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Sunday, 30 July 2006
Joni Mitchell
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Composer Profile: Joni Mitchell
9:00 AM.LISTEN: to a six part audio overview of the life and music of the renowned singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, presented by Rebecca Blundell, starting with Part One - The Circle Game. Read more Audio
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Joni Mitchell: Part 6 - the '90s onwards
9:00 AM."It's life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all"
Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's recordings from the '90s up to the present day (circa 2006), a time where Mitchell was… Read more Audio
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Joni Mitchell: Part 5 - Joni takes on the '80s
9:00 AM."If you had that house/ car/ bottle/ jar your lovers would look like movie stars"
Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's music in the '80s and her disdain for the social and political climate of… Read more Audio
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Joni Mitchell: Part 4 - Joni and the jazz bassists
9:00 AM."Now we are black and white, embracing out in the lunatic New York night"
Rebecca Blundell looks at the three albums Joni Mitchell made with fretless jazz bass player Jaco Pastorius in the late… Read more Audio
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Joni Mitchell: Part 3 - Fame takes its toll
9:00 AM."The lights go down and it's just you up there"
Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's life in the early '70s from the recording of Blue which ended in Mitchell's emotional collapse, through her… Read more Audio
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Joni Mitchell: Part 2 - The '60s Recordings
9:00 AM."Songs like tiny hammers hurled at bevelled mirrors in empty halls"
Rebecca Blundell looks at Joni Mitchell's early song-writing, focussing on the late '60s recordings.
At the time Mitchell's… Read more Audio