Her first album Song to a Seagull, produced by David Crosby (Crosby, Stills Nash and Young), was dedicated to her 7th grade English teacher, who Joni says “taught [her] to love words”.In 2002, Joni Mitchell became one of only 3 popular Canadian songwriters to be given the Order of Canada as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy’s. Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen are the others.