She has won seven more Grammy Awards since then, in several different categories, including traditional pop, pop music and lifetime achievement. At the age of 9, Mitchell contracted polio, and it was during her recovery in the hospital that she began performing and singing to patients. After teaching herself how to play the guitar, she went off to art college and quickly emerged as one of the leading folk performers of the late s and '70s.
At the beginning of her career, Mitchell's compositions were highly original and personal in their lyrical imagery. It was this style that first attracted attention among folk-music audiences in Toronto while she was still in her teens. She moved to the United States in the mids, and in , she recorded her first album, Joni Mitchell , produced by David Crosby. Joni Mitchell won her first Grammy Award best folk performance in , for her sophomore album, Clouds.
Her third album, Ladies of the Canyon , was a mainstream success for the folk singer, becoming her first gold album, which included the hits "The Circle Game" and "Big Yellow Taxi. Her album Court and Spark signaled her foray into jazz and jazz fusion and was lauded by critics; it ended up becoming her most commercially successful project to date and was nominated for four Grammy Awards, of which Mitchell won for best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist s.
Over the past four decades, Mitchell has garnered several Grammys in various categories, including traditional pop, pop music and lifetime achievement. Her other notable successful recordings include Blue , The Hissing of Summer Lawns , the highly experimental Hejira and Turbulent Indigo In addition to her own extensive body of work, she has been an enormous influence on several other artists with her unique guitar styling and expressive lyrics.
In an interview with Rolling Stone in , Mitchell announced she was retiring due to her frustration with the music industry, referring to it as a "cesspool. She began performing for the other kids in the hospital. Eventually Mitchell would make a career out of turning personal tragedy into song. After recovering from polio, Mitchell went on to graduate high school and go to college to study arts. In , she gave birth to a daughter.
With no means of supporting a baby on her own, Mitchell made the difficult decision to give her daughter up for adoption. The baby girl was named Kilauren Gibb by her birth family. She developed an early interest in music and briefly studied classical piano.
Although a poor student, she demonstrated excellent poetic skills. Mitchell briefly studied art in Calgary and then relocated to Toronto, where she started writing and performing music with her husband, Chad Mitchell. Joni Mitchell broke into the recording industry initially as a songwriter.
In , with the help of David Crosby , she signed a contract with Reprise Records and released her critically-acclaimed acoustic debut album, Song to a Seagull. Mitchell is the sole record producer credited on majority of her recordings. Confined for months to a "polio colony" outside Saskatoon, Canada, and haunted at night by the sound of iron lungs, Mitchell surprised her doctors by learning to walk again, what Yaffe calls the first of her many "acts of defiance.
In , she gave birth to a daughter whom she ultimately gave up for adoption. After this, she married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, and they began performing in Detroit and New York City, but she quickly divorced him, telling Yaffe that her husband was her "first major exploiter. Many of her songs reference those lovers - "A Case of You" is about Cohen; "Coyote" about Shepard - and seldom in flattering ways.
In many of her interviews in "Reckless," Mitchell is crass and vindictive. She calls Larry Klein, her second husband, a "puffed up. Where Yaffe should intervene is when Mitchell makes outlandish and self-serving statements about music. Also, why does it take Yaffe more than pages to tell us that Mitchell's mysterious guitar tuning originated to accommodate her left hand, which was weakened by polio?
She's not the only guitar stylist whose hands determined how they play their instrument; the great Django Reinhardt lost the use of two of his fingers in a fire.
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