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Joni Mitchell to play first headline concert in 23 years | Music
Joni Mitchell is set to perform at her first headline concert in 23 years.
The singer will take the stage at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre on 10 June 2023, news that was initially revealed by Brandi Carlile on The Daily Show before official confirmation later. Carlile will also perform a headline set at the same venue, the night before. She called it “one of the most beautiful venues in the world”.
The two-night event is called Echoes through the Canyon and is known as Joni Jam II. The first official Joni Jam took place when the singer made an unannounced appearance as part of the Newport folk festival alongside Carlile, who claimed that Mitchell said to her “I want to do another show … I want to play again” after it ended. Other Joni Jams have been sessions at Mitchell’s house.
“Joni Mitchell is going to play,” Carlile told Trevor Noah. “No one’s been able to buy a ticket to see Joni Mitchell play in 20 years … So this is enormous … and she is going to crush it!”
Mitchell’s last official headline shows were part of 2000’s Both Sides Now tour.
In 2015, Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm which affected her ability to speak and walk. “I got my speech back quickly, but the walking I’m still struggling with,” she said to Cameron Crowe in 2020. “But I mean, I’m a fighter. I’ve got Irish blood!” After accepting her Kennedy Center Honor in 2021, she added: “I’ve had to come back several times from things. And this last one was a real whopper. But, you know, I’m hobbling along but I’m doing all right!”
She also attended the Grammy awards in April. She was named person of the year by the academy’s affiliated charity MusiCares and won best historical album for her retrospective, Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol 1: The Early Years (1963-1967).
Earlier this year, Mitchell joined Neil Young in protesting Spotify over anti-vax content, asking the platform to remove her albums. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” she said in a statement.
Joni Mitchell Reclaims Her Voice at Newport
The highlight of the set, though, was “Both Sides, Now,” a song that a 23-year-old Mitchell wrote in 1967, the same year she played Newport for the first time. Back then, some critics scoffed at the lyrics’ presumptive wisdom: What could a 23-year-old girl possibly know about both sides of life? But over the years, the song has revealed itself to contain fathomless depths that have only been audible in later interpretations.
When she was 56, Mitchell rereleased a lush version of “Both Sides, Now” on her 2000 album of the same name, backed by a 70-piece orchestra. Her voice was deeper, elegiac and elegantly weary. “It’s life’s illusions I recall,” she sang at the end of the song, “I really don’t know life at all.”
That version was considered a tear-jerker (and used to this effect in a classic scene from the movie “Love, Actually”), but then again, it’s easy to find pathos in getting older. Aging inherently brings suffering, debilitation and loss — this is not news. What Mitchell’s 2022 performance of the song asserted was that it can also bring serendipity, long-delayed gratification and joy. Ever an expert re-interpreter of her own material, Mitchell breathed new meaning into some of her most famous lyrics. “I could drink a case of you, and I would still be on my feet,” she sang with Carlile, the line becoming not only a challenge to a lover, but a survivor’s boast to life itself.
Part of what is so heartening about Mitchell’s recent pop cultural revival, like Bush’s surprise chart resurgence, is that it allows a beloved if somewhat underappreciated artist to receive her laurels while she’s still living. (Wynonna Judd, still grieving her mother Naomi’s death, was also onstage with Mitchell and wept openly throughout “Both Sides, Now” — a visual reminder of a crueler fate and the inherent dichotomy of the song.) In a culture that excessively scrutinizes women as they age, or simply renders them invisible and erases their influence, it felt like a quietly radical act to honor Mitchell in this way. Younger artists got the chance to pay earnest homage to their elder; a mature woman who was not yet finished reinterpreting her life’s work reclaimed the stage.
Surrounded by an adoring crowd of friends, fellow musicians, and admirers — many of whom were not yet born when Mitchell wrote “Both Sides, Now” — she seemed to sing it this time with a grinning shrug: I really don’t know life at all. As if to say: You never know — anything can happen. Even this.
