Wow Lee, another really thoughtful reaction and analysis. I’m so glad you discovered and get Joni and her art. You do need guy friends-parenthood, work and adulting really do boil you down to just the essentials for awhile, but before you know it you’ll have more time and energy to add some details and joy back into your life. Hang in there buddy-it will get easier again/sometimes. One thing-we didn’t know about all Joni’s connections & relationships back then. As a teen I wondered who (if anyone) she sang about and whether I would ever love and be loved like she was. but it wasn’t until now with all the reaction channels that I’m finding out about these things. I’m discovering along with you, which I quite enjoy. Keep up the good work dude!
Joni is a true one of a kind, be it her song writing, vocals or playing an instrument. She plays the dulcimer on "California" which I understand inspired Robert Plant to write "Going to California".
"Blue" is the deepest, most profound and most beautiful song on this incomparable album. Over 50 years later, every time I hear it more comes out of it for me. To love your own sadness while recognizing it marks you for life. Just, wow
Blue is one of the first albums I bought, about 1993. It was because Tori Amos praised Joni's song "A Case of You", which you will encounter in your Blue series. Then I fell love with the whole of Blue. "California" was important to me when I met my bf, and the line "will you take me as I am" resonated with me.
One of the best compliments you can give an artist: That made me feel. Joni is so special she makes one want to invent new ways to love her. And she brings you more reasons each time.
The acoustic on California and All I want is played by James Taylor, about whom she writes in Blue. Steven Stills played on Carrie and This Flight Tonight. Graham Nash, Taylor and Stills were all head over heals in love with her.
She always writes from a human place no matter how wordy she gets. She can trigger our own memories and experiences with people we have known, and our own times of crises, joy or meloncoly, its all there, AND the words and stanzas flow musically as well. Check out her album Heijira, it features some of her greatest lyric work. Also her album from the mid-90s, Turbulent Indigo, is astounding..
James Taylor's lullaby to Joni Mitchell is "You Can Close Your Eyes," and her lullaby in response to him is "Blue." She refused to close her eyes to his self-destructiveness.
Remember, as astounding of a singer songwriter Joni is, she considers her painting to be her primary form of art. Her self portraits are ginormous and gorgeous; she also does incredible landscapes and some abstracts.
When I first experienced Joni Live in 1974, I thought I was experiencing a Goddess, then In 1975, away at college, I met Joni Mitchell in the heart & soul of my first real girlfriend. She was a HUGE fan & LOVED Joni's music especially BLUE but she was the living incarnation of Joni's music. Not only in her folky hippie-like beautiful innocence but also with her pure unfiltered poetic honesty & often deeply sad melancholy. Her incredible heart-wrenching Mitchell-esque essence made it so hard, emotionally, to stay with her after graduating! LOL She was just too 'BLUE" in many ways! LYRICALLY & VOCALLY & SONGWRITING Joni is PURELY DIVINE & unmatched! Let the TEARS FLOW! Also after watching many interviews & documentaries about Joni, you learn that each album is a diary & at the time BLUE was written, fame, travel and her romantic relationships all play a part in creating the moods and lyrics here! All songs written about CALI in the late 60's and 70's sparked my desire to move here in 1978, coincidently not far from a home that Joni owned near Venice Beach, California
I'd like to recommend to every Joni Mitchell fan...listen to Paul Horn's version o' the song Blue. It features Joni on piano 'n wordless vocals...sublime!
Joni Mitchell is incomparable. Her music is in a class by itself. These songs (soundscapes - love the term) have the same effect on me now that they on me 50+ years ago.
He we own private sadness was trusting others to raise her baby girl. I’m so happy that she and her daughter found each other and share their lives with each other now. Especially since Joni had no other children.
When I was a young teenager I won her Court and Spark album in a radio contest. I fell in love with it. That was my introduction to Joni Mitchell. Amazing!
She wrote California while living in France and traveling Europe--70-71. My Father moved us to Vienna for that year ( I was 12-13) and I can't hear this without thinking she was rambling around Europe while we were there, and also all of the turbulence, struggle going on in the US with the War, and protests (Her first few lines say it).
I saw Joni in 1974 at the DAR Constitution Hall in DC. The venue is gorgeous, but Joni outshone everything. She spoke so soft and sweetly, then sang like an angel. It is one of the absolute highlights of my life.
