Big Yellow Podcast

Joni Mitchell released her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in March of 1968. Here are the basics about it…Thanks for listening x* Allison Get full access to Big Yellow Podcast at allisonrapp.substack.com/subscribe

When I first started dabbling in music journalism, more or less all of the writers I was familiar with were men. It took several years of exploration, work, and research to learn of more women in my field, and one of those people was Ann Powers, whom I’ve admired and looked up to since.Like some of my other guests, Ann and I have never met, but it seemed like fate that she happened to be releasing a book about Joni Mitchell the same year I was launching a podcast about her. That book, Traveling: On

Back in 2019, my boyfriend at the time gifted me a copy of David Yaffe’s ‘Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell,’ the first book I’d ever read about her.When I finished that book, a fascinating and much more up close look at Joni than I had previously encountered, I wrote to David to express my thoughts. We’ve been friends since, have eaten meals in the West Village with fellow writers, run into one another at Elvis Costello shows, etc. Now, I’m pleased to have him as a guest on Big Yellow

In which Joni travels from Calgary to Toronto, writing one of her first original songs along the way, and finds herself pregnant and alone at 21 years old.In which Joni also gets married, puts her daughter up for adoption and moves to Detroit, gets divorced and moves again to New York City, where her music starts to catch the attention of fellow folksingers.And in which Joni meets a one David Crosby in Florida and travels with him to Los Angeles…Thanks for listening x* Allison This is a public

A conversation with award-winning songwriter and recording artist Margo Price. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit allisonrapp.substack.com

Hello! Welcome to the first, non-guest episode of Big Yellow Podcast. As previously mentioned, my general plan is to post some ancillary episodes in between guest interviews, to give listeners a bit of context and background information. These episodes aren’t meant to cover every last point of Joni’s life and career — there are excellent books, articles, videos, etc out there for that purpose — but hopefully these will provide just a little additional knowledge for those who might want it. First up:

I’d never met David Wild when I asked him to be the first guest for Big Yellow Podcast — and I still haven’t “met” him, since we spoke over Zoom. But David was gracious enough to be my inaugural interview, and for that alone I’m supremely grateful to him.You may recognize David’s name from a number of Rolling Stone bylines, where he worked for quite some time, including a handful of interviews with Joni Mitchell herself. But for the last many years he’s been one of the writers for the Grammys, which

Hello! Welcome to this preview episode of Big Yellow Podcast, a show about Joni Mitchell. My name is Allison Rapp and I’ll be your host as we explore the life and work of one of music’s most fascinating innovators. It was Joni Mitchell who once wrote that "songs are like tattoos," indelible marks left not only on one's surface, but one's insides, too. Mitchell's music has made those kinds of marks on listeners since her recording debut in 1968. Her career, infiltrated at points by misogyny,