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Blue

★★★★★  album

Blue

Joni Mitchell’s confessional masterwork, the singular achievement that essentially authored an entire genre. She unfolds her interiority without reserve over dulcimer and piano, the construction sparse and the exposure absolute. ‘River’ each December; ‘A Case of You’ in perpetuity.

what it left me with

Candor of this magnitude constitutes its own form of valor. When you articulate your least defensible feelings plainly, you furnish shelter for the equally afflicted.

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