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The Jazz Session No.435 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in October 2025, featuring the superb Joni Mitchell album “Both Sides Now” from 2000; with lush orchestration backing jazz-song standards. TRACK LISTING: Organ Grinder Blues - George Melly with Mick Mulligan's Jazz Band; I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - The Chris Barber Jazz & Blues Band; Light as a Feather - Return to Forever ft. Chick Corea, Flora Purim; Vivo Sonhando - Dreamer - Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto; You're My Thrill - Joni Mitchell; Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Joni Mitchell; Don't Go To Strangers - Joni Mitchell; Karner Blue - Joshua Jaswon Octet; Sabia - Antonio Carlos Jobim; New York State of Mind - Billy Joel; I Never Talk to Strangers - Tom Waits, w. Bette Midler; Rhythm and Romance - Chick Webb, ft. Ella Fitzgerald; The Man That Got Away - Judy Garland; My Very Good Friend the Milkman - Fats Waller ; Creep Up Your Stairs - Whiskey Moon Face; You've Changed - Joni Mitchell; At Last - Joni Mitchell; Stormy Weather - Joni Mitchell; Just to Cry - Keef Hartley; Waiting - Archipelago; The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Charlie Haden Quartet West; Land of Make Believe - Chuck Mangione.

Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. He was inspired by her musicality, her poetry, and her willingness to defy musical conventions. Nearly every one of her songs spoke to him in some way. As a budding songwriter whose music was widely performed in churches around the country, he was motivated by her superb tunings, phrasing, and melodies. Later, he focused more on lyrics and prose, hers and his own, eventually earning a master’s in creative fiction and working in the world of professional writing. He continued to follow Joni’s career and never got tired of her music, which helped him navigate the ups and downs of his life. Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell (HarperOne, 2025) is a beautiful memoir about the struggle of a gay writer intertwined with the life and career of the magnificent Joni Mitchell. Paul Lisicky grew up in southern New Jersey but has lived most of his adult life in Massachusetts and New York City. He earned bachelor's and master’s degrees in English from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1990). He authored seven books, including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, The Burning House, Famous Builder, Later , The Narrow Door, and Lawn Boy . His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currently a professor of English in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is the editor of StoryQuarterly . He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is passionate about music, animals, and travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. He was inspired by her musicality, her poetry, and her willingness to defy musical conventions. Nearly every one of her songs spoke to him in some way. As a budding songwriter whose music was widely performed in churches around the country, he was motivated by her superb tunings, phrasing, and melodies. Later, he focused more on lyrics and prose, hers and his own, eventually earning a master’s in creative fiction and working in the world of professional writing. He continued to follow Joni’s career and never got tired of her music, which helped him navigate the ups and downs of his life. Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell (HarperOne, 2025) is a beautiful memoir about the struggle of a gay writer intertwined with the life and career of the magnificent Joni Mitchell. Paul Lisicky grew up in southern New Jersey but has lived most of his adult life in Massachusetts and New York City. He earned bachelor's and master’s degrees in English from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1990). He authored seven books, including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, The Burning House, Famous Builder, Later , The Narrow Door, and Lawn Boy . His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currently a professor of English in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is the editor of StoryQuarterly . He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is passionate about music, animals, and travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. He was inspired by her musicality, her poetry, and her willingness to defy musical conventions. Nearly every one of her songs spoke to him in some way. As a budding songwriter whose music was widely performed in churches around the country, he was motivated by her superb tunings, phrasing, and melodies. Later, he focused more on lyrics and prose, hers and his own, eventually earning a master’s in creative fiction and working in the world of professional writing. He continued to follow Joni’s career and never got tired of her music, which helped him navigate the ups and downs of his life. Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell (HarperOne, 2025) is a beautiful memoir about the struggle of a gay writer intertwined with the life and career of the magnificent Joni Mitchell. Paul Lisicky grew up in southern New Jersey but has lived most of his adult life in Massachusetts and New York City. He earned bachelor's and master’s degrees in English from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1990). He authored seven books, including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, The Burning House, Famous Builder, Later , The Narrow Door, and Lawn Boy . His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The Cut, Fence, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currently a professor of English in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is the editor of StoryQuarterly . He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is passionate about music, animals, and travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

“MY BIGGEST CRUSH” EPISODE #2 -: BLUE by Joni Mitchell (1971, Reprise) From the first ringing chords of the dulcimer, and that quavering, pain-wracked voice swooning, “I am on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling…” I was in love – madly, permanently enamored of Joni Mitchell. Everything about her – her unmatchable talent, her neurotic self-dramatizing, her doomed romanticism… turned me on. Not sexually. My love for Joni Mitchell was purely aesthetic, but it was undeniable and achingly real. And it set me on a self-destructive path, hooking up with a succession of difficult, complicated, brilliant women. Women I could never keep, women with whom I could never feel truly at home. I’m a sucker for talented women. Often though, such talent leaves very little oxygen to share in any room. Eventually I got wise, and after awhile my love life yielded a happier ending. But, oh, the ecstatic misery of doomed romance! Blue is counted as one of the greatest albums ever made. This is not an obscure choice, but my truth is my truth, and I must pay homage. Listening to songs like River (I wish I had a river I could skate away on…), A Case of You (I could drink a case of you…), California (Will you take me as I am, strung out on another man….?) conjure an emotional tidal surge with no boundaries, and I was pulled in by the heady undertow of yearning. Biographers will tell you that James Taylor, Graham Nash, and Cary Raditz (Carey, get out your cane…) are the inspirations for these songs, but 50 years on they hardly matter. What counts is that eternal voice, intimately confessing her regrets and desires to you, the listener. And then, it’s just Joni and you, alone together, locked in an artistic embrace. “BLUE”- JONI MITCHELL – 1971 – Reprise Records 1) All I Want 2) My Old Man 3) Little Green 4) Carey 5) Blue 6) California 7) This Flight Tonight 8) River 9) A Case Of You 10) The Last Time I Saw Richard

This podcast is an interview with December’s Ink 2 Screen winner, Joni Mitchell. Hello! You’ve joined The Script Mistress for Scene 18: Interview with December’s Winner, Joni Mitchell. I am your host, Amber Bosworth and I’m so excited to bring you this episode! I had a great time talking with Joni. Joni was one of over 30 writers that were tasked with writing a new script based on an image prompt. Since it was December, I wanted to have an image that would have the spirit of togetherness without making it about the holiday season. Joni wrote, Six Hungry Friends. Logline: When six friends join for a feast, they must agree on a topic for a toast before anyone can eat. Such a great interview. You can find Joni on Instagram @jonimitchell3. You can also read her work and the other finalists from Decemeber at www.thescriptmistress.com/inkwinners . WRITING ACTION: This is a fun one if you are stuck in your current project. Take some advice from Joni or research 3 fun ways to get yourself unstuck. Write out your scenes on notecards, print out a few pages and edit with pen and paper, or have some friends/family read a scene out loud for you to get a feel of the pacing. Feel free to share your insights on the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ink2screen . You never know if your insights will inspire someone else. I have many freebies to help your writing. With this episode, I think the free outline template could be a nice help if you find yourself stuck with your current project. Download it on the episode webpage /scene18 or www.thescriptmistress.com/outline . Thank you for listening and or watching! I truly value any feedback. If you have an idea for a podcast that might help, you can email me at amber@thescriptmistress.com . Like and follow this show wherever you are listening. Talk soon, and until then, happy writing.