A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and
drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends
in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time
In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni
Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the Vine as a
holiday gift for her closest friends. For this stunningly beautiful
book, Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own lyrics and poems
and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original pictures.
Handcrafted, signed, and numbered in Los Angeles, the existing copies of
this labor of love have rarely been seen in the past half-century.
Now, during Joni's seventy-fifth birthday year, Morning Glory on the
Vine: Early Songs and Drawings will be widely available for the first
time. In this faithfully reproduced edition, Joni's best-loved lyrics
and poems spill across the pages in her own elegant script. The lively,
full-color drawings depict a superb array of landscapes, still lifes,
portraits of friends, self-portraits, innovative abstractions, and more.
All the artwork from the original book is included, along with several
additional pictures that Joni drew of her friends from the same period.
Finally, the refreshed volume features an original introduction written
by Joni. Morning Glory on the Vine is a gorgeous and intimate keepsake
and an invitation to explore anew the dazzling, visionary world of Joni
Mitchell.
