Joni: the lyrical life of Joni Mitchell

"Joni Mitchell painted with words. Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar, she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas, saying things that were not only happy or sad but true. But before composing more than two hundred songs, Joni was a young girl from a...

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Main Author: Alko, Selina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2020]
Edition:First edition
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Summary:"Joni Mitchell painted with words. Sitting at her piano or strumming the guitar, she turned the words into songs. The songs were like brushstrokes on a canvas, saying things that were not only happy or sad but true. But before composing more than two hundred songs, Joni was a young girl from a town on the Canadian prairie, where she learned to love dancing, painting, birdsong, and piano. As she grew up into an artist, Joni took her strong feelings--feelings of love and frustration, and the turbulence that came with being a young woman--and wrote them into vivid songs."--Amazon
Physical Description:48 unnumbered pages color illustrations 29 cm
ISBN:9780062671295