among Western rock acts in the 1980s. Joni was found unconscious in her home. I learned every song off of it, and I don't think there is another album anywhereincluding my ownon which I know every note and word of every song. [6] NPR ranked Blue number 1 on a 2017 list of Greatest Albums Made By Women. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshipped her when I was in high school. (Michael Putland / Getty Images) Legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has a rare message for fans upon the 50th anniversary of "Blue," her seminal fourth studio album. The existence of her daughter, originally called Kelly Dale, was not publicly known until . Other artists who recorded Mitchell's songs in the early years were Buffy Sainte-Marie ("The Circle Game"), Dave Van Ronk ("Both Sides Now"), and eventually Judy Collins ("Both Sides Now", a top ten hit for her, and "Michael from Mountains", both included on her 1967 album Wildflowers). Performers included Rufus Wainwright, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, and rare performances by Mitchell herself. Wild Things Run Fast is the bridge between Mitchell's 70s and 80s: as with 1979's Mingus, the LP dabbles in jazz (Moon at the Window) but it also features new wave takes on her guitar-driven . Shine was released by the label on September 25, 2007, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, her highest chart position in the United States since the release of Hejira in 1976, over thirty years previously, and at number 36 on the United Kingdom albums chart. 19641967: Career beginnings, motherhood, and first marriage, 20102022: Health problems, recovery, and archival projects. Her mother, Myrtle Marguerite, was of Scottish and Irish ancestry. In April 2022 Mitchell received a Grammy Award for 'Best Historical Album' for this release. Mitchell was born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Myrtle Marguerite (ne McKee) and William Andrew Anderson. The concert, which featured a tribute to Mitchell, was also attended by Queen Elizabeth II. Emily Grove's Joni Jam: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell. During this time she briefly studied classical piano. "[113] Songs performed included "Carey", "Come in from the Cold", "A Case of You", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Both Sides Now" and "The Circle Game". Album Of The Year. [40][41] By that time, Mitchell's daughter, renamed Kilauren Gibb, had already begun a search for her biological parents. [119], Mitchell was highly innovative harmonically in her early work (19661972), incorporating modality, chromaticism, and pedal points. In 1996, Mitchell agreed to release a greatest Hits collection, despite initial concerns that such a release would damage sales of her catalog. 189 almost eighteen years before. She stopped at the Mariposa Folk Festival to see Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Saskatchewan-born Cree folk singer who had inspired her. 1: The Early Years (19631967) collection. [7], Mitchell began exploring more jazz-influenced ideas on 1974's Court and Spark, which featured the radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris"[8] and became her best-selling album. You're listening to Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" from the forthcoming Asylum Albums (1972-1975) box set out September 23. [23], She moved with her family to the city of Saskatoon, which she considers her hometown, at age 11. Mitchell and her daughter met in 1997. The collection is the first to feature a new mix of Mitchell's 1968 debut album, overseen by Mitchell herself. [80], In March 2015, Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm rupture,[81] which required her to undergo physical therapy[82] and take part in daily rehabilitation. Joni Mitchell Family. To wider audiences, the real return to form for Mitchell came with 1994's Grammy-winning Turbulent Indigo. Afterwards, she drove back to California alone and composed several songs during her journey which featured on her next album, 1976's Hejira. Musician Beck made the gala a family affair by bringing his children Cosimo Henri Hansen and Tuesday . 63 on Billboard's Top Albums Chart, Mitchell's lowest chart position since her first album peaked at No. In November, Mitchell released that album, Miles of Aisles, a two-record set including all but two songs from the L.A. concerts (one selection each from the Berkeley Community Theatre, on March 2, and the L.A. Music Center, on March 4, were also included in the set). In a 2022 interview with Glamour, Annie Potts spoke at length about her long and successful acting career. These lyrics did not receive wide attention at the time. The recording of the album coincided with the end of Mitchell's marriage to musician Larry Klein after 12 years; Klein was also co-producer of the album. All relationship and family history information shown on FameChain has been compiled from data in the public domain. You will be able to watch it in PBS at a later date. A female genius must have talent to spare, yes. Her melodious tunes support her poetic and often very personal lyrics to make her one of the most authentic artists of her time. Clive Davis held the second part of his virtual pre-Grammy celebration on Saturday night, raising money for the Grammy Museum by conducting a six . That's my song.' "[45] Mitchell is both a Canadian and U.S. The album Night Ride Home was released in March 1991. Barely four years ago, legendary folk singer Joni Mitchell had a tearful reunion with her only daughter, Kilauren Gibb, whom she had given up for adoption 32 years earlier. In 1965, she gave birth to a daughter. The guitar-playing folk darling of the 1960s infused her sound with jazz, rock and pop before rising to the top of the . The album received mixed reviews but still sold relatively well, peaking at No. A performance from the tour was videotaped and later released on home video (and later DVD) as Refuge of the Roads. 