Article: Both sides now: is the quest for originality worth the lessons lost?(from the editor)

I have an old Joni Mitchell live album called "Miles of Aisles." It's a collection of her work up to 1974, a kind of "Greatest Hits" done live. I haven't listened to it regularly for years, but it's still ingrained in my consciousness. One of the things that sticks in my mind is Mitchell's edgy banter between songs. She seems, at times, downright impatient about singing her old work, the hits her audience had come to hear. Along with her gift for song, Mitchell is also an accomplished painter. At one point in the double album she compares the two disciplines: "You know, a painter does a painting and that's it. He's had the joy of creating it.... No one ever said to Van ...

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