Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a noted Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
Mitchell's musical career began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. Mitchell achieved fame in the late 1960s and was considered a key part of the Southern California folk rock scene. Throughout the 1970s, she explored and combined the pop and jazz genres. Mitchell has amassed a body of work that is highly respected, both by critics (in 2002, Rolling Stone magazine called her "one of the greatest songwriters ever") and by fellow musicians. Retrospective appraisals of Mitchell's work have often labelled her the "female Bob Dylan."
Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and has described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had stopped recording over the last several years, focusing mainly on her visual art, but in October 2006 she announced that she is working on material for a new album.
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1968: Song to a Seagull
1969: Clouds
1970: Ladies of the Canyon
1971: Blue
1972: For the Roses
1974: Court and Spark
1974: Miles of Aisles (live)
1975: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
1976: Hejira
1977: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
1979: Mingus
1980: Shadows and Light (live)
1982: Wild Things Run Fast
1985: Dog Eat Dog
1988: Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm
1991: Night Ride Home
1994: Turbulent Indigo
1998: Taming the Tiger
2000: Both Sides Now
2002: Travelogue
Fall 2007: Shine
