Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

Well, let's see here. We've got 1971's Blue by Joni Mitchell.

What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

If you try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review.

Yeah, and we are not doing it alone this week.

Absolutely not. Who joins us this week, Brian?

We have a musician and songwriter by the name of Dave Mooney from around the New Brunswick, New Jersey music scene. He's an interesting choice to talk about Joni Mitchell because he's actually a little bit different music sounding wise. Yeah, real big, bright power pop kind of sound. Three minutes,

big hooks and not at all Joni Mitchell-esque. Though he is, and he talks about it a little more

when we introduce him in a few minutes, he is kind of doing something a little more acoustic based as his next release.

So maybe we finally get a little bit of that influence there.

But that just goes to show that fandom of music is pretty universal.

Like you don't only like one thing.

You know, it's even when you're creating something and you do things a certain way,

you know, you still love other stuff.

I think one of the, one of the best examples of that is just kind of rap producers.

You know, it's like they're, they're the kinds of guys that have to listen to a lot of

different stuff in order to create cool beats.

That all goes to say,

that's why it makes sense that we invited Dave to talk to us about Joni Mitchell's Blue.

Yes. So before we do get to that conversation, Brian, do you mind giving everybody a little

bit of a background on names, dates, and places? So we all are on the same page for the conversation.

Yeah.

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