13 on the Billboard Charts, reaching gold status three weeks after release, and received airplay from album-oriented FM rock stations. On the April 1971 release of James Taylor's Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon album, Mitchell is credited with backup vocals on the track "You've Got a Friend". Rejected from major folk clubs, she resorted to busking,[32] while she "worked in the women's wear section of a downtown department store to pay the rent. She received a rank 42 on "Rolling Stone's" "100 Greatest Singers . Henry Diltz. Walecki designed a Stratocaster-style guitar to function with the Roland VG-8 virtual guitar, a system capable of configuring her numerous tunings electronically. Folk singer Tom Rush had met Mitchell in Toronto and was impressed with her songwriting ability. In 1995, Mitchell's friend Fred Walecki, proprietor of Westwood Music in Los Angeles, developed a solution to alleviate her continuing frustration with using multiple alternative tunings in live settings. Janet Jackson used a sample of the chorus of "Big Yellow Taxi" as the centerpiece of her 1997 hit single "Got 'Til It's Gone", which also features rapper Q-Tip saying "Joni Mitchell never lies". Should you have information that conflicts with anything shown . Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, 1991, photo by Guido Harari. She received an honorary doctorate in music from McGill University in 2004. She showed up personally to collect the award. Lennox tells AARP about Mitchell's influence, her own hits with the Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin, and . Power Couples. She felt disillusioned about the high priority given to technical skill over free-class creativity there,[25] and felt out of step with the trend toward pure abstraction and the tendency to move into commercial art. Her father William Andrew Anderson was from a Norwegian family, with possibly some Sami ancestry as well. "Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. British folk singer Frank Turner mentions Mitchell in his song "Sunshine State". [77], Although Mitchell said that she would no longer tour or give concerts, she made occasional public appearances to speak on environmental issues. Her most confessional album, Mitchell later said of Blue, "I have, on occasion, sacrificed myself and my own emotional makeup, singing 'I'm selfish and I'm sad', for instance. Lloyd Whitesell, "Harmonic Palette in Early Joni Mitchell", p. 173. She promoted Tiger with a return to regular concert appearances, including a co-headlining tour with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. lang recorded two of Mitchell's songs ("A Case of You" and "Jericho") for her 2004 album Hymns of the 49th Parallel which is composed entirely of songs written by Canadian artists. Maynard James Keenan of the American progressive metal band Tool has cited Mitchell as an influence, claiming that her influence is what allows him to "soften [staccato, rhythmic, insane mathematical paths] and bring [them] back to the center, so you can listen to it without having an eye-ache. She travelled with Chuck Mitchell to the US, where they began playing music together. A year later, Mitchell played Mariposa, her first gig for a major audience, and years later Sainte-Marie herself covered Mitchell's work. Her own version of "Woodstock", slower than the cover by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, was performed solo on a Wurlitzer electric piano. Mitchell toured steadily to promote the LP. Hejira "did not sell as briskly as Mitchell's earlier, more 'radio-friendly' albums, [but] its stature in her catalogue has grown over the years". Chalk Mark ultimately improved on the chart performance of Dog Eat Dog, peaking at No. Mitchell wrote her first song, "Day After Day", on the three-day train ride. Its success led to 2002's Travelogue, a collection of re-workings of her previous songs with lush orchestral accompaniments. She played "A Case of You," "Big Yellow Taxi . [63], It was around this time that critics also began to notice a real change in Mitchell's voice, particularly on her older songs; the singer later confirmed the change, explaining that "I'd go to hit a note and there was nothing there". She resolved to write her own songs.[38]. For a year and a half, Mitchell worked on the tracks for her next album. "[124] A Perfect Circle, another band featuring Keenan as lead vocalist, recorded a rendition of Mitchell's "The Fiddle and the Drum" on their 2004 album eMOTIVe, a collection of anti-war cover songs. I don't want to get a posse against men. When the tour ended she began a year of work, turning the tapes from the Santa Barbara County Bowl show into a two-album set and a concert film, both to be called Shadows and Light. A second plaque was installed at River Landing, near the Remai Modern art gallery and Persephone Theatre performing arts centre. [2] Mitchell expressed her dislike of the record industry's dominance and her desire to control her own destiny, possibly by releasing her own music over the Internet. Weller writes: "One confidante says ' [Joni] took pills. She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 1996. Mitchell discovered that she was pregnant by her Calgary ex-boyfriend Brad MacMath in late 1964. Barely four years ago, legendary folk singer Joni Mitchell had a tearful reunion with her only daughter, Kilauren Gibb, whom she had given up for adoption 32 years earlier. Joni Mitchell was honored as the 2022 MusiCares Person of the Year in Las Vegas while being . Court and Spark went to No. In addition, she contended that her voice had acquired a more interesting and expressive alto range when she could no longer hit the high notes, let alone hold them as she had in her youth.