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HMMA Blog Shelly Peiken Laurel Canyon 1 min read , June 11, 2020

Jun 11, 2020 09:30 am | Shelly Peiken

Every so often I’ll fire up Sonos and tap on Four Way Street and I’m at Woodstock, especially if I just had a hit of a joint. It doesn’t matter that I wasn’t actually there. Joni, who penned “Woodstock,” the quintessential masterpiece ABOUT the festival, wasn’t there either. She was a vessel. She was stardust. She was golden. She channeled a movement. Everything they were writing was a reflection of whatever was going on sociopolitically at the time. That’s what it was about.

Joni Mitchell circa 1968

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