Unable to afford a guitar as a teenager, she bought a cheap ukulele and a Pete Seeger songbook and taught herself to play. “I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky,” she would recount in a later interview, “anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes.” Growing up in the late 1950s she listened to a lot of local Canadian radio, but classical music appears to have first captured her ear. Young Joni contracted polio when she was nine, and spent time in a polio ward where she first began to sing for others – also beating the prediction she would never walk again. Her father was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the family moved around a bit before settling in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943 in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Joni Mitchell was an only child. For the moment, however, consider the voice, the music, and the poetry. It’s a song about a baby daughter she had given up for adoption, as would be learned later.
For starters, consider one of her songs, “Little Green” (below right), which she wrote a few years into her career. What follows here is a sampling of some of that music from her early years along with a bit of her biography and social context during, before, and after that period. during her early years, Joni Mitchell reached mainstream notice in the 1968-1974 period with the release of her first several albums, among them - Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, and Court & Spark, each of which include a selection of very poignant, personal and moving songs. A rising folk musician in Canada and the U.S.
Canadian born Joni Mitchell is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the late 1960s-mid-1970s period – and also one of the most gifted voices of that era. Tag Archives: Joni Mitchell Leonard Cohenġ972: Joni Mitchell during early folk singing days.
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