Songs, Albums & Quotes of Joni Mitchell: A Pamplet for Generation Z Joni Mitchell Newcomers

By James Curtis Geist

People love music from the 1960's and 1970's because it represents a period of creative and innovative song writing. David Crosby said, "Joni Mitchell is the greatest song writer I have ever met." She plays guitar, piano, oble and autoharp. She grew up in Canada with a father who played trumpet for the Royal Canandian Air Force a mother who was a teacher. Roberta Jon Anderson (real name) suffered polio as a child and was paid for her first performance in 1962.

Joni Mitchell released 19 studio albums and her most commercially successful period was in the early to mid 1970's. He had ten songs in the top 100 and on song in the top ten with "Help Me." Her other famous singles are "Big Yellow Taxi," "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio," and "You're Square and I Don't Care." Other hits include "Raised on Robbery," "In France They Kiss on the Street," "Good Friends," and "Carey."

She has been the girlfriend of many from Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, Graham Nash, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Warren Beatty, Sam Shephard and Glen Frye. She is a wiz at poker, suffers Morgellons Disease, and started painting at age nine. Even Led Zeppelin dedicated "Going to California" to Joni Mitchell.

Mitchell has sold over 7 million records in her lifetime and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and given the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021. Rolling Stone named her #42 in the top 100 singers and #9 of the greatest guitarists of all time. She wrote as well as Bob Dylan, but sang and played guitar ten times better. This book is a proper introduction to Joni Mitchell for Generation Z.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKTRF34J
• ISBN13: 9798294896171
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"