Joni Mitchell Boho Dance
Joni Mitchell Carey
Joni Mitchell River
Joni Mitchell Blue
Joni Mitchell onstage
Joni Mitchell Laurel Canyon Window
Joni Mitchell age 20
Joni Mitchell painting
Joni Mitchell Parker Fly Guitar
In 1969 Joni lived briefly in a Mediterranean beach side, hippy commune in Crete (Greece) sleeping inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff.
The Caves of Matala were a popular hippy attraction.
Carey was a real person, Carey Raditz, who Joni had a holiday romance with Joni.
Joni tells the story of their meeting thus…
The next night, Penelope and I went to the Mermaid Café for a drink with Cary. Several hippies were there along with some soldiers. Someone recommended this clear Turkish liquor called raki. I wasn’t a big drinker, and after three glasses I woke up the next morning alone in Cary’s cave.
The Mermaid Café was a real place and a watering hole for all the hedonistic, bohemian types in Matala.
I guess you can have too much of a good thing and Joni moved on to Athens, and then home to record the iconic ‘Blue’ Album.
My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet. And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne