{"product_id":"traveling-on-the-path-of-joni-mitchell-9780062463739","title":"Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*An \u003cem\u003eObserver \u003c\/em\u003eBest New Biographies of 2024*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e?*Now in paperback!*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCelebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem\u003e Instead, it's a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her own invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eFrom the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as--with the other arm--she pushes us away. Given this, music critic Ann Powers wondered if there was another way to draw insights from the life of this singular musician who never stops moving, never stops experimenting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTraveling\u003c\/em\u003e, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer's childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong this journey, Powers' wide-ranging musings on the artist's life and career reconsider the biographer's role and the way it twines against the reality of a fan. In doing so, \u003cem\u003eTraveling \u003c\/em\u003eillustrates the shifting nature of biography, and the ultimate contradiction of celebrity: that an icon cannot truly, completely be known to a fan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, \u003cem\u003eTraveling \u003c\/em\u003eis a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell canon, written by a biographer in full command of her gifts who asks as much of herself as of her subject. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dey Street Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062463739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowers, Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANN POWERS\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a music critic for more than thirty years, working for NPR, the\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications. In the decade she has worked with NPR, she has written extensively on music and culture and appeared regularly on the \u003cem\u003eAll Songs Considered\u003c\/em\u003e podcast and on news shows including \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books include a memoir, \u003cem\u003eWeird Like Us: My Bohemian America\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGood Booty\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eLove and Sex\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack and White\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Body and Soul in American Music\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003ePiece by Piece\u003c\/em\u003e with Tori Amos. 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