With the first volume of Joni Mitchell’s Archives series offering material that leads up to her 1968 debut album, Archives Vol. 2 picks up the torch from there and runs up to some late ’70/early ’71 ...

Mitchell began her official Archives series in 2020 with Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967). She’s since shared the series’ second and third volumes, titled The Reprise Years (1968-1971) ...

Joni Mitchell has shared her never-heard song “Like Veils Said Lorraine” from the upcoming third volume of her vault-opening Archives series. The two-minute piano demo, recorded in either late 1971 or ...

Joni Mitchell has announced the third volume in her ongoing Archives series, this time focusing on the fruitful four-year stretch that yielded her classic LPs For The Roses, Court And Spark, and The ...

Joni Mitchell set new singer-songwriter standards in 1970's Ladies of the Canyon and 1971's Blue, then briefly considered retirement. A change of scenery to British Columbia's Sunshine Coast would ...

The biographical fallacy—the idea that artists’ work should primarily be interpreted in light of the events of their lives—has dogged Joni Mitchell from the start of her public career as a ...

Joni Mitchell has announced plans to release the fourth installment of her ongoing series of rare archival recordings, Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980). The collection, ...

Joni Mitchell‘s vault will get an even deeper dig this fall with the release of a 6-CD boxed set that will bring together about a hundred previously unreleased recordings from the fruitful late ’70s ...

In the late ‘70s, Joni Mitchell rode a surge of critical and commercial success into a fearless and unfettered period of artistic experimentation, drawing on disparate sources from the underground to ...

The volumes of Joni Mitchell’s glorious vault-clearing series of “Archives” boxed sets are organized by musical eras, and the first three were relatively tidy: the folkie ‘60s; the “Ladies of the ...