Joni Mitchell – Blue
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Just a little green / Like the nights when the Northern lights perform / There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes / And sometimes there’ll be sorrow
For all her warmth, legendary folkie Joni Mitchell was the first to cast aspersions on the hippie era. Stripping trite, optimistic sentiment to its more realistic meaning, Blue is a portrait of pain and progress in a time that had as many demons as any other. Whether being ripped off by gypsies or lamenting love lost, Mitchell takes comfort in the simplicity of daily life, urging us to face adversity with uncompromising optimism.
Along the way, she delivers some of them most poetic phrases in existence, cawing softly over rustic folk orchestrations and stripped-down acoustic dirges. Blue? Perhaps, but the brightest shade in existence…