Joni Mitchell Performs Surprise Show at Newport Folk Festival
Joni Mitchell, the revered Canadian singer-songwriter and one of the defining musicians of the 1960s and ’70s, surprised an audience in Rhode Island on Sunday when she appeared at the Newport Folk Festival to perform her first full set in about two decades, guitar in hand.
Mitchell, never one for the limelight, has remained largely out of the public eye since having a brain aneurysm in 2015. As she recovered, she made a few brief appearances: In December, she gave a rare public speech as she accepted a Kennedy Center Honor, and in April, made a televised appearance at the Grammys and was honored at a gala for MusiCares, a Grammy-affiliated charity.
But on Sunday, Mitchell, 78, wearing a beret and sunglasses, performed some of her most iconic songs, including “Carey,” “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Both Sides Now.”
At one point, Mitchell, an electric guitar slung over her shoulder, performed a several-minutes-long solo during “Just Like This Train,” as fans whooped and cheered.
“After all she’s been through, she returned to the Newport Folk Fest stage after 53 years and I will never forget sitting next to her while she stopped this old world for a while,” the singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who sang backup for Mitchell during her festival appearance, said in a Tweet.
Having “looked at life from so many sides,” Mitchell has come “out of the storm singing like a prophet,” she added.
Although Mitchell has limited her appearances in recent years, she has not avoided the headlines.
In January, Mitchell joined Neil Young in boycotting the streaming service Spotify, over its role in giving a platform to Covid-19 vaccine misinformation.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote of the company at the time. She added, “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
On Sunday, several musicians, including Carlile, flanked Mitchell onstage, and sang with her. “I will never be over this. I can’t even watch it without the tears coming back,” Carlile wrote later on Twitter. “Please forgive me.”
As Mitchell and Carlile sang “A Case of You” from the influential “Blue” album, released more than 50 years ago, Mitchell sang:
Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh, I would still be on my feet.
The crowd roared.
Joni Mitchell gives first full live performance since 2002 | Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell gave her first full live performance since 2002 at this weekend’s Newport Folk festival. Mitchell, 78, joined country musician and friend Brandi Carlile at the festival to perform Mitchell classics including A Case of You, Both Sides Now and Big Yellow Taxi. During the 13-song set, Mitchell also performed the guitar solo from Just Like This Train.
Joining her and Carlile – who has covered Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue in full – were Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Blake Mills, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of the band Lucius, and Mitchell’s bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth and Celisse Henderson: a live version of the private “Joni Jam” nights that Mitchell has held at her Los Angeles home in recent years with the likes of Elton John, Bonnie Raitt and Herbie Hancock.
“I just realised, Joni’s the least nervous person up here,” Carlile told the crowd.
As well as renditions of Mitchell songs including Carey, Amelia and Circle Game, the group also covered Gershwin’s Summertime, Frankie Lymon’s Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Leiber and Stoller’s Love Potion No 9. Watch videos of the performance at Pitchfork and read the setlist below.
Mitchell’s last full live show was at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on 13 November 2002. She last appeared at the Newport folk festival in 1969 on the same bill as Arlo Guthrie and the Everly Brothers.
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Since having a brain aneurysm in 2015, Mitchell has made a steady return to public life. She was present at a tribute concert in celebration of her 75th birthday in 2018 and appeared on stage as other musicians performed Big Yellow Taxi to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Blue in June 2021, Mitchell shared a video thanking fans for “getting” an album that originally “fell air to a lot of criticism” – namely that her candid lyrics were undignified oversharing. She appeared at the Kennedy Center Honors gala in December 2021 – telling reporters, “I’m hobbling along but I’m doing all right” – where she was among the recipients. In April, Mitchell was named MusiCares person of the year and gave a brief performance at the ceremony to honour her.
Mitchell is also working on a series of archival releases to share demos, previously unheard material and covers. The first, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol 1: The Early Years (1963–1967), was released in October 2020 and featured a rare new interview by Cameron Crowe in the liner notes.