Joni Mitchell is a truly unique artist who has had to battle her way to success at every stage. At the age of nine she contracted polio, as did her fellow Canadian Neil Young who was two years younger than Joni, the disease weakened both of them on their left side. Joni found school difficult, but learnt to play piano and very much enjoyed art and poetry, and even now she considers her music second to being a painter. She has done many wonderful self portraits over the years, some of which have featured on her album covers. Her mother disapproved of her learning the guitar, but she persevered and taught herself, and eventually developed and experimented with her own style using dozens of open tunings. This style was partly driven by her weakened left hand, as the tunings allowed for much simpler chord shapes than in standard tuning. Most folk and pop musicians who worked with her would be initially baffled by her chord progressions, but once she began working with Jazz musicians it was a bit easier, with their more technical knowledge, to pick up on what she was playing. She treats her art, music, poetry and performing with little distinction, they are all the same to Joni, just a range of different ways to express her inner feelings. In 2015 she had yet another serous health battle after a brain aneurysm which left her relearning how to even walk again. She is a formidable and determined lady and in 2022 she made her first live performance following her illness.
The best thing you can do for your kids is to be there for them. Yes they need food and shelter but being there is what means the most. They will wear you out and make you crazy like no other but just be there.
That's what I'm trying my best to do, drew. I know they just want their dad there and I'll be there:) I love them with my entire being but yeah being a parent is rough lol
When she said she would even kiss a Sunset pig she meant I believe, that she would kiss a cop on the Sunset Strip in CA. During the Vietnam war, protestors started calling the cops pigs. She was in Paris, France at the beginning where she said it’s too old and cold and settled in its way here. I bought this album in 1968 I think and I’ve never looked back. The only female singer who is almost as incredible as Joni is Laura Nyro. Please check her out. Laura’s voice has an unbelieveable range like Joni’s.
The sunset pig refers to a market in Laurel Canyon where her house was that had a pig near the counter (called sunset) and people would kiss it for good luck.
The rock n Roll band she is referencing that she is the "biggest fan" of is CS&N--and I believe she had just ended her love affair and living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon.
There are not enough words or amounts of praise for me to heap on Joni. I’m thinking that when poets seek inspiration they conjure up Joni for it. Love your diving into her work and your appreciation for it.
And if you dig that connection check out the extraordinary Sandy Denny, from Going To California, she was in Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and solo. Died young from a an accidental fall.
So very pretty, lovely lilting voice with her word pictures and sweet guitar. ❤ I’ve loved that voice ever since I was in the eighth grade grade and heard Chelsea Morning on the way to school… A Sunshine spirit Thank you, Lee (such a sentient sponge) and Gail!
introspection is another word that comes to mind with Joni's lyrics.. that and her attention to detail when people-watching, seeing and experiencing things and events.. and when combined with her great story-telling ability... magic happens! 🥰
Like all great albums, one's favourite song on the album is liable to change over time. For a while it was Carey, then it was The Last Time I Saw Richard. Nowadays it's the title song, which is so intense it's almost unbearable; and the words are *really* poetic, with an extended maritime simile that is touched with genius. There's an amazing live version you can find on UA-cam which is a performance for the ages.
Joni played this song in Double D tuning Jimmy Page wrote Going To California to Homer her song in Drop D tuning as well The Mobile Fidelity 45 RPM One Step pressing is absolutely stunning!
Don't hesitate for a nanosecond--figure out what you want to say and call all of those people--tell 'em you're thinking about them. There is not drawback to that impulse.
So far, so good! And I doubt that's gonna change. I know that she is one of a kind now. I don't think any other artist is like her exactly. She is a totally unique flower!
FYI she lived in the canyon where all the musicians lived just above Hollywood. One of the members of Crosby still Nash and Young I can't remember which one for the life of me. She lived with for quite a while. He wrote our house about the house in the Canyon.
Going to California by Zep has a line referencing Joni--"Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"..and "To find a queen without a king, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings, la-la-la-la."
I think Joni once said the difference between her and Dylan was that she used the word 'I' in her lyrics, and Dylan used 'You'. But I think the difference is that she makes Dylan's lyrics look like schoolboy scribblings. (Sorry Dylan fans 😜).
