PHOTO SECTION

On the prairie at recess, determined to be Roy Rogers and not Dale Evans

(Photograph by Myrtle Anderson)

(Left to right) Garry Korven, Len Lang, Joan Anderson, and Tony Simon lounging around on a lazy afternoon at Waskesiu, a lake near Saskatoon (Courtesy of Tony Simon)

Joni (right) at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, with pep and a hairdo at the height of fads and fashions

(Courtesy of SAIT Archives)

Back in the fledgling days when Joni told the CBC that her songs were about “happiness” (Frank Lennon / Toronto Star Collection / Getty Images)

Joni and Chuck Mitchell, when his union membership got her into the better clubs in Yorkville—from the Clef Club to the Riverboat

(Copyright © Detroit Free Press /ZUMAPRESS.com)

The Penny Farthing, where Joni corrected Chuck Mitchell’s rendition of “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and that’s where the trouble began

(Courtesy of Lesley [Dalrymple] O’Neil)

Joni and Leonard Cohen on the day they met, Newport Folk Festival, 1967. “Part of you pours out of me / In these lines from time to time.” (David Gahr / Premium Archive / Getty Images)

(Left to right) the three Js, Joni, Judy, and Joan, at the Big Sur festival, 1968 (with John Byrne Cooke and Nancy Carlen) (Robert Altman / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)

At the piano on Lookout Mountain in Laurel Canyon, 1969, in the halcyon days when she and Graham Nash, a.k.a. Willy, were fighting over it (Copyright © Jim Marshall Photography LLC)

Joni and Graham Nash, in the midst. “I loved the man, so I can’t say anything bad about him.” (Copyright © Jim Marshall Photography LLC)

With James Taylor, recording backup vocals for Carole King’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” when King was recording Tapestry down the hall from the Blue sessions (Photograph by Jim McCrary)

Joni with her label boss, host, and “Free Man in Paris,” David Geffen, now the two-hundredth-richest man in the world. (Julian Wasser / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Images)

Exchanging a look with Jaco Pastorius, the bass player of her dreams, at the Berkeley Jazz Festival, 1979 (Photograph by Ed Perlstein / MusicImages.com)

The Last Waltz: Thanksgiving 1976, belting out “I Shall Be Released.” (Left to right, front row) Dr. John, Joni, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan, and Robbie Robertson; (behind them) Ringo Starr, Neil Young (head), Van Morrison (eyes), Ronnie Hawkins, and Levon Helm

(Photograph by Ed Perlstein / MusicImages.com)

“I love to play with Herbie.” Joni and Herbie Hancock at the Bread and Roses Festival, Berkeley, in the fall of 1978, when she premiered some of her collaborations with the still-living Charles Mingus (Photograph by Ed Perlstein / MusicImages.com)

Joni and Larry Klein, her “magnificent ex-husband,” accepting a Grammy, amazed that they pulled it off for an album made “in a state of divorce” (AP Photo / Eric Draper © 2017 The Associated Press)

Generations: Joni in public with her parents, Bill, who is beaming, and Myrtle, who is pensive . . . (Photograph by Anne Bayin)

 . . . and her found family—daughter Kilauren and grandson Marlin, the inspiration for “Bad Dreams Are Good” from Shine (Photograph by Mark Lipson)