In January, she removed her catalogue from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who directed his management and label to remove his music from the streaming platform given its support of Joe Rogan, whose podcast has been criticised by doctors for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccination.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell said. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
The full setlist of Joni Mitchell’s Newport folk festival performance
Carey
Come in from the Cold
Help Me
Case of You
Big Yellow Taxi
Just Like This Train
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Amelia
Love Potion No 9
Shine
Summertime
Both Sides Now
The Circle Game
Joe Rogan responds to Neil Young, Joni Mitchell boycotting Spotify over his podcast
Joe Rogan has addressed the controversy surrounding two of his podcasts about Covid-19 vaccines on Spotify.
Last year the 54-year-old podcaster interviewed widely discredited doctor Robert Malone, who claimed on his show The Joe Rogan Experience that Americans were “hypnotised” into wearing masks and getting vaccines.
Soon after that, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals started asking Spotify to address Covid misinformation on Rogan’s controversial episodes about vaccines.
In the past few weeks, musicians and celebrities like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle joined those protests, with Young and Mitchell asking Spotify to remove their music from the platform as they don’t appreciate the streaming giant’s affiliation with Rogan.
On Monday (31 January), Rogan, who is also a UFC commentator, finally responded to this controversy in an almost 10-minute long video.
The former television presenter started off by saying that he wanted to make this video because he thinks “a lot of people had a distorted perception of what I do”.
“[My] podcast has been accused of spreading dangerous misinformation, specifically about two episodes,” he said. “One with Dr Peter McCullough and one with Dr Malone.”
Rogan defended both doctors by stating their credentials and gave a reason behind why he invited them to his show.
“Dr McCullough is a cardiologist and he is the most published physician in his field in history,” Rogan said. “Dr Malone owns nine patents on the creation of the mRNA vaccine technology and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology that led to [creation of] mRNA vaccines.”
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“Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, and very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that’s different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is,” he added.
Rogan continued by highlighting why he has an issue with his episodes being labelled as “dangerous” and that they spread “misinformation”.
“Especially today, many of the things we thought of misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact,” he said, before giving examples of how people used to be blocked from certain social media platforms for claiming things like “Covid-19 came from a lab” — which is now on the headlines of Newsweek.
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“All those theories that at one point of time were banned were openly discussed by those two men that I had on my podcast, that have been accused of ‘dangerous misinformation,’” Rogan claimed.
He continued by saying that he “doesn’t” know if [the doctors are] right, and claims that he’s just a “person who sits down and talks to people and have conversations with them”.
On whether he gets things wrong, Rogan said: “Absolutely! But then I try to correct them.”
During his video, the commentator also said that he agrees with Spotify’s decision to add “disclaimers” at the beginning of controversial podcasts, especially the ones related to Covid.
Rogan also highlighted that he has “no hard feelings” towards Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, and admitted that he in fact loves both their music.
“I don’t know what else I can do differently other than maybe try harder to get people with different opinions on right afterward,” he said.
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Rogan also admitted that he will do his best to make sure to “research these topics” thoroughly and have “all the pertinent facts at hand before I discuss them”.
“I’m not trying to promote misinformation, I’m not trying to be controversial. I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people, and have interesting conversations.”
The podcaster ended his statement by pledging that he will “try to balance out these controversial viewpoints” from now on.
Yesterday, Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek announced that the platform will put in “new effort[s] to combat misinformation, [and] roll out to countries around the world in the coming days”.
Spotify’s full statement can be read here.
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Spotify keeps Joe Rogan’s podcast, removes Neil Young’s music
Spotify removes the music of Neil Young after the singer requested they choose between his catalogue or Joe Rogan’s podcast.
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Add Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren to the #ByeSpotify team.
Mitchell – who recently was feted at the Kennedy Center Honors – said on her website Friday that she stands with fellow Canadian-born artist Neil Young in wanting her music removed from streaming service Spotify.
Lofgren, who played on Young’s latest release “Barn” as a member of Crazy Horse and is also a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, posted a note Saturday on Neil Young Archives website announcing that “we’ve now gotten the last 27 years of my music off Spotify.”
