Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

by David Yaffe

Joni Mitchell is more than a 1970s icon or pop star. She is our eternal singer-songwriter of sorrows, traveling through our highs and lows, the twentieth-century master of the art song tradition that stretches to Franz Schubert.

Nietzsche also wrote that “without music, life would be a mistake,”

“this law dictates that stardom cannot extend for a period greater than three years.

we were witnessing was a celebrity who had enjoyed two three-year terms.