Seeing Both Sides Now. Again.

There she was, Joni Mitchell, on the Newport Folk Festival stage, surrounded by musicians, in a regal chair, singing the songs so many of us grew up on. Her first public performance in seven years, after having to relearn how to walk, sing and play guitar after suffering a brain aneurysm. It was her first full-length set in more than 20 years. She rocked the festival with her courage, her honesty and her art. It was impossible to listen without being moved to tears.