Joni Mitchell Suffered Aneurysm, but Can Speak, Conservator Says
ASSOCIATED PRESS
By ANDREW R. CHOWJUNE 28, 2015For the past few weeks, various reports have been swirling about Joni Mitchell’s medical condition, with the singer David Crosby saying on Friday that she was unable to speak after suffering an aneurysm. In her first statement since April, Ms. Mitchell’s conservator, Leslie Morris, responded in a statement on Sunday, saying that Ms. Mitchell had an aneurysm but that she was speaking and recovering well.
“Joni is speaking, and she’s speaking well,” read a statement posted at jonimitchell.com. “She is not walking yet, but she will be in the near future as she is undergoing daily therapies. A full recovery is expected.”
Ms. Mitchell was hospitalized on March 31 and is now recovering at home.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2015/06/28/joni-mitchell-suffered-aneurysm-but-can-speak-conservator-says/?referrer=
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 29 June 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
"She just isn't speaking to Mr. Crosby."
― pplains, Monday, 29 June 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
"The Cros is here, Joni. What should I do?"
"Oh God. Him again. Tell him I can't speak or something."
"OK."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
drove past a morgantown this morning and thought of joni
― Mordy, Monday, 29 June 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
glad to hear that she is on the mend!
― tylerw, Monday, 29 June 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
I love that he says, "She used to be my old lady" -- this was literally a term that ceased being used in 1970 but Croz continues to deploy.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, so stop bumping this thread so I don't think she's dead!
Get better, JM.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4aZ3mbZ.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Attorney visits her at home, says "remarkable progress...expected to make full recovery":http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/07/joni-mitchell-medical-condition-improving-aneurysm-conservatorship/
― dow, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
I love that he says, "She used to be my old lady" -- this was literally a term that ceased being used in 1970 but Croz continues to deploy.― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, June 29, 2015 10:08 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, June 29, 2015 10:08 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
perhaps a reference to "my old man"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
xp "The Commodore is fine"
― Zing Zinglar (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Bought Mingus yesterday on vinyl and it's great cover is supplemented by a nice book/gatefold type packaging with liner notes and more paintings. It's lovely.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 17 January 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
Thread bump reminded me that she's going to die this year
― Pentenema Karten, Monday, 18 January 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
thanks for that comment, really adding value there
― calstars, Monday, 18 January 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Thirty of my favorites.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
no paprika plains, no credibility.
i am exaggerating, i know, great list.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
when I play "Paprika Plains" it's pleasant. I may have to keep trying.
on Facebook Tim F mused that my Summer Lawns picks bore the biggest similarities w/C&S, which wasn't my intention.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
my no. 1 would be "the boho dance" but what do i know
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
i love blue and it was the first joni record i heard but yea court and spark is what did it for me too. this resonated w/ me:
A vinyl copy of Court and Spark borrowed from the A/V library did it: ten perfect songs that like their creator couldn’t make up their minds about being narratives, autobiography, journal entries, or reasons to flaunt exquisite woodwind arrangements.
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
the opening minute of the song 'hissing of summer lawns' makes my jaw drop every time. the sort of cool funk of the opening bars and the flute-like sound of her voice over the first few lines
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
the song that really first really sold me on her though, that doesn't seem to get that much attention, is People's Patties. Something about those harmonies. So bold and stark.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
yes, people's parties is an all-timer, brilliant chord changes and the most perfectly recorded acoustic guitar i have ever heard
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
Prince obv studied the outro "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
People's Patties
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
haha just noticed that
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 05:49 (seven years ago) link
Dan Chiasson is a poetry critic for the New Yorker, but/and here his often astute, deftly detailed clarity evokes the musical experience, incl. why artists and listeners bother, so much better than many full-time music writers can manage:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/joni-mitchells-openhearted-heroism (title and sub a bit much, but may not have been his choice).
― dow, Friday, 13 October 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Some great reading, I didn't know that "A Case of You" was about Leonard Cohen. Has anyone read that new biography "Reckless Daughter" by David Yaffe already?
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 14 October 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
drew a map of canada, ooooooh canadaaaaaaaaa
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Saturday, 14 October 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
The piece in New Yorker is great. I'd also recommend two more recent ones:
Chords of Inquiry: http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/024_03/18474The Unknowable Joni Mitchell: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/the-unknowable-joni-mitchell/540618/
By the way, the fact that she released a run of Blue > For the Roses > Court and Spark > The Hissing of Summer Lawns > Hejira in just five years never fails to amaze me. What an artist.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, 14 October 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
i know this comes up every time a 2001-era ilx thread gets bumped, but ilx really was gross and vile back then, wasn't it?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 14 October 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
Do you mean the discussion of her hotness?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 October 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
For the Roses is the one I'm most likely to put on nowadays, partly just because I completely overlooked it before. "Do you wanna con-tact somebody first?"
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Saturday, 14 October 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
morning, morgantownbuy your dreams a dollar down
― Mordy, Saturday, 14 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
XP - Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire is so great, one of my favourites.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
I listened to Night Ride Home this morning; album title otm. top shelf album imo
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Saturday, October 14, 2017 10:27 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― marcos, Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
The statement that "A Case of You" is about Cohen is speculation. Mitchell has never said who it's about, and it could just as easily be Graham Nash.
― heaven parker (anagram), Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
yeah but who would YOU rather bed?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 October 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
I don't know anything about Nash but the Skakespearean line "I am as constant as the northern star" alone points so much into the direction of Cohen that it hurts. The bitter tasting wine, Canada, the line about love touching souls, it all makes a lot of sense. Thinking about it, it must be Cohen she is singing about.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
I thought "A Case of You" was about James Taylor
― flappy bird, Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
or maybe she was singing about dr. pepper
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Saturday, 14 October 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
Maybe it's one of the great songs of all time and I'm not worried about backstory
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 October 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
thank u ^^^
― marcos, Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
NV otm
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
Gotta admit that my stomach flips whenever this thread gets revived.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:25 (six years ago) link
I've been thinking lately that I feel like there's been a sea change in my lifetime where people finally stopped thinking of her as "great female artist" in that asterisked sort of way and more universally accepted her as just great artist period. Not sure if that's the culture or just the maturing of my own social circles.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
Yes and no. We can't ignore what our simple male minds can just glimpse sometimes, like Chiasson squinting hard at some of the experiences she dealt with in her songs, incl. what it was like to be a woman on stage in The Age of Rock---a litte tyme trip here, brace yourselves (though that won't really work, I just tried it before re-reading this)http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/airplane.php
― dow, Sunday, 15 October 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
Agree with man alive - great artist period
― looser than lucinda (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 15 October 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
great piece: https://www.theringer.com/music/2017/10/16/16476254/joni-mitchell-pop-music-canon
― that's not my post, Monday, 16 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link