Iconic folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell boasts a catalog that seems to entirely consist of intergenerational anthems.

Her discography, revered for its heartfelt and candid storytelling, is timeless: Look no further than “Both Sides Now,”one of her best-known songs about the lessons of love and life, which she wrote when she was just 21 years old. Over the years, the one constant in all of her renditions of the song is that Mitchell still doesn’t have all the answers to the questions she sings about — and maybe never will. But there’s a kind of wisdom in that, and the song reveals new meanings each time she revisits it — most recently, when Mitchell, now 80 years old, performed it at the 2024 Grammys. As the song says, we really don’t know life at all — but it still comes full circle.

In a reflective mood at this stage in her...