Joni Mitchell Woman of Heart and Mind (documentary, subt esp)

Joni Mitchell Woman of Heart and Mind (documentary, subt esp)

[@suchisthismystery2814]

Joni, the singer, the composer, the lyricist, the poet, the story-teller, the psychologist, the musician, the arranger, the producer, the painter, the artist .... The GREATEST of the greats bar none.

[@petemavus2948]

She deserves a Nobel Prize, how can we make that happen?

[@socrates1818]

Try Judee Sill- transcendent genius

[@maryellenmurphy5445]

Exactly and well expressed! ♥️🎶

[@pattycorsones49]

Men sister! She is the most multi talented singer I have ever known of . Period! She had such a rough life but wove her singing, artwork, poetry into what probably saves her life. That's just my opinion.

[@sullivanworks9777]

Joni's music is not dated. It remains fresh with every hearing. Every song seems to have something new to say each time I hear it. Great talent, Great Spirit. Thank you Joni.

[@sherbear8286]

This brought tears to my eyes. Joni’s music was the background of my 20s. I’m in my 70s now and her songs are still the background of my life.

[@davidisrael4018]

as she says in her song she is lost and seeking the truth, in amazing grace she would be found in forgiveness in friendship of amazing grace. Praying the best for her and all, thanks

[@candacesturtevant7139]

and mine at 65.

[@garlandthomson7501]

I cried too...

[@gerrynightingale9045]

*I wonder if any of those 'Songs' are a 'background' for her ABANDONED DISCARDED DAUGHTER?*

[@theblah9316]

She was he background to my life from age 14+

[@gouldbj]

I cried so many times watching this. She is the embodiment of creativity and muse. Grounded in reality like most humans never experience and has the ability to crystalize life and nature into song. She is simply singular in this regard.

[@MermaidCore_]

Same… straight chills and sobs when she shares about Woodstock and then they cut to her singing the song.

[@MoniCharli677]

❤❤❤🌻

[@maryhulsebosch4177]

Yes! Absolutely!

[@coda226]

I really don't know where to start with this artist. I have been listening to her for 50 years now and I hear something new every time. Her voice -- moving from the angelic, chirp ingenue of the '60s, to the folk-rock, rock and then deep-throated jazz of the late '70s -- is just mesmerizing. She has a tone and quality that is incomparable. She has a vibrato that has an ethereal quality about it. Then there is her guitar playing. I'm a jazz guitar guy. But Joni has had a big influence on my playing. Her voicings (she apparently has over 50 alternate tunings) are incredibly unique. Then there is her songwriting. Her ability to weave lyrics and melody are groundbreaking in every genre that she has pursued. If she had done nothing more than write the lyrics she would have been a genius. Take the lyrics to any song -- Woodstock, A Case of You, Amelia -- any song at all, and read it aloud. It's Shakespearian. How she has not been awarded a Nobel or Pulitzer for literature is baffling.

[@Changelingheart]

Maybe my favorite songwriter/singer/musician of all time. Most special lady of all times.

[@tbjul]

That’s a brilliant idea! She should have received the Nobel AND a Pulitzer and any other award for creative genius in the arts that exist. So, so very unique, out of nowhere(Saskatoon) and into international prominence before her 25th birthday.

[@muso354]

I totally agree. Joni is beyond comparison.Such penetrating and poetic vision of all that Life offers, put into music that is timeless and exquisite.

[@JohnKorvell]

what I find so intriguing about her music is, with out being formally trained, she understands the orchestration of classics and jazz. Between her voice, piano and guitar, it is the score of the masters.

[@scottsteel4230]

SHE IS SIMPLY...AN ANGEL.

[@MermaidCore_]

Here on Joni’s 80th for another watch - I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this doc. Every time the woman talks about I Had A King, I burst into tears. There is something about Joni… A once in a century talent. No one like her. Like a comet passing by. Bright, shining, other-worldly ❤

[@ronpagan]

I've been a musician my whole life. Joni is a genius like no one else. No one.

[@canuck-guy2384]

@ Digging your heels in only hurts your feet.

[@rhoobarb773]

@ Fnck off. You know nothing.

[@rhoobarb773]

So do I. I didn't want my post blocked. You still know nothing.

