Home / Music / Joni Mitchell's open tunings came from polio, not just creativityMusic linernotes album music joni-mitchellJoni Mitchell's open tunings came from polio, not just creativityJoni Mitchell is a guitarist, pianist, and vocalist whose distinctive open tunings were partially shaped by childhood polio in her left hand. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesHejira went gold in the US and silver in the UKJoni Mitchell's last top-10 album reached #4For the Roses is Joni Mitchell's bridge from folk confession to jazz sophisticationCourt and Spark is widely regarded as Joni Mitchell's masterpiece — Pazz & Jop No. 1 for 1974'You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio' was Joni Mitchell's sly response to radio programmersExploreThe Furious Five Is Live was one of hip-hop's first live albumsThe Hammerklavier's slow movement is one of music's greatestSchubert's D. 784 sonata swings between tenderness and violenceNight Moves was Bob Seger's first Silver Bullet Band album — mostlyBeethoven's Symphony No. 1 opens in the 'wrong' keyPrevious Lowell George played slide guitar on Rickie Lee Jones' debutNext Joni Mitchell was born in Fort Macleod, Alberta