Hippie Sounds

Hippie Chick Smackdown?

by sgraham on January 24th, 2008

In an interview with Britain’s music magazine, Mojo, Joni Mitchell spoke of the rampant competition between she and her powerhouse contemporaries: Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Doesn’t look like they embraced the whole “peace and love” vibe, eh?

“Janis Joplin was very competitive with me, very insecure. She was the queen of rock ‘n’ roll one year then Rolling Stone made me the queen of rock ‘n’ roll and she hated me after that,” said Mitchell. Of Baez, Mitchell told the magazine, “Joan would have broken my leg if she could have, or at least that’s the way it felt.” With both women in their mid-60s, I’d still put my money on Baez.

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