[@canuck-guy2384]

@@rhoobarb773 quit acting like a 5 year old having a tantrum. You obviously are incapable of having an adult discussion. Go to your room and no playtime for you!

[@palmera62820]

Amazing musical sense, chordal sense, like she feels her way around the guitar telepathically, and then fingers just the right notes for her mind.... they'll never be another like her...thx.

[@philipwhitty2838]

Every so often, in history a person stands head and shoulders above the rest of us. Joni fits into that very exclusive club.

[@philflip1963]

It's high time that they made a biographical documentary worthy of 'our' Joni, and this is it!

[@beverleybernstein5431]

Still here at 68 years old. Laying in bed with headphones and singing along !

[@GuitarUniverse2013]

I’ve been a professional musician for 50 years. When I was a teenager I wanted to be the male Joni Mitchell. And I’m dead serious about that! She is a tremendous force of nature and a contradiction in every meaning of the word. She chain smokes incessantly, often having more than one cigarette going at a time. Friends of mine have spent time in her house and have said that every square inch of her home is painted by Joni. Every doorway, every window frame, everything A glorious adornment of color and all of it six or seven shades darker as it’s covered in tobacco smoke stain. Passionate and loving and intelligent and articulate, seriously independent, and fierce in the best meaning of the word, and yet extraordinarily bitter and hateful towards the music industry. And who can blame her? The music industry is formalized rape and pillage and they should all be swallowed up into one of Dante‘s circles of hell. But then she straps on the guitar. And she steps up to the microphone. And even now, wizened and old and bitter and somewhat hateful at more than a little crazy she sings our dreams back to us with a voice not like angels but more like God. And now she has MS and she can no longer really play all those guitars with all those different tunings. For a time she played a Parker Fly guitar that Ken custom made for her. And she ran it through, I believe it was a Korg product, that changed the tuning of the guitar. Because she used to go out on the road with three guitar techs and 20 guitars and she was just too weak to do that anymore. I hope she lives to be 500 years old, but most of all my wish for Joni Mitchell is for her to feel at peace and know that she is respected and deeply loved by regular working men and women all over the world. Because after all, we are all on that lonely road, traveling, traveling, traveling….

[@4estdweller4ever]

I loved hearing about her turning her home into an extraordinary work of art in every nook and cranny. I can see it in my mind. It’s a delicious thought. Thank you for sharing that.

[@GaGaBjork1996]

I know everyone here knows it, but she seriously is the greatest artist ever. Nobody else can do all she has done. Sing, play, write and compose. Her talents truly blow my mind

[@maggiejones7076]

and paint!! biggest love

[@lulielawry]

and NEVER sell out, thats the kingpin.

[@Patricia-ck7ks]

@@maggiejones7076 I was about to add that comment. A multitalented artist on such a high level.

[@eddieboggess7825]

Apa

[@eddieboggess7825]

Aaaaaa

[@nelgstuart3442]

A beautiful, adorable woman, called by God out of the cold woods of Canada to show us our own dreams.

[@jamesvanderheyden4620]

Why does noone ever talk about her guitar playing - tunings and picking - her ear is impeccable and so precise.

[@josephdurbin8736]

Her guitar playing was genius in that she used to have so many tunings and would bring sometimes an almost uncountable number of guitars to her shows. I unfortunately never had a chance to see her but have been a fan since the moment I heard her music. I am 64 and wish I would have seen her live.

[@brianharrell885]

While I agree with the sentiment she is included in at least 1 ‘top 100 guitarist of all time’ I’ve seen in Rolling stone. I don’t always agree w those lists but she’s one of a very few women on the list and it’s hard to argue with their usual Hendrix/d allman/Clapton top three.

[@2damnoldforUtube]

@@josephdurbin8736 Part of her genius I guess. No one can play her songs without retuning between them.

[@traylong]

@@josephdurbin8736 she was honoured this year for the Les Paul Innovation award kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJqXY6OBp7ZlZsU&start_radio=1

[@stigohara6593]

Like so many young arrogant Rock & R&B players at the like many I thought she was just some "Folkie" chick, as I became more experienced I began her see her true genius. Originality & story telling as a player and singer/songwriter of still unmatched original talent.

