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Joni Mitchell - Blue (CD 1987)

Joni Mitchell - Blue (CD 1987)

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Title: Blue
Record Label: Reprise
Release Year: 1987
EAN: 0075992719926
Genre: Rock/Pop
ePID: 4055574
Description: Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano); James Taylor (acoustic guitar); Stephen Stills (guitar, bass); Sneaky Pete (pedal steel guitar); Russ Kunkel (drums).Recorded at A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.Ultradiscs are master...Read more
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Track Listing
1. All I Want
2. My Old Man
3. Little Green
4. Carey
5. Blue
6. California
7. This Flight Tonight
8. River
9. Case Of You
10. Last Time I Saw Richard

Details
Number of CDs:1
Producer:Joni Mitchell
Recording Type:Studio
Distributor:Cinram Logistics
Recording Mode:Stereo

Album Notes
Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano); James Taylor (acoustic guitar); Stephen Stills (guitar, bass); Sneaky Pete (pedal steel guitar); Russ Kunkel (drums).Recorded at A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.Ultradiscs are mastered from the original master tapes using Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering technique, then plated with 24 karat gold and housed in a stress-resistant lift-lock jewel box.Joni Mitchell's fourth album maintained the confessional style of its predecessors, but her biographical epistles were here infused with greater maturity. Although her lyrics remained personal, Mitchell drew upon their described scenarios to express a greater context. Stephen Stills and James Taylor added sympathetic accompaniment, but the album's musical textures were defined by the singer's use of guitar, piano and dulcimer. Mitchell's vocals showed a new depth and range absent from earlier work, emphasizing Blue's important place in her maturation as an artist. She never returned to folk after this release, she spied a bigger world for her lyrics and eclectic ideas of song.

Editorial Reviews
Ranked #28 in NME's list of the Greatest Albums Of All Time.
NME (10/02/1993)

Ranked #9 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - ...Scrapings of the soul have rarely sounded so wretched...
NME (09/18/1993)

...her songs, like James Taylor's, are only incidentally commercial: Her primary purpose is to create something meaningful out of the random moments of pain and pleasure in her life...
Rolling Stone (08/05/1971)

...She writes beautiful tunes coupled with beautiful lyrics...what more could be asked of her? BLUE is her best album by far...
Rolling Stone Magazine (09/30/1971)

Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums - ...An acoustic tour de force...
Rolling Stone (10/31/2002)

...She writes beautiful tunes coupled with beautiful lyrics...what more could be asked of her? BLUE is her best album by far...
Rolling Stone (09/30/1971)

Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums - ...An acoustic tour de force...NME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #28 in NME's list of the Greatest Albums Of All Time.NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #9 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - ...Scrapings of the soul have rarely sounded so wretched...Rolling Stone (8/5/71, p.43) - ...her songs, like James Taylor's, are only incidentally commercial: Her primary purpose is to create something meaningful out of the random moments of pain and pleasure in her life...Rolling Stone (9/30/71, p.42) - ...She writes beautiful tunes coupled with beautiful lyrics...what more could be asked of her? BLUE is her best album by far...
Rolling Stone (10/31/2002)

Reviews
  Blue - Joni Mitchell
Review created: 17/06/08
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I had to buy his when I came across it as I used to have it on cassette but over the years and change of addresses it was long gone.

I have enjoyed listening to it and being immediately transported back in time.


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  great c.d. thanks
Review created: 17/05/08

had the original on tape, wore it out and needed to hear it again, thanks for good service, will reccommend to others.


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  Joni Mitchell - Blue
Review created: 06/01/07

I bought this album on vinyl in the 1970's, loved it, but then forgot it for 30 years. Whilst strolling down nostalgia lane recently I wondered whether Joni would have stood the test of time, so bought 'Blue' on impulse. And my verdict? This album is as good today as when she first recorded it.

You have to be in the right mood of course, because the title describes the way it makes you feel. But if you want soothing, Blue, All I Want and A Case of You are just the ticket. Carey and This Flight Tonight are a little more upbeat (in tempo if not in lyrical content), which gives the album a balanced feel. And every track tells a story, tugging at emotional heartstrings.

Joni Mitchell's voice is one that you either love or hate (or so I'm told - I love it of course), but there is no denying the range and power that she possesses and it's ideally suited to the music she has chosen to produce. Some of the tracks here are live, which could expose a lesser performer, but Joni comes through with flying colours, matching studio standards and demonstrating her true quality. So, if you've heard anything by Joni Mitchell and liked it, you will just love this album.


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  Her Best
Review created: 10/11/06

Everytime i heaar 'i wish i had a river to skate away on' i weep. this is joni at her best, no heavy band, no jazz, but a step up from Ladies of the Canyon. Contains some of her best work, very soulful lots of piano and just joni, for those who don't know her work i would reccomend this as a first listen. it is music at its best


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