"Just before embarking on the pivotal intercontinental voyage that would inspire much of her peerless 1971 album, 'Blue' — released 50 years ago this week — Joni Mitchell considered her grandmothers. One 'was a frustrated poet and musician, she kicked the kitchen door off of the hinges on the farm,' Mitchell recalled in a 2003 documentary. The other 'wept for the last time in her life at 14 behind some barn because she wanted a piano and said, Dry your eyes, you silly girl, you’ll never have a piano. And I thought maybe I am the one that got the gene that has to make it happen for these two women.' If she stayed put, she might end up kicking the door off the hinges, too. ...”
Open Culture: Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album (Video)
vimeo: Blue (1971) 38:07
2015 July: Blue (1970), 2015 Novemer: 40 Years On: Joni Mitchell's The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Revisited, 2016 August: On For the Roses (1972), 2016 November: Court and Spark (1974), 2017 February: Hejira (1976), 2017 August: Miles of Aisles (1974), 2017 October: Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius, 2018 March: Joni Mitchell: We look back over her extraordinary 50 year career, 2018 November: Free Man In Paris (1974), 2019 April: Mingus (1979), 2019 July: The Guide to Getting Into Joni Mitchell, the Blueprint for Human Experience
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