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 | Title : Blue
Author : Joni Mitchell
Release Date : 19901025
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $11.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. 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. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as 'All I Want,' 'Carey,' 'California,' and 'A Case of You' work equally well as poetry and pop music.
Buyer Reviews :
From the first time I heard this album until today, almost thirty years later, this has remained one of my all time favorite albums. It hangs together like one grand and complex piece of music, each song necessary and participating fully in the whole. The instrumentation was a great surprise to me at the time, being unfamiliar with the dulcimer and other folk instruments, but it suited the music perfectly.
I recently heard Joni in concert (for the first time) on a sort of torch song blues tour of songs from an earlier musical period in America, using a full orchestra for backup. At the end of the concert she sang some of the songs from her more well known period, and the song from BLUE brought the audience to their feet--myself included, although I yearned to hear her with the original instrumentation, even in the new version. It gave a subtle glow to the album that was missing with heavier musical support. BLUE is without a doubt Joni's best album, the one I couldn't bear to be without. Every time I get a new copy, and play it for a younger friend, unfortunate enough not to have known Joni's music through a parent or relative, I end up having to give it away.
I agree with the comment above, this is a CD where the singer-songwriter role is in perfect harmony with the work. The songs are an extension of Joni's heart and her life, and her voice is the perfect instrument upon which to play them. The spare and subtle orchestration allowed her unusual voice to soar and add something timeless to these songs which grieve, which measure loss, and which reach out to the pain in all of us bringing some relief, and some release.
(by A music fan)
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