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DISCID=6f087d0a
DTITLE=Joni Mitchell / Blue (Rhino Replicas Edition)
DYEAR=1971
DGENRE=Folk
TTITLE0=All I Want
TTITLE1=My Old Man
TTITLE2=Little Green
TTITLE3=Carey
TTITLE4=Blue
TTITLE5=California
TTITLE6=This Flight Tonight
TTITLE7=River
TTITLE8=A Case Of You
TTITLE9=The Last Time I Saw Richard
EXTD=Blue (Rhino Replicas Edition)\n2007 Warner Bros./Rhino\n\nOrigina
EXTD=lly Released June 1971\nCD Edition Released 1988 ??\nGold CD Rele
EXTD=ased March 16, 1999\nRemastered HDCD Edition Released March 2000\n
EXTD=Rhino Replicas Mini LP CD Edition Released March 6, 2007\n\nAMG E
EXTD=XPERT REVIEW: Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessenti
EXTD=al confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, M
EXTD=itchell's songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two words
EXTD= with relative meaning here) etched with stunning complexity; eve
EXTD=n tracks like "All I Want," "My Old Man," and "Carey" -- the brig
EXTD=htest, most hopeful moments on the record -- are darkened by bitt
EXTD=ersweet moments of sorrow and loneliness. At the same time that s
EXTD=ongs like "Little Green" (about a child given up for adoption) an
EXTD=d the title cut (a hymn to salvation supposedly penned for James 
EXTD=Taylor) raise the stakes of confessional folk-pop to new levels o
EXTD=f honesty and openness, Mitchell's music moves beyond the constra
EXTD=ints of acoustic folk into more intricate and diverse territory, 
EXTD=setting the stage for the experimentation of her later work. Unri
EXTD=valed in its intensity and insight, Blue remains a watershed. -- 
EXTD=Jason Ankeny\n\nAmazon.com essential recording\nJoni Mitchell wou
EXTD=ld go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambit
EXTD=ious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better 
EXTD=one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James
EXTD= Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summone
EXTD=d an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue 
EXTD=is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly
EXTD= open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "Califor
EXTD=nia," and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop mus
EXTD=ic. --Steve Stolder \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nYes; It may b
EXTD=e worth buying this high-end version of Blue, February 1, 2000 \n
EXTD=Reviewer: ilikeamazon (see more about me) from Virginia, USA \nTh
EXTD=is is not a review of Joni Mitchell's BLUE album, an acknowledged
EXTD= five-star-plus masterpiece. Rather, since I own three versions o
EXTD=f this CD, including this expensive DCC version, I thought I'd wr
EXTD=ite a helpful review for those considering this gold disk purchas
EXTD=e. \n\nThe three versions of Blue I own are: 1) Reprise 2038-2, 2
EXTD=) Reprise 2038-2/HDCD 3) DCC GZS-1132 (gold disk). I played each 
EXTD=CD back through a very expensive high-end stereo system. The digi
EXTD=tal front end included a dedicated transport and Audio Alchemy DT
EXTD=I PRO 32 in 20-bit mode and a AA DDE 3.0 D/A. The 20-bit enhancem
EXTD=ent was turned off during HDCD playback (which it has to be for H
EXTD=DCD to work).\n\nFirst, let me say that most normal human beings 
EXTD=with average stereos will be perfectly happy with the generic BLU
EXTD=E disk. You can hear the famous sustain pedal lift on the song "B
EXTD=lue" better, in fact, on the Reprise non-HDCD version (maybe some
EXTD= compression?). The HDCD version sounds somewhat better (smoother
EXTD=). I was mainly listening to the quality of Joni's vocals during 
EXTD=the listening sessions, however.\n\nThat said, the DCC gold CD pr
EXTD=oduces superior vocals. Joni's vocals have a round, three dimensi
EXTD=onal "tubey" sound that floats in front of you and never sounds t
EXTD=he least bit shrill (which the vocals on the Reprise non-HDCD do,
EXTD= but only in comparison). The vocals take on a beautiful luster. 
