In Atlanta, Prince did “A Case of You” as a tender, stripped-down piano-and-voice number ... “I love all of Joni’s music.” He covered her songs, he said, “just to keep her name ...

In 1983, Prince was a budding genius on a ... as on a spare cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You.” As insightful as it is, Piano & A Microphone is also imperfect: You can hear him flub ...

Prince warmed up to this point with a series of loose exercises in which he attempts to create the force of a full band with his two hands. From the tape’s opening moments—his take on “When ...

this track from Prince’s solo-piano LP is an evident bouquet to latter-day Joni Mitchell. Of course, he bowed to early Joni with his gorgeous re-envisioning of her “A Case of You” on the ...

He played chopsticks first, then a few minutes of classical music without singing. He finished with the piano and did not play again publicly.” If you’re heading to NAMM, be sure to check out Prince’s ...

Fingers slinking over his piano with heavy steps, vocals slurring at the edges, he gives the spiritual a physical force. “There has always been a dichotomy in my music,” Prince once said.