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Joni Mitchell and me: My heart, her brain

4 May 2023

Speaking of passion, I first fell in love with folk music when I was just 14 and by my 15th year was old enough to go downtown to the then slightly seedy, now quite tony Yorkville neighborhood in Toronto to hang out at the folk clubs. [...] Back in the day, there were two main venues—The Riverboat and The Penny Far- thing, the former too expensive for me and the latter more open to new acts and with a less burdensome cover charge. [...] Unrelated to that nice, and she was dating Neil [Young] at the time.”1 emergency, as pointed out on her website: “The last time Next up was “… a new talent, all the away from Saska- Joni performed with guitar in hand in front of a paying toon.” Out stepped a mere slip of a girl with long blond audience was 8,660 days ago, on her 55th birthday.” hair, a thin face with high cheek bones and buck teet. [...] According to The Rolling Stone describing the over the neck and sound hole of her instrument. [...] And this was the deep love and clear respect shown to this senior (in ORCID more ways than one) artist by the younger and far Avram Mark Clarfield healthier musicians on the stage and how they deferred 0388-5663 to her voice, singing along on every piece but never overshadowing Mitchell's.
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