Two years after her surprise comeback at the Newport Folk Festival, 80-year-old Joni Mitchell played the first of two sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl.
You could hear her before you could see her: a throaty, rat-a-tat laugh — ha-ha-ha-ha — drifting through the cool canyon air. Seated in a gilded armchair near the center of a circular rotating stage, 80-year-old Joni Mitchell spun slowly into view Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl like someone who’d just heard a joke at a party.
Backed by Carlile and an expansive cast of players that included Annie Lennox, Jon Batiste, Jacob Collier, Blake Mills, Rita Wilson and Robin Pecknold, Mitchell did as many deep cuts as hits, skipping some of her best-known songs, among them “Help Me” and “Free Man in Paris,” in favor of thorny late-era selections like “Harlem in Havana” and “The Sire of Sorrow .
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