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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material was still on Spotify. In 2024, after Young announced his own return to Spotify after Rogan's podcast was distributed on other service, Mitchell's Warner-era material was also reinstated on Spotify.

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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material was still on Spotify. In 2024, after Young announced his own return to Spotify after Rogan's podcast was distributed on other service, Mitchell's Warner-era WMG-era material was also reinstated on Spotify.
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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material was still on Spotify. In 2024, after Young announced his own return to Spotify after Rogan's podcast was distributed on other service, Joni's Warner-era material was also reinstated on Spotify.

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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material was still on Spotify. In 2024, after Young announced his own return to Spotify after Rogan's podcast was distributed on other service, Joni's Mitchell's Warner-era material was also reinstated on Spotify.
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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material is still on Spotify.

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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material is was still on Spotify. In 2024, after Young announced his own return to Spotify after Rogan's podcast was distributed on other service, Joni's Warner-era material was also reinstated on Spotify.
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home'' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.

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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home'' 'would would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.
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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio.

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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio.polio, and removed her WMG-distributed albums from the service. Her Geffen-era material is still on Spotify.
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.

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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home' Home'' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.
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* CreatorCouple: She was married for twelve years to bassist and RecordProducer Larry Klein. The two have continued to collaborate [[WorkingWithTheEx even after their divorce]] and [[AmicableExes remain friends]].
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* DenialOfDigitalDistribution: Once Music/NeilYoung asked Spotify to remove his music as he didn't want to share a platform with Creator/JoeRogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mitchell decided to follow the step of her friend, as after all like Young she's also a survivor of polio.
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.

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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. 1991's ''Night Ride Home' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords Creator/WarnerMusicGroup after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She turned down a spot at Film/{{Woodstock}} after her manager and agent David Geffen talked her into keeping scheduled appearance on ''Series/TheDickCavettShow'' instead.[[note]]Geffen was worried Mitchell wouldn't make it back to New York City for the taping in time. Ironically, that episode -- taped the day the festival ended and aired the next night -- turned into something of a Woodstock post-show, considering Cavett's other guests were the Music/JeffersonAirplane, Music/DavidCrosby and Stephen Stills[[/note]] She's spoken ever since about how much she regrets listening to Geffen. She later wrote the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc Woodstock]]" about the festival, based on what her then-boyfriend Graham Nash had told her about it.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She turned down a spot at Film/{{Woodstock}} after her manager and agent David Geffen talked her into keeping scheduled appearance on ''Series/TheDickCavettShow'' instead.[[note]]Geffen was worried Mitchell wouldn't make it back to New York City UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity for the taping in time. Ironically, that episode -- taped the day the festival ended and aired the next night -- turned into something of a Woodstock post-show, considering Cavett's other guests were the Music/JeffersonAirplane, Music/DavidCrosby and Stephen Stills[[/note]] She's spoken ever since about how much she regrets listening to Geffen. She later wrote the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc Woodstock]]" about the festival, based on what her then-boyfriend Graham Nash had told her about it.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She turned down a spot at Film/{{Woodstock}} after her manager and agent David Geffen talked her into keeping scheduled appearance on ''Series/TheDickCavettShow'' instead.[[note]]Geffen was worried Mitchell wouldn't make it back to New York City for the taping in time. Ironically, that episode -- taped the day the festival ended and aired the next night -- turned into something of a Woodstock post-show, considering Cavett's other guests were the Music/JeffersonAirplane, Music/DavidCrosby and Stephen Stills[[/note]] She's spoken ever since about how much she regrets listening to Geffen. She later wrote the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc Woodstock]]" about the festival, based on what her then-boyfriend Graham Nash had told her about it.
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* BigNameFan: Music/{{Prince}} was a fan, saying that ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' was the last album he enjoyed all the way through and covering "A Case of You".
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work, moving to Creator/GeffenRecords in the '80s, then back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. Geffen changing distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990 would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.

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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work, moving to Creator/GeffenRecords work. She was one of Creator/GeffenRecords' first signings in the '80s, then before moving back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. Geffen changing distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990 would 1991's ''Night Ride Home' 'would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.Creator/WarnerBrosRecords after Geffen changed its distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990.
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* DisownedAdaption: Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" has been critically panned. A scathing review of the cover by ''The Village Voice'', which calls it the worst song of the 2000s, is archived and displayed on Mitchell's website in a potential sign of her own disapproval of their cover. It is the only article of its kind on the site.

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* DisownedAdaption: DisownedAdaptation: Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" has been critically panned. A scathing review of the cover by ''The Village Voice'', which calls it the worst song of the 2000s, is archived and displayed on Mitchell's website in a potential sign of her own disapproval of their cover. It is the only article of its kind on the site.
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* CreatorBacklash: Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" has been critically panned. A scathing review of the cover by ''The Village Voice'', which calls it the worst song of the 2000s, is archived and displayed on Mitchell's website in a potential sign of her own disapproval of their cover. It is the only article of its kind on the site.

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* CreatorBacklash: DisownedAdaption: Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" has been critically panned. A scathing review of the cover by ''The Village Voice'', which calls it the worst song of the 2000s, is archived and displayed on Mitchell's website in a potential sign of her own disapproval of their cover. It is the only article of its kind on the site.
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* BigNameFan: Music/{{Prince}} was a fan, saying that ''The Hissing of Summer Lawns'' was the last album he enjoyed all the way through and covering "A Case of You".
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work, then back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. Geffen changing distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990 would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.

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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work, moving to Creator/GeffenRecords in the '80s, then back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. Geffen changing distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990 would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.
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* ChannelHop: She started her recording career on Creator/RepriseRecords before moving to [[Creator/ElektraRecords Asylum]] for her most popular work, then back to Reprise, then finally to Starbucks' Hear Music before her retirement. Geffen changing distribution to Creator/{{MCA}} in 1990 would be the first time her work was on a label not distributed by Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.
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* BlackSheepHit: "Raised on Robbery" is more upbeat and poppy compared to the rest of Mitchell's material.
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* CreatorBacklash: Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" has been critically panned. A scathing review of the cover by ''The Village Voice'', which calls it the worst song of the 2000s, is archived and displayed on Mitchell's website in a potential sign of her own disapproval of their cover. It is the only article of its kind on the site.
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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, [[Music/WeatherReport Jaco Pastorious]], Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias.

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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, Music/PatMetheny, [[Music/WeatherReport Jaco Pastorious]], Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias.
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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias.

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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, [[Music/WeatherReport Jaco Pastorious, Pastorious]], Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: She took up painting as a way to strengthen her muscles after polio affected her; her "alternative tunings" on guitar were a way of making it more comfortable for her to play. Smoking was also taken up to relieve her polio afflictions.
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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Lyle Mays and Don Alias.

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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Lyle Mays Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias.
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* AllStarCast: The backing band for her 1979 tour, as captured in ''Shadows and Light'', featured some major jazz musicians, including Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Lyle Mays and Don Alias.
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* BreakthroughHit: "Both Sides Now" was her breakthrough as a songwriter, and "Big Yellow Taxi" was her breakthrough as a performer after being known for writing songs for other artists.
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