Word: joni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAMA CASS TELEVISION PROGRAM (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests on Cass's first special are Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Buddy Hackett, John Sebastian, Mary Travers and Joni Mitchell...
...JOHNNY CASH SHOW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Country Music Man gets off to a larruping start with Bob Dylan, Fannie Flagg, Joni Mitchell and Doug Kershaw. Premi...
...Oblivion. Joni seriously took up music only five years ago. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she casually began playing the ukulele at 20, while an art student at Calgary, and drifted into folk music. In Toronto, she worked as a salesgirl to earn the $140 union fee so that she could perform in city cafes. Success was still out of sight when she met, married and eventually was divorced from a folk singer named Chuck Mitchell in Detroit. Meanwhile she had taken the first step out of oblivion by starting to write her own folk-styled songs...
...Joni now occupies a secure place among today's leading folk poets. Her evanescent tunes and lyrics primarily evoke moods, emotions and changes of scenery, instead of proclaiming social messages of political protest. They are songs about love or about a country girl's cool-eyed reaction to urban life. I Had a King is a poetic description of her broken marriage...
...Joni is a blue-eyed, freckle-faced girl with straight, waist-long blonde hair who doesn't seem to care about her new wealth. She lives in a ramshackle house in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, with secondhand trappings-brown velvet rockers, black and yellow crocheted throws, a giant antique wooden pig, an old piano, a doll, stained-glass windowpanes and a sewing machine on which she makes her own dresses...