EXTD=It's hard to describe why the DCC disk sounds better. The sound i
EXTD=s more LP-like, without losing resolution or dynamics. \n\nIs is 
EXTD=worth the extra money for the DCC version? If you have a high-end
EXTD= stereo and can appreciate the fine job that Steve Hoffman of DCC
EXTD= did on the remastering, then by all means: This is the only CD v
EXTD=ersion you should own. Otherwise, the other CD versions should so
EXTD=und perfectly acceptable on less persnickety equipment. \n\nAmazo
EXTD=n.com Customer Review\nThe soul of an artist, May 8, 2000 \nRevie
EXTD=wer: Donn Hart from Boston \nJoni Mitchell is one of the most dar
EXTD=ing, talented, and creative artists in music history, not just in
EXTD= folk, or pop, or jazz, or whatever she's being categorized as at
EXTD= the moment. Just listen to this album and you'll see what I mean
EXTD=.\n\nThough it doesn't say so in the booklet, Joni herself plays 
EXTD=guitar, dulcimer, and piano. As a dulcimerist myself, I am absolu
EXTD=tely in love with the dulcimer part on "A Case of You." That song
EXTD= is so simple, and it's purely beautiful. Stephen Stills' gently 
EXTD=understated guitar part on the song adds a certain something, as 
EXTD=does the barely-there percussion.\n\nLet's not leave out "All I W
EXTD=ant," on which you can clearly see who influenced neo-folkie Jewe
EXTD=l! Again, the dulcimer does it for me there! The same is true on 
EXTD="Carey." Joni plays some gorgeous piano parts on "River," "Blue,"
EXTD= and "The Last Time I Saw Richard." That last song is beautiful (
EXTD=okay, I'm agreeing with almost every other reviewer here), I'm pa
EXTD=rticularly drawn by the line "All dreamers pass this way someday/
EXTD=Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes."\n\nSo in short, do you want
EXTD= to hear a woman with true talent whose voice and music will be p
EXTD=layed for all time? Pick up "Blue." If not, go buy that new Britn
EXTD=ey Spears record. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nSongs are like 
EXTD=tattoos, January 24, 2002 \nReviewer: Joshua Krist from Scottsdal
EXTD=e, AZ USA \nLike another reviewer, I too was exposed to Mitchell 
EXTD=through a VH-1 program. It sounds strange, but it really was musi
EXTD=cal love at first sight, and my appreciation has grown deeper in 
EXTD=the almost two years since I bought it. \n\nSoon after buying thi
EXTD=s album, I spent a month on a boat in the middle of nowhere and e
EXTD=very night after finishing the chores I would go sit on the deck 
EXTD=and look up at the stars and listen to this album from beginning 
EXTD=to end. It's something I would look forward to throughout the day
EXTD=, and I cannot think of a better album to go with such a special 
EXTD=time in my life. \n\nEach song is a distillation of hard-won expe
EXTD=rience, and it amazes me that some years of living plus hours of 
EXTD=writing plus weeks if not months of recording can equal something
EXTD= that still stands after all those hours are gone. \n\nDo yoursel
EXTD=f a favor, listen to this album. Maybe it will speak to you, mayb
EXTD=e it won't. But if it does speak to you, I can guarantee you will
EXTD= be listening to it for years to come. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Re
EXTD=view\nIf I could rate it higher, I would..., January 12, 2002 \nR
EXTD=eviewer: Brandon Moss from Westerville, OH United States \nNo alb
EXTD=um is more important to me than Joni Mitchell's 1971 masterpiece 
EXTD="Blue." As is rare with most albums, Joni has created each song t
EXTD=o be a classic work of art in itself, telling stories that transc
EXTD=end generations of thought. I feel this to be Joni's most persona
EXTD=l and reflective work. It has to be-- her lyrics and intricate me
EXTD=lodies come across as though she is singing us a series of painti
