Bob 'n' Joni

Joni Mitchell and David Hockney at the L.A. Louver gallery in Los Angeles, Photo Credit Jacob Sousa, via L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, February 13, 2019.

Joni Mitchell with David Hockney, at the L.A. Louver Gallery, February 13, 2019.

—Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour: Colors, February 28, 2007.

Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” spotted in the background of Agnès Varda’s film, “One Sings, The Other Doesn’t” (1977).

Joni Mitchell & Kris Kristofferson, Newport Folk Festival, July 19, 1969.

Joni Mitchell & Kris Kristofferson, Newport Folk Festival, July 19, 1969 © Dan Beach.

Joni Mitchell “California” September 1970—Blue 50: Demos & Outtakes, June 21, 2021.

Considine publicly considers this version “the album cover for Blue- the way it should’ve been” as of his website.

I love the song "Dreamland" that you sing on, in her 1977 jazz-heavy album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. Chaka: "Oh please! You know what? She called me at 4 o'clock in the morning and said [in a deep, Canadian accent imitating Mitchell], "Chaka...come down to the studio right now! You have to come down here!" So I said, finally! Joni and I are going to get to work together I was so happy! Until I got down to the studio and it changed. It was me singing no words at all (referring to the tones and textures she warbles on the world music influenced track). Not a word! Just "Aye aye aye.." and all that shit." —An interview with Chaka Khan: Life, career, and her ongoing love affair with music

Bob Dylan, Woodstock, New York, Elliott Landy, 1968.

Joni Mitchell, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, March 4, 1974 © Ron Bowman.

Joan Baez, Berkeley Folk Music Festival Jubilee Concert—Berkeley, CA, June 28, 1964.

“That’s what I heard in my mind for this one—Wayne Shorter with birds. We had a tree in our backyard at the beach that was always full of birds. Birds of a feather aren’t supposed to flock together but our tree defied this natural law. It was a regular bird Babylon. We ran a cord out into the yard and recorded “bird babble” and we had it in our files. When Wayne came into the session, the only instruction I gave him was, “You’re the bird.” He’s the only musician that I ever played with that could take metaphorical instruction. Wayne plays pictures. I wish more people could see / hear them and delight in them the way I do. He is indispensable to my music.”—Joni Mitchell, The Complete Geffen Recordings liner notes.

Joni Mitchell, 1988.