[@dorothyg3012]

When we were young we knew all the words to every song Joni Mitchell composed & sang. She was a tremendous influence in my late teens and early to mid 20's. She helped me navigate and define my sweetest loves and greatest heartbreaks. She gave a voice to many of my deepest thoughts. Love her to this day. Thank you, Joni for getting me through such tender ages! Case of You, River and Willie, For Free - some of my faves. "Ohhh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on....."

[@SonicBodhi1]

I remember when I was in my early twenties, I used to go to a bar called Courtney's in my home town, where they had a trio playing- female singer, guitarist and bassist- and she used to do a spot-on emulation of Joni Mitchell, my favorite was 'Twisted' off the Court and Spark album. Every time I hear her, I think of those days. I don't remember the name of the singer or even the band, but I remember that cover song! I also love the song 'River'..

[@SonicBodhi1]

I also do a cover of 'The Circle Game'

[@ellenborgers4767]

I hope she knows how much we appreciate her brilliance, her amazing 🎁 gifts . She is certainly very admired, very loved, and we miss her. We worry about our beloved artist....🌹❤️✌️👍👏👏🙏 What an incredible openness, simply amazing.

[@leslieelia6524]

Me too

[@chris.hartliss]

Her writing in those 70s/commune days is so good

[@philredo2656]

Those of us who TRY to write songs are simply amazed, intimidated but most important, inspired to grab the pen again!!! Thank you Joni Mitchell. Phil Redo

[@HummingbirdEighty8]

What I see is a woman who has stayed true to herself and her art.

[@sharonthompson1079]

PS holds away not away

[@sharonthompson1079]

Darn I wrote holds sway NOT away

[@sophieoshaughnessy9469]

Pity you can’t have that and marriage. But I’ve rarely seen it.

[@petemavus2948]

Nobel Prize?

[@aivkara]

I thought I knew Joni and her work. I had no idea. I am overcome with tears at the beauty and honesty of her life and music. Joni, I love you, 40 years of beautiful music, and I never understood until today. Respect.

[@MrCristyboy]

This made me cry in the end as she found her daughter after all those years without her, i was at her Isle of White performance in 1970 and my first son was born the year before but I didn't live with his mother anymore and saw him once when he was 19 and then not again till he was 40,I lived abroad for 31 years but Joni's music has been with me all that time she is an inspiration, and to see her so happy at meeting her daughter was precious.I have just been in hospital and had 3 operations which my doctor and surgeon are amazed i survived,and my son and I talk or message every day he's now 51 I am 72 and still love all of Joni Mitchell's songs and listen to her regularly and I guess she is living through this pandemic lockdown and hope she is near her daughter and grandchildren. She is unique in my humble opinion.sorry to go on but I had to write something,thank you Joni for all those wonderful songs

[@lastnamefirst4035]

She doesnt have a relationship w her daughter/grandchildren anymore. For whatever reasons it didnt work out. Joni us in a wheelchair after a very long recovery after a stroke. She has people who assist her

[@brianharrell885]

Her performance at isle of white 70 was inspirational and that whole fest looks on the level of Woodstock/Monterey pop/atlanta pop. She kept it together and performed in a sea of madness. Hope ur health improves, sorry to hear that. Cheers

[@brianharrell885]

*** Wight

[@dickranmarsupial4911]

I think her daughter found her, not the other way round.

[@nodlaiglangan3483]

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[@jimrebr]

I have loved Joni Mitchell since 1967, she is my all time favorite singer songwriter, I love so many musicians, but she is so different and special than anyone else I’ve ever heard. Her songs are a huge part of the soundtrack of my life. Love you Joni!!!

[@oyvay3000]

How FORTUNATE was I to grow up with this...our music is a true representation of our society...I'll say no more.

[@louiesimon5292]

A sick, shallow society creates anemic, shallow music.

[@britskihambone8158]

You are lucky if you see a talent like this in your lifetime. All the singer/songwriters that I grew up listening to were in awe of Joni Mitchell. Her talent did not have a deep end. That would indicate a finite end of it. Her words, her angelic voice, her innovative playing.... I have very talented female musician friend, and she often played Joni songs among close friends. I asked her once to sing a Joni Mitchell song in public, and she said no. I asked her why not, because she is a very talented singer and guitar player. Her answer was that she revered those songs so much that she was afraid could not do them justice. They are almost like hallowed ground....you just don't tread there.

[@alancumming6407]

Guitarists, pianist, composer,poet,songwriter,lyricist and painter. No one like her.