EXTD=ngs about her life. These songs have to be real-- no one could ev
EXTD=en begin to imagine the senses she brings across on this album.\n
EXTD=My personal favorites onthis album are the two songs that I consi
EXTD=der to be her best songs ever. "A Case of You" is my very favorit
EXTD=e song of hers. What can one say about it? It is sheer beauty lis
EXTD=tening to her heart spill out to this guy in the song. I also lov
EXTD=e "The Last Time I Saw Richard." Only Joni could take something t
EXTD=hat would just cross most people's minds as a mere thought and tu
EXTD=rn it into the most beautiful song.\nBut even though these are my
EXTD= two favorite songs, I believe every song is wonderful! "All I Wa
EXTD=nt" is the Joni telling the world how much fun she is. (I wanna w
EXTD=reck my stockings in some jukebox dive...) "My Old Man" is such a
EXTD= very personal expression of love at its rawest form. (We don't n
EXTD=eed no piece of paper from the city hall keeping us tied and true
EXTD=.) "Little Green" is perhaps Joni's most personal song ever, expr
EXTD=essing her grief over giving up her daughter. (So you sign all th
EXTD=e papers in the family name, you're sad and you're sorry but you'
EXTD=re not ashamed.) "Carey" is a great song about love and sacrifice
EXTD=. (My fingernails are filthy, I've got beachtar on my feet, and I
EXTD= miss that clean white linen and that fancy French cologne...) "B
EXTD=lue" can take you absolutely anywhere you want it to, which makes
EXTD= it a great lonely night song! (Blue, there is a shell for you, I
EXTD=nside you'll hear a sigh, a foggy lullaby. There is your song fro
EXTD=m me.) "California" is my personal vote for Joni's most fun song,
EXTD= revealing change. (I'm gonna see the folks I dig, maybe I'll kis
EXTD=s a sunset pig.) My third favorite song on the album is "This Fli
EXTD=ght Tonight" about regret and love's confusing realm. (Up got the
EXTD= flaps, down go the wheels. I hope you got your heat turned on ba
EXTD=by.) And finally, "River" is the best example of Joni's longing f
EXTD=or better things in the world. (I wish I had a river I could skat
EXTD=e away on...)\nI could go on and on about Joni's "Blue". Just get
EXTD= it and you'll understand why it is the most essential album in m
EXTD=y collection and in my life. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nBlue
EXTD=. Beautiful., December 31, 2001 \nReviewer: alex ash from Seattle
EXTD=, WA United States \nOn a personal note, I was introduced to this
EXTD= album when I was nine years old, when it first came out. My sist
EXTD=er Joanie listened to it all the time, and she became linked in m
EXTD=y mind to the beauty of Joni Mitchell. After all, my sister had n
EXTD=ot only the same first name (albeit with different spelling), but
EXTD= she looked like Joni Mitchell at the time: skinny, long brown ha
EXTD=ir, dazzling smile. Sometimes what you love in life becomes great
EXTD=er when its image is reflected onto something else, and even afte
EXTD=r that, you find love in the reflection, as well as the image. As
EXTD= a result of this, it's thirty years later, and I've made sure to
EXTD= have a copy of this album wherever I've been in my life.\n\nThe 
EXTD=beauty and richness of this album can't be compared. "Blue", whic
EXTD=h chronicles an actual relationship of Joni Mitchell's, could hav
EXTD=e been in fact written for any one of us who has fallen helplessl
EXTD=y in love, had the daily struggles of a relationship, and ultimat
EXTD=ely have the relationship fail, leaving broken hearts in its wake
EXTD=. Love, dissapointment, heartbreak, and quiet resolution are all 
EXTD=dealt with, and all of them with simple, poignant honesty. Aside 
EXTD=from a few lyrics which are very much of the times of the late 60
