Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose songs have helped define an era and a generation. She has received many accolades, including nine Grammy Awards, and has released 19 studio albums, including Blue in 1971. Mitchell, with roots in visual art, has designed most of her own album covers. Among her numerous honours, she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
Turbulent indigos: glorious Joni Mitchell watercolours – in pictures
The Guardian has published a selection of Joni Mitchell’s stunning watercolours from Morning Glory on the Vine, including the above (of Neil Young).
Guardian
Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings
“I became engrossed in Mitchell’s drawings while browsing the book—they’re vivid, intimate—but her handwritten lyrics and poems are just as revelatory.”
Morning Glory on the Vine in the New Yorker.
Amanda Petrusich
New Yorker