[@EastBayBlue]

I find myself overwhelmed with emotion when listening to Joni. Her music cuts deep into my soul. I’m refreshed. My spirit soars. I feel reborn. Thank you Joni.

[@gigidayz6936]

she is a feast

[@petemavus2948]

@@gigidayz6936, Michael, please read my comment.

[@rebeccatanner4488]

You read my heart mind and soul

[@yoashheller4661]

True genius Joni Mitchell

[@daisywares1]

Yes. That's it exactly.

[@whitebirdification]

The beauty & authenticity of her catalogue is unparalleled. Forever grateful. She is both loth lotus flower & chameleon. Thanks to Joni, and to the makers of this film.

[@TheDaddyO44]

Graham Nash's description of falling for Joni - so beautiful! He still loves her...

[@Mr05Chuck]

TheDaddyO44 so do I.

[@tarp11z]

I feel for Graham. How do you ever get over a woman like that?

[@johnsullivan305]

He was her muse in that, the best of all times.

[@michaelrg3836]

The photos of her and all her partners are so intimate one almost feels a voyeur to their love.

[@victoriathomas731]

@@johnsullivan305 And vice versa : "I Used to Be a King" , "Our House"

[@ianboggs9211]

Joni Mitchel lived and wrote and sang in the moment. Her moment was relevant then and relevant now for those of us who are able to listen. It's because some things never change. A steadfast voice in times that seemed to change a lot but really, only underscored and maybe exaggerated the eternal.

[@chuckwilliam4746]

A singular artist. There's really no one you can compare her to, female or male.

[@gregstewart6429]

!:21:49 "Basically the reason I am so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human juke box" Wonderful lady...years ahead of her time....

[@stephen25uk]

A universal voice. She speaks for every woman of heart and mind, and every man who's been out sailing in a decade full of dreams, and that surely is all of us. No other artist does that like Joni.

[@steffenhaug9555]

Searching for musicians of my youth like Crosby, Stills and Nash or Carly Simon I came across this documentary. It was four o'clock in the morning but I was so fascinated, that I could not stop watching. Thank you, Joni, for being a small part of me... Steffen from South West Germany

[@bodywise007]

One of the greatest of all time. Her music never ever grows old. It is never dated. What is most under appreciated was her genius as arranger and composer. She did it all. So many legendary musicians wanted to play with her.

[@anthonypepitoneVideo]

And she didn't need anyone to play with her.

[@caseysheehan3220]

falsetto er whatever,she had 'IT.'

[@jenniferlee5871]

Joni Mitchell for me was and is strength and beauty and she is otherworldly. . Her art and life are stellar. I’ve loved her my whole life.

[@msc5538]

I saw Joni in 1976 At the Music Hall in Boston.when she was with the Rolling Thunder Review that had Dylan, Baez, and an all star cast of RR musians. I forgot them all, but Joni absolutely stole the show. What a performance! Joni was part of the soundtrack of my youth. I love her dearly.

[@arthouston7361]

What a complex woman. She developed a unique style that she carried from folk to jazz, a poet and a naked soul. Where some might sing a single syllable word with a note, Joni has six notes for that one word, and makes you savor every single one of them. She is a modern treasure. I hope that Graham is right, and that she will be strong enough to share with us again soon. So many contemporary women could learn from Joni what it means to sing.

[@caldogrun]

One, if not the one, -greatest contemporary female singer song-writers and instrumentalists of three decades at least.1967-1997! Thank you, Joni Mitchell!

[@Kinkle_Z]

No one better than Joni Mitchell.... Unbelievably wonderful! I've looked at life from BOTH SIDES NOW! thanks to Joni...

[@walternicolas6927]

Hello how are you doing today...

[@arajoaina]

I think Joan Baez was on par with her

[@mpowers2377]

I just saw her a week ago and I am still not over it. So powerful & wonderful. ❤

[@homemadejam6607]

Me too, it will stay with me forever I think

[@stigohara6593]

When I first heard "Blue" I was gut-shot, I NEVER had heard and even now never hear such brutal heart wrenching honesty in an album by ANYBODY !

[@ottokriete1153]

absolutely the same with me, Stig. I was also struck by how "A Case Of Me" is the best dulcimer tune ever.........

