A Teenage Misfit
Rolling Stone called Joni Mitchell one of the 100 best guitarists of all time, which only makes sense considering she has used up to 50 nonstandard tunings in her career. It’s allowed her to explore rhythm, harmony, and melody in some of the most unique and innovative ways.
Joni was always an artist and free-thinker. For a while there, she was just another teenage misfit. The young Joni found little of use in her high school, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She later told Rolling Stone, “The way I saw the educational system from an early age was that it taught you what to think, not how to think.”