How Joni Mitchell Became a Millennial and Gen-Z Hero

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We celebrate the work of Joni Mitchell, with Cameron Crowe discussing his legendary 1979 Mitchell interview, and guitarist Larry Carlton talking about playing with Mitchell on some of her greatest songs. Angie Martoccio takes us through the peaks of Mitchell's discography, and Jonathan Bernstein gives a first-hand account of her stunning Newport Folk Festival comeback performance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone, music now. Today's episode is all about Joni Mitchell.
0:35.6	Joni just gave her first performance in many years at the Newport Folk Festival and
0:40.0	the worldwide reaction to it was a reminder of just how beloved she is
0:44.4	and just how beloved she's become in new generations. And Joni also announced that
0:49.1	there's a new box set coming out in September, the asylum years, 1972 to 1975, which happens to cover some of her absolute artistic peaks.
0:57.6	To talk about her discography around that time, I have Angie Martosia, and during that conversation, a way in on some of the stuff he played on.
1:05.0	I have Larry Carlton, one of the greatest guitar players ever.
1:08.1	He played on a ton of steel dance stuff as well.
1:10.4	That's him on kids Charlemagne for instance and he played on some of
1:13.7	Joni Mitchell's greatest songs. And then I have writer director Cameron Crow who's of
1:18.5	course currently working on the upcoming Almost Famous musical and before he was
1:22.2	the director of almost famous and
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