The photographer behind the promotional and extra material that went with The Appletree Theatre album is Mark Roth. He also did photography for Joni Mitchell's 1968 debut album Song to a Seagull. Since middle school, Joni Mitchell was either painting or painting with words. She naturally took to writing poetry at the insistence of an encouraging teacher and eventually made her poems into songs due to her love of all kinds of music. Heavily influenced by the folk movement of the 30s and 40s, Joni busked, nightclubbed and coffee shopped her way from Saskatoon to Michigan to New York to California. As she traveled, she lived. She got married, then divorced, gave birth in secret and put her baby up for adoption, wrote songs for her contemporaries, wrote songs for Canadian national television, and was loved wherever she performed. It was Byrdman David Crosby that whisked Joni away from New York to California to help secure her recording contract with Reprise and produce her debut LP.
Here is the discography surrounding Joni Mitchell's debut album:
Live at 47 Club (1968 live bootleg)
Night in the City (1968 single)
Song to a Seagull
Live at the Philadelphia Folk Festival (1968 live bootleg)
"Cactus Tree" by Joni Mitchell
"Born to Take the Highway" by Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell Interview
Pass the Headphones!!
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