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1970年春に発表された3作目。ジョニのピアノとギターを主体に,曲によりパーカッション,サックス,ストリングスが加わるだけのシンプルな構成で,個人or人間間の心模様の観察眼と表現の鋭さは彼女ならでは。12は映画『いちご白書』の主題歌となったもの。
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Joni Mitchell's third album offers a bridge between the artful but sometimes dour meditations of her earlier work and the more mature, confessional revelations of the classics that would follow. Voice and guitar still hew to the pretty filigree of a folk poet, but there's the giggling rush of rock & roll freedom in "Big Yellow Taxi", and the formal metaphor of her older songs ("The Circle Game", already oft-covered by the time of this recording) yields to the more impressionistic images of the new ones ("Woodstock"). The dark lyricism of her earliest ballads is intact (on "For Free" and "Rainy Night House"), yet there's a prevailing idealism here that sounds poignant alongside the warier, more mature songs to come on
Blue and
Court And Spark.
--Sam Sutherland