Joni Mitchell Research Papers

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Joni Mitchell has been an influential force in the music industry for more than five decades. Releasing 19 albums since the beginning of her career in the 1960s, the Canadian songstress has had countless chart hits. Her songs, including “Big Yellow Taxi,” “River” and “Both Sides Now,” have been covered hundreds of times over by generations of artists, guaranteeing that her music will live on forever. Read on to learn more about Joni Mitchell’s prolific music and painting career, and stay tuned for part two, coming soon.

Number Fifteen: She Had Polio as a Child. Mitchell (neé Roberta Joan Anderson) lost her ability to walk because of the disease, which she contracted at the age of nine. Unlike most people who are stricken with polio though,

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