I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...
Over the years, more than a dozen authors have written books about the life and music of Joni Mitchell. Yet, no one before Henry Alford thought to begin their tale with a story as tellingly arcane ...
Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a generation of listeners came to identify with the folk singer’s intimate songs. “Traveling in some vehicle, sitting in ...
His most recent book, I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots, a kind of biography of Mitchell told through Alford’s essays, reflects what he calls a “not quite lifelong ...