EXTD='s and early 70's - in "California" for example, when she mention
EXTD=s kissing a "Sunset Pig" upon her return to L.A., and then later 
EXTD=reflecting on "the war, and the bloody changes" - the material is
EXTD= quite timeless. After all, love and heartbreak don't exactly go 
EXTD=out of style.\n\nEveryone has their favorites on this album (whic
EXTD=h is evident in the other reviews that you'll read besides mine) 
EXTD=and I know I have favorites as well, but I'm really not able to c
EXTD=hoose one. I can tell you that I love "All I Want" right now in m
EXTD=y life, because I'm in love and in that headspace. Yet "River" al
EXTD=so appeals to me with its sweetness and despair. "Cary" has alway
EXTD=s had a special place for me, because my sister and I were living
EXTD= in the Canary Islands when she first bought this album, and that
EXTD= song has always reminded me of the little hole-in-the-wall canti
EXTD=nas there. \n\nI guess it's obvious from my review that "Blue" is
EXTD= more than a favorite album to me: it's deeply personal, interwov
EXTD=en in my own life and the lives of those nearest to me. But I'm n
EXTD=ot the only one who is affected by it this way, not by far, and I
EXTD= know I won't be the last. Listen. Just listen to it. You'll be s
EXTD=o glad that you did. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Apotheos
EXTD=is of Joni and the singer-songwriter movement, October 12, 2001 \n
EXTD=Reviewer: scottanth from Blair, NE United States \nJoni Mitchell 
EXTD=spent her first three albums earning a reputation as one of pop-r
EXTD=ock-folk's best singers and songwriters. These literate and evoca
EXTD=tive works, delivered in Joni's ice-skate-blade soprano with bare
EXTD=-bones instrumentation, had made her audience think of her as a h
EXTD=ippie-chick troubadour. Frequently, the albums revealed her strug
EXTD=gles to find a man worth her while, or a love that could endure a
EXTD=nd survive.\n\nBlue was Joni's effort to kick against her hippie-
EXTD=queen persona. At first, it may not seem much different than the 
EXTD=first three albums - spare arrangements, trebly singing, and tale
EXTD=s of free-love struggle. However, Blue is set apart from all of J
EXTD=oni's previous and subsequent albums by a profoud depth and commi
EXTD=tment of self to its writing and performance. She shows a willing
EXTD=ness to show her true self to her audience in profound vulnerabil
EXTD=ity, even unveiling the sad tale of giving up her infant daughter
EXTD= for adoption when abandoned by her husband in the four-year-old 
EXTD=composition "Little Green." Her voice is miked very closely with 
EXTD=a stark absence of echo which provides the illusion that she is s
EXTD=inging here and now, in the same room with the listener. She sing
EXTD=s with a passionate vocal limberness, often reminiscent of the bl
EXTD=ues and jazz greats. She's not really up to the same bag as an El
EXTD=la, an Etta, a Billie, or a Sarah, but on this album at least, sh
EXTD=e is their peer in terms of what she IS doing. Some have objected
EXTD= to Joni's voice on her earlier work, but Blue shows that such co
EXTD=mplaints have about as much credibility in taste as those who cla
EXTD=im to love literature, but Shakespeare "doesn't do much for them.
EXTD=" In fact, it is the passion and resonance of Joni's singing that
EXTD= make her confession-box revelations ring true. \n\nWhile Ladies 
EXTD=of the Canyon features what remain Joni's best arrangements on an
EXTD= album - cello and horns lushly punctuating the balance between J
EXTD=oni's piano and guitar - the arrangements on Blue rival them. Sev
EXTD=eral of the songs luxuriate in Joni's magisterial piano alone - "
EXTD=The Last Time I Saw Richard" is nearly symphonic in its richness.