Puhleeze tell me you'll do *Ladies Of The Canyon* next, the album she recorded previous to this, that I judge to be superior to Blue...much more positive songs, altogether. I still don't know why so many people think Blul is her best album aside from the fact that she really does show off her singing range & a lot of creativity of composition, but Ladies Of The Canyon is just as impressive for the same reasons...just a little less gloomy...
About CALIFORNIA. Led Zeppelin's response to this song was to write Going To California ( i like the live at Earl's Court video version). The band was crushing heavily on her; "Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair" 'Might want to give that a spin for context. I'm lovin' this, btw - thanks !!!
love the pedal steel on California....Sneaky Pete Kleinow. BTW I live in very far NE California.....5 miles from NV and 15 miles from OR. Remote as hell but fuckin gorgeous. Can't wait for part 3
Joni describes herself as a painter -- she does the cover pics of almost all her albums! -- who paints with words... That's the way to explain her amazingly unique lyrics, imo, Lee.
I'm a native. I was the mist of it boy these bring back memories. If you want to go to Northern California I would just get over the border to Oregon and save a ton of money. I am a native California, southern California. I left to retire in 2016 to Taos New Mexico. I always said I was going retire on the top of the mountain. Not quite the top of a mountain but what a beautiful place. I go One Direction and I can go to beautiful Mesa. Or just turn the other direction and BNN beautiful national Forest in like six or seven minutes where you can see trees for miles because we're 7000 feet up. So there are other beautiful places to go that won't cost a fortune.
Yes, Carey made quite the impression on young Joni.. 😉 He just borrowed her camera, but the lyrics as-written make it more impactful, and speak to his mischievous personality! ☺ He was in the audience when Joni received her Gershwin award last year, and the camera panned to him briefly. (that concert was amazing, and so special to those of us who love and appreciate Joni, James Taylor, Graham Nash, and the others that performed her songs in her honor! But when Joni took the stage towards the end? MAGIC still pours forth from her at 80 years of age! She has indeed lived a VERY interesting life, and is STILL enjoying adventures, such as boating through major rapids with her friend musician Brandi Carlile at the helm, while blasting "soul" music from the stereo, then hiking in to an amazing waterfall Joni knew about but had never seen before (in British Columbia, north of Joni's property) She's following her own advice to keep living every day! 🥰
There was one issue of Rolling Stone's 500 best all time albums (they change all the time) where Blue was #3. #1 was Marvin Gaye what's going on, and #2 was Beach Boy's Pet Sounds. I forget who was #4 but the Beatle's were #5 with Abbey Road. I'm actually making a point here, believe it or not. Blue was and is one of the greatest albums ever recorded
If you like the album blue. You should checkout an album called Pirates by Rickie Lee Jones/ Killer😮😮😊/ But Joni is the best songwriter case closed!😊😊/ Hejira is her most profound album!
The way she sings "lots of laughs" while conveying the exact opposite is supreme artistry
Wow Lee, another really thoughtful reaction and analysis. I’m so glad you discovered and get Joni and her art.
You do need guy friends-parenthood, work and adulting really do boil you down to just the essentials for awhile, but before you know it you’ll have more time and energy to add some details and joy back into your life. Hang in there buddy-it will get easier again/sometimes.
One thing-we didn’t know about all Joni’s connections & relationships back then. As a teen I wondered who (if anyone) she sang about and whether I would ever love and be loved like she was. but it wasn’t until now with all the reaction channels that I’m finding out about these things. I’m discovering along with you, which I quite enjoy.
Keep up the good work dude!
Thanks!
Joni is a true one of a kind, be it her song writing, vocals or playing an instrument. She plays the dulcimer on "California" which I understand inspired Robert Plant to write "Going to California".
"Blue" is the deepest, most profound and most beautiful song on this incomparable album. Over 50 years later, every time I hear it more comes out of it for me. To love your own sadness while recognizing it marks you for life. Just, wow
Blue is one of the first albums I bought, about 1993. It was because Tori Amos praised Joni's song "A Case of You", which you will encounter in your Blue series. Then I fell love with the whole of Blue. "California" was important to me when I met my bf, and the line "will you take me as I am" resonated with me.
One of the best compliments you can give an artist: That made me feel.
Joni is so special she makes one want to invent new ways to love her. And she brings you more reasons each time.
The acoustic on California and All I want is played by James Taylor, about whom she writes in Blue. Steven Stills played on Carrie and This Flight Tonight. Graham Nash, Taylor and Stills were all head over heals in love with her.
