The Music Belongs to Everyone

And that's the way it should be

                                Joni Mitchell as her 1970s alter ego, “Art Nouveau”

At age 80, Joni Mitchell is belatedly receiving the kind of mainstream accolades that eluded her during her most innovative years of music-making. In the 1970s Mitchell was experimenting across genres with albums like Hejira and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and in 1979 sh…