EXTD= Others enjoy the interplay between Joni and James Taylor's acous
EXTD=tic guitars and Sneaky Pete's pedal steel. All of these choices f
EXTD=it the intimacy of the songs perfectly. Blue's most striking arra
EXTD=ngement choice, in the context of the earlier Ladies of the Canyo
EXTD=n and the subsequent four albums, was the absence of horns. No wi
EXTD=nd instrument could possibly rival Joni's vocal work here. Like B
EXTD=illie's, Joni's gorgeous singing on Blue was not the result of st
EXTD=udied precision and technique, but rather evidence of a great, pr
EXTD=ofoundly spiritual soul within. Greater than nearly all of the re
EXTD=st of us.\n\nEven the much-needed leaven of the more upbeat songs
EXTD= on Blue - "Carey," "This Flight Tonight," "My Old Man" - have a 
EXTD=wistful sense of the fleeting nature of bliss in love. The best s
EXTD=ongs, however, are downright heartbreaking, laments for lost or a
EXTD=bsent loves and expressions of sorrowful states. "Blue," "River,"
EXTD= "A Case of You," and "The Last Time I Saw Richard" in their spin
EXTD=e-tingling glory-in-sorrow all belong in any top ten list of Joni
EXTD='s best songs, but any attempt to remove any of these masterpiece
EXTD=s from their context rings artificial. Any future Joni boxed set 
EXTD=should include all ten songs - perhaps as a self-contained bonus 
EXTD=disc to preserve the integrity of this shattering work of art. It
EXTD= says much for this masterpiece that Joni immediately embarked up
EXTD=on a expansion of musical and lyrical idiom on her next album, Fo
EXTD=r the Roses. After Blue, Joni could only get bolder, more verbose
EXTD=, more oscure, more byzantine - but never better. She'd already d
EXTD=one perfect. \n\nAmazon.com Cusomer Review\nSets the standard for
EXTD= singer-songwriter albums, July 16, 2001 \nReviewer: Tyler Smith 
EXTD=from Denver, CO USA \nThis is "Blue"'s 30th year, and it's also b
EXTD=een 30 years since I heard it. How have I held up? Well, the resu
EXTD=lts are mixed. But "Blue" has held up just fine. In fact, if anyt
EXTD=hing, it has gotten better since its long-ago release in 1971.\n\n
EXTD=It's worth noting that I came to this album back then armed with 
EXTD=complete skepticism. I was a devotee of the doomed rock bands of 
EXTD=the day -- Hendrix Experience, Cream, the Doors -- and had begun 
EXTD=to hook in to jazz, along with blues guys like B.B. King, Albert 
EXTD=King, Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, etc. So I approached this album
EXTD= by a little blond girl (as I labeled her with all my worldly wis
EXTD=dom of the time) with her acoustic guitar and piano and high, cle
EXTD=ar voice with a sideways glance and a bit of a sneer.\n\nBoth of 
EXTD=which were blown away after maybe two listenings. One of the grea
EXTD=t things about Joni's voice is that it is not only remarkably cle
EXTD=ar, but she uses it throughout the record in surprising ways. She
EXTD= has a jazz singer's sensibilities. Although "Blue" is not a jazz
EXTD= album, Joni bends notes, juggles rhythms and keeps you off balan
EXTD=ce throughout with unusual phrasings. \n\nAnd then there are the 
EXTD=lyrics. One can read the many lyrics printed on albums then and n
EXTD=ow and find precious few that don't require the melody and musica
EXTD=l crafting of the songwriter to lift them. Joni gives you plenty 
EXTD=of melody and musical crafting, but the lyrics stand up by themse
EXTD=lves. The best example of this is the wonderful "The Last Time I 
EXTD=Saw Richard," a poem for doomed romanticism. It tells a complete 
EXTD=story in poetic language. Playing it and listening to Mitchell's 
EXTD=chilling voice tell the story completes the experience.\n\n"Blue"
EXTD= is best listened to from start to finish. Mitchell takes you on 
EXTD=her journeys through the world and through her search for love an
EXTD=d companionship, even as her artistic drive makes her a loner and
EXTD= a lover of the dark. Particularly strong, for me (aside from "Ri
EXTD=chard"), are "A Case of You," "California," "River," and "All I W
EXTD=ant." But then I think about the life that bursts in "Carey," and
EXTD= the wonderful love song "My Old Man," and I realize picking favo
EXTD=rites from "Blue" is probably a waste of time.\n\nSeldom has an a
EXTD=rtist put so personal a stamp on a work as Mitchell has on "Blue.
