She had grown from folk to jazz and in between, creating a unique kind of sound that I loved to listen to over and over.” The musicians she played with were always above my abilities. “I listened to every album as it came out. “They are all classics in my book,” says her old friend and compatriot, Neil Young.
The latest spate of legacy work on Mitchell’s back catalogue focuses on three studio albums – For The Roses, Court And Spark, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns – and the double live album, Miles Of Aisles.
She is really getting back into the swing of things.” “She told me, ‘Working on these projects has helped me.’ I think we’re going to be hearing more from her all the time. “ Joni has been going through therapy to get beyond her aneurysm, and in the three years I’ve known her, the improvement has been incredible,” he explains. These two wildly cheering events were closely connected, believes Patrick Milligan, director of A&R at Rhino Records, who has been working closely with Mitchell overseeing the ongoing reissue programme. Appearing alongside Brandi Carlile, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd and sundry other friends, she played guitar and sang a slew of her classic compositions as well as covers of “Love Potion No 9” and “Summertime”. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of UncutĪ month later, on July 24, Mitchell stunned the music world by performing in public for the first time in 20 years at the Newport folk festival.“And we were thrilled that she was thrilled.” “I can’t believe how good my voice sounds!” Aged 78, and still recovering from the effects of the aneurysm she suffered in 2015, she is sufficiently moved to start dancing. “I love the sound of my voice,” she tells Ken Caillat, the engineer overseeing new Dolby Atmos mixes of four albums Mitchell released between 19, rendering them as an immersive sound experience. It is June 2022, and Joni Mitchell is in a playback studio in Los Angeles, listening to her most successful album, Court And Spark, being radically reborn. “They’re all classics in my book,” says Neil Young. In the latest issue of Uncut magazine – in UK shops from Thursday, August 18 and available to buy from our online store, Graeme Thomson talks to friends and collaborators to discover fresh insights into these canonical records and the powerful and complex creative processes of their creator. When you’ve released a generation-defining masterpiece, as JONI MITCHELL did with BLUE, what exactly do you do for an encore? In Mitchell’s case, embark upon an extraordinary run of albums – FOR THE ROSES, COURT AND SPARK and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS – which pulled her far away from her folk roots and expanded her confessional writing into something tougher and more expansive.
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