anticipation for Mitchell’s second LP, Clouds (1969), with such numbers as “I Don’t Know Where I Stand,”“That Song About the Midway” and “Roses Blue” vividly exploring the internal dynamics of romantic relationships and featuring spare arrangements built around Mitchell’s guitar and ...
1. Joni Mitchell, 'Blue' (1971) Joni Mitchell pretty much redefined the singer-songwriter template with her fourth album. Inspired by a breakup, and moving on in its aftermath,Bluebrought an open-diary element to the genre, allowing singer-songwriters to get way more personal in their work ...
1. Joni Mitchell, 'Blue' (1971) Joni Mitchell pretty much redefined the singer-songwriter template with her fourth album. Inspired by a breakup, and moving on in its aftermath,Bluebrought an open-diary element to the genre, allowing singer-songwriters to get way more personal in their work ...
Mitchell's success also demonstrated that a singer-songwriter could become a rock star, and her confessional lyrics gave an added dimension to the tension between persona and private self. While critics such as Lester Bangs influentially attacked the singer-songwriters as the antithesis of rock ...
music was that there were no defenses there either….” Jack Hamilton, commenting onBluesome years later in a retrospective review of Mitchell’s work forThe Atlanticmagazine, called the album “a 10-song suite that might be the most vivid autopsy of romantic relationships ever put to record....
Ladies of the Canyon is the most idealistic of Mitchell’s albums, fueled by her distrust of money and power, and populated by the romantic characters of Laurel Canyon, the bohemian L.A. neighborhood where she lived with Graham Nash. Fittingly, its biggest hit—and one of Mitchell’s most...
Mitchell got topical on her 15th album, singing about AIDS, global warming and the Catholic church. She once again explores relationships, though sex (and its scarring qualities) is a running theme this time. By this point, Mitchell hadn't run out of things to say; she just couldn't fin...
even as it still has all its range and supple velocity. It is a voice that will tell stories of groovy Carey with his cane, and brooding Richard in some dark café, the romantic who meets the same fate as all the others. This album brings those recovering romantics together, but it’s...
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Graham Nash may have found it romantic to hear her tinkling away at the piano in their Lookout Mountain house, but he was also listening like a hawk. He recalls one such moment in his memoir: "Once, I heard her playing in a gorgeous new configuration. After she was finished and had ...