Joni is playing a mountain dulcimer on California
My number 1 album & singer, just love it all. Please Keep it with you as I have Lee. The poetry & flow of Joni's voice still amazes me.
Blue is astonishing. Just piano and voice, but there's nothing missing. I can't imagine any instrument that could add anything.
She always writes from a human place no matter how wordy she gets. She can trigger our own memories and experiences with people we have known, and our own times of crises, joy or meloncoly, its all there, AND the words and stanzas flow musically as well. Check out her album Heijira, it features some of her greatest lyric work. Also her album from the mid-90s, Turbulent Indigo, is astounding..
James Taylor's lullaby to Joni Mitchell is "You Can Close Your Eyes," and her lullaby in response to him is "Blue." She refused to close her eyes to his self-destructiveness.
Remember, as astounding of a singer songwriter Joni is, she considers her painting to be her primary form of art. Her self portraits are ginormous and gorgeous; she also does incredible landscapes and some abstracts.
More access to my feelings than any other artist. And I didn't give her permission to wield them. Incredible.
Well said! I concur completely 😊
Her voice makes my heart soar...
When I first experienced Joni Live in 1974, I thought I was experiencing a Goddess, then In 1975, away at college, I met Joni Mitchell in the heart & soul of my first real girlfriend. She was a HUGE fan & LOVED Joni's music especially BLUE but she was the living incarnation of Joni's music. Not only in her folky hippie-like beautiful innocence but also with her pure unfiltered poetic honesty & often deeply sad melancholy. Her incredible heart-wrenching Mitchell-esque essence made it so hard, emotionally, to stay with her after graduating! LOL She was just too 'BLUE" in many ways! LYRICALLY & VOCALLY & SONGWRITING Joni is PURELY DIVINE & unmatched! Let the TEARS FLOW! Also after watching many interviews & documentaries about Joni, you learn that each album is a diary & at the time BLUE was written, fame, travel and her romantic relationships all play a part in creating the moods and lyrics here! All songs written about CALI in the late 60's and 70's sparked my desire to move here in 1978, coincidently not far from a home that Joni owned near Venice Beach, California
I'd like to recommend to every Joni Mitchell fan...listen to Paul Horn's version o' the song Blue. It features Joni on piano 'n wordless vocals...sublime!
Joni Mitchell is incomparable. Her music is in a class by itself. These songs (soundscapes - love the term) have the same effect on me now that they on me 50+ years ago.
He we own private sadness was trusting others to raise her baby girl. I’m so happy that she and her daughter found each other and share their lives with each other now. Especially since Joni had no other children.
When I was a young teenager I won her Court and Spark album in a radio contest. I fell in love with it. That was my introduction to Joni Mitchell. Amazing!
I’m so glad you’re doing this album, thanks
The Joni reference in Zeppelin s Going to California: "Someone told me there's a girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"
Love 'Carey'. Transports you away....
She wrote California while living in France and traveling Europe--70-71. My Father moved us to Vienna for that year ( I was 12-13) and I can't hear this without thinking she was rambling around Europe while we were there, and also all of the turbulence, struggle going on in the US with the War, and protests (Her first few lines say it).
I saw Joni in 1974 at the DAR Constitution Hall in DC. The venue is gorgeous, but Joni outshone everything. She spoke so soft and sweetly, then sang like an angel. It is one of the absolute highlights of my life.
Joni and your friend Graham Nash were lovers in their Laurel Canyon days. A number of songs by them relate to their time together.
Led Zeppelin. "Going To California". Some of it about Joni. Great song.
Joni Mitchell is a truly unique artist who has had to battle her way to success at every stage. At the age of nine she contracted polio, as did her fellow Canadian Neil Young who was two years younger than Joni, the disease weakened both of them on their left side. Joni found school difficult, but learnt to play piano and very much enjoyed art and poetry, and even now she considers her music second to being a painter. She has done many wonderful self portraits over the years, some of which have featured on her album covers. Her mother disapproved of her learning the guitar, but she persevered and taught herself, and eventually developed and experimented with her own style using dozens of open tunings. This style was partly driven by her weakened left hand, as the tunings allowed for much simpler chord shapes than in standard tuning. Most folk and pop musicians who worked with her would be initially baffled by her chord progressions, but once she began working with Jazz musicians it was a bit easier, with their more technical knowledge, to pick up on what she was playing. She treats her art, music, poetry and performing with little distinction, they are all the same to Joni, just a range of different ways to express her inner feelings. In 2015 she had yet another serous health battle after a brain aneurysm which left her relearning how to even walk again. She is a formidable and determined lady and in 2022 she made her first live performance following her illness.
