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Article: AN OPTIMISTIC JONI MITCHELL : INFLUENTIAL SINGER-SONGWRITER BACK FROM HER '70S `DESCENT'.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- December 8, 1996
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Byline: Stephen Holden The New York Times
Three days before her 53rd birthday, Joni Mitchell had the eerie experience of confronting the spitting image of her younger self on a downtown stage.
It happened at the Fez, a nightclub in New York City, where John Kelly was performing his acclaimed show ``Paved Paradise,'' a drag homage to Mitchell.
Dressed in a black turtleneck and black beret, the hair from a blond wig stringing down his face, Kelly sang some 20 Mitchell songs in an uncanny falsetto imitation of her yodeling folk-pop wail. For a second, Mitchell wondered whether she had died.
``I felt like Huck Finn attending his own ...