VARIOUS ARTISTS JONI 75
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7/10 IT’S fair to say that if an
Uncut reader were pulling together an all-star tribute to one of the defining artists of the 20th century like Joni Mitchell, your first choices might include, let’s see… Joanna Newsom, kd lang, Kamasi Washington, Julia Holter, Dirty Projectors, Ryley Walker, The Weather Station, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and maybe, holographic afterlife technology permitting, Prince – artists all touched in one way or another by her example, who have continued her reckless, restless, adventurous approach to words and music into the 21st century. It probably wouldn’t, at a guess, include Glen Hansard from The Frames, Los Lobos or, well, Seal.
You have to feel some sympathy, for Joni, on the occasion of her 75th birthday, witnessing the bottled…
