I am on a lonely road and I am traveling traveling traveling

looking for something what can it be

You're listening to sound opinions I'm Greg Kott he'sureagottis and that's a little bit of the song All I Want by Joni

Mitchell, the lead-off track from her 1971 album Blue. People are still talking about this record and influenced and moved by it, regarded as

one of the greatest of all times, certainly one of Joni's greatest works. Unflinching honesty,

poetic lyrics, those were elements in this record that inspired a range of artist.

Tori Amos, Liz Fair, even Prince was singing Joni Mitchell's praises for years.

Today we're going to take a deep dive into blue

and discuss why it's a classic album and dissect some of the tracks

and we're later going to share our opinions on it.

Absolutely, Greg.

Who is Joni Mitchell?

Born 1940 43, Roberta Joan Anderson in rural Alberta, Canada.

It was a creative kid apparently right from the start, would later go on to art school.

But it was not an easy upbringing.

She contracted polio early on.

It was that time, bedridden when she learned how to play guitar and began to sing.

She got pregnant when she was a poor folk singer struggling to make her name in Toronto in the mid-60s, had a daughter that she gave up for adoption.

It was only years later in the mid-90s when a tabloid outed that she'd had this child, they since reconciled. But what a thing to be exposed

to the public. A series of toxic sometimes, chaotic, certainly romantic relationships that I think got undue attention

often and all through it Joni is writing countless iconic songs in the folk pop tradition from both sides now. To big yellow taxi

taxi

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