On May 1 in history: 1969: Joni guests on the Johnny Cash show, set to air on June 7th. After the show, Bob Dylan, who was also on the show, returns to Johnny Cash's house with famed bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs, Bob Johnston, and country songwriter Boudleaux Bryant for dinner. After dinner, they each perform a song, Dylan at his turn singing the old standard "These Working Hands." According to Graham Nash, who also recalls a dinner at Cash's, attended by, among others, himself, his then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, and Eddy Arnold, Dylan sang four or five songs. Presumably it was the very same dinner. Nash recalls Sara, Dylan's wife, sitting there crying at the drama of the moment.
1983: Joni performs at Zenith in Paris
