Joni Mitchell’s new album, Blue, is about to he released here by Warner Brothers (K 44128). A large proportion of Joni’s most notable songs, to date, have been intensely visual. What she’s seen, she has refined; but the songs’ images have been those of the eye.
The lyrics of Blue are less adventurous than in her previous three albums; on the other hand, its music is less careful. This is a fair exchange. The album is much more about Joni herself, less of scenes she’s observed. The songs that stand out, at least at first, are earthy. In ‘All I Want’ Joni wants to “wreck my stockings in some juke-box
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