EXTD=" Play it, savor it, and above all, save it, because I think ther
EXTD=e are few albums coming out today that will hold up as well as th
EXTD=is one has after 30 years on the shelf. \n\nAmazon.com Customer R
EXTD=eview\nDeep Blue, April 18, 2001 \nReviewer: brunstv from Fort Co
EXTD=llins, CO USA \nWhen I was of an age to know better but not to ca
EXTD=re (somewhere around tenth grade), Blue was a serious make-out al
EXTD=bum. At least, that's what they told me.\n\nFact is, when it was 
EXTD=released in 1971 I was somewhere between public junior high in LA
EXTD= and uniformed regimen in southwest England, and it was only when
EXTD= I had braved a spell in Brussels and a quick trip back across th
EXTD=e pond to Monterey in 1973, that I began hearing Joni again and n
EXTD=ot early Pink Floyd and Slade.\n\nIn the Forties, if you wanted t
EXTD=o make an impression you whipped out a pack of gum (help me out h
EXTD=ere, someone); in the early Seventies, you played Blue.\n\nIn the
EXTD= early Eighties, you played Blue. And if you had any taste, you p
EXTD=layed it like it was 1999. Remember when they told you tennis str
EXTD=ings were made out of cat gut? Don't know if they ever were or no
EXTD=t, but Joni's guitar strings were made out of the gut of a lover,
EXTD= and if she didn't really bring out that guitar until after 1970,
EXTD= she played it on this album as though guitars were going out of 
EXTD=style. Patch the speaker straight through to the EKG and I'll go 
EXTD=easy. If I have a posthumous child, call her Little Green.\n\nOf 
EXTD=the sextet of albums that truly enshrine Joni, fans are going to 
EXTD=be divided. Some will like the pop orchestration of Court & Spark
EXTD=; others will insist on the homecoming of Clouds, and still other
EXTD=s will love the virtuosic thin sound of For The Roses. Blue is no
EXTD=t my favorite album (I fall into the small minority that cherish 
EXTD=her first outing), but it's a mighty club to wield against the wo
EXTD=rld. And, frankly if I were packing for a desert island, it'd be 
EXTD=the first one in my tucker bag (see "Waltzing Matilda"). Why? The
EXTD=re isn't a false note in any one of the ten songs. Most artists w
EXTD=rite a good song or two in a handful and build an album around it
EXTD=. This album wasn't built: it was delivered. Ask Nazereth, who re
EXTD=corded the hit "This Flight Tonight" to an incredulous but buying
EXTD= audience.\n\nRickie Lee Jones once dissed Joni because she didn'
EXTD=t "grow up on the jazz side" of life. I love Rickie Lee Jones, bu
EXTD=t she missed the point. Joni didn't write jazz the way Duke Ellin
EXTD=gton didn't write jazz. She wrote music. You can play it any way 
EXTD=you can play it, but you'll play it.\n\nIt has the foreground and
EXTD= the background; the leaf in your hand and the peak in the distan
EXTD=ce. And shy though she's reputed to be, this self-produced disc w
EXTD=as miked straight to the heart. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nI
EXTD=gnore The Ego, Listen To The Record, August 28, 2000 \nReviewer: 
EXTD=David Bradley from Sterling, VA USA \nIf you're like most anti-Jo
EXTD=ni's--a category I generally fall into--all you've heard is proba
EXTD=bly "Big Yellow Taxi" and her idiotic whining at the Isle of Mann
EXTD= festival in 1968 (or was it the Isle Of Wight?)(the Isle of Long
EXTD=?)...anyway, you've bought into the image of Joni Mitchell as an 
EXTD=over-rated egotist, who bought a folk guitar, had a few minor hit
EXTD= singles, and dubbed herself the new Coltrane.\n\nWell, most of t
EXTD=hat is true. Mitchell has always been her biggest fan, considerin
EXTD=g even her most inane ramblings some kind of holy experience.\n\n
EXTD=BUT, if you can set aside the personality and the ego, there are 
EXTD=some true classics in her set. BLUE is one of them.\n\nMitchell h
EXTD=as spent the last twenty years trying to prove she's tough as nai
EXTD=ls, trying to take credit for everyone from Tom Waits to Jewel to
EXTD= even Dylan, so I imagine she'd hate to hear this...but her fines
EXTD=t moments have always been when she lets down the butch facade an
EXTD=d sings tender, almost girlish lyric--"A Case Of You" is heaven. 