A true soulful artist in so many ways❤
The best thing you can do for your kids is to be there for them. Yes they need food and shelter but being there is what means the most. They will wear you out and make you crazy like no other but just be there.
That's what I'm trying my best to do, drew. I know they just want their dad there and I'll be there:) I love them with my entire being but yeah being a parent is rough lol
James Taylor plays the acoustic guitar on California... lovely!
F*** me, Blue is some track isn't it? Like a shot of adrenaline straight into the heart
Joni is an artist that all others attempt to emulate though never reach the highest of heights as Joni has!
James Taylor and Stephen Stills played on this album.
Damn, ain't that some shit. Albums title track is about you and you play on the album. What a dude. Haha
When she said she would even kiss a Sunset pig she meant I believe, that she would kiss a cop on the Sunset Strip in CA. During the Vietnam war, protestors started calling the cops pigs. She was in Paris, France at the beginning where she said it’s too old and cold and settled in its way here.
I bought this album in 1968 I think and I’ve never looked back.
The only female singer who is almost as incredible as Joni is
Laura Nyro. Please check her out. Laura’s voice has
an unbelieveable range like Joni’s.
You must have had a very early pre-release copy! 😜
The sunset pig refers to a market in Laurel Canyon where her house was that had a pig near the counter (called sunset) and people would kiss it for good luck.
@@deechatterton5828That’s the story as I have heard it.
The rock n Roll band she is referencing that she is the "biggest fan" of is CS&N--and I believe she had just ended her love affair and living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon.
There are not enough words or amounts of praise for me to heap on Joni. I’m thinking that when poets seek inspiration they conjure up Joni for it.
Love your diving into her work and your appreciation for it.
And then Bob Dylan said, "Hold my Beer" and released "Blood on the Tracks". What great songwriters (and there were a lot of others back then, too!).
Listen to Court and Spark next to see her transition.
yes yes you're absolutely right about Zeppelin and Joni and the song going to California
And if you dig that connection check out the extraordinary Sandy Denny, from Going To California, she was in Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and solo. Died young from a an accidental fall.
I'd ignored Mitchell until this album came out. I didn't do so thereafter. Live in deepest darkest NorCal these days.
So very pretty, lovely lilting voice with her word pictures and sweet guitar.
❤ I’ve loved that voice ever since I was in the eighth grade grade and heard Chelsea Morning on the way to school…
A Sunshine spirit
Thank you, Lee (such a sentient sponge) and Gail!
Sweet dulcimer 💕
introspection is another word that comes to mind with Joni's lyrics.. that and her attention to detail when people-watching, seeing and experiencing things and events.. and when combined with her great story-telling ability... magic happens! 🥰
Like all great albums, one's favourite song on the album is liable to change over time. For a while it was Carey, then it was The Last Time I Saw Richard. Nowadays it's the title song, which is so intense it's almost unbearable; and the words are *really* poetic, with an extended maritime simile that is touched with genius. There's an amazing live version you can find on UA-cam which is a performance for the ages.
Joni played this song in Double D tuning Jimmy Page wrote Going To California to Homer her song in Drop D tuning as well The Mobile Fidelity 45 RPM One Step pressing is absolutely stunning!
She has music in her...listen to the music inside you. And march to it.
Song to a Seagull is 💕 lovely.
The song Blue itself makes me cry uncontrollably. It’s plugged right in
One of the best sides of music ever👌🙏✌️
Yeah side 1 was stacked. And then side 2 starts off with a banger with "California" and I can't wait to hear the rest !
Don't hesitate for a nanosecond--figure out what you want to say and call all of those people--tell 'em you're thinking about them. There is not drawback to that impulse.
Gotta love Joni. She shares her world and it feels lie your own
Blue is a stunning album. Sheer perfection. Another hugely favourite song of hers is The Fiddle and the Drum.
So far, so good! And I doubt that's gonna change. I know that she is one of a kind now. I don't think any other artist is like her exactly. She is a totally unique flower!
She’s an amazing gal.
