"I never realized that there she was, this young lady at 19 years old, would one day be Joni Mitchell," Bowman said Monday on The Early Edition. For more than half a century, Joni Mitchell has stood out as one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian music. In tandem with the announcement, Mitchell released the performance Bowman had had all these years — which she says is her earliest known recording. Watch Barry Bowman and recording engineer Dale Baglo play Joni Mitchell's original 1963 recording of House of the Rising Sun on reel-to-reel tape:But it took some time after Bowman's daughter found the tape before it made it into Mitchell's hands. "Barry, I just finished reading Reckless Daughter and we're not in it," wrote the old friend, referencing a biography written about Mitchell that year.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 22:52 UTC