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Cited as an influence by artists from Amy Grant to Prince, singer/songwriter Mitchell came to the US from Canada in the middle 1960's. Learning guitar from a Pete Seeger instruction record, she would progress to the open-tuning experimentation of recent years, influencing a generation of musicians. David Crosby (CSN&Y) discovered her playing alone in a south Florida folk club and immediately got her into a west coast studio, producing her first album ("Song To A Seagull") in 1967. 1970 brought the album "Blue" which featured "River", the song recently featured in the TV spot about the soldier reading the letter from home:

"It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on..."

She surfaced in a songwriting sense when Judy Collins covered "Both Sides Now" on her "Wildf...