So Hard to Handle
John Lahr: In Praise of Joni Mitchell, 22 February 2018
Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
by David Yaffe.
Farrar, Straus, 420 pp., £20, October 2017,978 0 374 24813 0 Show More
by David Yaffe.
Farrar, Straus, 420 pp., £20, October 2017,
“... Hendrix noted in his diary after their first, brief meeting. ‘She just knocked me on my ass,’ David Crosby said after hearing her sing ‘Both Sides, Now’. ‘It was the highest quality of songwriting. I liked her better than Dylan.’ Crosby briefly became Mitchell’s inamorato and produced her first album. Leonard Cohen, another influential early ... ”