[65]. 38 on the Billboard charts. He took "Urge for Going" to the popular folk artist Judy Collins, but she was not interested in the song at the time, so Rush recorded it himself. Her height is 1.67 m and weight is 63 kg. Inspired by a passage about . Mitchell also revived "Jericho", written years earlier (a version is found on her 1974 live album) but never recorded in a studio setting. Mitchell herself ended the evening with a rendition of "Both Sides, Now" with a 70-piece orchestra. The covers of both LPs, including a self-portrait on Clouds, were designed and painted by Mitchell, a blending of her painting and music that she continued throughout her career. is my heartbeat". In early 1983, Mitchell began a world tour, visiting Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia and then going back to the United States. Joni Mitchell's children: Joni Mitchell's daughter is Kilauren Gibb. The latest post on the Canadian musician's Instagram page, which is managed by her team . Of the flurry of recent activity she quipped, "I've never worked so hard in my life."[69]. [83] Mitchell made her first public appearance following the aneurysm when she attended a Chick Corea concert in Los Angeles in August 2016. "Free Man in Paris" was another hit single and staple in her catalog. Saturday, Jul 1, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. She cut herself up and threw herself against . Seeing Joni Mitchell perform these days is a rarity, but this weekend she made it happen. Commenting on the original mix of Song to a Seagull, Mitchell called it "atrocious" and said it sounded like it "had been recorded under a bowl of Jello. [138] Rap artists Kanye West and Mac Dre have also sampled Mitchell's vocals in their music. As well, the walkway along Spadina Crescent between Second and Third Avenues was formally named the Joni Mitchell Promenade. While the guitar itself remained in standard tuning, the VG-8 encoded the pickup signals into digital signals which were then translated into the altered tunings. 25 in the Billboard charts in February 1973.[57]. The song "Our House" by Graham Nash refers to Nash's two-year relationship with Mitchell at the time that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young recorded the Dj Vu album. Red Bank, NJ 07701. . [108][113] Musicians who had turned up to play included Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Styles, Chaka Khan, Marcus Mumford and Herbie Hancock. Pictures of a smiling birth mother and . [5] In 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music". Supported by a group of well-wisher musicians, she participated in a 13-song set of her own material and covers (including one as accompaniment only, playing electric guitar). [72] On February 10, 2008, Hancock's recording won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music icon Joni Mitchell gave her first interview since suffering an aneurysm in 2015 on Saturday when she sat down with Clive Davis during his "Grammy gala." The music icon sat down for her first . The 15-year-old performed Joni Mitchell's hit "Help Me" at the MusiCares Person of the Year event following Taylor Hawkins' tragic death. [12] She later turned to pop and electronic music and engaged in political protest. National Post, March 3, 2001. Alanis Morissette also mentions Mitchell in one of her songs, "Your House". [37] Mitchell also began to realize each city's folk scene tended to accord veteran performers the exclusive right to play their signature songsdespite not having written the songswhich Mitchell found insular, contrary to the egalitarian ideal of folk music. He may be able to do it faster. Fellow Canadian singer k.d. Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash at The Big Sur Folk Festival (1969). Collins also covered "Chelsea Morning", another recording that eclipsed Mitchell's own commercial success early on. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. Mario Geo/Toronto Star via Getty Images. In 1997, Mitchell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did not attend the ceremony. [9][10][11] Her distinctive piano and open-tuned guitar compositions also grew more harmonically and rhythmically complex as she melded jazz with rock and roll, R&B, classical music and non-Western beats. "Irresponsible people are . She performed frequently in coffeehouses and folk clubs and, by this time creating her own material, became well known for her unique songwriting and her innovative guitar style. On December 22, 2021, the "Big Yellow Taxi" singer will be celebrated at the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. [24] Mitchell struggled at school; her main interest was painting. The guitar's output, through the VG-8, was transposed to any of her tunings in