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QUINCY, Wash.— Joni Mitchell hadn’t played a full concert for a live audience — an audience that knew she was coming, that is — for more than 20 years. That changed Saturday night, when the 79-year-old singer and songwriter headlined the Gorge Amphitheatre on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington state. The show followed an unannounced appearance Mitchell made at 2022’s Newport Folk Festival, seven years after she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm that made it difficult for her to move and to use her voice. Saturday’s nearly three-hour show — part of Carlile’s annual Echoes Through the Canyon event at the Gorge — was a similar affair: Among the artists on the bill for the weekend festival were many who appeared at Newport, including The Times’ Mikael Wood and Amy Kaufman were at the Gorge and provided live updates from the concert as it happened. In a rare interview, Joni Mitchell talks with Cameron Crowe about the state of her singing voice and the making of “Blue,” 50 years after its release. 6:13 p.m. Greetings from the Gorge, where Joni fever is running hot enough that a woman playing “California” on a dulcimer in the parking lot had drawn a considerable crowd of enthusiastic onlookers. I’m Mikael Wood, The Times’ pop music critic, and I’m here with Times columnist Amy Kaufman to see the woman Brandi Carlile described onstage Friday night as “probably the greatest living legend on planet Earth.” High praise? No doubt. Yet there’s been something undeniably ...