Hejira  by Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell started recording in 1968. Since then, until her eighth album, Hejira – with the exception of the year 1973 – she prepared an album every year. Hejira is a typical folk-rock album with many folk-jazz elements.

According to Mitchell herself, the songs of the album were written during three trips she took from the end of 1975 to mid-1976. Mitchell traveled with Bob Dylan as a member of the Rolling Thunder Revue, followed by a small tour of her own and finally a long trip with two of her friends across the USA. During all this, Mitchell became addicted to cocaine, but a Tibetan monk she met somewhere in Colorado cured her and freed her from her addiction with his methods (!) This is how most of Hejira was written.

The one and only single from the album was Coyote, which was released in January 1977. Hejira reached No. 13 in the USA, No. 22 in Mitchell's homeland, Canada, and No. 11 in Great Britain.