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Joni Mitchell, whose song “Big Yellow Taxi” is the closest thing we’ve ever had to an environmental anthem, says she’s bothered by “green” hypocrisy.
Brian Blade was raised on gospel, soul, and funk. But when he when he was 16 years old, a friend gave him a cassette of Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, and it changed the way he understood music.
Joni Mitchell’s song “Big Yellow Taxi,” from 1970, is the closest thing we’ve ever had to an environmental anthem. Mitchell told us how she’s bothered by green hypocrisy. Interviewed by Reese Ehrlich.