[@thucy2]

The only album that compares is John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, with "Mother" and "Isolation" and "Look at Me" and "Working Class Hero." But whereas "Blue" is more folk/acoustic. Lennon is punk/rock. But both are amazing in their own wonderful ways.

[@garypeatling7927]

Leonard Cohen pretty good at hammering out your real self

[@peterdavino4408]

Yeah if you're an artist and you're not honest then just don't even bother.

[@JayW6]

Will never forget the first time I heard that album! Very special memory

[@jolynnehaworth3159]

I grew up with Joni Mitchell's songs. It shaped the woman I am today. Especially the song...I wish I had a river I could skate away on 😢

[@mauraoconnor7175]

My dream in the 60's was to have Joni play at my wedding, Then I wanted to name my daughter Chelsea after Chelsea Morning, Then when I die.. I want the Circle Game to play at my memorial service. Joni has meant everything to me for almost 50 years.. I still listen to her albums when I'm feeling emotional

[@smacl61]

In the 80's my girlfriend and me would listen to Shadows and light night after night. It was so important to us she went out and bought the best stereo she could afford - and surprise me. Those times are now such a distant memory, the times, the 80's, Joni.

[@franceshadden4062]

she’s a genius of music, fortunate enough to hear and love her music since the 60’s, I am blessed.

[@evakiefer-ferrara6078]

I've loved her since I was 10 years old in 1965 when I heard Night in the City over the speaker at the neighborhood pool...I went home and told my dad I needed to hear more of Joni Mitchell.

[@andyandcallie]

There is NO one like Joni Mitchell.

[@sherriklein3509]

I appreciate this documentary, I played her music on my piano thinking I wanted to become a musician, but went on to design clothing. Drugs in that in the industry drove me out and into nursing and now I'm into watercolor painting. Wonderful how life flows on... I respect Joni and her music, original and fun!

[@mkilptrick]

Back in the time Joni wasn't a rock and roller unfortunately like the Beatles, Stones etc, etc. Listening to her music now I see the brilliance of her style. Age 67.

[@c_farther5208]

Joni Mitchell was just apart of my life. It was like driving down the same streets and doing the dishes, she was just just apart of everything. I adored her. She sure got me through a lot of bad moments.

[@mwbright]

That little goddess is the best writer/singer/musician of our generation, and nobody since she first appeared has come close. Seriously, I think those four albums she did with Jaco Pastorius, and that jazz band she hired to help her out are the best albums ever recorded.

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

I grew up in the 60s. I heard Joni's singles on the radio and you know, they were pretty good and I thought she was okay. Then one night around 1976, I listened to the album Blue, from beginning to end. I was transfixed. It absolutely ripped my heart out. I suddenly understood her genius and the power of her art. She is unique, sui generis, alone in her ability to convey emotion and feelings through song.

[@edithlazenby5839]

I was blessed by the music GODS when I saw her live in concert!!! Thank u Joni for being on this planet for u to share your artistry! You are the real deal...

[@voxxvoltair2662]

I grew up listening, and learning to play all of Joni’s music... one of the greatest days of my life, was getting to meet her. She was so friendly and gracious. Love you Joni... you will always be a part of me. ~V~

[@6milemary419]

Life's always been heartfelt with Joni. You embraced Detroit. What a gift.

[@sullivanworks9777]

Joni Mitchell is first and foremost an ARTIST, and it expresses itself through every medium she engages with - her voice, her vocal line, guitar chords and string patterns, texts, imagery, nuances of rhyme and metre, her paints, abstraction and texture. She is the ear, eye, heart and voice that feels so deeply beyond all thought of anything external or material - it is all internal and intuitive with the boundless courage and fearlessness to turn her inside world outside and share it with whomever would listen. She is a gift to our generation.

[@mgsee]

Breathtakingly brilliant and beautiful She's incomparable.

[@ecobeattv6246]

I'm nearly exhausted from emotions. This is a beautiful film about a ground-breaking and talented Artist . Whether or not you already Love Joni, watch this documentary.

[@susanjones4904]

No ear pieces here, just flawless music and inspired words. Amazing metaphors, jumping off the page and smoothly forming such beautiful images....

