Reckless Daughter: A Portrait Of Joni Mitchell
by David Yaffe /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of
Canadians. In her heyday she released ten experimental,
challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people
with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their
emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally
relatable to her audience. In this intimate biography, composed
of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe
reveals the backstory behind the famous songs from her youth on
the Canadian prairie, her pre-vaccine bout with polio at age
nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for
adoption, up through the quintessential albums and love affairs,
and all the way to the present?and shows us why Mitchell has so
enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends.
Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of
Canadians. In her heyday she released ten experimental,
challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people
with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their
emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally
relatable to her audience. In this intimate biography, composed
of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe
reveals the backstory behind the famous songs from her youth on
the Canadian prairie, her pre-vaccine bout with polio at age
nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for
adoption, up through the quintessential albums and love affairs,
and all the way to the present?and shows us why Mitchell has so
enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends.
Yaffe has had unprecedented access both to Mitchell and to those
who know her, drawing on interviews with childhood friends and
the cast of famous characters (Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Leonard
Cohen, David Crosby, and more) with whom she has crossed paths
and influenced, as well as insightful analyses of her famous
lyrics, their imagery and style, and what they say about the
woman herself.
Yaffe has had unprecedented access both to Mitchell and to those
who know her, drawing on interviews with childhood friends and
the cast of famous characters (Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Leonard
Cohen, David Crosby, and more) with whom she has crossed paths
and influenced, as well as insightful analyses of her famous
lyrics, their imagery and style, and what they say about the
woman herself.Reckless Daughter
Reckless Daughter tells the
story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time
of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect
that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.
tells the
story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time
of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect
that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.