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Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott: Tom Scott: Joni's Spark

Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 1 August 1974

LOS ANGELES – Mention the name Tom Scott in jazz circles and recognition is immediate: The 25-year-old horn-playing prodigy from Southern California is well known ...

Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell: Charles Mingus, Jazz Pioneer, Dead

Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 January 1979

CHARLES MINGUS, the innovative jazz composer, band leader and bassist, died Friday night in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was 56. ...

Joni Mitchell (1983)

Interview by Dave Zimmer, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1983

Joni talks about the Canyon scene: the people, her house, what it was like; she talks about playing the coffee house circuit in New York, and meeting David Crosby; leaving New York for Los Angeles; Crosby producing her first album; meeting the foppishly dressed Graham Nash; and Crosby, Stills & Nash getting together; she then talks about not getting to Woodstock, and subsequently writing the song.

File format: mp3; file size: 26.8mb; Interview length: 27' 54"; sound quality: **

Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young: Elliot Roberts (1993) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, June 1993

This is a transcript of Barney's interview with Neil Young's manager Roberts, conducted in Santa Monica in 1993 as part of the interviewer's research for ...

Joni Mitchell: The Unfiltered Joni Mitchell

Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, August 1998

IT'S A SATURDAY NIGHT IN Burbank, California, and perhaps 200 invited guests are sitting in a circular arrangement of plush chairs, overstuffed sofas, even cross-legged ...

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

Review by Gerrie Lim, Big O, April 2000

TO PUT IT MILDLY, the new year's most surprising new album has arrived. And it comes from Joni Mitchell, the woman who wrote Woodstock and ...

Joni Mitchell: How 'Free Man In Paris' came along

Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, September 2004

WHEN Joni Mitchell played the finished tapes of her 1974 album Court and Spark for her Asylum Records labelmate Bob Dylan, the venerated spokesman of ...

Joni Mitchell

Retrospective by Jim Irvin, The Word, March 2005

NINE WAS A memorable age for Roberta Joan Anderson. Three things occurred that year, more than 50 years ago, which affect her to this day: ...

Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Tim Buckley, Harry Chapin, Leonard Cohen, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Rickie Lee Jones, Carole King, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Don McLean, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, John Prine, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Warren Zevon: School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008

"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell: The Heart of Joel Bernstein

Report by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, 12 February 2010

IN 1970, 16-year-old me was following Neil Young around; learning his songs, going to his concerts (two identical sets on one night!), and counting the ...