“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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Joni Mitchell’s National Television Debut That Forced Her to Miss Woodstock 1969 and How It Inspired a Classic Song

In mid-August 1969, hundreds of thousands of people swarmed Max Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but Joni Mitchell sadly wasn’t one of them. Despite being ...
American Songwriter

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 ...