Joni Mitchell Reveals New Live Album Plans in Rare Interview With Elton John - Rolling Stone

Joni Mitchell has granted precise fewer interviews since suffering a encephalon aneurysm successful 2015, but she conscionable sat down with Elton John for an in-depth speech that volition aerial look Saturday connected his Apple Music 1 amusement Elton John’s Rocket Hour.

In the interview, Mitchell revealed that she’s moving connected a unrecorded grounds to papers her astonishment quality astatine the Newport Folk Festival successful July alongside Brandi Carlile, Taylor Goldsmith, Wynonna Jude, and Marcus Mumford. “[We] didn’t person immoderate [rehearsal],” she says, noting that she played electrical guitar connected her 1974 Court and Spark classical “Just Like This Train.” “I couldn’t sing the key, I’ve go an alto, I’m not a soprano anymore, truthful I couldn’t sing the song. And I thought radical mightiness consciousness lighted that if I conscionable played the guitar part, but I similar the guitar portion to that song. So anyway, it was precise good received, overmuch to my delight.”

John and Mitchell besides discussed going to Walt Disney Concert Hall successful 2019 to spot Carlile execute Blue consecutive through. “I was sitting adjacent to you,” John says, “and the joyousness from your look was amazing.”

“She did specified a bully job,” says Mitchell. “There person been a batch of covers of my songs, but she’s precise existent to the original. So it was benignant of similar going to my ain concert.”

Mitchell hasn’t released an medium of archetypal songs since 2007’s Shine, but John expressed anticipation she’d make different 1 astatine immoderate point. “One day, I privation you to beryllium successful this country similar we’re doing now, but with immoderate signaling equipment,” helium said. “I privation you to marque an medium successful this country due to the fact that it’s truthful magical. Every country of this country is Joni. Everything astir it is Joni…And I truly privation you to see making a record, possibly caller songs, the mode you are going, you are tearing up the satellite astatine the moment.”

What she’s doing for definite is playing a “Joni Jam” performance with Carlile astatine the Gorge Amphitheater successful George, Washington, connected July 10, 2023. The amusement is wholly sold out, and there’s nary connection astir whether oregon not they program connected booking immoderate much of them.

John, meanwhile, volition play the last day of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road circuit connected November 20 astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles. He has shows booked each crossed the satellite successful 2023, wrapping up July 8 successful Stockholm, Sweden.