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Blue |  | Artist: Joni Mitchell
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  246 reviews
Sales Rank: 1000
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 075992719926
EAN: 0075992719926
ASIN: B000002KBU
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| • | All I Want | | • | My Old Man | | • | Little Green | | • | Carey | | • | Blue | | • | California - Joni Mitchell, Mayall, John | | • | This Flight Tonight | | • | River | | • | A Case of You | | • | The Last Time I Saw Richard |
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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-JAN-1989
Amazon.com essential recording
Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California," and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve Stolder
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 246
I guess I'll give it Five Stars June 20, 2010
Phil S. (USA)
Of her first five albums, all masterpieces, this is perhaps her most personal, quietist; indeed, the musical accompaniment is mostly her own piano. Sidemen pop up on occasion: Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Sneaky Pete Kleinow (aka Sneeky Pete), Russ Kunkel (drums).
"Blue" is both a mood and an image - yes, this Canadian [no generalization intended] does paint an American landscape with inspired brush strokes.
All the tracks are instantly engaging, lyrically and melodically; though the lyrics can be cliched at times: "a singer in the park...a dancer in the dark"; "makes me weak in the knees", but even then they make sense musically, sound beautiful, and work ina conversational sense. One bad phrase "kiss a Sunset pig" - ouch.
The album starts ioff with that song you wish was titled "I Am On A Lonely Road" and it gets better and better - I mean, greater and greater. The title tune reminds this Reviewer of any number of songs from the "Song To A Seagull" album - just a stunningly sensuous sound, with a melody Chopin would be distracted by. "A Little Green" is another which should be hung in the Museum Of Art in New York City - as in, hung somewhere in the ambience...and near a blow-up of the cover photo. Blue.
 Butterfly songstress February 7, 2010
IRate
Utterly enchanting female folk can hang with the best singer-songwriter material of its era and beyond.
Blue January 29, 2010
E. Lacy
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Incredibly Beautiful Blue January 18, 2010
J. Brescoll (Chicago)
I highly recommend this album for its sincerity, compassion, melodic jumps with ease, and utter beauty. The best example of the control and power she has over her voice comes during 2:20 - 2:25 in her wonderful song, "California." Her album will free you from the blues, and make you want to turn up the volume.
Stellar December 30, 2009
Steve Dossey (Somewhere just beyond or before the crossroads)
Been listening to this chestnut just now. From the last fifty years...there is only one artist that could really challenge the artistry of Bob Dylan. That is Joni Mitchell. This album plus the next four she recorded set a standard in the singer song writer genre that is only eclipsed by Dylan. The music here is so original and beautiful. When you see the best albums of the whatever period, they often leave her off. But back in the sixties early seventies...she was up there with the best. When it comes to great Christmas songs...."Wish I had a river to fly away on."... is a modern classic. Take that and stuff it in yer fishnet stocking.....
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