Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell looks at how a ... played all four of those roles in the overlapping circle game of Mitchell’s career. Powers came to relate to Mitchell ...

So, I wrote a song for him.” The song Mitchell came up with was “The Circle Game.” Two years after her Gerdes Folk City appearance, Joni Mitchell was performing at the Paris Theater in ...

But Joni Mitchell thought the message was too bleak—so she wrote "The Circle Game" in response. A closer look at how these two iconic songs engage in a conversation about time, nostalgia ...