Just in time for Christmas, Joni has debuted the first official music video for “River.” “‘River’ expresses regret at the end of a relationship…but it’s also about being lonely at Christmas time…A Christmas song for people who are lonely at Christmas! We need a song like that.” – Joni Director Matvey Rezanov and Skazka Studios use animated watercolor painting to capture the song’s lonesome mood while paying tribute to Mitchell’s prolific creativity as a painter. This goes out especially to anyon

Joni performing “Get Together” at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL. on this day in 1969. Larry Weaver of the Alton Evening Telegraph wrote of that night: “Joni, her powerful, bell-clear voice tracing faint images in melody, shows in her music and lyrics the philosophers' lament, a sophisticated sort of folk-blues. Joni's approach to the audience is through a high-and-mighty, and therefore mysteriously beautiful linkage of voice and song.” | Joni Mitchell