Barney Hoskyns is the cofounder and editorial director of the online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages, and author of several books including Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and their Many Friends (2005), Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits (2009), Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock (2016), and Never Enough: A Way through Addiction (2017). A former U.S. correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, GQ, and Uncut.
Selected by Harper's Bazaar as one of the Best New Books of 2017
(So Far)
A Library Journal Fall Editors' Pick
Nearly 50 years' worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell's
mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns's Joni: The
Anthology....what comes through most consistently is a possessive
impulse, a desire to really know an artist whose fierce privacy has
often seemed at odds with the impression of intimacy conveyed by
her music. --Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic
Gemlike...true gold. --O, The Oprah Magazine
Amazing. --Noisey Some might say that the talent and virtuosity of
Joni Mitchell are magical, even smacking of wizardry. For those of
us who came upon her early works, when strong -female voices were
demanded and treasured, it seems only right to see her as editor
Barney Hoskyns does: 'a towering troubadour and sometimes reckless
daughter of America's folk-rock revolution.' We've fallen in love
with her. --Library Journal A fascinating compendium of interviews
with a legend, many never read before. --Sheila Weller, author of
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the
Journey of a Generation "Legendary music critic and archivist
Barney Hosyns's JONI: The Anthology is a comprehensive, sensitive
compilation."--Elle The least a reader can reasonably expect from
the presentation of an anthology collecting criticism of and
interviews with a legendary artist is a clear narrative path about
the personality in question. Barney Hoskyn's Joni: The Anthology
certainly provides that and much more in this compelling, highly
readable, and at times emotionally gripping tale of this singular,
idiosyncratic, determined musical and visual artist. --PopMatters
Joni: The Anthology celebrates the musical pioneer spirit that
Mitchell exudes. This book...leaves no stone unturned, especially
with early essays when Mitchell was coming onto the scene...One may
want to read Joni more like a poetry book, experiencing different
emotional beats within its articles. --Edge Media Network A must
for music lovers. --Booklist
Just when you think you know Joni Mitchell, you find such rare gems
in Joni: the Anthology: 'It's good to be exposed to politics and
what's going down here [the US], but it does damage to me. Too much
of it can cripple me. And if I really let myself think about it -
the violence, the sickness, all of it -- I think I'd flip out.'
Joni Mitchell 1969. --Malka Marom, author of Joni Mitchell: In Her
Own Words
The book inevitably creates a desire to hear Mitchell's music and
perhaps try to track down some of her artwork, which at the end of
the day are the reason the book exists in the first place. --Kirkus
Review
Thorough...a solid introduction to listeners new to Mitchell.
--Publishers Weekly
Joni: The Anthology invites you to sit in on a photoshoot as
Mitchell, dressed in all black, mourns the loss of Bluebird, her
stolen Mercedes Benz, which she bought with her first royalty check
in 1969; learn why she snubbed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's
invitation for her own induction, or why she chose to not play her
hits on that 1998 tour with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison; understand
just why her most appreciated compliment from a blind black piano
player was that her music was raceless and genderless--a
corroboration to why American jazz pianist Charles Mingus invited
Mitchell to pen words to his chops on Mingus. --Elmore Magazine
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