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Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon (1990)
	Album details
	Label: Warner Bros / Wea    Ref#: ?-0359 Date: 10/25/1990   Category:   Length: 0:00     Format: CD     Audio: Stereo     Genre:
Notes/Reviews
Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi," and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game," already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on Blue and Court And Spark. --Sam Sutherland
Songs/Tracks
1.   Morning Morgantown   2.   For Free   3.   Conversation   4.   Ladies Of The Canyon   5.   Willy   6.   The Arrangement   7.   Rainy Night House   8.   The Priest   9.   Blue Boy   10.   Big Yellow Taxi   11.   Woodstock   12.   The Circle Game
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