“The first three times I performed it in public, I burst into tears”: Joni Mitchell's era-defining classic Woodstock

The spiritual journey continues into the third verse: “By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong,” ...
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Joni Mitchell's Woodstock

Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” became one of the defining anthems of the 1969 music festival—yet she never attended the event. Instead, Mitchell wrote the song based on stories from her then-boyfriend ...
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Grace Slick Says Joni Mitchell Got This Wrong About Woodstock—and Honestly, Mitchell Would Likely Agree

Under different circumstances, Joni Mitchell probably would’ve been at Woodstock. However, as fate would have it, the rising Canadian star was making her Dick Cavett Show debut right after the ...