EXTD=BLUE is a near-perfect album.\n\nAnd, for those of you who still 
EXTD=think Mitchell is only for women and wimps--why do you think Robe
EXTD=rt Plant wrote "Going To California?" The "girl out there with lo
EXTD=ve in her eyes and flowers in her hair" was Joni Mitchell! \n\nAm
EXTD=azon.com Customer Review\nDefinitely one of her best--open, vulne
EXTD=rable, and brilliant, April 19, 2000 \nReviewer: A music fan from
EXTD= NYC \nI might listen to other Joni albums like "Hejira" or "Cour
EXTD=t and Spark" more often than this one but Joni is as great here a
EXTD=s she's ever been. The songs are pure, confessional masterpieces 
EXTD=with far less backing instrumentation than on some of her other r
EXTD=ecords. As she has said herself, this album was exactly who she w
EXTD=as and what she was going through at the time. It's sometimes joy
EXTD=ful, often sad, but always insightful and beautiful. "The Last Ti
EXTD=me I Saw Richard", in particular, is one of the most heartbreakin
EXTD=g songs I've ever heard with lyrics that stay with you forever: "
EXTD=The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 and he told me/"Al
EXTD=l romantics meet the same fate someday, cynical and drunk and bor
EXTD=ing someone in some dark cafe"/"You laugh", he said, "you think y
EXTD=ou're immune"/"Go look at your eyes, they're full of moon"/"You l
EXTD=ike roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you all those pretty 
EXTD=lies"/"When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies"/"Just pre
EXTD=tty lies". \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nJames Taylor, Contributing
EXTD= Artist\nStephen Stills, Contributing Artist\nHenry Lewey, Engine
EXTD=er\n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, pian
EXTD=o); James Taylor (acoustic guitar); Stephen Stills (guitar, bass)
EXTD=; Sneaky Pete (pedal steel guitar); Russ Kunkel (drums).\n\nRecor
EXTD=ded at A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.\n\nUltradiscs are ma
EXTD=stered from the original master tapes using Mobile Fidelity's pro
EXTD=prietary mastering technique, then plated with 24 karat gold and 
EXTD=housed in a stress-resistant lift-lock jewel box.\n\nJoni Mitchel
EXTD=l's fourth album maintained the confessional style of its predece
EXTD=ssors, but her biographical epistles were here infused with great
EXTD=er maturity. Although her lyrics remained personal, Mitchell drew
EXTD= upon their described scenarios to express a greater context. Ste
EXTD=phen Stills and James Taylor added sympathetic accompaniment, but
EXTD= the album's musical textures were defined by the singer's use of
EXTD= guitar, piano and dulcimer. Mitchell's vocals showed a new depth
EXTD= and range absent from earlier work, emphasizing Blue's important
EXTD= place in her maturation as an artist. She never returned to folk
EXTD= after this release, she spied a bigger world for her lyrics and 
EXTD=eclectic ideas of song.\n\nNew Musical Express (10/02/1993)\nRank
EXTD=ed #28 in NME's list of the Greatest Albums Of All Time.\n\nNew M
EXTD=usical Express (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #9 in NME's list of The G
EXTD=reatest Albums Of The '70s - ...Scrapings of the soul have rarely
EXTD= sounded so wretched...\n\nRolling Stone (8/5/71, p.43) - ...her 
EXTD=songs, like James Taylor's, are only incidentally commercial: Her
EXTD= primary purpose is to create something meaningful out of the ran
EXTD=dom moments of pain and pleasure in her life...\n\nRolling Stone 
EXTD=(9/30/71, p.42) - ...She writes beautiful tunes coupled with beau
EXTD=tiful lyrics...what more could be asked of her? BLUE is her best 
EXTD=album by far...\n\nQ Magazine (07/01/1999)\nIncluded in Q's Best 
EXTD=Chill-Out Albums of All Time - ...tangible warmth....A solitary a
EXTD=lbum, which conversely makes the listner feel less alone...\n\nVi
EXTD=be (12/01/1999)\nIncluded in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 2
EXTD=0th Century
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