So I kind of withdrew from music and began to go inside. The combination of those situations did not sit well. She later said, "Why I wrote those songs on Blue, the point is that soon after I'd given up my daughter for adoption I had a house and a car and I had the means and I'd become a public figure. It was like you murdered somebody."įacing these challenges, as well as the basic economic struggle of being a 21-year-old young woman with no way to provide for herself and her daughter, Mitchell put the baby up for adoption. A daughter could do nothing more disgraceful. Mitchell explained her situation to the Los Angeles Times in 1997: "The scandal was so intense. The father was out of the picture, and at the time young single mothers were subjected to societal scorn. In 1965, an unwed Mitchell gave birth to a girl in Canada. Why was Mitchell in such a vulnerable state while working on Blue? One reason was her earlier decision to place her daughter up for adoption. Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns Mitchell wrote 'Blue' after putting her daughter up for adoption Joni Mitchell playing an Appalachian dulcimer, 1971
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