Classic Rock

Blue

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RepRise, 1971

Sudden fame and celebrity didn’t sit well with Mitchell, who chose to escape by taking a year off and mooching around Europe. Her sojourn on the island of

Crete helped restore her creative appetite, and she discovered the Appalachia­n dulcimer and wrote the first batch of intensely personal, emotionall­y transparen­t songs that would make up Blue.

The writing is raw and direct, the spare arrangemen­ts heightenin­g the lyrical content.

My Old Man details her failed relationsh­ip with Graham Nash, while All I Want is one of three tunes aimed at another recent partner, James Taylor.

Faultless and revelatory, Blue is the ultimate break-up album.

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