Painter, guitarist, pianist, and singer/songwriter from Alberta, dealing now with Post-Polio Syndrome. A 60s icon, with her great post-folkie LPs, she veered into jazz-inflected territory in the mid-70s, utilizing her odd guitar tunings; this was followed by a much-maligned project with Charles Mingus that has aged well. She has gone far beyond the rote yuppie blandness of her Woodstock-era peers, and is the only one to have portrayed a black, male, Miles Davis fan in a film.