“We are reaching out to the labels that own my earlier music to have it removed as well,” his message said. “We sincerely hope they honor our wishes, as Neil’s labels have done, his. We will do everything possible towards that end and keep you posted.”
Spotify on Friday took down Young’s music after the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee asked that his music be removed if the service would continue to have podcast host Joe Rogan on the platform.
Young criticized Spotify for having “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on the service, saying in the letter that has since been removed online, “Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.”
Rogan, who tested positive for COVID-19 in September, has been critical of safety measures against the virus on his podcast and had downplayed the need for mass vaccines for large events like comedy shows. In 2020, Spotify acquired the host’s podcast library in a deal reportedly worth more than $100 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The musicians’ action comes after nearly 300 doctors, physicians and science educators earlier this month signed an open letter calling on Spotify to stop spreading Rogan’s commentary and “moderate misinformation on its platform.”
In their letter, they said that during the pandemic, Rogan “has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine.”
Mitchell, also a Rock Hall inductee – and like Young, a polio survivor with dual citizenship in Canada and the U.S. – posted a link to the letter on her website along with her “I Stand With Neil Young!” note.
“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” she wrote in the note. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
Mitchell’s entire catalog is not on Spotify, but on Sunday there were five albums and a compilation of her ’80s recordings for Geffen Records on the service.
Missing are classic albums “Blue” (1971) and “Court and Spark” (1974). But her singles “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” have earned more than 135 million and 100 million streams on the service, respectively.
USA TODAY has reached out to Spotify for comment on Mitchell’s and Lofgren’s requests.
“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators,” a Spotify spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY Wednesday. “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”
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On his Neil Young Archives website, Young encouraged other musicians to join him and countered criticism that his demands amounted to censorship.
“I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship,” he wrote. “Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.”
This has led to a growing discussion on Twitter about whether more artists will follow Young. Lofgren also encouraged other “musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere, to stand with us all, and cut ties with Spotify.”
Best-selling author and researcher Brené Brown, who hosts two Spotify Original podcasts, said she would “not be releasing any podcasts until further notice. To our #UnlockingUs and #DaretoLead communities, I’m sorry and I’ll let you know if and when that changes,” she tweeted.
Musician and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell tweeted he planned to follow suit. “Where he goeth, I will follow,” Farrell tweeted.
“If all artists were as punk rock as Neil Young maybe we wouldn’t be getting absolutely screwed by corporate streaming companies,” tweeted country singer-songwriter Margo Price.
Apparently not on the #DeleteSpotify team: Barry Manilow. Some Twitter traffic including a tweet by actress Debra Messing, suggested the singer wanted to leave Spotify, too.
Not so, he says. “I don’t know where (the rumor) started, but it didn’t start with me or anyone who represents me,” Manilow tweeted Friday.
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Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast
Joni Mitchell has decided to remove all of her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast that Young says spreads misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines (via The Wall Street Journal).
“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” The Canadian singer-songwriter writes in a post on her website. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
Mitchell also includes a link to an open letter to Spotify, which was signed by dozens of medical and scientific professionals in mid-January. It urges the platform to establish a misinformation policy to address the “misleading and false claims” propagated by the Joe Rogan Experience, such as Rogan’s suggestion that healthy young people shouldn’t get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Earlier this week, Young gave Spotify an ultimatum: keep his music or Rogan’s podcast. Spotify ended up favoring Rogan, and in line with Young’s wishes, the platform pulled all of his music. Young later said he “felt better” after getting his music removed, and then criticized Spotify for failing to offer lossless audio, an option that both Amazon and Apple Music provide. Apple has even been using Young’s departure from Spotify as an opportunity to take numerous digs at its competitor, going so far as to label Apple Music as “the home of Neil Young.”
