{"id":483206,"date":"2019-03-09T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=806235"},"modified":"2019-03-09T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T22:00:53","slug":"joni-mitchells-rare-book-of-handwritten-lyrics-watercolor-paintings-to-be-reprinted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/joni-mitchells-rare-book-of-handwritten-lyrics-watercolor-paintings-to-be-reprinted\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Mitchell\u2019s Rare Book of Handwritten Lyrics, Watercolor Paintings to Be Reprinted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-104322874.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joni-mitchell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joni-mitchell\" data-tag=\"joni-mitchell\">Joni Mitchell<\/a>\u2019s <em>Morning Glory on the Vine<\/em>, a rare book of handwritten lyrics, poems and watercolor paintings that the singer-songwriter distributed to friends in 1971, will be available to the masses this October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1971, as her album <em>Blue<\/em> topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of <em>Morning Glory on the Vine<\/em> as a holiday gift for her closest friends,\u201d Mitchell\u2019s site wrote of the book (<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/joni-mitchell-to-release-book-of-lyrics-poetry-and-paintings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">via Pitchfork<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this stunningly beautiful book, Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own lyrics and poems and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original paintings and watercolors. Hand-crafted, signed, and numbered in Los Angeles, the existing copies of this labor of love have rarely been seen in the past half-century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfaithfully reproduced facsimile\u201d edition of the <em>Morning Glory on the Vine<\/em>, due out October 22nd via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will feature all of the pages from the original copies, as well as additional works that Mitchell intended to include in 1971. The reprinting, which coincides with a yearlong celebration of Mitchell\u2019s 75th birthday, also boasts a new preface penned by the singer.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Mitchell\u2019s site to <a href=\"http:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/library\/viewmedia.cfm?id=147\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">preorder<\/a> <em>Morning Glory on the Vine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration<\/em>, a tribute album featuring Brandi Carlile, James Taylor, Seal, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan and more, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/joni-mitchell-tribute-album-brandi-carlile-james-taylor-790243\/\">released<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/joni-mitchell-book-handwritten-lyrics-watercolor-paintings-reprint-806235\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joni Mitchell\u2019s Morning Glory on the Vine, a rare book of handwritten lyrics, poems and watercolor paintings that the singer-songwriter distributed to friends in 1971, will be available to the masses this October. \u201cIn 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 04:32:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}