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Playlist for Joni Mitchell

Off the Cuff: A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media
Joni Mitchell
Firehall Arts Centre presents Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell April 29-May 20.

A VOYAGE AROUND JONI MITCHELL
Zadie Smith essay in The New Yorker: bit.ly/1qIzsRW.     

ME AND MY UNCLE
Joan Anderson performing live on Oscar Brand’s Let’s Sing Out TV program at the Univerity of Winnipeg on Oct. 4, 1965: bit.ly/2ptzSSs.

SUGAR MOUNTAIN
Early Neil Young song Mitchell recorded in a radio session for Philadelphia’s WHAT Radio in 1967 with her then husband Chuck Mitchell on second guitar: bit.ly/2qePUk3.

LITTLE GREEN
Live performance from Café Au Go Go, NYC (1967): bit.ly/2oF5aqh.

MARCIE
Originally “The Ballad In Red And Green,” filmed at the Café Au Go Go, New York City, October 26, 1967. Who shot this? Warhol?: bit.ly/2oFcC4S.

CHELSEA MORNING
Dick Cavett Show, August 19, 1967: bit.ly/2pmyZsX.

BOTH SIDES NOW / THE CIRCLE GAME
Mitchell performing on CBC’s The Way It Is, 1968: bit.ly/1O5Gk91.          

LIVE AT BBC, 1970
Chelsea Morning, Cactus Tree, My Old Man, For Free, California, Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now: bit.ly/2ppKS1m.

WOODSTOCK
Live in-studio from London, 1970: bit.ly/2qnisnE.

JOHN PEEL SESSION
Joni Mitchell and James Taylor: bit.ly/2pu6EmL.

AMCHITKA
Oct. 16, 1970, Vancouver: bit.ly/2pHnE9W.

GET TOGETHER
Mitchell live with Crosby, Stills and Nash: bit.ly/2qf8m9s.

GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
Cover of Dylan tune on the Johnny Cash Show: bit.ly/2oQhkrB.

FOR THE ROSES / YOU TURN ME ON I'M A RADIO (UNRELEASED DEMOS, 1972)
During the Crosby/Nash album Ahmet Ertegun stopped by to hear the progress. After listening for a while, Nash suggested his girlfriend play Ertegun a couple of new songs she had been working on. They put a U-67 on her guitar and an SM-57 for vocal. Unmixed two-track: bit.ly/2qf1XuD and bit.ly/2pq1AgU.

AN ORAL HISTORY OF LAUREL CANYON
Vanity Fair piece: bit.ly/2ptwjM7.  

MUCHMUSIC INTIMATE AND INTERACTIVE
TV broadcast with Denise Donlon from September, 1994: bit.ly/2pc3xiL

IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
Dylan cover. Song he originally sang at Newport some say almost as an afterthought: bit.ly/2oQtXD0.

FAMILIES OF TUNINGS
Mitchell uses a system of one letter and five numbers to describe each tuning: bit.ly/2qo4FgE.