Joni Mitchell stunned the gang yesterday (July 24) on the 2022 Newport Folks Competition together with her first full set-length live performance look in twenty years. The folks icon, who first carried out on the competition in 1969, joined Brandi Carlile and performed a number of classics akin to ‘A Case of You’, ‘Huge Yellow Taxi’, and ‘Each Sides Now’. They had been supported by a gaggle of artists together with Blake Mills, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith, Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, Wynonna Judd, and extra. Watch footage from the set under.
Notably, Brandi wrote an essay for Joni’s 2021 field set The Reprise Albums (1968-1971). “In my view, Blue is the best album ever made,” she wrote. “Blue didn’t make me a greater songwriter. Blue made me a greater girl. It doesn’t matter what we’re coping with in these instances, we are able to rejoice and know that of all of the ages we may have lived via, we lived within the time of Joni Mitchell.”
Mitchell was honored at MusiCares’ Particular person of the Yr gala in April, the place she additionally made her first reside look in practically a decade. The 78-year-old singer-songwriter has hardly ever appeared in public since struggling a mind aneurysm in 2015. Earlier this yr, she joined Neil Younger in eradicating her catalog from Spotify over COVID misinformation issues.
What’s life? Joni Mitchell singing A Case of You with Brandi Carlile!#NewportFolkFest pic.twitter.com/61KbnaQFAj
— Aimsel Ponti (@Aimsel) July 24, 2022
Horrible video of Huge Yellow Taxi anyone? pic.twitter.com/YywhySfWNO
— Jonathan Dean (@JonathanDean_) July 25, 2022
Joni Mitchell cantando en 2022, que más podemos pedir?
Newport Folks Competition 💙 pic.twitter.com/qpgZY54xZR
— Tomás del Actual (@tomasdelreal) July 25, 2022
