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with her unique guitar styling and expressive
lyrics.
Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Songwriters T
Joni was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Hall of Fame in 2007.
H
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2002, Joni
announced she was retiring due to her
frustration with the music industry, referring to
her statement, as she became busier than ever E
it as a "cesspool." However, she didn't adhere to
with the release of various compilations
consisting of her earlier works.
In 2007 she released Shine, her first album of
new songs in almost a decade. Politically
album was a Billboard success and was Joni's C
charged and environmentally conscious, the
nineteenth and final studio album.
Image by Baron Wolman
Besides claiming her voice has faltered from I
complications due to polio and a compressed
of the leading folk performers of the late 1960s larynx, Mitchell then dealt with other health
disease, which is described as “an uncommon, R
and '70 issues. She sought treatment for Morgellons
At the beginning of her career, Joni's unexplained skin disorder characterized by
compositions were highly original and personal sores, crawling sensations on and under the
in their lyrical imagery. It was this style that first skin, and fiber-like filaments emerging from the C
attracted attention among folk-music sores,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
audiences in Toronto while she was still in her
teens. She moved to the United States in the crisis. News broke in late March that the singer L
In 2015, Mitchell experienced another health
mid-1960s, and in 1968, she recorded her first
album, Joni Mitchell, produced by David Crosby. had been hospitalized. Some reports later
indicated that she was in a coma, but a
Over the past four decades, Mitchell has spokesperson for the singer corrected that E
garnered several Grammys in various error. Leslie Morris, a friend of Mitchell's, was
categories, including traditional pop, pop music appointed her conservator by a California judge
and lifetime achievement. Her other notable
successful recordings include Blue (1971), The That June, singer David Crosby claimed that
Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975), the highly Joni was unable to talk in an interview with the
experimental Hejira (1976) and Turbulent Indigo Huffington Post. Morris, through
(1994). JoniMitchell.com, released a statement to G
clarify Joni's condition. She acknowledged that
Joni wasn’t the only one making hits with the the singer had suffered an aneurysm, but was
songs she wrote. Other musicians have expected to make a "full recovery." Morris also
recorded successful covers of her songs, addressed Crosby's comment, saying that "Joni A
including Judy Collins; the Counting Crows; and is speaking, and she's speaking well. She is not
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. walking yet, but she will be in the near future as
she is undergoing daily therapies. She is resting M
Joni’s later albums include Taming the Tiger comfortably in her own home and she's getting
(1998), Both Sides Now (2000) and the better each day."
compilation albums Dreamland (2004) and
Songs of a Prairie Girl (2005). In addition to her While an art student in college, Joni fell E
own extensive body of work, she has been an pregnant and gave birth to Kelly Dale (renamed
enormous influence on several other artists Kilauren) Anderson in 1965. The birth father
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