Joni wins Gerschwin

[Cosmic Wonder]

www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148207575/joni-mitchell-gershwin-prize

Mike

[Marshall]

Joni Mitchell is this year's winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. Since the lifetime achievement award was established in 2007, it has gone exclusively to A-list celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie.

Mitchell is the third woman to be recognized, after Carole King in 2013 and Gloria Estefan (in tandem with her husband Emilio) in 2019.

I would have put her ahead of a lot of those people like Garth Brooks and Lionel Richie. Did they even wrote their own material?

[Cosmic Wonder]

Jan 13, 2023 10:06:47 GMT -5 Marshall said:

Joni Mitchell is this year's winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. Since the lifetime achievement award was established in 2007, it has gone exclusively to A-list celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie.

Mitchell is the third woman to be recognized, after Carole King in 2013 and Gloria Estefan (in tandem with her husband Emilio) in 2019.

I would have put her ahead of a lot of those people like Garth Brooks and Lionel Richie. Did they even wrote their own material?

Agree.

Mike

[John B]

Jan 13, 2023 10:06:47 GMT -5 Marshall said:

Joni Mitchell is this year's winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. Since the lifetime achievement award was established in 2007, it has gone exclusively to A-list celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie.

Mitchell is the third woman to be recognized, after Carole King in 2013 and Gloria Estefan (in tandem with her husband Emilio) in 2019.

I would have put her ahead of a lot of those people like Garth Brooks and Lionel Richie. Did they even wrote their own material?

Yes, both of those two are also songwriters. Garth was "discovered" at the Bluebird Cafe. Lionel Richie was a prolific songwriter for the Commodores before going out on his own. Both Lionel Ritchie and Garth Brooks (and Gloria Estafan, and Carole King) had major, major chart success, so that might be a factor (rather than who is most "deserving").

[Marshall]

I suppose so. It's not so much about writing as succeeding as a POP artist I guess. I know a lot of Garth's tunes weren't written by him. Don't know about Richie. But Joni was all Joni.


"Longneck Bottle" is a song written by Steve Wariner and Rick Carnes

"You Move Me" is a song co-written by Gordon Kennedy and Pierce Pettis

[John B]

www.songhall.org/profile/garth_brooks