Joni Mitchell: Our Lady of Sorrows
Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, December 1994
SHE ALMOST bounds into the room, this dowager duchess of American rock, fresh from whooping it up for Mojo's photographer on the street outside manager Peter Asher's West Hollywood offices. Where lesser mortals would have been wiped out by the session, she seems to have found it positively rejuvenating.
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