Classic Rock

JONI MITCHELL

n Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue, there’s a great scene from a picking party at singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s house in 1975. Lightfoot, Dylan and Roger McGuinn, guitars in hand, are gathered around Joni Mitchell, who’s trying out a new song of hers called . As she starts, you see the guys’ she sings.

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