Urge for Going: Joni Mitchell

“Urge for Going” is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band , available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by immersing themselves in the American and British forms of blues, folk, country, and their bastard of