Ann Powers’ portrait of the singer-songwriter is both personal and poetic, and brings a wealth of fresh insight
“All girls go through a Joni Mitchell phase,” the Texan singer-songwriter Tift Merritt once said. “If any girl tells you she never did, don’t believe her.” But American music critic Ann Powers claims she resisted falling under the Canadian singer-songwriter’s spell until late adulthood.
The author traces Mitchell’s musical influences to the Black blues tradition of Elizabeth Cotten and Richie Havens, and argues that the silvery early vocals you hear on “Both Sides Now” echo those of American protest singer Joan Baez. Having thus tethered her elusive subject, Powers explores how Mitchell’s questing creativity took her into breathtakingly original sonic spaces.
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