Bob 'n' Joni

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.”

Joan Baez, 1977.

Joni Mitchell "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" (Early Rough Mix) Summer 1976.

Joni Mitchell "Carey" Wembley Arena, London, EN, April 24, 1983.

"So my work was being rejected whereas mediocre work was being accepted and elevated on the basis of newness and youth and, you know, obvious mercantile speculation ran in that direction. So, rather than physically cut my ear off, I did it in effigy. [laughs] I’m not that stupid.”—Joni Mitchell