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 ...

It was 1969 at a dairy farm in the Catskills of New York, the August sun glaring heavily down on the backs of 400,000 patrons. The small town of Bethel was overrun with young people; they were there ...

What starts as the story behind one iconic song quickly becomes a deeper exploration of Woodstock itself — not as a music festival, but as a symbol of an entire generation searching for meaning, unity ...

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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 ...

Joni Mitchell, born Roberta Joan Anderson, bought her first string instrument after a fight with her mother. "When I wanted a guitar, my mother said, 'Oh, no, no. You'll buy it and you'll just quit.