real-time. Mitchell wanted to make a new kind of song, one in which conversation could flower, in mid-phrase, into music. April 1, 2015 by L.A Girl. [3] Settling in Southern California, Mitchell helped define an era and a generation with popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock". She stated that "This album was written mostly while I was traveling in the car. The next day, Mitchell attended the show at the Kennedy Center. But Joni liked to keep her personal life out of the public eye, choosing not to reveal that she gave up her daughter for adoption all the way back in 1965. She is currently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits. "River", from Mitchell's album Blue became the second-most covered song of Mitchell's in 2013 as many artists chose it for their holiday albums. [89] A limited-edition blue vinyl edition of Blue followed in January 2019. Joni Mitchell, in the foreword to " Morning Glory on the Vine ," her new book of lyrics and illustrations, explains that, in the early nineteen-seventies, just as her fervent and cavernous . The lushly produced "Carey" was the single at the time, but musically, other parts of Blue departed further from the sounds of Ladies of the Canyon. Yet "Coyote", backed with "Blue Motel Room", failed to chart on the Hot 100. 41 in its sixth week. City . She was born with the . She left western Canada for the first time in her life, heading east for Ontario. It would be unacceptable . This character who symbolized her turn toward jazz and streetwise lyrics reappears in the concert video 'Shadows and Light', her contribution to the film anthology 'Love', and the music video for "Beat of Black Wings".[59]. [122] Mitchell asserted her desire for artistic control throughout her career, and still holds the publishing rights for her music. As 1984 ended, Mitchell was writing new songs when she received a suggestion from Geffen that perhaps an outside producer with experience in the modern technical arenas that they wanted to explore might be a worthy addition. [28] She dropped out of school in grade 12 (resuming her studies later) and hung out downtown with a rowdy set until she decided that she was getting too close to the criminal world. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. [53] Roberts and Geffen were to have important influences on her career. Pop group Neighborhood in 1970 and Amy Grant in 1995 scored hits with covers of "Big Yellow Taxi", the third-most covered song in Mitchell's repertoire (with over 300 covers). Mitchell said, "My jazz background began with one of the early Lambert, Hendricks and Ross albums." Joni Mitchell, 78, is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters. Her mother was a teacher, while her father . [110][111][112] It was Mitchell's first public performance in nine years. The album also included the already-familiar song "The Circle Game" and the environmental anthem "Big Yellow Taxi", with its now-famous line, "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Over time, Kilauren appears to have transitioned from a . [61] The album won two Grammy awards, including Best Pop Album, and it coincided with a much-publicized resurgence in interest in Mitchell's work by a younger generation of singer-songwriters. "[60], The album that resulted, Dog Eat Dog, released in October 1985, turned out to be only a moderate seller, peaking at No. "[36] She lived in a rooming house, directly across the hall from poet Duke Redbird. The album was released in October 1972 and immediately zoomed up the charts. Joni Mitchell was born on 7th November 1943 with the real name of Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. I'd rather go toe-to-toe; work it out. In 2009, Mitchell stated she had the skin condition Morgellons[73] and that she would leave the music industry to work toward giving more credibility to people who suffer from Morgellons. There she met New York City-born American folk singer Charles Scott "Chuck" Mitchell, from Michigan. [26], Country music began to eclipse rock around this time. [95] Mitchell later attended another tribute concert, Songs Are Like Tattoos, which featured Joni 75 participant Brandi Carlile performing Mitchell's Blue album in full. National Post, March 3, 2001. The album's first official single, "My Secret Place", was in fact a duet with Gabriel, and just missed the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 6 in the UK. While recording Court and Spark, Mitchell had tried to make a clean break with her earlier folk sound, producing the album herself and employing jazz/pop fusion band the L.A. Express as what she called her first real backing group. Now he . She was directed to Los Angeles after a phone call with Joni's manager, and she went with her 4-year-old son, Marlin. While the album was being readied for release, her friend David Geffen, founder of Asylum Records, decided to start a new label, Geffen Records. "[103], On January 28, 2022, Mitchell demanded that Spotify remove her songs from its streaming service in solidarity with her long-time friend and fellow polio survivor Neil Young, who removed his tracks from the streaming platform in protest against COVID-19 misinformation on the popular Spotify-hosted podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. It is the third track on her 1971 album Blue.. Background. She made a decision to stop touring for a year and just write and paint, yet she was still voted "Top Female Performer" for 1970 by Melody Maker, a leading UK pop music magazine. Pictures of a smiling birth mother and . That album, The Hottest New Group in Jazz, was hard to find in Canada, she says, "so I saved up and bought it at a bootleg price. She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002.