Guitar tunings
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Guitar tunings are the assignment of pitches to the open strings of guitars, including classical guitars, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars. Tunings are described by the particular pitches that a
Ry Cooder plays slide guitar with open tunings
Joni Mitchell
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Roberta Joan Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell becam
Guitar tunings
…miscellaneous ("special"). Joni Mitchell developed a shorthand to specify guitar tunings: one letter naming the note of the open lowest string, followed by the relative fret (half-step) offsets…
Mitchell in 2021
A plaque along the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon commemorates her upbringing in the city and the waterway's inspiration for her 1971 song "River".
A plaque (on sidewalk, right) in Saskatoon commemorates the spot on Broadway Avenue where she made her first professional performance in 1962 at the Louis Riel coffeehouse.
Laurel Canyon, 8217 Lookout Mountain Avenue, Joni Mitchell's house from 1969 to 1974; photograph taken in 2022