Joni Mitchell is working towards a return to the recording studio, her ex-husband Larry Klein has claimed.
The singer suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 which left her unable to talk or walk, but last month she made a spectacular return to the stage for her first full show since 2000 at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.
Having performed a set of classic hits, including a guitar solo of her song Just Like This Train, Larry says Joni is heading toward laying down new tracks in the studio.
“She’s been working her way to regain all sorts of things, and she’s been wanting to sing again, she just hadn’t gotten to the point where she had the confidence to go into the studio,” he tells Mojo.
Asked specifically about the prospect of new music, he replied: “I wouldn’t be surprised (if she records new music). She’s a hard worker.
“She’s working at regaining the ability to play guitar, and what that means is that she’ll start experimenting, and who knows what’s going to come with that?”
Joni released her most recent studio album ‘Shine’ in 2007.
Following her comeback at the festival in July, the musician revealed it was the first time she felt nervous about performing.
“I’ve never been nervous about being in front of an audience, but I wanted to be good and I wasn’t sure that I could be. But I didn’t sound too bad tonight,” she told CBS News.
“I think having a brush with death like that kind of softens people to me.”