[@michaelkmc186]

This is an extraordinarily beautiful and heartrending documentary, about a truly brilliant and sensitive artist. A child-like honesty in an openhearted adult. Joni was blessed with so much talent, what exquisite gifts she gave us. She could have been a painter too. The music and the language is so personal and so enthralling. This artistry has deep resonance, honouring our core most personal vulnerabilities in life's journey. She succeeded in maintaining her artistic and spiritual integrity. She embodied a renaissance of the spirit, one of the great qualities of the 1960's culture.

[@nadiazayman779]

MichaelK MC She is a painter. Has commercial and popular success as such.

[@petemavus2948]

@@nadiazayman779 True, she even incorporated many great works (paintings) into the album cover designs for " Turbulent Indigo " and many of her last most recent .

[@edwardwright5377]

Reminds me why I fell in love with this woman 51 yrs ago when I was 11.

[@johnbianculli8467]

She's done so much music since the 60s. Great music and her level of both songwriting and musicianship keeps getting higher. Thank you Joni Mitchell. God Bless you always.

[@netrade3898]

I'm ashamed to say it has taken all of 44 years of life for me to finally wake up and appreciate the calming sound that is Joni Mitchell. In my life, I put her up there with Helen Reddy as the women whose singing voices never fail to calm the nerves for me. What a legend!

[@bethb7965]

The voice of an angel!!! Fortunate enough to have seen her in person in the 70's.

[@bethb7965]

Saw her play at Cornell when I was at Ithaca College.

[@petemavus2948]

Wow you two !!!

[@2uconner]

thank God for Joni she's amazing ..a true Artist and a great influence over me I grew up in a Musical Family all I knew was the Organ Piano Violin Clarinet and 2 rusty Guitars I was writing songs before I met her records at 15 ..but I was like hanging on for dear life when I heard her for the first time ....

[@2uconner]

there is no one like her in this era no one

[@Lainer1]

Joni is a genius who was overlooked for many years. She is the only who writes her own songs/poems, sings them, plays them (with her ONW INVENTED TUNINGS),, and is a FABULOUS painter/artist. She is PURE genius.

[@madeleinebelle2105]

Thank you ... I'm left feeling so disconnected from my Heart and Mind ... at the same time deeply moved by all the insight the people in this contributed ... and Joni herself.

[@johnmccann8319]

She was an explosion,a gushing out of expression, feelings,life,pain,darkness,light, love,words,colours, poetry,music,intelligence,beauty,soul,natural, performer,storyteller,and Irish blood!

[@heatherstub]

Was? Still is and will always be...

[@charlesmann5516]

Joni Mitchell song writing is great , she nailed it...

[@lulielawry]

Bless you Joni, You stood when all others fell for ir....sold out for it....sold their soul for it....God Love you.

[@Kevin-bp2cw]

I admire this woman so much . A genius musician , the alternative tuning melodies that come from who knows where? ... just genius I suppose. Changing from genre to genre to genre with such amazing artistry. She's possibly the greatest artist of the 20th Century, of any medium.

[@BrownEyedGirl.]

I'm crying. I love this amazing woman so much. She's a genius, she deserve the Nobel price. I don't care what everyone thinks, she deserves it, she's unique.

[@petemavus2948]

Agree, we should all write or somehow make a Nobel Prize 🏆 happen for her as our gratitude for her life's work.

[@achilles6445]

Imagine inspiring the world.. before internet.. that's awe inspiring

[@pattifichman4158]

She is a true poet and explorer. Her beauty if pervasive. Her music will live forever and be relevant.

[@stigohara6593]

I was a local hot sh*t R&B guitar player, then a buddy said listen to this man, it was the Blue album, I was stunned this ' was the most honest heart rending thing I had ever heard in my entire life.

[@JonathanAmesPhD]

Thanks SO much -- I'd forgotten about being alive.

[@Patricia-ck7ks]

I wanna make you feel free, I wanna make you feel free.

[@MermaidCore_]

The work she did with Charles Mingus’ music is really a testament to her talent. Nothing she can’t do but lie. She is a truth teller through & through.

[@harrylen1688]

Joni & Baez left a beautiful feeling for the rest of my life !

[@samlewis7878]

This girl was so talented, so brilliant, so beautiful. But that's what it's like with a flippin' genius of this calibre. Everything about her shawn with exuberance. How wonderful it is so much information about her is documented forever and ever. Love to the great Joni .

