Joni Mitchell makes her live debut at Grammys with "Both Sides Now"

Six decades after her career began, across which she has won ten Grammys, as well as a lifetime achievement award, she was joined on stage by Brandi Carlile, Blake Mills, Allison Russell, Lucius, and Jacob Collier. Her Grammy live debut comes almost a decade after she suffered a brain aneurysm which left her unable to walk, talk, or play guitar.

"Both Sides Now" original featured on Mitchell's 1969 album Clouds, and was revived on last year's live album, Joni Mitchell At Newport, which won Best Folk Album this year.

"We had so much fun at that concert and I think you can feel that on the record," Mitchell said of the album during her acceptance speech. "It's a very joyous record because of the people that I played with and the spirit of the occasion was very high… Even the audience sounds like music."

The performance followed an introduction by Brandi Carlile. "Whether we know it or not, any one of us out here who ever dreamed of becoming a truly self-revealing singer songwriter did it standing on the shoulders of one Joni Mitchell," Carlile said. "Joni is one of the most influential and emotionally generous creators in human history. She redefined the very purpose of a song to reflect the contents of a person's soul... Before she took this leap, the popular song was observational, it was brilliant and influential, of course, but the exhilarating risk that we all now take by turning ourselves inside out for all the world to see, started, as far as I can tell, with Joni Mitchell doing it first."