Tragic Details About Joni Mitchell 

I look up to her now knowing that she overcame her disability and thrived, wish I could do more, but I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer before the pandemic really got going in 2019, I am now 2 years in remission, lost part of my hip and about 7 inches of my small intestine from a bowel obstruction, I have several collapsed disks in my back and I have a seizure disorder from having brain surgery when I was 14, been rough but I am trying to stay strong, trying to start making videos on my Yt account soon I hope and I have an amazing kid. Gotta fight the good fight, and as I always say, stay strong and carry on! Stay safe out there everyone! Be kind to one another!

Children's music as in the case with Sharon, Lois, & Bram.

always worshipped her. musically and otherwise.

Saw her at the Omni in Atlanta in 1974 with my cousin Michael shortly after the Court and Spark album was released. It is in my top 5 favorite concerts of all time. Joni was perfectly spot on that night and I'll never forget that show. Court and Spark is one of my favorite albums also. It just doesn't get much better than that. Best wishes Joni.

One of the very best female musicians that's ever walked the planet

...but an absolute failure as a mother, wife, human being.

@@gymshoe478 You are a failure as a human being. That required no research.

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She's gotten me through the worst and best of times.

That's a great way of looking at it. Some people got to see the opening night of "Hamlet"; we get to share the Earth with Joni Mitchell.

I agree with Alyssa B. Could not have said it any better. She’s the best.

@@susanjohnson5446 Bows and flows of angel hair looked at life from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow...

ABSOLUTELY!💕💞💜

So true, thank you.♥️ Joni may be autoimmune like me. hugs

Typical dumb-erican sensationalism.

👍👍👍👍👍 I truly hate the word TRAGIC in the title. If this is case everyone life is tragic in the end. Which isn’t the case once she’s gone she’ll be remembered….

It’s really a very disrespectful thing that this channel seems to do talking about the tragic blah blah blah shame on you. Be human and don’t just try to get people to click on your video based on the tragic sound of it

Exactly: my very observation.

WAS.

My favorite too!

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@@Juliamiller56 WAS sorry .

@Robert MacLean Right on Robert!!! We know good music!

I think her relationship with her daughter failed, unless something new happened.

@@taramiller3236 the aneurysm happened. The grandchildren visit often

Being brave enough to give up a child is a lifelong grief. As long as the child has a good family (aren't any of us lucky to have that?) does not guarantee a bonded reunion. It is most often complicated. Giving a child up for adoption is a painful decision.

I was a polio pioneer in the Salk trial so few years later... if only to think, the possible losses...

Striving to be great, and the best in this world takes its toll. Some do not see this until their lives become a train wreck that damages themselves and those around them.

Joni was always hands on in charge of her career. There is no doubt about it.

Wow! U said it so much better than i ever could! She sings to my soul, sends me to the heavens and brings me to and takes away my tears. A wonder to behold!

For sure!

@Trasea... Adding her iconic tribute to "Woodstock" would complement your list REALLY well, imo

I love your choices 💖

Hard for me to pick any favorites----too many good ones, but the songs that are the least self-pitying rise to the top of my list: "Little Green", "Carey", "Ladies of the Canyon", "Big Yellow Taxi", "Circle Game", "Morning Morgantown", "Michael from Mountains", "Twisted" (heh-heh)...

The sad song of Job is epic

and Blue Motel Room

Two nations!

👌👍👍👍👍👍international though.. imo being as she's from Canada.

I see the trolls are out. Who cares where she's from. I am in this country. In this country she is a national treasure. The Kennedy Center honored her. That makes her a national treasure!

@@bbrotherton6345 bully

@@bbrotherton6345 how dare you call me a troll because I said international. Only troll is you, ewwww

And Neil Young.

@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 Don't get me wrong. I love Neil Young as a rocker. He wrote some great songs but I don't think he will be considered as an equal to the four I mentioned.

BeeGees?

Shallow, joni is up there with Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Brown, see most true music lovers have already forgotten the Beatles, but Joni will be re discovered as of now. She was one of the chick with Neil Young and those guys, man you can not get any better than that, she really lived, she was on the road most of her life, God Bless Joni Mitchell

I know music is such a part of living helps bring validation. It’s reaffirming or time to do nothing but enjoy what you hear. Maybe because I’m a woman she’s ahead of Dylan Lennon and McCartney as far as depth of folks and what life is about and how we feel both positive and not positive. She’s my musical shrink😉. So greatful to know someone knows our happiness and fears

My husband was probably at that same concert. We are both big fans of Joni Mitchell

Many of us hippie boys in the 60s and early 70s were rightfully smitten by her.

Hello how are you doing?

"they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot"

male vs female feminism that's what music and songwriting is about.... competition that's what creativity is about.... competition. ;) as an Artist... i agree! I don't look at the paintings of other Artists...to FEEL...SEE... Experience... I look at them ...as a competition... especially if they're painted by females! how DARE they enter a male dominated field! grrr.

"Low vision"? Methinks you're seeing clearly, from both sides now.

have implys past tense... it's not... still love her... lately

She's a legend of the ages.