[@4estdweller4ever]

I’m fascinated by the rhythm built into her lyrics and the artful intonation of her voice. No ploddy-ploddy from her. Always on a different plane of consciousness from anyone else.

[@tomgardner8825]

she will never be forgotten. her sounds will linger on . . .

[@scottclute7443]

Yes😁fifty years of listening,loving,laughing to this fabulous creature of the human Race

[@thomashumphrey7395]

imo, She is the greatest female singer/vocalist/guitarist/artist/poet of all time. This isn't just folk rock music but timeless high art from woman who possessed a perfect soprano range.

[@noisychamps]

Missing from the description: *Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind* _An Emmy Award winning profile of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and how her music evolved from personal folk into pop, jazz and avant-garde._ Written and directed by Susan Lacy. From Season 17, Episode 5 of American Masters on PBS. Originally broadcast 3rd April 2003. (It's really worth checking the other American Masters documentaries. They showcase many artists from all types of creative backgrounds). Released on DVD in 2003 with bonus interview and performance footage. #AmericanMastersPBS #jonimitchell #documentary

[@kittenfuud]

Oh thank you, I wondered where this came from! I remember watching American Masters on PBS, how I missed this IDK. My late ex-husband was part of the "counterculture", I was a bit late but caught up very fast as the art and music suited my tastes more than Boston, Foreigner, Styx etc - no soul!! Anyway I appreciate hearing the origins of this beautifully-done piece. Again, thank you! ☮❤

[@davidmarshall718]

Thank You Amos for this info.

[@heatherstub]

Thank you so much for that information. I just might have to break down and purchase a copy if they're still selling it.

[@MarkSeibold]

A great documentary on Joni's influences on us and the world, with her unique music, like no other. I discovered her music at about the time that the Court and Spark album was released, near my 20th birthday, and I couldn't help then to just buying up every prior album of hers, and then every next album that released after it. I soon met my wife to be, and eventually found that she too had also purchased the Court and Spark album. I became even more interested at the time of Joni's next album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, showing her sudden heavy increase in a sophisticated Jazz influence, as my wife and I eventually attended her 1979 tour concert, where she featured many numbers from that album and the Hejira album in the concert. Her next album Hejira, I realized with the first tracks I heard on local FM radio in Portland Oregon where I still reside in my hometown today, especially the title track to that album, nearly knocked me to the ground, and brought me to tears. Who could not relate to what she's talking about on a solo road trip by oneself in such loneliness. The expression of existentialism in that albums title song still today, I now identify with the famous line by an ancient philosopher, I think it's Socrates - the unexamined life is not worth living. When I hear that title track to that album still today I have the same reaction as it personally hits me hard about my solo West Coast Pacific thousand plus miles road trips every winter to California. I was pleasantly surprised to see a music writer from NPR radio appear at 1:07:14 on the time bar, Tom Manoff. I accidentally, and ironically, ran into him almost 20 years ago, as he was travelling through the east side of Portland Oregon one night and had stopped at a 24-hour coffee house near my home where I had a large telescope set up allowing the public to observe celestial objects through it, which I've provided this public service for thousands of hours ever since taking a 10,000 mile cross country road trip, with a solar research grade telescope in 2000. I later spoke about this on National Public Radio on their Talk of the Nation discussion on March 14th of 2005, I believe this was a few years after I spoke to Tom Manoff. Manoff was writing a story about Johannes Kepler, the famous astronomer, and he had told me he wanted to make me famous about what I was doing for the public. I think I explained to him that I'd already been in the newspapers across the nation, spoke on television news, and had a brush with fame being over-publicized about my self-initiated sidewalk astronomy for the past several years. So I was pleasantly surprised in this documentary on Joni Mitchell when she admitted that she didn't like being put up on a pedestal and others trying to over publicize her into excessive fame. As I spoke that first time on NPR's Talk of the Nation on March 14th 2005, they were discussing the famous Andy Warhol line, that everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. I was the second caller to call in. I told the story about the 10,000 mile road trip I made across the nation, and into Eastern Canada, borrowing my local astronomy clubs hydrogen-alpha solar research grade telescope to allow thousands to observe the sun safely through it, but that my own local club rather persecuted me when I returned home, as some people in the club claimed I was just doing this to become famous in the news. This NPR Talk of the Nation discussions can be accessed through their archives to review it, by date and title - The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame, is a book title and the author they interviewed about it. What is shocking is toward the end of this 35 minute discussion at about the 20 minute point on the time bar, they bring on a Doctor of psychology that describes a condition of what fame can do to some people. I was quite sorrowed to hear when Joni had suffered her brain aneurysm in about 2015, and hospitalized for so long. I see where she eventually appeared to receive the Les Paul guitar award about a year ago and she was escorted by Herbie Hancock to the stage to receive it, as she struggled to speak briefly, to express her thanks. I hope she is still improving and doing better. There's talk that she wants to try to perform again if she's eventually able to. I think now more than ever for the public to see her perform again, could save the world.

