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 ...

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 ...

Show Caption1 of 4 Joni Mitchell played her first Southern California ... followed by the final song, “The Circle Game,” which with the opening set’s closer “Both Sides, Now,” are ...