Mitchells

Joni Mitchell has quietly followed Neil Young and put her music back on Spotify. Unlike Young, there was no official statement from Mitchell or her camp announcing or explaining the decision. Rather, it was fans on social media who noticed her catalog was back and spread with the news with all-caps fervor: “JONI MITCHELL MUSIC BACK ON SPOTIFY THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” tweeted one user.   A rep for Mitchell did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment. Mitchell pulled her music from the…

From being the folksy best friend of anyone who was anything in the West Coast music scene, Joni Mitchell has gradually and unevenly developed into a songwriter of considerable stature. Her sixth and best album to date, Court and Spark (Asylum), is currently the top seller in America, which is mildly surprising: it is both too solemn and too good for that.Like the rest of her West Coast singer-songwriter mates (from Graham Nash through to Jackson Browne) she bases her songs around herself, her worries and experiences.…

If anyone can bring the legendary Joni Mitchell back onstage, it’s Brandi Carlile.The singer-songwriter revealed Wednesday on “The Daily Show” that she and Mitchell will perform at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash., next summer. The announcement comes several months after Mitchell stunned and delighted fans by joining Carlile onstage at this year’s Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Prior to that magical moment, the Canadian American musician hadn’t sung for a live crowd in approximately two decades.“After…

Tourists visiting the Caribbean during the summer of 1981 might have spotted something unexpected: Joni Mitchell in the thick of things at a disco, grooving up a storm to the Police’s inscrutable hit De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. “I love to dance, and anytime I heard it, boy, I didn’t care if there was no one on the floor,” she told Musician in 1983. “I was going to dance to that thing because of those changes in rhythm.” Mitchell’s appreciation for the Police’s worldly rhythmic approach would influence the direction of her…