I shouldn't have got on this flight tonight

Who cares? Just appreciate her talents.

Hello 👋 how are you doing?

Amen there

20th century? Try one of the best singer songwriters in history.

Not bad for being a polio survivor

My dad used to sneak me into the Louis Riel coffeehouse in Saskatoon when I was in high school, to watch Joni perform. Put stars in my eyes.

HAD.

@A. Fox The snowy funeral scene is quite frankly the only scene I ever liked about the movie. The rest is forgettable.

We all do what we have to do. That child was better off. I was given away at birth and I drew the golden ticket with my adoptive parents.

Lee Alred. In most cases I would imagine that the child is better off, but definitely not all cases. My wife definitely felt overall blessed, we know of two families right off the bat that were abusive in every form of the word. Unfortunately, some kids don't stand a chance from the start. Remember years ago potential adoptive and/or foster parents were not vetted as they are now. Not that is tragic. Stay safe.

OK, back in early 70,s Joni was hang,n with the heavy hitters in LA. the ( canyon )they were just kids Neil Young, David Crosby, and a new kid Jackson Brown on and off, and remember WereWolf of London Warren Savon or something like that, he was there too, an old house people in and out at all times, but everything was always kool, and me I,m a guy always hang,n around whenever I got the chance. Everything was music, and laugh,n, I,m about hot rods and Bikes so I didn,t really fit in, but I alway had a new joke or a bag of good stuff, so they put up with me.I wish that I had something that I could have added, I remember when they were putt,n together If I could remember my name, that was another world, look at us now.

The song is called Twisted just an fyi

I once read an article that described her as one of the world's last great smokers. Gordon Lightfoot is another great Canadian music talent with a cigarette habit looking rough these days. Those cigs will get you eventually. If they don't kill you outright they will rob you of your general health and make your later years less than they could have been.

She did quit in 2015 after her aneurism

@@wirlypearl6785 Closed the barn door after the horses got clean away.

She should have kept her music on Spotify. Her “protest” was pointless.

who cares, bob too..no one listens to them let alone remember who they were. no disrespect intended

@@mikemiller659 lol that's just not true though is it?

@@mikemiller659 you live under a rock?

@@mikemiller659 The 10,000 people at the last Newport Folk Festival might disagree...

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I'm so thankful for everyone's respect and honor given to Joni Mitchell.

DGray78. Why only the past decade?

I love the scene in 'Message to love', where she reads the riot act to 600,000 unruly fans who thought 3 bucks was robbery for an 'Isle of Wight' ticket, which apparently was good for 3 days. she is visually upset, and it's sincere.

@@tonym994 Never payed to get into the Isle of Wight festival the fence got pulled down.

@@colinmcnab6145those were the days. sounds as if you were there .y' mean like Woodstock? but hey must have at least sold 10 or 12 IOW tickets. man, that film is fantastic!

I was at the Isle of Wight on the stage not 20' from her when she premiered some of the Blue album. Prior that summer she had been staying at the caves in Matala on the island of Crete where she pened Cary and maybe some others from Blue. Things started to get out of control during her set. A crowd of over half a million can be a very vicious animal to control. Unlike Leonard Cohen and the Angel choir who came on some time around 2 AM, Joan's set was during the day. Some guy took the microphone from her piano and was quickly escorted off stage. The crowd didn't like that as he was calling for the Walls to be torn down and the concert be declared free. Right then a poor girl with no clothes on jump on stage and was able to divert some of the Focus of Joan. I know this because I was the one sitting in front of the speakers and behind the girl laying in front of me with a disgusted look on my face staring into the no taste cameras. This gave Joan time to compose herself and tell the audience that they were behaving like tourist and show respect for the performers. It's all there, the DVD is called Message of Love. I'd be driven out out of the US by the draft and had been on the road for 18 months. I made it from San Francisco to Luxembourg to Kathmandu and back home. Wouldn't trade it for the world. She used to lullaby me to sleep "Song to a Seagull" 1968.

@@Waltzenfree I'm envious. especially since TheWHO and Jimi Hendrix, Joni, the doors and so forth were there. only saw the 'Oo and TEN YEARS AFTER couple years later, both twice.

Your car likes music? Far out!

HEY Rod....I also have this Morgellons,,,a butt-kicker for sure,,,

So sorry about your wife....Gode Bless...

I have performed a few of her songs. Not easy to sing; her voice can do things others find challenging. She is also interesting to watch in performance. I have mixed feelings about her life choices, but why are they anyone’s business?

@@leannaloomer6090 Thats awesome that you are keeping her alive through performing some of her songs. God bless ya! ❤

The album or the song?

I agree. That album got worn out. I still have it.

I find Hissing of Summer Lawns has some fantastic layout of lyrics and a bunch of talented artistry.. For me Wild things run fast and Dog Eat Dog, Sucked...

@@bigstick5278 I have to say my favorite album is Hejira, but Wild things run fast in my opinion is a fun album, some of the songs are actually very beautiful!