Joni Mitchell — an only child born on the Canadian prairies — reinvented herself for more than six decades, aptly singing “I’m on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, looking for ...

Writer Ann Powers’ new book on Joni Mitchell, “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell” (published June 11), is a bit different from the usual biography of a musician. It’s a story of the acclaimed ...

More than any other artist from the Golden Era of rock ‘n’ roll, Joni Mitchell has captured the imaginations of music fans of every age, gender, and race in the 2020s. And biographer Ann Powers is ...

Near the beginning of Ann Powers’ Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, the NPR music critic writes about standing in her front yard to look at gathering storm clouds when a New York editor called ...

Other Facts: Taught herself to play guitar, ukulele and dulcimer. She is known for her difficult musical compositions, alternative guitar tunings and uncommon chord changes. Has won eight Grammy ...

If there were ever two singer-songwriters who were at once equally iconic yet diametrically opposed in their approach to their craft, it would be Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Whereas Mitchell has ...