Editing Joni Mitchell (section)

===1994–1999: ''Turbulent Indigo'', ''Taming the Tiger'', and divorce===
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To wider audiences, the real return to form for Mitchell came with 1994's [[Grammy]]-winning ''[[Turbulent Indigo]]''. The recording of the album coincided with the end of Mitchell's marriage to musician [[Larry Klein]] after 12 years; Klein was also co-producer of the album.

''Indigo'' was seen as Mitchell's most accessible set of songs in years. Songs such as "Sex Kills", "Sunny Sunday", "Borderline" and "The Magdalene Laundries" mixed social commentary and guitar-focused melodies for "a startling comeback".<ref name="Toronto">{{cite news |last=Gill |first=Alexandra |url=http://www.jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1575 |title=Joni Mitchell in person |work=The Globe and Mail |date=February 17, 2007 |access-date=March 11, 2007 |format=reprint |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095944/http://www.jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1575 |url-status=live}}</ref> The album won two Grammy awards, including Best Pop Album, and it coincided with a much-publicized resurgence in interest in Mitchell's work by a younger generation of singer-songwriters.

In 1996, Mitchell agreed to release a greatest ''[[Hits (Joni Mitchell album)|Hits]]'' collection, despite initial concerns that such a release would damage sales of her catalogue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=262|title=Joni Mitchell Library – Joni Mitchell offers Hits and Misses: Billboard, August 24, 1996|website=jonimitchell.com}}</ref> Reprise also agreed to release a second album, called ''[[Misses (Joni Mitchell album)|Misses]]'', that would include some of the lesser-known songs from her career. ''Hits'' charted at No. 161 in the US, and achieved gold certification in the UK and Australia. Mitchell also included on ''Hits'', for the first time on an album, her first recording, a version of "Urge for Going" which preceded ''Song to a Seagull'' but was previously released only as a [[B-side]].

[[File:Joni Mitchell and Peter Bogner.jpg|thumb|left|Joni Mitchell and [[Peter Bogner (businessman)|Peter Bogner]] listening to premix of [[Herbie Hancock]]'s ''[[Gershwin's World]]'' ([[Venice Beach, California]], in 1999)|251x251px]]
Two years later, Mitchell released her final set of "original" new work before nearly a decade of other pursuits, 1998's ''[[Taming the Tiger]]''. She promoted ''Tiger'' with a return to regular concert appearances, including a co-headlining tour with [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Van Morrison]].

On the album, Mitchell had played a custom guitar equipped with a [[Roland Corporation|Roland]] hexaphonic pick-up that connected to a Roland VG-8 modelling processor. The device allowed Mitchell to play any of her many alternate tunings without having to re-tune the guitar. The guitar's output, through the VG-8, was transposed to any of her tunings in real-time.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8477480/joni-mitchell-taming-the-tiger-album|title=Joni Mitchell's 'Taming the Tiger' Turns 20: Why the Spaced-Out Album Deserves More Applause|date=September 29, 2018|first=Morgan|last=Enos|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-date=April 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430231351/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8477480/joni-mitchell-taming-the-tiger-album|url-status=live}}</ref>

It was around this time that critics also began to notice a real change in Mitchell's voice, particularly on her older songs; the singer later confirmed the change, explaining that "I'd go to hit a note and there was nothing there".<ref name="renai">{{cite news |last=Eggar |first=Robin |url=http://www.jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1569 |title=The Renaissance Woman |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |location=UK |date=February 11, 2007 |access-date=March 9, 2007 |format=reprint |archive-date=April 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430062311/http://www.jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=1569 |url-status=live}}</ref> While her more limited range and huskier vocals have sometimes been attributed to her smoking (she was described by journalist Robin Eggar as "one of the world's last great smokers"),<ref name="renai" /> Mitchell believes that the changes in her voice that became noticeable in the 1990s were because of other problems, including vocal nodules, a compressed larynx, and the lingering effects of having had polio.<ref name="renai" /> In an interview in 2004, she denied that "my terrible habits" had anything to do with her more limited range, and pointed out that singers often lose the upper register when they pass fifty. In addition, she contended that her voice had acquired a more interesting and expressive alto range when she could no longer hit the high notes, let alone hold them as she had in her youth.<ref>National Public Radio.</ref>