JONI MITCHELL - Roses Blue - 1969 - Remastered

Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943, into a family of three children, in Fort Macleod. The ancestors of his mother (teacher) were Scottish and Irish. His father was from a Norwegian family who may have had Sami ancestry. His mother was a teacher, while his father was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) who trained new pilots at Fort Macleod Station (the flight training site of the RCAF).

Suffering from poliomyelitis at the age of 9, which threatened to leave her crippled for life, she learned music then, once cured, sang in the choir of the local church, but showed herself, on the other hand, to be rebellious at piano lessons, and did not like not school. At age 11, she moved with her family to the city of Saskatoon, which she considers her hometown.