I’d never met David Wild when I asked him to be the first guest for Big Yellow Podcast — and I still haven’t “met” him, since we spoke over Zoom. But David was gracious enough to be my inaugural interview, and for that alone I’m supremely grateful to him.

You may recognize David’s name from a number of Rolling Stone bylines, where he worked for quite some time, including a handful of interviews with Joni Mitchell herself. But for the last many years he’s been one of the writers for the Grammys, which obviously I needed to know everything about since being left in tears over Joni’s captivating 2024 performance of “Both Sides, Now” at the ceremony in which she also took home the award for Best Folk Album.

If you’d like to hear more from David, he’s part of a fabulous podcast series with Phil Rosenthal called Naked Lunch, which you can check out here. (Available on Apple and Spotify)

And also, I highly recommend reading his interviews with Joni mentioned in this episode, some of the most illuminating of her career:

A Conversation With Joni Mitchell (1991)

Morrissey Interviews Joni Mitchell: Melancholy Meets Infinite Sadness (1997)

Q & A: Joni Mitchell (2002)

Thanks for listening!

* Allison

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