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Ladies of the Canyon
Joni Mitchell
Ladies of the Canyon
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
 
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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 ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Joni Mitchell
Title: Ladies of the Canyon
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Wea/Warner
Release Date: 6/19/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Singer-Songwriters, Vocal Pop, Folk Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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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

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Dr. G. B. Dennill | Azania | 12/08/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you're going shopping for jewels today, then buy this one. I defy anyone to not love it completely. The vocals are perfect and moving to the very last note. The instrumentation is exquisitely minimal and ethereal. The lyrics at once endearingly personal and scripturally profound. The remastering is superb. This has to be one of the finest albums of the golden era. Does any song capture so perfectly the zeitgeist of the time as this version of 'Woodstock'?"