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JONI MITCHELL

with STEPHEN STILLS, JAMES TAYLOR, SNEEKY PETE KLEINOW, RUSS KUNKEL

No female artist better typified the singer/songwriter movement of the '70s than Joni Mitchell, though her public image as the serious, sensitive woman with a guitar shortchanged her abilities, ambitions, and accomplishments. Mitchell's gift for writing personal, folk-inspired songs about the thorny side of life and love was inarguable (particularly on albums like 1970's Ladies of the Canyon and 1971's Blue), but Mitchell also brought the same smarts and eloquence to glossy pop on her commercial breakthrough, 1974's Court & Spark, and she was incorporating jazz and world music into her work long before either was fashionable in American pop music (and she also collaborated with respected jazz artists such as Charles Mingus, Pat Metheny, and Jaco Pastorius, something none of her peers accomplished). At her best, Mitchell was one of the finest and most adventurous artists of her generation, and a key inspiration to many women in music as a talent who refused to be hemmed in by boundaries of genre or gender...

"BLUE"

<reissue, originally published in 1971>     

LP     REPRISE RECORDS     W 44128   STEREO

MADE IN ITALY      1975 REPRESSING

TEXTURED GATEFOLD SLEEVE  

NOTES: With "Made and Distributed in Italy by WEA Italiana S.P.A. Milano" on back cover. 

With W (logo) on label rim.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: REPRISE - TAN LABEL w/STEAMBOAT LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover : (spine) W 44128

Catalog on labels: W 44128 (2038/1)  (MS 2038) / W 44128 (2038/2)  (MS 2038)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): S 59 W 2038 ◇ 1L  cgd  2 12 75  P.V.   O⊠  ∆∆∆✲✲✲⊠

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): S 59 W 2038 ◇ 2L  cgd  2 12 75  P.V.   O⊠  ∆∆∆✲✲✲⊠

On labels: top rim text  "All rights.......prohibited"

bottom rim text "Made in Italy by WEA Italiana W A Warner Communications Company"

STEREO     33 1/3 GIRI

All selections written by Joni Mitchell

(MS 2038)

(on Side A only): Joni Mitchell Music (1, 2, 4, 5) Siquomb (3)

(on Side B only): All selections published by Joni Mitchell Music

Rights Society: S.I.A.E. (stamped on Side A)

On inside panels: Lyrics & Credits

Recorded At A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California

 All publishing rights reserved SIQUOMB MUSIC - copyright / 1971

On back cover: Made And Distributed in Italy by WEA Italiana S.P.A. Milano 

tracklisting

Side A: ALL I WANT - MY OLD MAN - LITTLE GREEN - CAREY - BLUE 

Side B: CALIFORNIA - THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - RIVER

A CASE OF YOU - THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD

grading

RECORD from VG to VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

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...(AllMusic)