Joni Mitchell

Sad spare and beautiful Blue is the quintessential confessional singersongwriter album. Joni Mitchell would go on from this 71 recording to make more popular more ambitious and more challenging albums but shes never made a better one.

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Even tracks like All I Want My Old Man and Carey -- the brightest most hopeful moments on the record -- are darkened by bittersweet.

. Though Blue is an. Mingus is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and a collaboration with composer and jazz musician Charles MingusRecorded in the months before his death it would be Minguss final musical project. The album is wholly dedicated to him.

If you want me Ill be in the bar. Just before our love got lost you saidI am as constant as a northern starAnd I said constant in the darknessWheres that at. Mingus was released on June 13 1979.

Working with minimal accompaniment Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Blue is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell released on June 22 1971 by Reprise RecordsWritten and produced entirely by Mitchell it was recorded in 1971 at AM Studios in Hollywood CaliforniaCreated just after her breakup with Graham Nash and during an intense relationship with James Taylor Blue explores various facets of relationships. As youll see below her penchant for low end took root long before she began thinking of herself as a singer.

Joni Mitchell owns a special place in our hearts because she has consistently sought out killer bass performances and made them central to her work. Forthright and poetic Joni Mitchells songs are raw nerves tales of love and loss two words with relative meaning here etched with stunning complexity. Jonis earliest albums featured sparse bass by Buffalo SpringfieldCrosby Stills Nash Young icon.

The album is quite experimental featuring minimalist jazz over.

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