[13]. [15] She performed live for the first time in 9 years, with an unannounced appearance at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival, and is scheduled to perform a headline show on June 10, 2023. At the age of nine, she and her family would move again to Saskatoon . In 2008, Mitchell was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers" list and in 2015 she was ranked ninth on their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. The tour helped create eager anticipation for Mitchell's second LP, Clouds, which was released in April 1969. [143] Mitchell received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000. Of Dolby's role, Mitchell later commented: "I was reluctant when Thomas was suggested because he had been asked to produce the record [by Geffen], and would he consider coming in as just a programmer and a player? Both Sides Now (2000) was an album composed mostly of covers of jazz standards, performed with an orchestra, featuring orchestral arrangements by Vince Mendoza. ", Ladies of the Canyon was an instant smash on FM radio and sold briskly, eventually becoming Mitchell's first gold album (selling over a half million copies). Mitchell went into the studio in early 1975 to record acoustic demos of some songs that she had written since the Court and Spark tour. "[105][106] British National Health Service doctor and author Rachel Clarke tweeted: "Both Neil Young & Joni Mitchell know painfully well how much harm, suffering & avoidable death anti-vaxxers can cause. Born on 7 November 1943, Joni Mitchell's age is 79 Years Old as of 2023. [138] Hole also covered "Both Sides, Now" in 1991 on their debut album, Pretty on the Inside, retitling it "Clouds", with the lyrics altered by frontwoman Courtney Love. [43], A few weeks after the birth of her daughter in February 1965, Mitchell was playing gigs again around Yorkville, often with a friend, Vicky Taylor, and was beginning to sing original material for the first time, written with her unique open tunings. She would give occasional interviews and make appearances to speak on various causes over the next two decades, though the rupture of a brain aneurysm in 2015 led to a long period of recovery and therapy. 02/27/2023 19:24 Subject: Joni Mitchell Gershwin Prize March 1- tix? The star discovered she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend Brad MacMath in 1964. In September 2018, Eagle Rock Entertainment released the Murray Lerner-directed documentary Both Sides Now: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, which included restored video footage and previously unseen interviews with Mitchell, plus a separate program featuring the complete concert uninterrupted. Joni Mitchell was born as Roberta Joan Anderson on 7th November 1943 in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. [90], On November 7, 2018, Mitchell attended the Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration concert in Los Angeles. [64] While her more limited range and huskier vocals have sometimes been attributed to her smoking (she was described by journalist Robin Eggar as "one of the world's last great smokers"),[64] Mitchell believes that the changes in her voice that became noticeable in the 1990s were because of other problems, including vocal nodules, a compressed larynx, and the lingering effects of having had polio. "The churches came after me", she wrote, "they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I've seen described as the only church in America which actually uses its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation."[17]. Last edited on 27 February 2023, at 17:03, Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. The experience remained private for most of Mitchell's career, although she alluded to it in several songs, such as "Little Green", which she performed in the 1960s and recorded eventually for the 1971 album Blue. It gave me the bug for it. The new song cycle was released in November 1975 as The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Starting in the mid-1970s, she began working with noted jazz musicians including Jaco Pastorius, Tom Scott, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny as well as Charles Mingus, who asked her to collaborate on his final recordings. [157] She will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in 2022. Rolling Stone called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever",[2] and AllMusic has stated, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century". [1], Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and throughout western Canada, before moving on to the nightclubs of Toronto, Ontario. Iconoclastic and outspoken, singer Joni Mitchell has been a musical force for almost six decades. Despite her birth in western Canada, Mitchell and her family moved to several places such as Saskatchewan, Maidstone and North Battleford due to the 2nd world war. 25 in the US and going gold within three months. Mitchell later remarked, "At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. What are the birth facts of Joni Mitchell? Joni Mitchell Wiki/Biography. 31 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and won . 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