In 2020, Spotify made the Joe Rogan Experience exclusive to the platform, and it has since come under fire for Rogan’s potentially misleading comments about COVID-19 and its vaccines. As it stands, it appears Spotify’s content policies prevent the platform from doing anything about Rogan’s podcast. In internal guidelines seen by The Verge, its policies seem to allow podcasters to state COVID-19 vaccines can cause death, but not that they’re “designed” to cause death. A screenshot of an internal message also viewed by The Verge reveals Spotify has reviewed numerous controversial episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience, and none “meet the threshold for removal.”
The Verge reached out to Spotify with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.
Joni Mitchell joining Neil Young in protest over Spotify
Joni Mitchell said Friday she is seeking to remove all of her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who ignited a protest against the streaming service for airing a podcast that featured a figure who has spread misinformation about the coronavirus.
Mitchell, who like Young is a California-based songwriter who had much of her success in the 1970s, is the first prominent musician to join Young’s effort.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell said Friday in a message posted on her website. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
Following Young’s action this week, Spotify said it had policies in place to remove misleading content from its platform and has removed more than 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
But the service has said nothing about comedian Joe Rogan, whose podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” is the centerpiece of the controversy. Last month Rogan interviewed on his podcast Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist who has been banned from Twitter for spreading COVID misinformation.
Rogan is one of the streaming service’s biggest stars, with a contract that could earn him more than $100 million.
Young had called on other artists to support him following his action. While Mitchell, 78, is not a current hitmaker, the Canadian native’s Spotify page said she had 3.7 million monthly listeners to her music. Her songs “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” have both been streamed more than 100 million times on the service.
In a message on his website Friday, Young said that “when I left Spotify, I felt better.”
“Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information,” he wrote. “I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.”
His decision drew praise from the head of the World Health Organization.
“[Neil Young], thanks for standing up against misinformation and inaccuracies around #COVID19 vaccination,” he tweeted Thursday. “Public and private sector, in particular #socialmedia platforms, media, individuals – we all have a role to play to end this pandemic and infodemic.”
There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Spotify.
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Joni Mitchell Plans to Follow Neil Young Off Spotify, Citing ‘Lies’
Joni Mitchell said Friday that she would remove her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in his protest against the streaming service over its role in giving a platform to Covid-19 vaccine misinformation.
Mitchell, an esteemed singer-songwriter of songs like “Big Yellow Taxi,” and whose landmark album “Blue” just had its 50th anniversary, posted a brief statement on her website Friday saying that she would remove her music from the streaming service. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” she wrote. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
Her statement adds fuel to a small but growing revolt over Spotify, with few major artists speaking out but fans commenting widely on social media. The debate has also brought into relief questions about how much power artists wield to control distribution of their work, and the perennially thorny issue of free speech online.
Spotify took Young’s music down on Wednesday, two days after he posted an open letter calling for its removal as a protest against “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Spotify’s most popular podcast, which has been criticized for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.
He did so after a group of hundreds of scientists, professors and public health experts had asked Spotify to take down an episode of Rogan’s show from Dec. 31 that had featured Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious-disease expert. The scientists wrote in a public letter that the program promoted “several falsehoods about Covid-19 vaccines.”
Mitchell is the first major artist to follow Young, after a couple of days of speculation and rumors on social media.
Young and Mitchell have a deep history together. Both are Canadians who helped lead the singer-songwriter revolution in Southern California in the late 1960s and 1970s.
On Spotify, Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of her songs — “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” — getting over 100 million streams.
While few other major artists have spoken out so far, Young’s stance has resonated widely with fans. Twitter was dotted with the announcements of listeners saying they were canceling their subscriptions, and screenshots from Spotify’s app showed a message from its customer support team saying that it was “getting a lot of contacts so may be slow to respond.” Spotify has not said how many customers canceled their subscriptions.
Tech rivals have also pounced on the controversy, with SiriusXM restarting a Neil Young channel and Apple Music calling itself “the home of Neil Young.”
In a statement on his website on Friday, Young reiterated his objections to Rogan’s podcast and took a swipe at Spotify’s sound quality. He also said he supported free speech.
“I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship,” it said. “Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information.”