Bob 'n' Joni

Joni Mitchell, “The Dawntreader,” Song to a Seagull, March 29, 1968.

“Like a promise to be free Dolphins playing in the sea All his sea dreams come to me”

“This is my Fort Lauderdale standard tuning because I accidentally found it in Florida when my guitar went out of tune down there, and it went out of tune into that. This is a Fort Lauderdale kind of song, actually it’s an anywhere kind of song, and it’s called, “all his sea dreams come to me…’”—Joni Mitchell introducing the song at Le Hibou, March 1968.

Neil Young “Sweet Joni” Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, CA, March 11, 1973—Neil Young Archives: Vol. II, March 5, 2021.

—Neil Young “The Rolling Stone Interview” August 14, 1975.

“I love Joni. She’s wonderful. She’s one of the greatest artists of our generation—she may be the greatest artist of our generation.”—Neil Young

Joni Mitchell "You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio" accompanied by Neil Young & The Stray Gators—Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975).

– Neil Young, excerpt from Waging Heavy Peace [2012] 📷 Rich Zimmermann, 1973

Bob Dylan, “Tryin’ To Get To Heaven,” Time Out of Mind, September 30, 1997.

Joni Mitchell, 1982 © Norman Seeff.

“Last night I dreamed I saw the planet flicker Great forests fell like buffalo Everything got sicker And to the bitter end Big business bickered And they call for the three great stimulants Of the exhausted ones Artifice brutality and innocence Artifice and innocence Oh these times, these times Oh these changing times Change in the heart of all mankind Oh these troubled times…”

Joni Mitchell “A Case of You” Pacific Coliseum—Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 16, 1970.

joni mitchell at the pacific coliseum, oct 1970 (pacific press fonds)

“When you’re up, you’re up. And when you’re down  you really got no choice.”