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Traveling: On The Path Of Joni Mitchell
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*An Observer Best New Biographies Of 2024*?*Now In Paperback!*Celebrated Npr Music Critic Ann Powers Explores The Life And Career Of Joni Mitchell In A Lyrical Style As Fascinating And Ethereal As The Songs Of The Artist Herself.What You Are About To Read Is Not A Standard Account Of The Life And Work Of Joni Mitchell. Instead, ItS A Tale Of Long Journeying Through A Life That Changed Popular Music: Of A Homesick Wanderer Forging Ahead On Routes Of Her Own Invention, And Of Me On Her Trail, Heading Toward The Ringing Of Her Voice.From The Introductionfor Decades, Joni MitchellS Life And Music Have Enraptured Listeners. One Of The Most Celebrated Artists Of Her Generation, Mitchell Has Inspired Countless MusiciansFrom Peers Like James Taylor, To Inheritors Like Prince And Brandi CarlileAnd Authors, Who Have Dissected Her Music And Her Life In Their Writing. At The Same Time, Mitchell Has Always Been A Force Beckoning Us Still Closer, AsWith The Other ArmShe Pushes Us Away. Given This, Music Critic Ann Powers Wondered If There Was Another Way To Draw Insights From The Life Of This Singular Musician Who Never Stops Moving, Never Stops Experimenting.In Traveling, Powers Seeks To Understand Mitchell Through Her Myriad Journeys. Through Extensive Interviews With MitchellS Peers And Deep Archival Research, She Takes Readers To Rural Canada, Mapping The SingerS Childhood Battle With Polio. She Charts The Course Of MitchellS Musical Evolution, Ranging From Early Folk To Jazz Fusion To Experimentation With Pop Synthetics. She Follows The Winding Road Of MitchellS Collaborations With Other Greats, And The Loves That Emerged Along The Way, All The Way Through To The Remarkable Return Of Mitchell To MusicMaking After The 2015 Aneurysm That Nearly Took Her Life.Along This Journey, Powers WideRanging Musings On The ArtistS Life And Career Reconsider The BiographerS Role And The Way It Twines Against The Reality Of A Fan. In Doing So, Traveling Illustrates The Shifting Nature Of Biography, And The Ultimate Contradiction Of Celebrity: That An Icon Cannot Truly, Completely Be Known To A Fan.Kaleidoscopic In Scope, And Intimate In Its Detail, Traveling Is A Fresh And Fascinating Addition To The Joni Mitchell Canon, Written By A Biographer In Full Command Of Her Gifts Who Asks As Much Of Herself As Of Her Subject.
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