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Joni Mitchell: Portrait of an Artist in her Prime

Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 4 April 1988

IT HAS BEEN 24 years since Joni Mitchell left Saskatoon and eventually arrived on the coffeehouse circuit in Toronto's Yorkville district. And although she has returned occasionally from her home in Los Angeles to visit her parents, last week was different.

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