Blue

by Joni Mitchell

Overview

Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell's songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two words with relative meaning here) etched with stunning complexity; even tracks like "All I Want," "My Old Man," and "Carey" -- the brightest, most hopeful moments on the record -- are darkened by bittersweet moments of sorrow and loneliness. At the same time that songs like "Little Green" (about a child given up for adoption) and the title cut (a hymn to salvation supposedly penned for James Taylor) raise the stakes of confessional folk-pop to new levels of honesty and openness, Mitchell's music moves beyond the constraints of acoustic folk into more intricate and diverse territory, setting the stage for the experimentation of her later work. Unrivaled in its intensity and insight, Blue remains a watershed. ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	08/02/2019
Label:	Wea
UPC:	4943674298259

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Joni Mitchell   Primary Artist,Keyboards,Vocals,Guitar,Piano
James Taylor   Guest Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Stephen Stills   Guest Artist,Guitar (Bass),Bass,Guitar
James Taylor Jr.   Guitar
Sneaky Pete Kleinow   Guitar,Pedal Steel,Guitar (Steel)
Russ Kunkel   Drums

Technical Credits

Joni Mitchell   Audio Production,Lyricist,Producer,Composer
Henry Lewy   Audio Engineer,Engineer
Steve Thompson   Composer
Gary Burden   Art Direction
Vince Mendoza   Arranger
John Mayall   Composer