[@noiricha]

After watching this YT video I have a new understanding and respect for the path that Joni chose and why. I'm thankful that at age 69 I still can learn and enrich my soul. Thankfully there have been others who can light our path forward even though I'm rather late to this revelation.

[@pamelajoy6037]

This was beautiful and did Joni justice! 🎼♥️🎶🎶! 💕🙏 thank-you 💃🏼!

[@charlestuschling9507]

Well done. I've loved her music for practically all my life. There's been no performer with such honesty and integrity.

[@garyjohnson6721]

Uh yeah she cuts right to your soul in her music and man those paintings make me want to start painting. Geez are they good. My brother loved Joni Mitchell and he got me listening to her .

[@NilezII]

I went to college for photography in 1977. Hejira and Court & Spark were my Darkroom Soundtrack.

[@petemavus2948]

I can envision that, glad for you and hope you are staying creative whether with life in general or still a dedicated photographer. Best Wishes 🙏

[@vikkitripp6228]

Best documentary I have seen to date on Joni.

[@thomaskemper1871]

What a great person! I listened to her songs since the beginning in the late sixties and she accompanied me for over 6 decades and she really influenced my life here in Cologne/Germany with every song she ever recorded.

[@ruben1956]

Na dann Grüße aus dem Agnesviertel. Bei mir sind’s mittlerweile auch 45 Jahre; und auf die sprichwörtliche einsame Insel würde ich mindestens eine ihrer Platten mitnehmen.

[@thomaskemper1871]

@@ruben1956 Schön, dass es in meiner Nähe noch eine verwandte Seele gab/gibt - zumindest was Joni betrifft. Und schade natürlich, dass sie nach ihrem Schlaganfall nun verstummt ist.

[@Lojay_5]

Her music touches my soul, since I was a young teen. Now I’m decades older and still the same touch.

[@scottclute7443]

An amazingly Humble individual.

[@sybillenova1465]

She's an angel who had to become very street smart to survive in this dimension..she did v e r y well....I deeply admire and love her..hope to meet her sometime later..the AMERICAN NIGHT is just ending...

[@timber750]

This is a brilliantly conceived and executed documentary. Thanks

[@johndoe1765]

I AGREE !

[@deacon8754]

Yes it is

[@thomasfredjackson1115]

Yes,wonderful.

[@nancygunther8625]

This is so beautiful, so instructive, so inspiring. I loved every bit of this story of her life !

[@jeffreyhickey]

More than anything I'd heard from my parents, or teachers, or even friends, it was her song, Down to You, that woke me to my own personal responsibility in everything I do. That song signaled the very moment I grew up. So . . . thanks for that, Joni.

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

This is truly one of the best films I've ever seen. Our culture seldom takes the efficiency to truly look t women as we are instead of us as stereotypes.independence is very hard as we long for connection too

[@gcnoble]

A fascinating doc which really helps one understand who Joni is. I think she is finally being celebrated for all the right reasons and really appreciating it, at last. A unique talent.

[@josephdurbin8736]

Joni is an amazing artist who for years created such great songs.

[@lynettepacella9880]

Her voice is an instrument on top of all of her talents!

[@fallingstar8492]

So glad my life has had her soundtrack of creativity woven into it. Always admired her stark honesty and self examination. A hard thing to do but its outcome is her unique, wonderful, poetic repertoire. Thanks for this film.

[@murrayscott9546]

I remember, when an old buddy of mine met his soon-to-be wife ( and now have two brilliant children ! ). We were up at Mheagre Creek hot-springs, just rockin' his van and playin'' Joni's album, Blue, all night. Match made in Heaven, I think.