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"A vivid and dramatic book" ―Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic“The best chronicle to date of Mitchell’s creative process and the specific way her songs were composed.†―Rachel Syme, The Nation"Yet whatever her listeners might dream or desire, Joni Mitchell was never in it for them, and she certainly wasn’t like them: She was a genius. As David Yaffe shows in his new biography, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, to approach her as an open book waiting to be read is to miss the essence of that genius . . . [T]he best full-length treatment of Mitchell yet published . . . [Yaffe] pulls off the feat that has eluded so many of his predecessors: He forges an intimacy with Mitchell on her own, uncompromising terms by truly listening to her, as closely and as generously as she’s always deserved . . ." ―Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic"Joni Mitchell’s gift was so enormous that it remade the social space around her. As David Yaffe’s new biography, “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell†(Sarah Crichton Books), suggests, it is no small burden to possess something as valuable as Mitchell’s talent, and it meant that this girl from the Canadian prairie would be in the world, whether she liked it or not . . . Yaffe, who teaches at Syracuse, charts these encounters with a sure hand, and is a brilliant analyst of how Mitchell’s songs are made. " ―Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker"In prose that shifts between chatty, impressionistic and reportorial, Yaffe sympathetically traces the outline of the musician's life, from her childhood battle with polio through her life-threatening aneurysm in 2015. Working his way through her albums, he offers up detailed takes on recording sessions, song tidbits, even chord changes. . . Reckless Daughter looks at Mitchell's life through all sides now." ―David Browne, Rolling Stone"Yaffe solidly traces the glory and gloom of a musical career that expanded our ears and hearts . . . The lonely girl ill with polio had survived to become a great artist. Yaffe’s books tells us how she got there." ―Sibbie O'Sullivan, The Washington Post"David Yaffe has crafted a beautiful, heartbreaking, fierce and uncompromising look at one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years . . . a lush, complex, carefully researched examination of one of music's most interesting living legends . . . This is a full portrait of an artist who carved a place for herself in the music industry and managed to walk away from it with more than her dignity fully intact . . . Reckless Daughter will most likely prove to be the best, most comprehensive look at all sides of this powerful and still meaningful, still influential musical and artistic presence." ―Christopher John Stephens, PopMatters"Dazzling . . . A shimmering portrait of one artist's life, illusions and all." ―Booklist (starred review)"[Yaffe] brilliantly guides readers through Mitchell’s evolution as a musician with vivid descriptions of the making of each of her albums from Song to a Seagull (“If drums and an electric guitar had been added to the mix, Joni would have produced some acid rock herselfâ€) through Shine in 2007. Yaffe introduces readers to the musicians with whom Mitchell worked, including Leonard Cohen, Graham Nash, Judy Collins, and Charles Mingus. The combination of fine writing and extensive access make this the definitive biography of a gifted songwriter and musician." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The essential biography of Joni Mitchell." ―Now Toronto“David Yaffe has composed an abnormally well-written musician biography―descriptive, culturally aware and highly supportive of his subject.†―David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express“Reckless Daughter is a bewitched, bothered, and bewildered portrayal of one of the most beautiful and enigmatic artists of a beautiful and enigmatic period of American life. It is touching, mystifying, and revealing in equal parts.†―Mary Gaitskill“Joni Mitchell, an artist of innervating and daunting complexity, originality, and importance, could have no better biographer than David Yaffe. He knows the music like the serious musician he is, knows the poetry like the literary scholar he is, and is equally attuned to Mitchell’s tortured soul. On top of all that, he seems to have interviewed everyone important in Mitchell’s life, from her first husband to Leonard Cohen. Reckless Daughter is nothing less than the definitive statement on the life and work of an artist who defies definition.†―David Hajdu, author of Love for Sale: Pop Music in America“It’s so easy to get Joni Mitchell wrong, or to leave out the most important things, or to miss the point altogether. Reckless Daughter is the definitive correction to all the errors, a sharp yet sprawling look at one of the most brilliant musical artists of modern times. David Yaffe grasps the nuances―of the music, the poetry, the intellect, the madness. He gets it. He gets her. I couldn’t get enough of this fine biography.†―Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion“David Yaffe is an artful and incisive critic who writes with such grace and clarity. With Reckless Daughter, he makes a figure as iconic as Joni Mitchell feel wholly new. This portrait is loaded with revelations, both spiritual and actual. I thought I understood something about Mitchell―the way her tough and tender songs move, her sweetness and rebellion―but Yaffe understands everything. What a book.†―Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records
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About the Author
David Yaffe was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1973. He has written on numerous subjects (music, film, theater, dance, higher education) for The Nation, New York, Slate, The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and other publications. He is currently a professor of English at Syracuse University, and is the author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing and Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown.
