Joni Mitchell:Time Line

November 7, 1943: Roberta Joan Anderson (a.k.a. Joni Mitchell) is born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.
January 21, 1967: The first recording of a Joni Mitchell song, country singer George Hamilton IV’s version of “Urge for Going,” enters Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. Mitchell’s own version would later appear as the B side of the 1972 single “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
March 9, 1968: Joni Mitchell’s untitled debut album, produced by David Crosby and sometimes referred to as ‘Song to a Seagull,’ is released.
December 1, 1968: Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash move into “Our House” on Laurel Canyon’s Lookout Mountain Road.
August 18, 1969: Joni Mitchell is slated to perform at Woodstock but is advised to honor a commitment to appear on Dick Cavett’s TV talk show. In lieu of appearing at that landmark event, she writes the anthemic tribute, “Woodstock.”
January 1, 1970: David Geffen establishes Asylum Records. The first artist he signs is Jackson Browne. The label’s roster eventually will include Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, J.D. Souther and numerous other Los Angeles musicians.
March 1, 1970: Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon, featuring “Big Yellow Taxi,” enters the Top 30 on the Billboard album chart.
December 14, 1972: For the Roses, Joni Mitchell’s first album for David Geffen’s new Asylum label, is released. It reaches #11 and “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” is a minor hit single.
February 3, 1973: Joni Mitchell hits #25 with “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
February 2, 1974: Court and Spark, a tuneful, jazz-tinged album containing some of Joni Mitchell’s most accessible work, enters the album chart. It goes on to sell four million copies and launch two Top Forty singles: “Help Me” (#7) and “Free Man in Paris” (#22).
December 14, 1974: Miles of Aisles, a live double album documenting Joni Mitchell’s tour in the wake of ‘Court and Spark’s’ commercial breakthrough, is released. It is recorded during four-night stand in August 1974 and finds her backed by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express.
February 15, 1975: Joni Mitchell hits #24 with “Big Yellow Taxi”.July 14, 1979: Joni Mitchell’s collaboration with jazz bass player and bandleader Charles Mingus, simply titled Mingus, is released a half-year after his death.
November 14, 1982: Joni Mitchell’s first studio album of the Eighties, Wild Things Run Fast, is released. Only two more albums will be forthcoming in the decade: Dog Eat Dog (1985) and Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm (1988).
February 19, 1991: Night Ride Home, Joni Mitchell’s 16th album, inaugurates the Nineties. It would be followed by Turbulent Indigo (1994) and two complementary and simultaneously released compendiums, Hits’ and ‘Misses.
December 6, 1995: Joni Mitchell is presented with the Century Award at the Billboard Music Awards.
February 28, 1996: Turbulent Indigo, Joni Mitchell’s 17th album, wins a Grammy for Best Pop Album at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.
May 6, 1997: Joni Mitchell inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the twelfth annual induction dinner. Shawn Colvin is her presenter.
March 14, 2000: Both Sides Now, an album of love songs by Joni Mitchell and other songwriters, is released. She is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.
2002: In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, Mitchell voiced her discontent with the current state of the music industry, describing it as a "cesspool"
2003: During the next few years, the only albums Mitchell released were compilations of her earlier work. In 2003, Mitchell's Geffen recordings were collected in a four-disc box set, The Complete Geffen Recordings.
2006: In an interview with The New York Times, Mitchell said that the forthcoming album, titled Shine, was inspired by the war in Iraq.
September 25th, 2007: Shine was released by the label Starbucks’ Hear Music. On the same day, Herbie Hancock , a longtime associate and friend of Mitchell's, released River: The Joni Letters, an album paying tribute to Mitchell's work.February 10th, 2008: Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. It was the first time in 43 years that a jazz artist took the top prize at the annual award ceremony. Mitchell was awarded a grammy for Best Instrumental Pop Performance for "One Week Last Summer" from the album Shine.
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