FYI she lived in the canyon where all the musicians lived just above Hollywood. One of the members of Crosby still Nash and Young I can't remember which one for the life of me. She lived with for quite a while. He wrote our house about the house in the Canyon.
Going to California by Zep has a line referencing Joni--"Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"..and "To find a queen without a king, they say she plays guitar and cries and sings, la-la-la-la."
"Blue" The Only Album Capable Of Doing Open Heart Surgery On You While Listening To It.
I think Joni once said the difference between her and Dylan was that she used the word 'I' in her lyrics, and Dylan used 'You'. But I think the difference is that she makes Dylan's lyrics look like schoolboy scribblings. (Sorry Dylan fans 😜).
Puhleeze tell me you'll do *Ladies Of The Canyon* next, the album she recorded previous to this, that I judge to be superior to Blue...much more positive songs, altogether. I still don't know why so many people think Blul is her best album aside from the fact that she really does show off her singing range & a lot of creativity of composition, but Ladies Of The Canyon is just as impressive for the same reasons...just a little less gloomy...
About CALIFORNIA.
Led Zeppelin's response to this song was to write
Going To California ( i like the live at Earl's Court video version). The band was crushing heavily on her;
"Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"
'Might want to give that a spin for context.
I'm lovin' this, btw - thanks !!!
love the pedal steel on California....Sneaky Pete Kleinow. BTW I live in very far NE California.....5 miles from NV and 15 miles from OR. Remote as hell but fuckin gorgeous. Can't wait for part 3
Joni describes herself as a painter -- she does the cover pics of almost all her albums! -- who paints with words... That's the way to explain her amazingly unique lyrics, imo, Lee.
WOOHOO... Finally "Blue" love this song. But... "A Case Of You" is my personal fav from this albumn. Thanks Gale. And, as always, THANKS LEE❤
Thank you so much Leeann. Joni is wonderful. Can't wait to finish this album. :)
I'm a native. I was the mist of it boy these bring back memories.
If you want to go to Northern California I would just get over the border to Oregon and save a ton of money. I am a native California, southern California. I left to retire in 2016 to Taos New Mexico. I always said I was going retire on the top of the mountain. Not quite the top of a mountain but what a beautiful place. I go One Direction and I can go to beautiful Mesa. Or just turn the other direction and BNN beautiful national Forest in like six or seven minutes where you can see trees for miles because we're 7000 feet up. So there are other beautiful places to go that won't cost a fortune.
Yes, Carey made quite the impression on young Joni.. 😉 He just borrowed her camera, but the lyrics as-written make it more impactful, and speak to his mischievous personality! ☺ He was in the audience when Joni received her Gershwin award last year, and the camera panned to him briefly. (that concert was amazing, and so special to those of us who love and appreciate Joni, James Taylor, Graham Nash, and the others that performed her songs in her honor! But when Joni took the stage towards the end? MAGIC still pours forth from her at 80 years of age! She has indeed lived a VERY interesting life, and is STILL enjoying adventures, such as boating through major rapids with her friend musician Brandi Carlile at the helm, while blasting "soul" music from the stereo, then hiking in to an amazing waterfall Joni knew about but had never seen before (in British Columbia, north of Joni's property) She's following her own advice to keep living every day! 🥰
in my opinion California is one of the greatest vocals in the history of the world
Her vocals were absolutely gorgeous on that track. It was sublime.
Lotsa laughs, lotsa laughs---some of the saddest words in pop music
“Will you take me as I am?”
I wonder if Rodger Hodgson of Supertramp was inspired…(The Logical Song)
Really lovely songs. Thanks Gail!
great trio of songs
There was one issue of Rolling Stone's 500 best all time albums (they change all the time) where Blue was #3. #1 was Marvin Gaye what's going on, and #2 was Beach Boy's Pet Sounds. I forget who was #4 but the Beatle's were #5 with Abbey Road. I'm actually making a point here, believe it or not. Blue was and is one of the greatest albums ever recorded
I think Joni’s sense of rhythm is strong and quirky and doesn’t get enough mention.
Cat Stevens too.
Cannot cope with commenting.
If you like the album blue. You should checkout an album called Pirates by Rickie Lee Jones/ Killer😮😮😊/ But Joni is the best songwriter case closed!😊😊/ Hejira is her most profound album!
grab some tissues for the next batch, dude