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Product details
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books; First Edition, First Printing edition (October 17, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374248133
ISBN-13: 978-0374248130
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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Joni Mitchell wrote her most performed song, “Both Sides Now,†when she was only twenty three, yet she had gone through enough at that age to support her claim to so much experience. In her fifties, when she recorded that song with the London Symphony, when she was not at all well--and had lost the upper octave of her amazing voice, thanks to having smoked a shocking number of cigarettes since that earlier time--she left those classical orchestral musicians in tears.Late in her career, in 1998, Herbie Hancock told Joni that she was the best jazz singer alive, based on her phrasing and overall conception of Gershwin's songs--and Hancock's opinion on jazz could not be more authoritative. In discussing Joni's recorded albums one by one, Yaffe shows how her styles changed over the years from folk singer to rock to jazz in the 1960s and 1970s. Her instrumentation changed too. By the eighties she was no longer in the mainstream of popular taste, so her productivity and sales slumped. At one point she went ten years without writing new songs--and just about all her songs were written by her, sometimes in the middle of the night. One reason her songs were as good as they were can be attributed to a grade school teacher who had circled all the cliches in her compositions; he knew she could write better.In Joni's own view, one reason her songs were the way they were was the trauma she had experienced at a young age in giving her daughter up for adoption. She carried around that trauma for life. When, decides later, she established contact with that daughter, the latter did not like her mother much. However, things went much better with Joni's grandchildren.I cannot praise this book highly enough for the way Yaffe brings to life this brilliant yet troubled artist, and links her to so many of her famous musical contemporaries, collaborators and more numerous lovers than I could keep track of. She loved much, and so many of her songs were about love, but, with the exception of her second marriage, her relationships did not last very long. She did , however, maintain friendship and respect for most of them.Be sure to note Yaffe’s subtitle: this is a portrait, as distinct from a biography, though there is a great deal of detail about her life—which is not yet at an end.
I thought what a great subject and about time for a current biography as Joni Mitchell has long been a favorite. However halfway through I was hating the way it was written. Seemingly every lyric taken as literal as though there was nothing in the artist's imagination at all. That everything had to be based on a relationship or cocaine (yes David, we get it, she did cocaine- thanks for reminding us every other damn page covering the '80s period. Yes I'm exaggerating a bit, but the way facts were repeated ad nauseam as if Yaffe had nothing else to say but had to fill a word quota. Granted some good information on a great subject, but the writing ruined it for me.
“Both Sides Now†sung by Judy Collins was everywhere in 1968/69. I remember sitting on the floor of a dorm room with my suitemates, playing the song over and over on a rinky-dink record player. I doubt any of us realized it was written by Canadian Joni Mitchell.But Joni soon attained stardom on her own, becoming as famous as Collins and Joan Baez. Folk music was eclipsed by rock music, but Joni straddled both worlds. She changed our ideas about what a “girl singer†was all about. As author David Yaffe points out, “men fell in love with her and women felt like she was singing their secrets out loud.â€I had a vague memory of the fact that Joni had polio as a child, but I did not know until reading RECKLESS DAUGHTER that her left hand was so affected, she strummed her songs using right-handed open tuning. This technique only added to her unique sound, especially when combined with her accomplished lyrics and vocal leaps.As I read the book, I jammed it full of Post-It notes in preparation for writing this review. I learned more about her than I could ever outline here. I believe she is a genius: moody, complex, and conflicted, all qualities she poured into her music. Here is one priceless accolade Joni treasures from the 1990s: some teenage girls told her “Before Prozac, there was you.â€Yaffe shows us the Joni who writes songs for the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 20, the Joni who despises the music business, the Joni who describes her lyrics on “Blue,†her most acclaimed album, as “private letters that were published.†We see her in relationships with Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Jackson Brown. Couplehood was rarely easy for her. Solitude seems to be her preferred state.We see Joni gaining and losing popularity. Many listeners tuned out when she went more towards jazz. Classic rock radio kept her songs alive. The public “put her on a pedestal,†she said at one point, and she “was wobbling.†We see her battling aging and illness. Struck down by a brain aneurysm in 2015, she was progressing towards recovery as the book closed.I wish there had been more coverage of Joni’s life as a painter. I’ve always been in awe of her paintings featured on her record covers. “I sing my sorrow and paint my joy,†Joni famously said. Yaffe includes many details of various recording sessions, sections I have to admit I tended to skim. But as it should be with a biography of a gifted musician, this book sent me right back to Mitchell’s music. May it be so for any other music lovers who reach for this compelling biography!The text of this review also appears on LitLovers.com
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